Pink Door Opens Gourmet Cookie Window in Chestnut Hill, and There Are Actual Sprinkles Embedded in the Floor | Eater Nashville

"I found a tiny Chestnut Hill storefront on the ground floor of the BentoLiving building at 321 Hart Street where pastry chef Mathew Rice debuted Pink Door Cookies in early December as a walk-up window offering stunning, gourmet cookies for take-home. A COVID-19–inspired quarantine cookie project after Rice was laid off from Pastaria, it grew from front-porch, contactless weekend preorders—sparked by an Instagram story and hundreds of orders—into this first storefront marked by a pink door. Standout flavors include Rice’s signature chocolate chip, a nostalgic, purple-splashed PB&J cookie, cotton candy cookies, and many rotating flavors; cookies are sold individually or by the half-dozen or dozen for sharing, and there are rotating “gluten-free-ish” wheat-free options that are made in the same kitchen. The tiny space has COVID precautions— a foot door pull for no-touch entry, Touchland hand sanitizer, and a glass partition at the indoor ordering window—plus a baby-pink menu listing daily flavors, polaroids that list ingredients, and a merch wall with neon logo shirts, mugs, hats, and more. Rice says he wanted to bring comfort during a scary, uncertain time by starting with the classic chocolate chip and adding new reimagined flavors weekly. For now Pink Door Cookies is open Tuesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (closed Mondays) and will be closed December 24–28 for the holidays; verify on Instagram for schedule." - Delia Jo Ramsey