Restaurant chain
Cereal Milk -flavoredsoft serve topped with cornflakesMilk Bar Pie[ 2] Milk Bar (originallyMomofuku Milk Bar )[ 3] is a chain of dessert and bakery restaurants in theUnited States , founded in New York City by chefChristina Tosi . As of 2024[update] , the chain has branches inNew York City ;Los Angeles ;Washington, D.C. ;Las Vegas ;Bellevue, Washington , andChicago .[ 4]
Tosi began and as of 2018[update] still owns the chain along with investors.[ 5] [ 6] [ 1] [ 7] She is the primary recipe developer of Milk Bar's products.[ 7] [ 8]
Christina Tosi was working as pastry chef forDavid Chang 's Momofuku restaurants[ 8] in 2008 whenMomofuku's Ssäm Bar decided to expand into a neighboring vacantlaundromat ; Tosi proposed the idea to add a bakery.[ 9] Chang provided seed money, and the first Momofuku Milk Bar opened in November 2008.[ 8] [ 10] Tosi created thelogo herself inBrush Script Medium .[ 10]
By 2012, Milk Bar had discontinued the use of "Momofuku" in its name and was operating several locations in New York City in addition to the original bakery in Manhattan'sEast Village .[ 11] [ 12] Since then, it opened locations in Toronto,[ 13] Washington, D.C.,[ 14] [ 15] theCosmopolitan of Las Vegas ,[ 16] [ 17] Los Angeles,[ 18] Boston,[ 19] Vancouver.[ 20] andBellevue, Washington (near Seattle).[ 21] The Toronto, Boston, and Vancouver locations later closed.[ 22] [ 23] [ 24]
As of February 2019, Milk Bar employed 381 people at its various locations and the management team was almost all women.[ 10]
In 2019, Milk Bar changed the name of its signaturecrack pie toMilk Bar Pie , following criticism in theBoston Globe and other press concerning its allusion to the addictiveness ofcrack cocaine .[ 25]
In the spring of 2020, Milk Bar began to sell cookies through online and national retail food stores.[ 26] [ 27]
Milk Bar operates separately from Momofuku, although as of 2019[update] Chang remains a business partner. In 2017, the bakery received a $10 million investment from venture capital fund RSE Ventures.[ 10] [ 28]
Several cookbooks featuring recipes from the restaurant have been released, includingMomofuku Milk Bar (2011),[ 29] Milk Bar Life: Recipes & Stories (2015),[ 30] Milk Bar: All About Cake (2018),[ 31] Milk Bar: Kids Only (2020),[ 32] andEvery Cake Has a Story (2021).[ 33]
Trade magazineQSR in 2019 named Milk Bar to its list of most innovative fast-casual start-ups.[ 10] [ 34]
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RetrievedApril 16, 2018 .^ Stapleton, Susan (December 30, 2016)."Cereal Milk, Crack Pie and Compost Cookies Arrive Via Milk Bar: Christina Tosi's Milk Bar debuts at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas" .Eater Las Vegas .Archived from the original on August 24, 2018. RetrievedFebruary 16, 2019 . ^ "Milk Bar opens at Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas" .Las Vegas Review-Journal . December 30, 2016. Archived fromthe original on February 2, 2017. RetrievedJanuary 26, 2017 .^ Elliott, Farley (September 18, 2018)."Step inside Milk Bar's sweet new LA home" .Eater LA .Archived from the original on November 24, 2018. RetrievedApril 18, 2019 . ^ Cain, Jacqueline (January 28, 2019)."The World's First Combination Milk Bar and &pizza Opens in Cambridge" .Boston Magazine .Archived from the original on February 16, 2019. RetrievedFebruary 16, 2019 . ^ Donaldson, Kerri."Cult-Fave Milk Bar Just Opened in Nordstrom" .Vancouver Magazine . RetrievedMarch 29, 2023 . ^ Cheadle, Harry (March 23, 2023)."Washington State's First Milk Bar Is Open for Business" .Eater Seattle .Archived from the original on March 29, 2023. RetrievedMarch 29, 2023 . ^ "Nordstrom closure means Milk Bar's only Canadian shop is going on ice - and fast" .Vancouver Is Awesome .Archived from the original on March 29, 2023. RetrievedMarch 29, 2023 .^ "Milk Bar in Cambridge's Harvard Square Is Closing" .NBC Boston .Archived from the original on March 29, 2023. RetrievedMarch 29, 2023 .^ Liu, Karon (September 23, 2022)."David Chang's Momofuku closing its Toronto restaurants" .Toronto Star .Archived from the original on March 29, 2023. RetrievedMarch 29, 2023 . ^ Vera, Amir (April 15, 2019)."Crack Pie is no more as Milk Bar changes name of famous dessert" .CNN .Archived from the original on May 17, 2022. RetrievedNovember 29, 2020 . ^ Krader, Kate (April 8, 2020)."Milk Bar Cookies Are Coming to Fill Empty Supermarket Shelves: Because everyone needs a cookie right now" .Bloomberg News .Archived from the original on November 2, 2020. RetrievedNovember 10, 2022 . ^ Fortney, Luke (October 5, 2020)."Milk Bar Is Now Selling Its Cookies at Target Stores Nationwide: It's the latest step in the company's ongoing plans to grow into a national, household dessert brand" .Eater NY .Archived from the original on November 10, 2022. RetrievedNovember 10, 2022 . ^ Milk Bar’s First-Ever Funding Round Could Turn the Bakery’s Founder into the ‘Next Martha Stewart Archived November 10, 2022, at theWayback Machine , BETH KOWITT. November 8, 2017^ Forbes, Paula (September 13, 2011)."First Look: Christina Tosi's Momofuku Milk Bar Cookbook" .Eater .Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. RetrievedMarch 1, 2015 . ^ " 'Milk Bar Life' Reviewed" .Washington Post .Archived from the original on July 27, 2021. 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