Sunday February 28, 2010
7:00pm
207 2nd Avenue

Baked goods, soft-serve, flavored milk, freshly baked breads and pork buns – it’s no wonder we were greeted by a line that looped around the wooden tables towards the hallway leading to Ssäm Bar. Milk Bar is part of the David Chang’s Momofuku empire and is headed by pastry chef Christina Tosi – she appeared on the Martha Stewart show in January of 2009 and shared her recipe for Milk Bar’s signature blueberry and cream cookies.

The sweet indulgence for two included:

• Red velvet cake and cream cheese soft-serve twist (some of which made it’s way on to my coat sleeve but totally worth it)
• Slice of cinnamon bun pie
• Red velvet milkshake
• 4 types of cookies to go
  • cornflake chocolate chip marshmallow cookie
  • compost cookie™ – pretzels, potato chips, coffee, oats, butterscotch, chocolate chips
  • chocolate-chocolate cookie
  • blueberry cream cookie – dried blueberries, milk crumbs

You can now place an order online and pick it up from a separate area but part of the fun is food-stalking others and devising your order while waiting on line. Coming here makes me feel like a kid again but with complex grown-up flavors.

Good for: a whim, Sunday funday, taking guests from out of town, a date, post-breakup (unless he lives in the East Village), special occasion treats