Peacefood
Casual New York plant-based kitchen and bakery with Upper West Side and Union Square locations, gluten-free options and vegan desserts.
Peacefood understands that a vegan bakery has to do more than be virtuous. It has to make you forget you were comparing it with anything else. The New York restaurant describes itself as a casual plant-based kitchen and bakery, with locations on the Upper West Side and near Union Square, plus gluten-free options and a full line of vegan desserts.
It is worth lingering over the sweet side: cookies, muffins, cheesecake, brownies, macaroons, banana bread, raw cacao mousse pies and cookie sandwiches. This is not ascetic plant-based dining. It is crumb-on-the-fingertips, frosting-on-the-fork territory.
Peacefood’s broader menu covers lunch, dinner, coffee and smoothies, but the bakery gives it its particular pull. It is useful for mixed groups, allergy-conscious travellers and anyone who wants vegan food to feel abundant rather than edited down. In a city with a thousand ways to eat quickly, Peacefood makes room for the small pleasure of choosing dessert first.
