Cookie Place with Viral Banana, Pecan Pie Flavors Opening on UES. Plus, More Ice Cream.

c/o The Cookie Odyssey [@thecookieodyssey]

A cookie shop with several viral flavors is about to expand to the Upper East Side.

The Cookie Odyssey can be found at a kiosk outside of the Financial District’s Pi Bakerie, and soon it will be opening a location at 1414 Second Avenue (between 72nd and 73rd streets). The owners tell us they are aiming to open during the first week of March.

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According to its website, The Cookie Odyssey opened in 1978 in Midtown and was the “official bakery” of the Brooklyn Bridge centennial (1883-1983).

Decades after the shop closed down its original location, The Cookie Odyssey was reopened in its current kiosk late last year by owners Angelos and Regina Katopodis.

“[Angelo] had this urge to open up this Cookie Odyssey all these years. They call him the ‘Scientist in the kitchen,” Regina told NBC New York in a video about the shop. “He was ecstatic to be able to open up this store.”

Cookie flavors include their popular Banana Cyclops, chocolate chip, pecan pie, ginger chocolate and triple chocolate chunk. You can see some of these creations going viral on TikTok.

Pecan Pie Cookie. Photo by @myinnerfatkidisout

Banana Cyclops. Photo by @lowereeeatsside

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Meanwhile, another Van Leeuwen Ice Cream is also set to open its doors at the former Papyrus storefront at 1380 Madison Avenue between 96th Street and 97th streets (h/t @UESthings). The popular ice cream spot already has two locations in the neighborhood, one at 1625 Second Avenue (between 84th Street and 85th streets) and one at 1270 Third Avenue (between 73rd and 74th streets).

The Third Avenue location, which opened up in November 2022, was the ice cream chain’s 20th location in New York. Although Van Leeuwen’s website hasn’t acknowledged the Madison Avenue location’s imminent opening, it shows that an additional three stores are set to open soon in NYC (one in Brooklyn, two in Manhattan).

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