Flying Marshmallows
As seen at City Bakery’s Hot Chocolate Festival
City Bakery is a New York City gem and one of the first places we went when we moved to the city. Owner Maury Rubin, a Greenmarket supporter way before eating locally was ‘in’, opened The City Bakery in 1990, as a gourmet cafeteria. When you enter the restaurant, you’re confronted with overwhelming crowds (not unlike your typical school or work cafeteria experience), a bakery, salad bar, and hot bar. Seems pretty standard, no? If you look a bit closer, the hot and cold bars are much more inspiring than my college’s pizza or cold cuts! The salad bar is full of delicious creations from the Greenmarket’s freshest produce (curried cauliflower, beet salad, etc). The hot bar always has an eager line waiting for sinfully rich macaroni and cheese, as well as paninis and a variety of creative and soups. Of course, the star of City Bakery’s show are their baked goods, fresh out of the oven and thus melting and moist: chocolate chip cookies, pretzel-croissants, chocolate zucchini bread.
If you need an immediate jolt of chocolate, look no further than City Bakery’s hot chocolate and homemade marshmallows. This month, during their annual Hot Chocolate Festival, City Bakery is featuring a different hot chocolate each day. Today, I sampled a Vietnamese Cinnamon Hot Chocolate. You can see the rest of the festival’s schedule here. Maury Rubin also runs two additional offshoots, the Birdbath Bakeries in Soho and the East Village.
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