About Le Pain Quotidien
Le Pain Quotidien is a French bakery at 861 Lexington Ave, roughly 1.8 mi from downtown New York, heading northeast in the Manhattan Community Board 8 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 — about one per 5,663 people living in the city. If you want to compare, Gourmet Bagel sits less than 0.1 mi from here.
Doors open from 6:30 AM at the earliest, and the last pick-up window runs to 7 PM, for about 86 hours across 7 days a week. Weekend visits work too — it is open Saturday and Sunday.
Listed services include 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.
