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August 26, 2011 6:54 AM   Subscribe

BostonCookiesFilter: I once had the most amazing cookies ever from some bakery/pastry shop/cookie place in Boston. Can you help me find them??

About ~10 years ago, an ex girlfriend of a no-longer-stepbrother visited from Boston and brought the most amazing cookies from some bakery. The cookies weren't just good chocolate chip, or good oatmeal raisin cookies, but each was like a delicious work of pastry art - dipped in chocolate, or decorated with delicious icing, or made into a cookie sandwich with delicious filling, or topped with shaved chocolate and nuts. There is no way to reach either of those people now to ask where to get those cookies, so does anyone have any idea what this bakery/pastry shop is?? I am going to be in Boston next weekend, I must find those cookies, if I still think about them 10 years later! I guess it could also be around the Boston surrounding area, but for some reason I think they came from Boston specifically. Also, as far as I can recall they came in a pretty box, possibly pink, but I can't be sure.
posted by never.was.and.never.will.be. to Food & Drink (12 answers total) 5 users marked this as a favorite
 
I'm not sure if it's been around for ten years, but possibly Flour? Their cookies (and everything else, for that matter) are heavenly. Not in a pink box, though; usually white. Two of their three locations are in Boston proper.

(Even if it's not Flour, I would recommend visiting anyway. Tomato basil & mozzarella sandwich followed by a cookie for dessert. Amazing.)
posted by Kosh at 7:01 AM on August 26, 2011


When I hear "Boston area" and "cookies" linked together with a dash of awe and a sprinkling of desperation, I think Lakota. The bakery is in Arlington but you can also get a subset of the cookies at several locations in Cambridge.

If you go this route, make sure you try the triple sec bonbon, the chocolate macaroon, and the mint cream sandwich.
posted by cranberry_nut at 7:03 AM on August 26, 2011 [1 favorite]


The North End is home to some awesome little Italian Bakeries/Pastry Shops that have cookies and pastries like you describe.

Search :

bakery loc: Boston (Paul Revere Mall)

on Google Maps and take your pick. Stop into Regina Pizzeria while you are in the area for some great pizza!
posted by effigy at 7:53 AM on August 26, 2011


I don't think Mike's Pastry uses pink boxes (North End Italian bakery, as effigy noted), but they're often the source of "pastries we brought back from Boston".

Kosh, hard to believe that Flour's been around that long, but they won a Best of Boston in 2002.
posted by catlet at 8:05 AM on August 26, 2011 [1 favorite]


I'd stay clear of Mike's Pastry if you don't feel like waiting in line for 3 hours to buy a cannoli.
posted by WhitenoisE at 8:18 AM on August 26, 2011


Mike's has white boxes with blue writing, but the string could have been red-and-white.
posted by wenestvedt at 8:22 AM on August 26, 2011


Rosie's? They have several locations, and though it's been years since I bought anything there, their website is very pink.
posted by Melismata at 8:25 AM on August 26, 2011


My first thought was somewhere in the North End too, but honestly, you haven't really got enough info to ID the place. Can you remember anything else? Did the box have a name on it, even if you can't remember what it was?
posted by CunningLinguist at 8:33 AM on August 26, 2011


My first guess is Lakota's (lookit the menu - seems to fit some of your description), then Rosie's, and then maybe Dancing Deer, but I don't think they do the fancy quite as you described.
posted by Ink-stained wretch at 8:57 AM on August 26, 2011


I'm guessing Lakota too. This link has pictures of the cookies, so you can see if they're the right ones.
posted by chickenmagazine at 9:29 AM on August 26, 2011


It's probably Lakota, even though I think they use a brown box. You should go to Arlington (red line to Alewife, 79 bus to Arlington Heights, almost to the end or 77 bus from Harvard Square) because the smell is amazing. If the chocolate macaroon is the one where it's tender-crispy on the outside, almond chewy on the inside, half dipped in chocolate and covered with sliced almonds, yeah, please go get some and then please send some to me in Canada.

I mean, look at them.
posted by zix at 12:40 PM on August 26, 2011 [1 favorite]


Response by poster: I knew it's a long shot when I posted the question, and I don't know for sure that it was a pink box. So now that I know there is more than 1 awesome cookie store in boston, which one should I try?? I definitely need to get cookies next weekend :)

Feel free to give me other suggestions too, I'll check out all the websites to see if any of the places look like they might be it. Thanks!!
posted by never.was.and.never.will.be. at 2:34 PM on August 26, 2011


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