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“Breads, by guest reviewer Tracy Weiss”

Occasion:	Cuisine:	Area:	Cost:	Rating:
Lunch/Takeout	New American	Gramercy	Moderate	Great

/>A Dark (Danish inspired) Rye which I believe New Yorkers will go crazy over and pile high with radish, salmon for open faced sammies. It’s kind of a deal at $7.50 a loaf.  This dense, Super Euro bread is a meal on its own and most often what you’d find at Uri’s house. Take some to yours.  It’s moist, but not overly chewy.

The Olive Bread (I tried as a Olive stick) rivals any carbo goodness I’ve sampled in any five star restaurant.  Two different types of olives bring a briny flavor that’s expected, but with an eye opening pop of saline. The bites are nestled into soft bread enveloped by the perfect crust. Just enough bite to add texture, but not rip up the roof of your mouth.  If only one of these guys were in a breadbasket, you’d have bloodshed.

In my house, we were divided on our favorite item. I’m a sucker for a cheese stick.  This flakey wand of buttery inside and crisp cheesy outside is the best pasty this side of Red Lobster’s Cheddar Cheese biscuit. While that sounds like a slam, those chain restaurant starters WERE on my Death Row menu until Breads Bakery brought these Cheese Straws into my life.   I vote for savory, but my husband demands sweets. He freaked out over the chocolate rugelach. I barely got a bite of doughy crescent pastry before he polished them off. His quiet announcement said it all. “These are the best I have ever had in my whole life.” No one tell his Grandmother.

I’ve only scratched the surface on what Breads Bakery will bring to New York City and to our waistlines.  I’ll be sure to sample their challah, croissants, babkas and burekas.  I’m not going to tell you about their focaccia, quiche and daily soup specials. Those I’m keeping all to myself.  More for me!

Even during the dark days of Atkin’s, we embraced Amy’s, Sullivan and even the chain Le Pain Quotidien. But now? Haute cuisine restaurants are including a ‘bread course’ on their menus.  We dismiss anything with preservatives. Baking your own bread is once again a status symbol and not just for that Hippy chick that lives down the hall anymore. I believe Breads Bakery will only elevate the trend and join the ranks of Manhattan’s elite bakeries. They have makings of greatness: both in product and ideology.

Breads Bakery
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Posted: February 15, 2013

Other restaurants in Gramercy :
+ Casa Mono/Bar Jamon   + Pure Food & Wine   + Parea   + Gramercy Tavern (Lunch)   + 15 East   + Tocqueville   + Irving Mill   + Bar Milano   + Irving Mill   + Maialino   + Asellina   + Corkbuzz Wine Studio   + Breads, by guest reviewer Tracy Weiss   

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