ROYAL CROWN BAKERY has some excellent selections, especially the Fig and Chestnut Bread, which I like to serve with a Cheese Platter. But the best baguette I have found outside of France, and the one that is consistently rated #1 is from
ALMONDINE in DUMBO. Herve Passard, former pastry chef at Windows on the World, bakes his bread twice daily The ALMONDINE baguette, with a small percentage of ...