Orwashers Bakery

Orwashers is a New York City institution. Founded in 1916 by a Hungarian family, the bakery began as a small storefront in the UES. It was borne out of a desire to serve the local immigrant community and focused on high quality rye, black, and grain breads that reflected their homeland traditions.

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    (646) 461-7929

  • Website

    orwashers.com

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    Bakery

Address

440 Amsterdam Ave (at W 81st St) New York , NY 10024 United States

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pastries bagels sandwiches coffee lox people watching outdoor seating bread buns restaurants almonds rugelach cinnamon raspberry cream cheese strawberries lunch
Stella Sar

Best plain croissant I've had in NY. Close your eyes, have a bite and travel to Paris :) also looove their apple cinnamon bun !

Mich L

Everything is delicious! Almond butter/jam/bee pollen sandwich , turkey sandwich (incredible!), raspberry brioche , cinnamon raisin bread loaf ... all amazing!

Jeff Bower

Sourdough bagels are great and there's a wonderful selection of breads . A nice change of pace from bakeries focusing on sweets.

Julia Kaplan

Delicious rugelach and chocolate chip cookies ! Pretty small interior but on a nice day grab a table outside , relax and people watch .

David Milberg

I've been looking for a good bakery on the upper west side for a while. Thankfully I found this place. Fantastic atmosphere and great food!

Elizabeth Burstein

Awesome choc donut w strawberry filling, macaroon , and rugelach ????

Zidny Medina

Great coffee and croissants sandwich ! Fast service !!

Monkey Face

Good baked goods plenty of bread choices, friendly helpful staff . Check it out for your bakery needs

Stephanie DeDecker

Great, strong coffee . Bagels are great and lots of quick, tasty lunch options

Elie Hirschfeld

This place has the best jelly-filled donuts I have ever had! Not to mention it's not too expensive either.

Elizabeth Lee

Their jelly-filled donuts are really delicious and taste so fresh. Just lovely.

Mark Josephson ✌️

Black and whites, fresh baguettes , sourdough and chocolate chip cookies .

Alice Chao

Almond croissant is quite good! Best I've had in New York so far.

Lori Sherman

Jelly donuts , bagels , banana bread , avocado toast

Lori Sherman

Terrific bagels if you like them light, which I do. Jelly Donuts amazing.

E D

Fresh breads and pastries are delicious

Lori Sherman

Try the jelly donuts ! You can tell them the flavor you want them filled with! So good!

Will Harahan

The pain au raisin was the best I’ve ever had.

Jeff Solomon

Get the New York breakfast sandwich (bagel with cream cheese and lox )

DoubleDeuce

Solid coffee and a great spot to get a healthful sandwich .

Park Yong Shik

Bagels with cream and salmon

Frank C

Artisan breads are great, especially the raisin pumpernickel ...

Miguel Gutierrez

Great paninis ....not cheap

J

By far the best bakery in the upper west side.

Sam Pilkington

The smoke salmon bagel is incredible!

meredith kerekes

Great almond milk matcha lattes !

Jastine Kho

The Babka is addicting

Martin Rigby

Omg, everything!

Jonathan Z

Doughnuts so good

J T

The almond croissant is exquisite.

Michael Harper

The bread is amazing

Hong Kyu Park

Do not go. Went early this morning and bought 2 donuts . They were stale and left a bad aftertaste. Also they were hard. Supermarket donuts would have been much better and at a fraction of the cost

Candice DSouza

Best chocolate almond croissant !

ellen resnick

Amazing breads

Daniel Powell

Great croissants

Stella Sar

Products are really good unfortunately the service is terrible: slow and they don't even@know@what a 'pain au chocolat ' is!!

Eshrefe Shehu

Upper West civarinda en mis kruvasan , en taze, cesitleri bol ekmekleri ile ozledigimiz ve alistigimiz geleneksel firin tadini veren yer.

Angel Chavez

El pan está muy rico. Altamente recomendado.

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