Gordon Eats

I got to check out the new Momofuku Bakery and Milk Bar early. It was a friends and family/soft opening type of thing. Ed and Robyn went earlier in the day and brought back a bunch of stuff so I tried a several things already before going there myself.

The place is pretty much a bakery. There’s an open kitchen in the and a display case of cakes, pies, and cookies. Normally there isn’t a place to sit. There are waist level tables for standing and eating. On I guess special ocassions or reservations, the tables can be lowered and the wooden box stools stacked off to the side (just beyond the right side of the picture) are used as seats as a private dining room. There is a connection (to the left of the open kitchen in the picture) to Momofuku Ssam Bar.

My favorite dessert there, of the ones I tried, was the banana cake.  It was banana bread, banana cream, hazelnut crunch, gianduja fudge, and I think peanut butter on the top.

It’s the one of many huge cakes that they have. So with the fact that they give you a big slice it’s kinda hard to finish. It’s probably best if you didn’t try to finish one slice in one sitting or by yourself. Though I’m not sure if they’d change how much they will serve.

The peanut butter cookies were really good as well. And, I don’t have any pictures of them, but the compost cookies were really interesting. Yeah I know compost cookies don’t exactly sound appetizing and what they’re made of doesn’t help either. It’s made of potato chips and pretzels, chocolate chips, and butterscotch chips. It’s not the most even of tastes when you bite into one as you will sometimes taste or feel the pretzels or sometimes get a slight taste of potato chip. But overall it tastes like a chocolate chip cookie, even though it’s made from just whatever scraps there may have been lying around.

Momofuku Bakery and Milk Bar open officially tomorrow, Saturday. Here is their entire menu (via Eater).

Here are the rest of my pictures and here’s a much more extensive article and with better photos from Serious Eats NY.