Restaurants

Best of Syracuse: restaurants
By Annie Knox
February 16, 2012 - 12:06am
It's a battle for best cookie at Mimi's Bakery and Café, but with these sweet treats, there is hardly a wrong choice.

Upstate, they’re half moons. Downstate, they’re black and whites. Either way, the cakelike cookies at Mimi’s Bakery and Café on W. Genesee Street claim a local following that began almost 30 years ago. Bakers make the palm-sized treats on site and they come slathered in equal parts real chocolate and vanilla butter cream. Choose between the traditional vanilla cookie base, a denser, chocolate one, or the coconut-sprinkled ones whose covering conjures up fresh snowfall.