Is Breads Bakery Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update (New York, NY)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 9, Episode 7

The episode 'Brilliantly Baked' (S9E7) featured Breads Bakery, spotlighting the bakery's breads and pastries, including its signature babka and rye loaves. Breads Bakery already appears in the database as a bakery in New York, New York; this record reflects its appearance in this additional episode rather than a new business. The business's website, breadsbakery.com, listed multiple current New York City locations, including Bryant Park, Upper West Side, Upper East Side, Union Square, and Rockefeller Center, when checked on 2026-09-08, along with online ordering, nationwide shipping, and NYC delivery and pickup options. The same site listed catering, recipes, and press-coverage pages, consistent with an actively operating, multi-location bakery group in New York City at the time of this most recent check.

Man v. Food, Season 8, Episode 27 Aired April 7, 2020

On Man v. Food, Casey Webb visited Breads Bakery near Union Square, sampling the shop's chocolate babka and other Israeli-influenced breads and pastries. The bakery opened in Union Square in 2013 and has since expanded to additional New York locations, including Lincoln Square, the Upper East Side, Rockefeller Center, and Bryant Park, according to the company's own store locator. Since the 2020 episode, the Union Square shop has continued operating at 18 East 16th Street; Yelp's August 2026 update shows current reviews and photos for the address, and the bakery's own website lists the location among its active stores with posted hours. The babka and pastry case that Man v. Food highlighted remains part of the bakery's standard offerings across its New York locations, per the company's own menu pages.