Sugar Butter Chocolate

On our list of the best dessert spots in New York.

Daniel Kleinhandler, a former executive pastry chef at Aureole, and his wife Karniyati both lost their jobs in the first weeks of the pandemic and spent that spring writing the business plan that became this Bedford Avenue shop. The crunch bars that built their following are Valrhona chocolate and French butter poured over flavors like hazelnut blackberry and a vegan green coconut and mango, and the case also holds flavored challah, chocolate hazelnut babka, and a thyme sponge cake with roasted pineapple. Baking, packaging, and shipping are handled out of their own kitchen, with orders taken online and in the shop.