French Bakery Near Me at Lincoln Center: Épicerie Boulud Reopens on Broadway

Épicerie Boulud is back at 1900 Broadway, the corner of 64th Street directly across from Lincoln Center, and if you have been typing french bakery near me anywhere between Columbus Circle and 72nd Street, this is now the most convenient croissant in the neighborhood. It reopened on October 8, 2026 as the café wing of Daniel Boulud's new Brasserie Boulud, pouring coffee from 7 am to 6 pm, with a plain croissant listed at $5 and an almond croissant at $6.50 on the official menu.

This block has been Boulud territory for a long time. Bar Boulud opened at 64th and Broadway in 2008, and the original Épicerie Boulud and Boulud Sud followed in 2011, all three sharing the ground floor of One Lincoln Plaza. In June 2025 the neighborhood blog I Love the Upper West Side reported that all three were closing on June 23 to make room for something new. That something turned out to be a single, much larger brasserie.

The October 2026 press release from Boulud's Dinex Group describes Brasserie Boulud as a full-service room designed by David Rockwell, with cerused-oak arches, leather banquettes and a zinc-topped bar, plus an adjoining Épicerie café and a cocktail bar called Bar Viv. The café keeps the old idea of the Épicerie, a French grab-and-go counter, but now it sits inside a bigger French house rather than on its own.

Daniel Boulud grew up on a farm in Saint-Pierre-de-Chandieu, outside Lyon, and moved to the United States in 1982, according to the Épicerie's own About page. His group, Dinex, was founded in 1993 and now runs restaurants from Manhattan to Palm Beach. None of the official material names a pastry chef for the café, so the honest way to describe the croissants is simply as Boulud's house recipe, baked for a counter that serves a concert crowd, office workers and Upper West Side families.

Time Out New York covered the opening on October 14, 2026, framing the brasserie as the long-awaited replacement for the trio of restaurants that used to fill this corner. Its reporting matched the press release on hours: the café opens at 7 am, the brasserie starts dinner at 4:30 pm, and Bar Viv runs from 4 pm until midnight. The Épicerie website lists the café at 7 am to 6 pm as well.

Start with the viennoiserie, because that is what a French épicerie is judged on. The official menu, captured in early October 2026, lists the croissant at $5, the pain au chocolat at $5.50, the almond croissant at $6.50 and the pain aux raisins at $6.25. The pain aux raisins is the one to buy if you only get one, since a good spiral of custard and rum-soaked raisins is far rarer in Manhattan than a decent plain croissant.

For something more substantial, the jambon-beurre costs $15: ham and butter on a baguette, the sandwich every Paris café sells at lunch. The croque monsieur is $16 and the quiche Parisienne is $14.50. A whole baguette to take home is $5.50. Coffee is $3.25 for a small and $3.75 for a large, and a latte is $5 or $5.75. The menu notes that items may vary by location, so treat Broadway's case as the final word on what is baked that morning.

A fair warning from the old days: a 2022 review on the Restaurant Club Substack gave the previous Épicerie 6.4 out of 10, calling the sandwich and soup serviceable and noting that items sold out. The new kitchen has not been reviewed at length yet, so if you are choosing between a sandwich and a pastry here, the viennoiserie is the safer bet until the lunch menu earns its reputation.

The rhythm of this corner follows the performance schedule across the street. The café faces the campus that houses the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic and Juilliard, so the quiet hours are early weekday mornings, before rehearsals and box offices get going, and the busy ones cluster around matinees and the run-up to evening performances. Because the café closes at 6 pm, a pre-show croissant works only for matinees or early evening; after six you would be ordering from the brasserie instead.

The brasserie takes reservations on Resy, but nothing in the official material suggests the café counter does, so plan on walking in. The old Épicerie was famously cramped, with Foursquare regulars describing it as standing room only. The press release now promises expansive outdoor café seating along Broadway, which makes a sunny weekday morning the best time to actually sit down. If every outdoor table is taken and the line is long, take your bag across Broadway and eat on a bench instead.

Late in the afternoon the pastry case can run thin, especially on matinee days. If the croissants are gone, the full brasserie next door serves until 10:30 pm from Tuesday to Sunday, and Bar Viv offers a seat and a drink while you wait for a table. If you just want caffeine, there is no shortage of coffee along Broadway, but there is no other French bakery with this pedigree within a few blocks, which is exactly why the reopening matters.

The obvious stroll is straight across Broadway onto the Lincoln Center campus, where the plaza around the Revson Fountain is open to the public and makes a calm spot for coffee before the box offices open. From there you can loop past the Metropolitan Opera House and David Geffen Hall and come back out on Columbus Avenue.

On the Broadway side, Richard Tucker Park sits at 66th Street, the small triangle named for the Metropolitan Opera tenor. On Thursday and Saturday mornings the Lincoln Square Greenmarket sets up there, according to the Lincoln Square Business Improvement District, so a Saturday plan writes itself: pastry at 1900 Broadway, apples and cider at the market, then a walk north toward the Upper West Side.

Épicerie Boulud, 1900 Broadway at 64th Street, New York, NY 10023, inside Brasserie Boulud. Café hours are posted as 7 am to 6 pm; brasserie dinner runs Tuesday to Sunday from 4:30 pm to 10:30 pm, and Bar Viv from 4 pm to midnight. The nearest subway is 66 St–Lincoln Center on the 1 train, two blocks north.

Budget about $11 for a croissant and a large coffee, or roughly $20 for a jambon-beurre and a latte. The café is a counter operation, so order at the case and find a seat outside if one is free. Families with strollers will find the wide Broadway sidewalk easier than the old, narrow Épicerie ever was, and the menu is short enough that a first visit takes under ten minutes.