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No. 4 of the world's best chocolate chip cookies

Tartine Bakery

Mission, Guerrero St · San Francisco, USA

Tartine BakeryNo. 4
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The cookie to get

The chocolate chip cookie with flaky salt

Salty-sweet, with a pinch of flaky salt as the last thing on. On TIME's list of America's best and on The Infatuation's San Francisco guide; the bakery itself is No. 2 on our Bakery 100.

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