We asked, and you weighed in on where to find the best cookies, cakes, croissants, donuts, pastries, and breads in our neighborhoods in Brooklyn! Our guide by neighborhood includes locations, descriptions, and not-to-be-missed treats at each bakery. Scroll all the way down for bakeries with multiple locations in various neighborhoods.
Brooklyn Heights
L’Appartement 4F | 115 Montague Street
The French bakery known for its croissants opened in 2022 to great fanfare in Brooklyn Heights, with lines down Montague Street. Don’t miss: tahini chocolate chip cookies, cinnamon buns, and raspberry croissants.
Damascus Bread & Pastry Shop | 195 Atlantic Avenue
A neighborhood institution, Damascus is a family-run Syrian bakery known for its pita, spinach and meat pies, and huge selection of pastries. They also sell cold prepared foods like falafel, hummus, and baba ghanoush. Don’t miss: their outstanding baklava (try the bird nest variety)!
Cobble Hill
Daily Provisions | 151 Court Street
Danny Meyer’s casual all-day café serves homemade bread baked on-site, breakfast sandwiches, coffee, and tea. Don’t miss: French maple-glazed crullers. Visit early in the morning, before they sell out!
The Chocolate Room | 269 Court Street
The dessert shop specializes in all things chocolate: cake, cookies, brownies, bonbons & truffles, ice cream, confections, and more. Plus, coffee, beer & wine. Don’t miss: chocolate layer cake, almond cake.
Downtown Brooklyn & Boerum Hill
Betty Bakery | Boerum Hill | 448 Atlantic Ave
This neighborhood bakery in Boerum Hill makes cakes, cookies, cupcakes, and savory pies. They also have a selection of gluten free pastries. Don’t miss: chocolate cake, coconut cake.
Bien Cuit | Boerum Hill | 120 Smith Street
This coffee shop and bakery sells breads and pastries, plus sandwiches, quiches, and tartines. Don’t miss: miche bread, buckwheat carob brownies, cinnamon sugar roulé.
Mia’s Bakery | Boerum Hill | 139 Smith Street
This Cobble Hill is a neighborhood favorite with a huge selection of desserts: cakes, pies, cookies, cupcakes, and more. A great place to order a beautifully decorated cake for any occasion! Don’t miss: creme brulee and tres leche cupcakes, brownies, Oreo cake and blackout cake.
The Showroom Bakehouse | Downtown Brooklyn | 445 Albee Square West
Located in CityPoint’s Dekalb Market Hall, Showroom specializes in donuts, cookies, croissants, macarons, and pastries. Don’t miss: the cookies, crunchy on the outside and soft inside, in a huge variety of flavors.
DUMBO
Almondine Bakery | 85 Water Street
This classic French bakery run by artisan baker Herve Poussot serves croissants, classic pastries and breads, cakes and tarts, plus cafe fare including homemade quiches and sandwiches. Don’t miss: the bakery’s namesake, the almond croissant!
Burrow | 68 Jay Street #119
This tiny Japanese patisserie is tucked away in an office lobby on Jay Street in DUMBO and serves beautifully-made cakes, cookies, muffins, and more. Don’t miss: their rotating cake selection or their quiches.
Clinton Hill
The Good Batch Bakery | 936 Fulton Street
This Clinton Hill bakery is known for cookies, cakes, and ice cream sandwiches. The Good Batch can also be found at Smorgasburg! Don’t miss: ice cream sandwiches and their rotating cakes.
Fan Fan Doughnuts | 448 Lafayette Avenue
This female and Latina-owned doughnut shop bakes everything on-site in small batches. Inventive flavors include la donna (black currant-raspberry with meringue and dried corn flowers), mango lassi, luna limón (lemon), and Mexican cinnamon sugar. Don’t miss: their selection of filled doughnuts.
