Best of Boston
Best Cookie
Photo by Anthony Tieuli
Flour Bakery + Café
It may seem like a simple task, but pulling off truly great chocolate chip cookies requires some serious baking chops. Pastry empress Joanne Chang tweaks [...] read more»
2011 Best Cookie, Chocolate Sandwich
Hi-Rise Bread Company
Cambridge
Choosing just one of Hi-Rise's cookies is a little like being forced to choose between your children. The almond macaroons taste like an intense nutty [...] read more»
2003 Best Cookie
Flour Bakery + Cafe
Boston
Much of this bright and sunny bakery's success is due to the fact that it was one of the first businesses of its kind to [...] read more»
1999 Best Cookie
Cafe 300
Boston
Make no mistake: These aren't delicate little Proustian pastries. Cafe 300 serves up good ol' American chunka hunka cookies—chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, snickerdoodle, ginger, and [...] read more»
1996 Best Cookie, Chocolate Chip
The Boston Chipyard
Boston
Bucking the megacookie trend, these bite-size morsels are perfect—buttery, slightly chewy, crisp edges, with just enough chips. Buy the by the dozen, and they disappear. read more»
1995 Best Cookie, Chocolate
Rosie’s Bakery
Cambridge
When a chocolate craving hits, there are few things in life more satisfying than one of Rosie's cookies. Sophisticated enough to feel adult; fudgy enough [...] read more»
1994 Best Cookie, Alternative
Starbucks Coffee Company
Starbucks' molasses chews are just about the best cookies to hit Beantown since the invention of the tollhouse. Spiked with a generous amount of ginger [...] read more»
1991 Best Cookie
Tie: Beth Israel Hospital, Cookie Express from Karen’s Kitchen; Bentonwood Cafe
Boston; Newton Centre
We spent days testing these cookies and trying to decide which was the best: Beth Israel's oatmeal raisin, Cookie Express's chocolate chocolate chip, or Bentonwood [...] read more»
1990 Best Cookie
Cookie Express from Karen’s Kitchen
If everybody's mom made cookies this good, nobody would ever leave home. read more»
1982 Best Cookie
Hamlet & Kenn
Boston
Primarily a caterer, their cookies and petits fours are unrivaled. read more»