Milk Bar

Upper West Side & Central Park


Conceived by a Momofuku dessert chef with a soft spot for junk food, the big draw at Milk Bar is the delicious, chewy cookies. A popular teeth-rotter is the Compost Cookie: pretzels, potato chips, coffee, oats, graham crackers, butterscotch and chocolate chips. Elsewhere, things are equally inventive, with options like cereal milk soft serve and pickled strawberry jam and corn cookie milkshakes.


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