About Au Levain Bakery & Cafe
You will find Au Levain Bakery & Cafe at 4301 N Lincoln Ave in North Center, Chicago, about 4.1 mi north of central Chicago. Besides being a cookie shop, it is also listed as bakery café.
Chicago has 805 places on our map that bake or sell fresh pastry, and this is one of them — about one per 3,381 people living in the city. Nearest alternative: Cookie Spin at 4350 N Leavitt St, 0.1 mi away.
Doors open from 8 AM at the earliest, and the last pick-up window runs to 2 PM, for about 24 hours across 4 days a week. Both weekend days are on the schedule.
Levain Bakery was founded in 1995 on West 74th Street in New York City by friends Pam Weekes and Connie McDonald. Its 6-ounce Chocolate Chip Walnut cookie became famous after The New York Times called it possibly the largest, most divine chocolate chip cookie in Manhattan.
