Stella Taco
2940 NE Alberta – Portland
$2
Q: Why is it that a taco joint is completely NAILING chocolate chip cookies?
Stella makes exactly one* baked good and they make the $*!% out of it.
Somebody in that kitchen, clearly, is a cookie scholar – and is managing to get these gems under a glass dome at the cash register on a regular basis. (I’ve seen them every time I’ve been there, with maybe one exception when they’d sold out.)
Read MoreCafé at Line Hotel
3515 Wilshire Blvd – Los Angeles
$2.50
Had a work/fun trip to LA last week for a few days and was put up in this Koreatown hotel for one night. I knew nothing about the place before I showed up so I was bummed that I’d made plans to meet my friends at The Ace for drinks instead of insisting they come there. I mean, The Ace is…
Read More*purchased at café next door to bakery:
Café Eleven
435 NE Rosa Parks Way – Portland
$2
It is no secret that I’m a fan of a double dark chocolate/triple chocolate/chocolate whopper/ooey gooey chocolate cookie. It has a variety of handles, this dark brown beauty, but it mainly boils down to this:
Read MoreMilk
7290 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
$1.50
I’ve been very fond of the cookies at Milk since my first visit – in 2008 – and I return every time I’m in Los Angeles. (I like L.A.) Four years ago I proclaimed Milk’s iced spice molasses cookie my favorite molasses cookie ever.
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