Where to Find Atlanta’s Best Cookies
Cookies are the Michael Jordan of desserts (the definitive GOAT, even though people love to debate that fact).
There’s no treat more comforting even though it can take on so many different forms: thin and crunchy, warm and chewy, crammed with pecans, dunked in chocolate…the list goes on and on. But instead, we’ll list the tastiest and most unique cookies all over Atlanta.
(note: this list does not include larger chains like Insomnia and Tiff’s Treats. While they are indeed delicious, we are trying to highlight smaller local businesses.)
Editors Note: This article was originally published on March 22, 2023 and last updated on October 23, 2024. Please refer to restaurant websites and social media pages for the most up-to-date information.
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Munster Cravings
1235 Chattahoochee Ave NW, Atlanta, GA
Munster Cravings (originally Monster Cookies) is one of the brightest spots in West Midtown’s Chattahoochee Food Works. It’s a black-owned business that specializes in one thing and one thing only: cookies. Theirs are fresh, warm, gooey, chewy, crunchy, and everything else you’re looking for in a cookie, whether it’s chocolate chip or PB&J. No matter what you’re eating at The Works, there’s always room for one of these.
Muss and Turner’s
1675 Cumberland Pkwy SE Suite 309, Cumberland, GA 30080
Muss and Turner’s is one of Smyrna’s most beloved restaurants, known all around the state for its world-class sandwiches. But it’s equally notorious for its “Evil Cookie,” so named because a customer ate one in 2005 and claimed she’d been possessed by the charms of the cookie (now that’s a solid get-out-of-jail-free card). These cookies are simple but perfectly composed: stuffed with Cordillera dark and milk chocolate chips and local pecans. It’s been named the best cookie in Georgia by the AJC, an honor second only to its inclusion in the Atlanta Eats best cookies list.
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Cafe Vendome
Atlanta’s premier French cafe is Cafe Vendome. You can bank on getting all your French favorites here – Jamon Buerre, Tartine, Croque Monsieur, Crepes – but there’s one French delicacy that reigns supreme: the macaron. These delicate, cloudlike cookies require an artisanal touch and walk a fine line between perfection and disaster. Thanks to years of practice and refinement, Cafe Vendome delivers a consistently phenomenal macaron time after time.
Corner Cafe
3070 Piedmont Rd, Atlanta, GA 30305
While some might argue a cafe needs to worry about their sandwiches, soups, and salads, what it really needs is a good cookie, and Corner Cafe has one of the finest in town. It’s a cookie of contrasts: perfectly chewy yet with a nice bite, sweet but with complexity from the rest of the cookie dough. Simply put, it’s delicious and, whether you’re having breakfast, lunch, or coffee along with it, don’t leave Corner Cafe without a cookie.
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Sugar Shane’s
Multiple locations
Cookies are generally about comfort, thanks to familiarity. You may think of chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, or sugar when cookies come to mind, but Sugar Shane’s is turning the cookie on its head. While they have a few standard flavors, they mostly specialize in bold and innovative concoctions like the Buzzin, with a coffee base and topped with Oreos, dark chocolate chips, caramel chips, an espresso buttercream filling, and a coffee glaze. Or there’s the Cookies and Cream (cookies and cream on a cookie, AKA cookie-ception) loaded with white chocolate chips, Oreos, Hershey’s cookies n’ cream bits, and vanilla extract.
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General Muir
1540 Avenue Pl B-230, Atlanta, GA 30329
We could rave about the virtues of the black and white cookie but Jerry Seinfeld already nailed it: “The thing about eating the black and white cookie is you want to get some black and some white in each bite. Nothing mixes better than vanilla and chocolate. And yet somehow racial harmony eludes us. If people would only look to the cookie all our problems would be solved.” When it comes to one of the best deli cookies, you know one of Atlanta’s finest delicatessens nails the assignment. Bonus points because they change up the colors to reflect various holidays (like Chanukah blue and white in the above post).
Alon’s Bakery and Market
1394 North Highland Ave. NE, Atlanta, GA 30306
Alon’s is one part bakery, one part restaurant, one part market. It’s that bakery section that’s responsible for their award-winning Chocolate Chunk Pecan Cookies. Some cookies lean on a more subtle hint of chocolate, but Alon’s goes full send with chocolate stealing the show in every single bite. Add some pecans in and you’ve got yourself a hell of a cookie.
Breadwinner Cafe & Bakery
220 Sandy Springs Cir, Sandy Springs, GA 30328
Sometimes the art of a cookie lies in its simplicity. Breadwinner Cafe does many simple things exceptionally well, and their cookie is a masterclass in great ingredients mixed and baked to perfection. The chocolate chip cookie is hard to beat (just look at all those chocolate chips!), but they also make a mean Oatmeal Raisin, Peanut Butter, and Heath Bar version. They’re giant enough to share with a friend, but why not treat yourself to the whole thing?
Star Provisions
1460 Ellsworth Industrial Blvd. Atlanta, GA 30318
From the owners of Michelin Star restaurant Bacchanalia, Star Provisions is the one stop shop for all things pastries, sandwiches, meat and they even have a market when you can pick up all kinds of goodies. It’s hard to stay focused in a place like this, but we’ll try. They offer all kinds of fresh cookies every day from your classic chocolate chunk and black and white to oatmeal and lime cornmeal. But one that really stands out for us is the ginger molasses cookie. It’s sweet, it’s salty and boy does it take your tastebuds for a ride. Pop into Star Provisions next time you need to cure your sweet tooth.
