NYC’s Beloved Levain Bakery Brings Its Gigantic Cookies to Bethesda | Eater DC

"Opening today (Tuesday, July 13), Levain Bakery's second D.C.-area location on Bethesda Row offers the NYC institution's famously chunky, six-ounce cookies — palm-sized and available in five flavors — as the main attraction, alongside cinnamon butter brioche, raisin or walnut sticky buns, sour cream coffee cake, ciabatta and whole grain loaves. Born on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in 1995 and having expanded outside New York last September with a Georgetown outpost in the former Johnny Rockets space, the bakery also serves tea, coffee, espresso and cold brew and will be open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day. I also note that it opens with two limited-time ice cream sandwiches made with D.C.-based Dolcezza Gelato (sweet cream between chocolate chip walnut cookies, and roasted strawberry gelato stuffed into dark chocolate chocolate chip cookies), that opening day proceeds go to nonprofit Bethesda Help, and that delivery via Caviar and DoorDash starts next week." - Tierney Plumb