Everyone knows that our cookies are the hottest treats in town, but now Levain is getting even cooler. That’s right friends- Levain Bakery will soon officially be air conditioned! Amazingly enough, we have been operating out of our Upper West Side location sans AC since 1995…that’s fifteen Manhattan summers, for the record!… and with those ovens constantly opening and closing to deliver the freshest and most delicious cookies in the world- well, let’s just say it hasn’t quite been sugar and spice and everything nice with temperatures upwards of 90 degrees. Even though we like to think of ourselves as tough cookies around here…you know what they say, if you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen!… I can safely tell you that we’re all nothing short of ecstatic to welcome the new addition to the bakery. 

Installation’s going to take some time, but with any luck, we should be beating the heat by the time the solstice rolls around. Stop in soon, and you may even catch the staff doing a little happy dance as they pack away the fans and bid farewell to mountains of melting cookie dough. And don’t worry- even though it’ll be a bit cooler in here, those cookies are still going to be warm out of the oven!

So come and chill out with us all summer long…what could be sweeter?

Peace/love

One of our favorite cheerleaders is all ready for school in her new uiform!  And she has the voice to back her up, as anyone who has ever heard Tallulah asking for her treat knows!

Reggie waiting patiently for his favorite scone.  As many of you already know our delicious scones have many canine and feline fans as well as human fans!  Reggie usually comes by on weekend mornings after his run in the park and waits so sweetly until we have time to come see him.

We knew Sinead first as a customer in our Wainscott shop, but this year we got her on the other side of the counter and she has been amazing!  We are hoping that in the Fall, when we close for the season in Wainscott, that, when Sinead is not in school, she will be on West 74^th Street!

Name:  Sinead Keirans

What’s your sign:  Pices

Where did you grow up?  New York City

What is your favorite color?  Green

What is your favorite thing at the bakery?  Scones

Cat or Dog?  Cat

If you could be a cookie package, where would you want to be shipped?  Australia

Chocolate chip walnut or chocolate chocolate chip?  Chocolate Chip Walnut

What is your favorite song played at the bakery?  Let it Be

If you could be one thing in the bakery, what would you be and why?  A cookie, everyone likes cookies

This is why we love making cookies!  Thank you for sharing, you made our day.

Dear Levain Bakery Staff,
 
I’m attaching a photo of my two nephews, Frank and Aidan, after they finished eating one of your chocolate chip cookies. They said they were the best chocolate chip cookies in the world and I agree!
 
Thank you for caring so much about good food and making our lives a little sweeter!
Laura Galante

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/nyregion/16qbiteli.html

Quick Bite | Wainscott

Published: August 14, 2009

“Never have 12 cookies weighed so much,” said Michael Hirtenstein of Manhattan and Bridgehampton, lifting his purchase from the counter at Levain Bakery in Wainscott on a recent afternoon.

Levain’s signature cookies ($4) are indeed impressive in their heft and lumpy handmade charm. Each weighs six ounces and is nearly half as thick as it is wide. They come in four flavors: chocolate chip walnut, dark chocolate chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin and dark chocolate peanut butter chip.

“There’s kind of an art to scaling it perfectly,” said Connie McDonald, the co-owner with Pam Weekes of the 10-year-old bakery in Wainscott and its 14-year-old sister bakery on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The cookie’s thickness allows the center to be soft with melted semi-sweet chocolate chunks and chewy with raisins or nuts, while the outside remains crisp and firm. Substantial and satisfying, the chocolate chip walnut cookie is practically a meal in itself.

Levain produces fine artisanal breads (a crusty ciabatta is $4.50, a whole wheat walnut raisin is $6.75), bomboloncini (baked jelly doughnuts, $2 each), and flat pizza breads in flavors like caramelized onion with Parmesan or artichoke Gruyère ($7.50 each). Espresso ($1.50) and cappuccino ($2.75 small, $3.75 large) are also available. There is no table service, but there are benches to sit on.

Rustic fruit tarts are a specialty only at the East End location. A combination of strawberries, blueberries and peaches is framed in a light pie crust ($25 for a six-inch). The sweet tarts are seasonal pleasures, just like Levain’s Wainscott bakery. It closes for the year in late September. (Levain Bakery in Manhattan is open year-round.)

Levain Bakery, Wainscott Village Shopping Center, 354 Montauk Highway, Wainscott; (631) 537-8570. levainbakery.com. Open daily July through Labor Day, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Open weekends April through June, and from Labor Day until the last weekend of September (call for hours). SUSAN M. NOVICK

One of favorite customers is looking for a job.  She’s hired!  Thanks Marc for for sharing T’s love with us everyday.  Tallulah is one of the girls, always up for a cookie.

This is the second summer Daniel has worked for us in Wainscott and we are so happy that he came back this summer.  We just wish he did not have to go back to school so soon!  He is great to have around and keeps us all laughing and is a great dancer!

Name:  Daniel Narvaez Garcia

What’s your sign:  Aquarius

Where did you grow up?  Cuenca-Ecuador

What is your favorite color?  Brown

What is your favorite thing at the bakery?  Everybody

Cat or Dog?  Dog

If you could be a cookie package, where would you want to be shipped?  Cuenca

What smells best when it is in the oven?  The cookies

Chocolate chip walnut or chocolate chocolate chip?  Chocolate Chip Walnut

What is your favorite song played at the bakery?  Use Some Body – Get the Rhythm

If you could be one thing in the bakery, what would you be and why?  The cookies, because we sell the most of them.

Make a statement that defines you.  Vive tu vida como si fuera el ultimo dia.  “Live everyday like it is your last>”

George is another one of our summer “kids” out on Long Island.  A surfer from Connecticut (really?!) who wandered into the bakery last Spring inquiring about work. 

Name:  George McGinniss

What’s your sign:  Scorpio

Where did you grow up?  Connecticut

What is your favorite color?  White

What is your favorite thing at the bakery?  Cookies (All of them)

Cat or Dog?  Catog

If you could be a cookie package, where would you want to be shipped?  To the body of George McGinniss

What smells best when it is in the oven?  Cookies

Chocolate chip walnut or chocolate chocolate chip?  Both, as long as milk is nearby

What is your favorite song played at the bakery?  In the Waiting Line – Garden State Soundtrack

What is your least favorite song played at the bakery?  Jason Mraz

If you could be one thing in the bakery, what would you be and why?  A rolling pin, because I could just rolllll along

Make a statement that defines you.  I am George am I.

Sometimes it seems that to work at Levain Bakery you must have a certain name.  ie Alexis, Emily, etc.  Right now we have three Emily’s!

Name:  Emily

What’s your sign:  Leo

Where did you grow up?  New Jersey

What is your favorite color?  I go back and forth between blue and green

What is your favorite thing at the bakery?  Pizzas

Cat or Dog?  Dog

If you could be a cookie package, where would you want to be shipped?  Anywhere in Tuscany

What smells best when it is in the oven?  Sour cream coffee cake

Chocolate chip walnut or chocolate chocolate chip?  Chocolate chip walnut

What is your favorite song played at the bakery?  Ragged Wood by Fleet Fox

What is your least favorite song played at the bakery?  The bakery only plays good music.

If you could be one thing in the bakery, what would you be and why?  The big mixer – it can do anything.

Make a statement that defines you.  “Don’t sweat the small stuff.”