New York City Bakeries
Greetings! Welcome to your Staycay Tour of New York City, USA - and not just any Staycay Tour of NYC, but a special one designed to make your mouth water and your love of baked goods rise! It's an NYC bakeries Staycay Tour!
Your itinerary for this Staycay Tour includes arriving virtually by plane at LaGuardia Airport then taking in...:
- Bread at Orwashers Bakery
- Treats at Magnolia Bakery
- Walk through Central Park
- Cookies at Levain Bakery
- Babkas at Breads Bakery
- An NYC Taxi Ride
- Swedish Cardamom Buns at Fabrique
- Pretzel Croissants at City Bakery
- Italian Treats at Veniero's
- Cronuts at Dominique Ansel Bakery
- More Italian Treats at Ferrara
- Chinese Treats at Fay Da Bakery
- Babkas at Green's Bakery
- A beautiful flight back out of LaGuardia Airport
There's a full hour and a quarter of bakery yumminess here for you to enjoy, or you can skip through in just a few minutes if you're in a hurry -- that flexibility is part of the fun of a Staycay Tour! (If you'd like to stick to around 45 minutes of staycationing, just enjoy the tour stops that have our tour guide icon on them -- 
-- he'll help you make the most of your time.)
Enough reading about the bakeries, let's go SEE the bakeries!
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Here's your flight into LaGuardia Airport for your super-special tour of New York City bakeries. As you fly in you'll get a sense of the vastness of the city, and you'll be able to see a lot of the areas you're be touring through as you go from bakery to bakery!.
Enjoy the flight in.
Our first bakery is in the Bronx just a hop, skip, and a jump over Rikers Island and the East River from LaGuardia Airport. The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of New York City: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island -- each like a city within a city.
Orwashers Bakery has been making New Yorkers' mouths water for more than 100 years with their bakery deliciousness. Here's a great look inside their Bronx factory and the bread they make there!
After Orwashers, we availed ourselves of NYC's public transportation and hopped on the 2 train to take us from Prospect Avenue station down to the upper west side of Manhattan where we now find ourselves at Magnolia Bakery, and just wait 'til you see the treats they make here! Yum!!
We head now from Magnolia Bakery here on the Upper West Side to our next destination, Levain Bakery which is on the Upper East Side. And sitting right between the two bakeries is NYC's world-famous Central Park. So here's a walk through the park to burn off some of the calories from our first two stops as we make our way to the next one. Enjoy the sights and sounds!
After such a great walk through such an amazing park, we deserve an equally amazing treat -- welcome to Levain Bakery and their highly-celebrated cookies! These things are massive and delicious!!
Many interviews have been done with the founders of the bakery over the years, and here's one with them and a look inside their bakery and their process from the early days of their success. It's so fun to watch. And after you see the astounding cookies and hear how they're made, you may have trouble knowing which you'd want to try first!
To get us from the mountainous cookies at Levain Bakery to our next stop, we took a good 3 mile walk down the east side of Central Park, past the Museum of Modern Art and Rockefeller Center, and we find ourselves at Breads Bakery on 6th avenue for babkas! Chocolate babkas to be specific!
Have fun seeing the bakers here make this sweet braided bready treat which originated in Jewish communities of Eastern Europe.
We've been walking a lot so far today, so were popping over to Times Square to take a cab to our next stop. Plus, it'll give you a chance to see what the view looks like from a cab window as we drive down 7th Avenue from Times Square to 18th street -- just four blocks from our next bakery.
Here we are in the West Village just a few blocks from where the taxi dropped us off -- and walking those blocks was worth it because you're going to lay your eyes on some of the best Swedish cardamom buns you've ever seen -- here at Fabrique Bakery!
No need to wait in the line one often finds outside of this Manhattan location of the international bakery founded in Sweden -- just click play and enjoy the buns!
Another few blocks walk to the east and we arrive at City Bakery for pretzel croissants. Yes, you read that right -- pretzel croissants
Baked goods are just awesome.
Ready for the next stop? Just another quick mile's walk into the East Village brings us to one of New York City's most famous Italian bakeries: Veniero's!
This bakery and cafe which has been family-owned and operated since 1894 is well known for it's bountiful selection of treats including amazing cheesecake. Go ahead -- take a peek inside!
Let's head south now through Washington Square Park into SoHo where we find the Dominique Ansel Bakery. You may have heard of Dominique Ansel -- he's who we have to thank for inventing the cronut. Mmmmmmmmmm.
If you were ever curious to know how cronuts are made, this will be a real treat for you! (And if you've never heard of them before, don't worry! You'll know more about them than most people after you've toured Mr. Ansel's bakery here! Enjoy!
What? What's that you say?
You say you didn't get enough of Italian treats when we stopped in at Veniero's and you'd like more? Well, lucky you that our next stop in this Staycay Tour is indeed another Italian bakery: Ferrara Cafe! You want cannoli? They've got it. Panettone? For sure! Tiramisu? Ohhhh, they definitely have tiramisu! Stop asking and start watching! Here's to the mouth watering ahead!
You've seen Swedish baked goods, Italian baked goods, eastern European baked goods -- let's keep the world tour going by walking just under a mile into Chinatown now to visit the famous Fay Da Bakery! Sound good? It should!
Sad as it is to say, we've come to our final stop on your Staycay Tour. We hopped a train from Canal Street into Brooklyn and you're now at the doorstep of Green's Bakery.
So much of the joy of baking is about the fun of theme and variation, and we'll get a flavor of that now. We saw the making of chocolate babkas earlier in our tour, and now we'll experience how the biggest babka wholesaler in the city makes not just chocolate babkas but cinnamon as well. Oh, so good. Take a look now inside this bakery factory of deliciousness!
And so ends your specialty tour of doughy New York City Staycay Tour goodness. We're so glad you could join us on this specialty Staycay Tour!
We've made our way back to LaGuardia airport and are flying out at dusk so you can get a gorgeous nighttime view of the area you've just been touring. Please join us again for another Staycay Tour soon!
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