Red Wagon Creamery
55 West Broadway – Eugene, OR
$1.75
It has been a long time since I ate a cookie good enough to talk about.
But I finally did. Last week. In my hometown. Not at a bakery, even. But at an ice cream joint called Red Wagon Creamery. They make very good ice cream*, but whomever they’ve got in charge of the cookies is no dummy, either.
Read MoreThe Slanted Door cookie kiosk
Ferry Building Marketplace- San Francisco
$1
Note: I found this cookie NOT in the actual Slanted Door restaurant, but instead just outside of it, amongst the kiosks in the main hallway of the Ferry Building Marketplace. I’m not sure whether this a regular Slanted Door cookie stand or if it exists only occasionally. Looks like I assed-out with the information-gathering on this one. Sorry guys.
I was with my mom on a short visit to S.F. last week and by the time I found this nugget last Saturday, we’d walked probably 5 miles and tasted about 4 other cookies in the Ferry Building/farmers’ – all of them before noon. The day before that, we’d tasted about 3 others in the city. This was the most remarkable of the bunch.
Read MoreDouble Dragon Bar & Restaurant
1235 Division St. – Portland
$1.50
The first thing to know: this is not a macaroon.
Read MoreCostello’s Travel Caffé
2222 NE Broadway – Portland
$1.75
I’m on the fence about this cookie.
On one hand, I’m mad at it for being neither brown buttery or salty in any profound way.
Read MoreRoman Candle Baking Co.
3377 SE Division St. – Portland
$1
This is the second time I’m talking to you about biscotti. (The first was just last month.)
Note: I should actually say from Roman Candle, not at. I found these biscotti at Case Study Coffee on NE Sandy — along with a solid lineup of other RC pastries. I’ve never actually seen it at Roman Candle because their pastry case was close to empty 9 out of the approximately 10 times I’ve been there -despite the fact that it was nowhere near closing time on any of those visits. (This is one of my beefs with RC – but I won’t get into that now.)
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