📍The Bakery at Greywind, New York City
Quick bite on the way to Hudson Yards in New York City.
On this morning I needed to go to Hudson Yards. It's not an area I visit often. I ordered the Meta Ray-Bans online with pickup at the Ray-Ban store in Hudson Yards. I took it as an opportunity to try a place outside my regular circle.
I visited Greywind over the summer of 2023. I've been to Loring Place. I got to try his pandemic-era popup Washington Squares. Through that all, I appreciate Dan Kluger's attention to bread. So visiting the newer Bakery at Greywind seemed like a natural fit–especially with how close it is to Hudson Yards.
When you enter the space, there's some window seating to the left and the counter to order on the right. Behind the counter is the kitchen space for Greywind. The day I went, I was the only patron. It feels like a grab-and-go place which may explain why people weren't lingering inside.
Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Bao at The Bakery at Greywind
I got the Bacon, Egg, and Cheese "Bao". This was made earlier, packaged, and kept warm. There's a warmer closet behind the counter the person at the counter removed this from. I suspect they make a certain amount in a day and if they're sold out, they're sold out. Regardless, I haven't seen a BEC made quite like this and I was excited to try it.
The "Bao" has soft scrambled eggs. I'm not sure how they stuffed this since there were no seams on the bun. Perhaps the eggs were cooked and stuffed before baking. For soup dumplings, they often freeze the soup before cooking the dumpling wrapper around it. Maybe they did that here? However it was made, the eggs maintained a good level of fluffiness. The eggs were the dominant ingredient with smaller pockets of bacon and cheese.
The bacon was interesting. Typically in a BEC, the bacon will be sliced. At a bodega, there might be many slices clumped up. In this case, the bacon was minced and clumped together, almost like a sausage. There was also some kind of maple or maple-tasting flavor to the bacon. The cheese was melted and had a good pullability.
Chocolate Chip-Molasses Cookie with Sea Salt at The Bakery at Greywind
Like the "Bao" the cookie was also packaged and ready to go. They had unpackaged pastries but the chocolate chip cookie was not one of them. To me, the texture of a chocolate chip cookie is more important than the flavor to my enjoyment. The edges had a slight chew. The chew gave way to a soft center. In terms of surface area, more soft area than chew area. No doubt the molasses plays a strong role in the texture.
This was a well-salted cookie. This cookie is made for the person who likes that chocolate and sea salt interplay. There's this warm caramel-like undertone to the whole cookie. It does this without being sweet. The distribution of chocolate was uneven, which I like as it gives different flavors a chance a show through. The chocolate was on the lighter side of dark chocolate without being milk chocolate. The packaging came in handy as I easily saved half the cookie for later.
📍The Bakery at Greywind
451 W 35th St, New York, NY 10018 (10th Ave Entrance)
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