"A hard-to-please Martha Stewart would nod her approval of this one. Ali’s Cookies (with three metro locations) makes the quintessential chocolate chip cookie. Full stop. The outer edges are slightly crispy and then give way to a gooey, soft center with a nicely balanced chocolate chip-to-cookie ratio. One bite is a nostalgic rush back to the times when a cookie could soothe even the worst skinned-knee day of your childhood." - jacinta howard, juli horsford, nina reeder