Century Cafe and Bakery » New York City

The Most Popular Manhattan Bakery Website is MOVING !!

Bakery-Dude — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 06:14:33 +0000

After 7 years at CenturyCafe.com we are still getting over 50,000 unique visitors a month and pushing an incredible 10 to 15 GigaBytes of data. We still usually rank #1 on Google for the phrase “Manhattan Bakery” ahead of legendary greats like Magnolia and Bouchon and Levain and Billy’s.

But the web development firm that built 4 different versions of this website over the years (Web Design WorkPlace) is making a new site featuring dozens of Manhattan Bakeries and we are rolling into the new site.

Will you still have access to the world wide web’s favorite chocolate strawberry image? Absolutely – yes. And what about the almost 1,000 other images. Uhmm – a definite maybe on that one. Probably NOT actually. Many of the images will be available but some are going to fade away into internet memory.

We will have a new website that is the latest design and a tad bit smaller but it will be on a new URL. This domain is going to be used for another purpose.

If anyone needs some of the images that do not appear on the new site, please write an email to us and we will do our best to hook you up. We appreciate all the media use of our images as long as you link with attributions. The new site by the way is called NYCBakery.org and it will be online by January 1st, 2012.

Cheers Everyone !!

Happy Holidays from The Century Cafe and Bakery

Bakery-Dude — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:36:49 +0000

From our family at the Century Cafe and Bakery to your family we wish you a wonderful holiday season and a healthy and prosperous New Year in 2010 !!! We are grateful for your patronage and we are looking forward to seeing you during the holiday. Cheers everyone !!

Grand Street Fish Market

Bakery-Dude — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:42:08 +0000

There are a bunch of good fish markets. This one is on the South side of Grand between Christie and Bowery.

Wedding Cake in the Window

Bakery-Dude — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:29:46 +0000

Any place with a giant wedding cake in the front window HAS to be OK right? Well this place is the King and the Queen of Wedding Cakes in Chinatown. They make over 1,000 a year.

Tu Quynh Pharmacy

Bakery-Dude — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:27:35 +0000

The Tu Quynh Pharmacy awning covers one of the best places in the world to get a Vietnamese Sandwich. I could do a hundred posts on Bahn Mi Saigon but I’ll leave that for a different day and a different place. This family owned store is on Grand Street and they used to be on Hester I think. It started as a Vietnamese Video / sandwich shop and is still is with a new and beautiful building around it now.

Mr. Trinh’s Farm Truck

Bakery-Dude — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:23:27 +0000

I used to think this was a permanent fixture but it travels every day. They get back to Bowery super early and they keep a car there to reserve the spot. It is critical to have parking where you can unload on some of these Chinatown Streets.

Grand and Christie Vege Stand

Bakery-Dude — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:21:14 +0000

Here is another shot of the Grand Street vegetable market between Christie and Bowery.

Grand Street Vegetable Market

Bakery-Dude — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:19:41 +0000

This is one of the many Grand Street fresh vegetable markets. Everything looks great but it’s not like Shop Rite… you have no idea of where this stuff came from. That being said, if these customers get sick they show up with sharp objects.

Grand Street News Stand

Bakery-Dude — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:17:01 +0000

Nice graffitti on the outside of the Grand Street News Stand. This place does serious business and has all manner of Chinese print.

Grand Street Station

Bakery-Dude — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:13:51 +0000

Subway blogger welcome to Chinatown. Here is the platform on the Grand Street Station. The B and the D stop here.