St Anthony’s Bakery

This bakery has been around forever. They still have the best bread in NYC. I drive here for semolina bread and cookies whenever I am in NY. This place is family owned and you know you’re getting top quality when you are here. Don’t get your bread from anywhere else.

I used to go to this bakery all the time with my mother growing up. I hadn’t been there in a long time and decided to stop in for my favorite — butter cookies half dipped in chocolate with chocolate chips. Let me tell you, these still taste exactly as they always have, like a little bite of heaven. At $ 5 a pound, you can’t beat the price. The same old lady has been in there forever, shuffling back and forth while one of the girls works the counter. The Italian bread is also amazing — you won’t want to go any place else. This isn’t like the bakeries you usually see these days. The selection isn’t huge but everything is amazing and completely worth going to — don’t be fooled by the 1950s run down exterior. Truly a gem of the neighborhood.

I like this bakery and having an opportunity to buy freshly baked bread is great. However, I witnessed the seller after handling money and without washing her hands nor wearing gloves grabbed the bread and cookies with her bare hands. That is very gross and unsanitary.
The question is what else did she do without washing her hands? If that gross you out make sure to ask her to wear gloves when handling your food.

A big fan. Stop by at least twice a week on the way home from the train to get a loaf.
This store is a little slice of history, and a neighborhood gem. While they do have cookies and some pastries, it’s a throwback to a time when you went to a bakery to get your daily bread and a pastry store to get pastries for special occasions. So they’re experts in bread.
The loaf bread is delicious, lots of different shapes and varieties; but I love the semolina with seeds. Absolutely perfect — chewy, with a crisp crust accentuated by sesame seeds, it’s begging to be dipped in olive oil or slathered with butter. The bread here is far superior to the crap you get in the grocery store labeled as «Italian bread.» They have an old fashioned electric bread slicer if you want your order sliced in store, but I like to slice my own at home.
The store will also do special orders like if you’re having a dinner party and need 3 or 4 dozen REAL dinner rolls. Just place the order a day or two ahead. You serve your guests those little doughy slightly sweet rolls from Costco? Please! Try these REAL dinner rolls. Make your mother proud!

Old school bakery. Reminds me as a kid visiting my grandmas in GreenwichVillage in city. When the bakery’s were bread and cookies. My favorite was the S– cookies with seeds. A must visit place in Brooklyn.

Quaint little bakery where the semolina bread and lemon cookies are outstanding! The owners are delightful and their bread is always fresh and delicious. Reasonable prices too.

Prosciutto bread, apple and cheese turnovers, cookies, and St. Joseph’s bread in March. St. Anthony’s Bakery hasn’t changed much since the 1950s, and hopefully it will stay that way.

I love their cookies here. In my opinion, their prices are right compared to other ones in dyker.
Their bread is fresh! Cookies yummy!
They open early

Cookies by the pound! Loaves of bread which can be sliced for you!

I buy bread or cheese danishes here almost every morning and their rolls are nice and chewy. I went to buy a pound of cookies here (mixed assortments) and my professors loved them.

Around the corner from my parents house is this little bakery that has some really good cookies and fresh bread.
Each weekend I come by here for a fresh loaf of Italian bread to make a sandwich with. Every time, the bread is fresh and always tastes great.
They have some really good cookies too, although the same types you would find at almost every bakery. Their selection of other items if very small but they do have prosciutto bread which is awesome if you haven’t tried this before. The prices here are very good so if your in the neighborhood and your looking for some good bread and cookies, drop by here and you will leave happy.

Really really good Italian cookies. And I love Italian cookies. This is an area you should totally trust me in I promise. Their layer cookies are a smidge moister than average. The jelly filled ones with chocolate and sprinkles on the ends are prettier here than at most places and they are smaller than the kind you generally find in plastic clamshells which increases the ration of chocolate to cookie quite nicely. The chocolate is good-​quality as well. I missed out on the prosciutto bread but will go back for it for sure.

What a great surprise find! I was double parked waiting for my mom while she was at the grocery store and decided to run in to St. Anthony’s to buy a loaf of bread. At the counter was this interesting looking bread, I asked what it was and the little Italian lady said, «procuitto bread». Well anything made with pork is a friend of mine so I had to grab one up. I got home and forgot I even bought it, so I just sliced up a piece and OH MY GOD! That was the best piece of bread I EVER had! It was soft with a nice crust, speckled with fresh cracked pepper all over the inside and studded with cubes of porky goodness. I am definitely going back! Goes to show the old school bakeries are always the place to go!

I usually go to the bakery a block down. called Campania… but they closed.=(so that was disappointing…
Every morning i would walk pass this place and smell the aroma that comes from it… but i dunno why i never paid a visit… and after Campania closed… i decided to drop by St. Anthony’s.
Its a small bakery, they dont have a wide selection of things. I ended up getting a donut with cream inside… which was yummy… but i was disappointed that they didnt have things like cream puffs or cheesecakes… nonetheless its a gem in this neighborhood as alot of the stores are brought out or closed.

Take a walk back in time to the local neighborhood bakery. As soon as you open the door, the intoxicating aroma of fresh bread envelopes you. The bread is kept in a glass case in the front window so you can gaze at it while drooling. In front of the counter are rows and rows of butter cookies (buy some of the chocolate gingerbread man shaped cookies — every child (no matter how old — I still do this) you know will love biting their heads off). Yummy rolls with just the right amount of crispiness are stacked high and are only 30 cents each — can you believe that?
The cutest grandma type lady with her little button down smock happily waits on you and takes your order. This old school bakery is complete with statues of the Virgin Mary, Jesus, and the bakery’s name sake, St. Anthony.
A good tip to note: They are open on the big holidays — Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter — only until the bread runs out!