Levain Bakery
Bakery · Georgetown ·
Airy bakery with cookies, bread & sweet treats served with coffee
Airy bakery with cookies, bread & sweet treats served with coffee
"Shake off a hangover by treating yourself to a giant, gooey cookie at Levain on M Street NW." - Tierney Plumb
"Credited with popularizing oversized, warm cookies that are chewy on the inside and crispy on the outside, this Upper West Side bakery inspired numerous copycats and has expanded its reach by selling pre-baked, frozen cookies in grocery stores. After a regional rollout at Texas’ Central Market, Whole Foods began carrying three varieties — Chocolate Chip Walnut, Two Chip Chocolate Chip, and a Whole Foods-exclusive Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip — with the company stressing that cookies must remain frozen through distribution to retain the signature texture (a shelf-stable version proved unsatisfactory). If frozen cookies perform well, the bakery hopes to add other frozen items like cake and brioche, and it plans to open additional brick-and-mortar locations across the country while limiting expansion to what can preserve product quality; it currently operates multiple New York locations and one in Washington, D.C." - Jaya Saxena
"Though not strictly holiday themed, no one will turn down this royal blue gift box filled with thick, chewy cookies from the celebrated New York City bakery, currently drawing long lines at a new Georgetown location. Get a four-, eight-, or 12-pack of its signature chocolate chip walnut, dark chocolate chocolate chip, dark chocolate peanut butter chip, and oatmeal raisin cookies." - Lisa Ruland
"Satellite's cookies are produced to hefty specs—about 4 inches wide and 6.5 ounces—that mirror the popular Levain Bakery cookies; Levain recently opened its first D.C. location in Georgetown." - Gabe Hiatt
"Opening a Georgetown shop the same day Mah‑Ze‑Dahr debuted, New York‑based Levain Bakery is known for its giant cookies and joined the recent wave of out‑of‑town bakeries setting up in D.C." - Tierney Plumb