Bakestone Bakery — Restaurant in New York

This is the place! Bakestone Bakery ( formerly Northside) is THE place for the best prepared home cooked comfort food in Greenpoint. In a rapidly gentrifying hood full of $36/lb cheese and charcuterie arrivistes it sure is nice to have a place nearby where you can take home full home cooked European meals for under $15/head. Their breads, pastries, danish snd babkas are all amazing. After hitting beautiful McGolrick Park you come here for a simple meal of fresh pierogis, Greenpoints best chicken, barley and vegetable soups and sweet cheese and fruit filled blintzes. Their chicken cutlets, stuffed cabbage (meat or yummy vegetarian with kasha and mushroom sauce) and vegetable/potato babkas/puddings also terrific. Don’t be another Gentrifying Tool. Support these great, independently owned, small local Polish businesses before they...

First of all, the food is decent. Service on the other hand leaves a lot to be desired. It seems as if every time I go in person, the price is different. Yesterday for example, I paid $30 for my order. I got 4 soups, 3 small containers to take home, and ate one at the place. Pretty sure I was overcharged. A bunch of other times, I have encountered inconsistent pricing. It seems as every time I go and there is a different cashier, the price changes. During holidays, I paid $10 for small container of the vegetable salad. When I asked why is it so expensive, the cashier told me it was because they rarely offer it. I don't know what is going on there, but this doesn't seem like honest...

This bakery is marvelous. My family and I ate their food and drank their coffee practically every morning for a week and a half while on vacation in NYC. Their coffee is really good. Their pastries vary from standard pastries (eclaires, puff pastries) to Polish delicacies. The staff is not ebulliently friendly, but that might be due to a darker Polish disposition (something that I'm either not that familiar with or simply don't understand). If you speak Polish, they do,...