Levain Bakery opens in Harlem
The last time I had a cookie from Levain Bakery, my pictures made the cookie look like a pile of poo. I'm ok with a weird looking cookie that is delicious though. Now it gets even better because Levain Bakery opened up a second location in Harlem! It's a good thing for me because it's closer to my apartment, although it's a bad thing because each cookie is probably like 1,000 calories or more. Either way, it's good to see gentrification in Harlem. Some individuals may not like gentrification, however I'm a huge fan of it. It's nice to have cookies in your neighborhood.
The new location seems to have the same flavors as the original shop in the UWS. Their flavors are Chocolate Chip Walnut, Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip, Oatmeal Raisin, and Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip. The cookies are still $4 dollars and sit like a brick in your stomach. I ate an entire one after work, and by the time dinner rolled around I kinda wanted to puke up the cookie to make room for dinner. Seriously, I'm not sure the average adult stomach is supposed to handle all that butter and sugar and chocolate at once. Maybe if you had a trained stomach of a food reviewer like Frank Bruni, you could visit twice in one day. I'm a mere run-of-the-mill fatass, and two in one day would probably have me being a poseur bulimic.
It's a welcoming site to see Harlem slowly gentrifying and that the process is being aided by a bakery made to please yuppies (Go Levain!). Perhaps some prefer the old school Harlem, but this newer version is arguably more delicious.
Levain Bakery (Harlem)
2167 Fredrick Douglas Blvd.
New York, NY 10026
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Ha, you should be thanking Columbia for getting the gentrification process ROLLING.
Nicholas
March 2, 2011 10:08 am
@Nicholas,
Then I heart Columbia! Although really, there's that giant cliff between Columbia and Harlem. I feel like it's a super distinct separation between the two hoods. The Columbia area definitely looks way more gentrified than anything east of Manhattan Ave. Ah... New York.
Danny
March 2, 2011 10:14 am