Bouley Restaurant Bakery & Market

Last night we decided to dine at The Bouley Bakery / Café, Market. The third floor dining area is small but the service is excellent. I counted twelve employees and 24 patrons, nice ratio. The food and drinks were excellent and it was fun watching the chef cook our meal. I can't wait to go back:-) or try the Main Restaurant next time. If you don't mind really tight seating, you will love this casual place.

The Bouley Bakery / Café, Market, and Upstairs dining comprise a set of operations sited on three floors of a single, compact building. It is designed to bring together in one location the basic elements that go together to create a satisfying dining experience in a relaxed, casual setting. This includes the prospect of taking home either prepared dishes or the products needed to create meals in one’s own kitchen, recognizing that, in every instance, the starting point must be the quality of the ingredients.
The Bouley Bakery/Café serves as the entry point to the complex, at street level. In addition to the fresh-baked goods that emerge from the wood-burning oven enclosed in 19th century cobblestones, the Bakery/Café features house-made soups, salads, sandwiches, hot and cold beverages, including coffee, cappuccino, teas, iced teas, and juices, and, of course, a full range of desserts.
For the visitor who wishes to eat on premises, there is self-service sidewalk seating at umbrella-shaded tables, and, during daytime hours, the Upstairs dining room is available for self-service seating as well.
In producing high quality baked goods, we begin with a variety of organic flours and other flavorful ingredients that go into our various breads, from garlic bread, to hazelnut bread, to lemon bread, to the basic Miche, a round of specialty French bread, also known as a boule, with a dark crunchy crust.
Bouley Bakery also features pastries, in both traditional and modern French styles along with Viennese, American, and Asian influences, ranging from fruit tarts to chocolate and almond croissants, to enjoy on their own or to cap off and complete the experience of a full meal.