About Le Pain Quotidien
Le Pain Quotidien is a French bakery at 250 W 55th St, roughly 1.6 mi from downtown New York, heading north in the Manhattan Community Board 5 area. You will also find it under bakery cafés in our directory.
New York has 1,497 places on our map that bake or sell fresh pastry, and this is one of them, which works out to one bakery per 5,663 residents. Nearest alternative: Bebe Bakes at 939 8th Ave, less than 0.1 mi away.
The listed hours start at 6:30 AM and run as late as 7 PM, for about 84 hours across 7 days a week. Weekend visits work too — it is open Saturday and Sunday.
The listing mentions takeout and delivery. The brand runs 75 locations we track across the country.
Le Pain Quotidien was founded in Brussels in 1990 by Belgian chef Alain Coumont and opened its first US location in New York in 1997. The bakery-café is known for organic sourdough, open-faced tartines served at communal tables, and Belgian-style pastries and chocolate spreads.
