Oct 1, 2024 - Food and Drink

New York City's Milk Bar coming to Chicago

Carrie Shepherd

A multi-layered vanilla cake with rainbow specks and white frosting on a hot pink background. A hand holding up a cup of vanilla soft serve with yellow crunch cereal on it in front of a red neon sign. — Milk Bar's birthday cake and cereal milk soft serve. Photos: Courtesy of Milk Bar

The New York City dessert shop famous for cereal milk ice cream and its rainbow-flecked, frosting-rich birthday cake is expected to open this fall in Fulton Market.

Driving the news: Pastry chef Christina Tosi has teamed up with Chicago restaurateur Kevin Boehm of the Boka Group to open Milk Bar's first Midwestern location on the first floor of The Hoxton on Green Street.

Flashback: Tosi opened Milk Bar in New York City's East Village in 2008 and became a sensation with soft serve ice cream that tastes like the sweet remnants of a bowl of cereal, compost cookies, and the Milk Bar Pie, a gooey take on the classic Chess Pie.

The intrigue: Milk Bar is the latest New York City export to make its way to Chicago after Levain Bakery opened in the West Loop in 2022 and Prince Street Pizza announced this summer that it would open on Randolph Street this fall.

Dig in: The new shop will include the Milk Bar classics like cream-cheese filled Bagel Bombs but also a Chicago hot dog and "a soon-to-be-announced collaboration cookie with a Chicago institution."

If cake for breakfast is your thing, the store will open at 8am and stay open until 1am on weekends.

What's next: The Chicago location is under construction and expected to open before winter, a spokesperson tells Axios.

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