Le Petit Monstre | 82 Washington Avenue
This vegan patisserie and café makes classic French pastries and also offers a selection of gluten-free treats like brownies, cheesecake, and breads. Don’t miss: vegan breakfast, egg, and cheese croissant.
Otway | 920a Fulton Street
This popular bakery in Clinton Hill sells out frequently, so make your trip early in the morning! Otway specializes in coffee cake, croissants, cardamom buns, crullers, and more savory and sweet pastries. Don’t miss: cardamom bun, morning bun, chocolate croissant, seasonal danishes, crullers, ham and cheese croissant, and chai donut (only on the weekends).
Carroll Gardens
ACQ BREAD CO. | 543 Clinton St #1
This destination for artisan breads is located on Clinton Street, and sells from their bakery only on Friday and Saturdays from 4 to 7pm. They also sell their homemade loaves at the Carroll Gardens Greenmarket (8am until they sell out). You can also join their CSA. Don’t miss: milk bread, sourdough boule.
Caputo’s Bake Shop | 329 Court Street
Caputo’s is a 5th generation family-run bakery, established in 1904. They sell a wide variety of breads, cookies, and baked goods. Don’t miss: focaccia and ciabbata, multigrain loaves, fougasse bread, Frank Sinatra loaves, olive bread, lard bread, rainbow cookies, jelly donuts, pizza dough, apricot sandwich cookies, and rainbow cookies.
Court Pastry Shop | 298 Court Street
Court Pastry Shop is an Italian dessert shop in Carroll Gardens founded by the Zerilli family in 1948. Don’t miss: biscotti, rainbow cookies, custard Italian ices (only in the summer), cannolis, New York style cheesecake, lemon balls, lemon glazed cookies.
Le French Tart Deli | 306 Court Street
Le French Tart Deli is run by Chef Laurent, who aims to bring a little bit of Paris to Brooklyn. The shop not only sells baked goods, but also cheese, charcuterie, and French-imported products, from shampoo to mustards to cereal. In the bakery, you will find bread, crêpes, pastries, macarons, sandwiches, and tartes. Don’t miss: pain au chocolat, almond croissants, and kouign-amann.
Mazzola Bakery | 192 Union Street
Mazzola is an 80-year-old bakery in the heart of Carroll Gardens that makes authentic homemade breads and baked goods. Authentic family recipes from Palermo, Italy. Don’t miss: lard bread.
Pasticceria Monteleone | 355 Court Street
Monteleone’s is a Carroll Gardens institution selling Italian cookies, pastries, cakes & gelato. Don’t miss: cannoli, strawberry shortcake, cookies (pignoli, almond, and rainbow), ricotta cheesecake, and the (very fun!) burger cake, pictured below.
Columbia Street Waterfront
Laurel Bakery | 115 Columbia Street
This new bakery is from the team behind restaurants Cafe Mado (in the former Oxalis space) and Place des Fêtes. Customers will find baguettes, loaves, pastries, and much more. Laurel also supplies its sister restaurants with baked goods. Don’t miss: croissants, pain suisse, kouign amann, almond pain d’epices, focaccia, and pain suisse.
Sea & Soil | 102 President Street
Sea & Soil is a worker-owned bakery and sandwich shop in the Columbia Street Waterfront District. Breads include sourdough, brioche, challah, focaccia, and more! They also sell naturally leavened donuts on Sundays only (9am-12pm or until sold out). Don’t miss: the chocolate pretzel croissant.
Red Hook
Baked | 359 Van Brunt Street
Baked is a classic American bakery selling delicious cakes, cookies, pie, brownies, and pastries. They also sell granola and dessert spreads. Don’t miss: lemon bars, scones.
Steve’s Authentic Key Lime Pie | 185 Van Dyke Street
Gowanus
Everybody Eats | 294 3rd Avenue
This Gowanus bakery offers gluten-free, nut-free breads and baked goods. Don’t miss: gluten-free cinnamon rolls, sourdough, and pumpernickel loaves.
