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No. 2 of the world's best chocolate chip cookies

Red Gate Bakery

East Village, 68 E 1st St · New York, USA

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The cookie to get

The choco-toffee cookie

A little toffee in the dough, shards of bittersweet chocolate and Maldon salt on top. It was the unanimous winner of The Infatuation's blind test of 32 New York cookies in October 2026.

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Chocolate chip cookies

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Chef's own six-ounce cookie, crisp at the edges and gooey in the middle.

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