About Levain Bakery
Set at 3131 M St NW (20007), Levain Bakery is a cookie shop 1.7 mi west of the Washington city center.
Washington has 215 places on our map that bake or sell fresh pastry, and this is one of them, which works out to one bakery per 3,266 residents. If you want to compare, Simit + Smith sits less than 0.1 mi from here.
The listed hours start at 8 AM and run as late as 9 PM, for about 91 hours across 7 days a week. Weekend visits work too — it is open Saturday and Sunday.
Good to know: indoor seating is available. The brand runs 21 locations we track across the country.
Levain Bakery was founded in 1995 on West 74th Street in New York City by friends Pam Weekes and Connie McDonald. Its 6-ounce Chocolate Chip Walnut cookie became famous after The New York Times called it possibly the largest, most divine chocolate chip cookie in Manhattan.