Four & Twenty Blackbirds | 439 3rd Avenue
Famous not only for their pie shop, but also their cookbook, Four & Twenty Blackbirds is a destination for pie in Brooklyn. Don’t miss: apple pie, sour cherry pie.
Runner & Stone | 285 3rd Avenue
This Gowanus restaurant and bakery is known for its homemade boules, baguettes, and croissants. Don’t miss: ham and cheese croissant, almond croissant.
Sixteen Mill Bakeshop | 552 Union Street
For gluten-free and vegan baked goods, try Sixteen Mill Bakeshop. It is a 100% gluten-free bakery making pastries, cookies, donuts, and breads. Don’t miss: the pound cake, in inventive flavors like pistachio and matcha.
Park Slope
Blue Sky Bakery | 53 5th Avenue
Buttermilk Bakeshop | 264 5th Avenue
This Park Slope spot is your destination for custom cakes for celebrations and holidays, cookies, cupcakes, and more. They also have a kids baking class party package! Don’t miss: rainbow cake, gluten-free chocolate and peanut butter bars.
Cousin John’s Bakery | 60 7th Avenue
This cafe and bakery serves breakfast and lunch, as well as pastries, cakes, and breads. Don’t miss: mixed berry cake, cannolis, and black & white cookies.
Lady Bird Bakery | 252 Prospect Park West
This bakery just moved locations to Park Slope/Windsor Terrace on July 17, 2024. They are famous for their decadent Brooklyn blackout cake, red velvet cake, and holiday pies and tarts. Known for beautiful buttercream flower icing designs, they are a great place for custom cakes. Don’t miss: Brooklyn blackout cake, carrot cake, almond princess cake (only available in the winter).
Simple Loaf Bakehouse | 310 5th Avenue
Simple Loaf Bakehouse makes housemate bread, traditional French croissants and pastries, and has gluten-free and vegan options. They also sell sandwiches, homemade jam, and coffee. Don’t miss: croissants and laminated pastries.
WINNER Bakery | 367 7th Avenue
WINNER’s first location was in Park Slope, and has now expanded to included Runner Up, a sibling restaurant, WINNER Butcher, a Butcher shop, WINNER on Franklin in Crown Heights, and WINNER at the Picnic House in Prospect Park. Their offerings include croissants, cinnamon rolls, coffee cake, scones, and breads. Don’t miss: chocolate croissants, twice-baked almond croissants.
Prospect Heights & Windsor Terrace
Cafe Mado | Park Slope | 791 Washington Avenue
Cafe Mado opened in May in the space formerly occupied by Oxalis by Redwood Hospitality, the same group behind Laurel Bakery’s recent opening in the Columbia Waterfront District. The all-day cafe next to the Brooklyn Museum serves sandwiches, tartines, pastries from Laurel Bakery, coffee, and more. Don’t miss: breakfast sandwiches (until 12pm), croissants.
Ciao, Gloria | Park Slope | 550 Vanderbilt Avenue
Owner Renato is former co-founder and co-owner of Red Hook’s Baked. Ciao, Gloria serves all sorts of pastries and cakes. Don’t miss: cinnamon buns.
Patti Ann’s Bakery | Park Slope | 570 Vanderbilt Avenue
Patti Ann’s Bakery (formerly Evi’s Bäckerei) is located inside the neighborhood restaurant Patti Ann’s. The bakery is Austrian-influenced and makes a wide variety of breads and pastries. Don’t miss: maple cruller, red sauerkraut sourdough.
Regina Bakery | Windsor Terrace | 256 Prospect Park West
Regina’s is a family-owned and operated bakery specializing in Italian pastries. Come for the cannoli, apple turnovers, éclairs, and decorative cookies and desserts. Don’t miss: rainbow cookies, pignoli cookies.
Williamsburg
Fortunato Brothers | 289 Manhattan Avenue
This family-run Italian bakeshop makes cookies, cakes, pastries, and gelato. Don’t miss: cannolis, granitas (available in the summer).
