City Bakery
Prices
Salad bar: $12 per pound.
AmEx, MC, V.
Description
Pastry genius Maury Rubins loft-size City Bakery is jammed with Chelsea shoppers loading up on unusual salad-bar choices (grilled pineapple with ancho chili, bean sprouts with smoked tofu, excellent salmon salad). Theres also a small selection of soups, pizzas and hot dishes. But to heck with all that: The thick, incredibly rich hot chocolate with fat house-made marshmallows is heaven in a cup (replaced by fruit-infused lemonade in the summer), and the moist melted chocolate-chip cookies are better than a marked-down pair of Prada pumps.
Hours
Mon–Fri 7:30am–7pm; Sat 7:30am–6pm; Sun 9am–5pm.