Some bakery and coffee shop reviews from a recent trip

1. Funny Face Bakery (Seaport) – We walked past this random place and were lured in by the smell. The chocolate chip cookie was surprisingly good if you like that kind of thing (large with a gooey interior and crisp exterior). 4/5
2. Supermoon bakehouse – Walking into this place, we were surprised by its minimalist layout/design. We went here after dinner so basically everything was sold out except ice cream, gelato, and a couple cruffins. We got the ube/pandan ice cream sandwich and the ferrero rocher cruffin. The ice cream sandwich was great! The ice cream itself was sorta salty in a wonderful way and seemed to contain pieces of something, maybe toffee. The cake part of the sandwich was soft and moist. We didn’t enjoy the cruffin much though. The filling was mid and the croissant was good from a technical standpoint, but it wasn’t very “moreish” (as the British would say). We each had a couple bites and then put it away and never finished it. 4/5
3. Sey Coffee – My bf got the Colombian drip coffee which was $6. He found it very good indeed. But it was a large quantity of coffee (I guess that’s typically a good thing though). 4.5/5
4. Radio Bakery – I’d decided prior to this trip that I definitely wasn’t going to go here. I’d heard about the hour-long lines. But we were visiting the Brooklyn Botanic Garden anyways…and we were hungry. So we figured we’d swing by their Prospect Park location and see how long of a wait they had. This was at around 1:30pm on a Sunday. The line was quite short, maybe 5-10 minutes? Most things were sold out, of course. But we were able to get the matcha mango morning bun, chocolate chip cookie, and a tofu sandwich. 2 of the 3 were good. The tofu sandwich was exceedingly delicious, probably in the top three most delicious foods of the trip. Whatever chili oil they use in it is very good. My bf didn’t care so much for the morning bun (he found it “confusing”) but I did enjoy the flavor combination. Very well-made. The chocolate chip cookie, on the other hand…we agreed that they perfectly replicated the taste and texture of a cookie you’d get in the bakery section of a grocery store. I don’t know why they sell such a thing. I’ve made many chocolate chip cookies and never had them taste like they were from a grocery store so this was quite a feat from Radio Bakery. 4/5

Black Fox Coffee (not pictured) – I don’t have a picture but I wanted to note that my bf found this to be very good, perhaps even better than Sey. 5/5

1. Elbow Bread – There was maybe a 10 minute wait on Memorial Day morning. We got the garlic bread bialy, blueberry kolache, and nori chocolate chip cookie. All three were excellent. The blueberries were so flavorful and the nori flavor worked very well in the cookie. Highly recommend. 5/5
2. Roasting Plant Coffee – This place has some cool pneumatic coffee contraption. They have several coffee options and you choose one (my bf got the guatemalan) and then the beans are shot from their receptacle into the grinder and ground up. Unfortunately, bf found the coffee to be kinda bad. 2/5
3. Culture Espresso – This was a great way to end the trip! We’ve been to this place several times before but we’d never tried the corn cookie, only the chocolate chip one. This time, we got both. My bf found the corn cookie, which tastes like a very good sugar cookie with corn, to be even better than the chocolate chip one. Their chocolate chip cookie is kinda similar in structure and texture to the one from funny face bakery, but it tastes even better. Highly recommend. As for the coffee, my bf was disappointed to get cold brew when he asked for iced coffee as he doesn’t typically care for the taste of cold brew. But apparently it was very good cold brew. 5/5