K’Far Cafe | 97 Wythe Avenue
This all-day Israeli café is located inside The Hoxton in Williamsburg, along with the associated restaurant and bar. They serve Jerusalem bagels and pastries including babka, sticky buns, danishes, rugelach, and more. Don’t miss: the borekas.
Martha’s Country Bakery | 263 Bedford Avenue
Martha’s Country Bakery has a huge selection of cakes, pies, and other desserts and sweets. You can get a slice of almost any cake imaginable from their dessert counter. Don’t miss: red velvet cake.
Greenpoint
Nick + Son’s | 892 Lorimer Street
Nick + Son’s has a new location across the street from McCarren Park. They were originally located in Williamsburg and are known for their amazing croissants, plus cardamom buns, fruit tarts, and other pastries. Don’t miss: the croissants, in flavors like almond, za’atar, and everything seasoning.
Pan Pan Vino Vino | 120 Norman Avenue
This is a bakery by day and a wine bar by night. The bakery makes a variety of pastries and breads. Don’t miss: sticky guava and cream cheese bun.
Peter Pan Donuts | 727 Manhattan Avenue
Radio Bakery | 135 India Street
Radio Bakery has lines down the block on the weekends, with customers hungry for their croissants, breads, focaccia, plus breakfast and lunch sandwiches. Don’t miss: the cheesy pretzel bearclaw croissant.
Bed Stuy
Bonjour Brooklyn Bakery | 1154 Broadway
This authentic French bakery makes traditional pastries fresh every day. Don’t miss: almond chocolate croissant.
Bread & Butter | 53 Rockaway Avenue
Bread & Butter serves amazing sweet and savory pastries and coffee. Sweet treats include “angel donuts” and they also make savory focaccia. Don’t miss: chocolate chip cookie, cacao e pepe, soft serve (seasonal).
Clementine | 395 Classon Avenue
Visit Clementine for vegan baked goods like cupcakes, pies, pastries, and cookies. You can also order custom cakes. Don’t miss: chocolate and pistachio croissant.
Passionfruit | 733 Madison Street
Passionfruit is a coffee shop that serves homemade pastries in Bed Stuy. Don’t miss: passionfruit pound cake.
Bay Ridge
Jean Danet | 7526 5th Avenue
This French bakery makes fresh breads, pastries, pies & custom cakes. Don’t miss: the apple strudel.
L’angolo Palermo | 7801 3rd Avenue
This Bay Ridge specialty market sells a variety of Italian baked goods. Don’t miss: Italian cookies.
Lily Bloom Bakery | 8614 5th Avenue
This Chinese bakery is worth visiting in Bay Ridge. Don’t miss: the egg tarts.
Paneantico | 9124 3rd Avenue
Bensonhurst
Rimini Pastry Shoppe | 6822 Bay Parkway
The bakery was founded by Sicilian immigrant John Zito in 1973. Rimini makes everything from scratch, from cakes to pastries to breads and cookies. Don’t miss: Italian cheesecake, tiramisu.
Villabate Alba | 7001 18th Avenue
Other Neighborhoods
Baked in Brooklyn | Greenwood Heights | 755 Fifth Avenue
Baked in Brooklyn, known for its products like breadsticks, flatbread crisps, and pita chips, also has a bakery near Green-Wood Cemetery. You can see the bakery in action if you visit, and enjoy freshly baked bread, bagels, and more. Don’t miss: sourdough bread.
La Gran Via Bakery | Sunset Park | 4516 5th Avenue
Palermo Pastry Shop | Flatlands | 5517 Avenue N
Princesa Bakery | East Williamsburg | 94 Graham Avenue
Pressers Kosher Bagels and Bakery | Midwood | 1720 Avenue M
This family-owned kosher bakery was founded in 1980. They make fresh-baked pastries and breads daily. They also make authentic New York bagels, as well as petit-fours and cakes for parties. Don’t miss: challah, babka.
Sugar, Butter, Chocolate | Crown Heights | 1413 Bedford Avenue
This Crown Heights bakery makes all sorts of pastries, desserts, and breads, plus housemate jams and ice creams. The chef is Michelin-starred pastry chef Daniel Kleinhandler. Don’t miss: the challah.
Win Son Bakery | East Williamsburg | 164 Graham Avenue
This East Williamsburg Taiwanese-American bakery is across the street from its restaurant of the same name. There is a selection of donuts, bao, cookies, cakes, and other pastries. Don’t miss: the millet mochi donut (gluten-free!).
Multiple Locations
Bakeri | Williamsburg – 150 Wythe Avenue | Greenpoint – 105 Freeman Street
This women-owned bakery makes small-batch Northern European-style bread, as well as homemade pastries. You can visit them in Williamsburg or Greenpoint for breakfast with pastries and coffee or lunch with made-to-order sandwiches on fresh bread. Don’t miss: the baguette.
Brooklyn French Bakers | Carroll Gardens – 273 Columbia Street | Park Slope – 510 2nd Street
This bakery was founded by three French bakers living in Brooklyn.Their baked goods include mini buns, quiches, mini croissants, cream puffs and mini tarts. Don’t miss: croissant muffins.
Colson Patisserie | Park Slope – 374 9th Street | Industry City – 253 36th Street
Inspired by French and Belgian baked goods, Colson Patisserie serves pastries and breads, alongside coffee. You can find them in Park Slope or in Industry City. Don’t miss: morning bun.
Doughnut Plant | Downtown Brooklyn – 245 Flatbush Avenue | Williamsburg – 198 Bedford Avenue
Downtown Plant has two Brooklyn locations, in Downtown Brooklyn and Williamsburg. The bakery chain has been making fresh doughnuts with creative flavors since 1994. Don’t miss: crème brûlée donut.
La Bicyclette | Williamsburg – 667 Driggs Ave | Fort Greene – 136 Dekalb Ave | Carroll Gardens – 305 Court St
This bakery makes French artisan bread, including an award-winning baguette. There are lines around the block for the breads and laminated pastries, but they are worth it! You can also purchase French butter, cheese, and jams. Don’t miss: pain au raisin, ham sandwich.
Lassen & Hennigs | Brooklyn Heights – 114 Montague Street | DUMBO – 177 Water Street
Lassen & Hennigs is a delicatessen with an on-site bakery producing cookies, cakes, and much more. Their Brooklyn Heights location opened in 1949, and in recent years, they opened a second location in DUMBO. Don’t miss: black and white cookie, brownies.
One Girl Cookies | DUMBO – 33 Main Street | Cobble Hill – 68 Dean Street
One Girl Cookies is owned and operated by husband and wife David Crofton and Dawn Casale. Their Cobble Hill location is where the business started, and a second location, an all-day cafe in DUMBO, is called Dawn’s ‘Til Dusk. The bakery is popular for small, beautifully decorated cookies, whoopie pies, and layer cakes. Don’t miss: whoopie pies, especially the pumpkin flavor!
Ovenly | Greenpoint – 31 Greenpoint Avenue | Cobble Hill – 276 Court Street
Ovenly is an award-winning wholesale bakery with locations in Greenpoint and Cobble Hill. They also deliver cakes, cookies, scones, muffins, bagels, cupcakes, and more both locally and nationwide. Don’t miss: sea salt chocolate chip cookies.
Poppy’s | Cobble Hill – 243 Degraw Street | Brooklyn Heights – 48 Henry Street
Poppy’s is a Brooklyn favorite in Cobble Hill that recently opened a second location on Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights. In addition to coffee, sandwiches, and prepped meals, they sell homemade pastries like their apple cider bundt, scones, banana bread, and cookies. Don’t miss: scones, biscuit, cardamom coffee cake.
Updated: July 20, 2024.
