The Tipsy Baker Bar
Photo courtesy of The Tipsy Baker
It’s not just a bakery — it’s a bar! A new restaurant space in Rockefeller Center is now a one-stop shop for those who enjoy a coffee and pastry by day and dinner and a cocktail by night.
The Tipsy Baker recently opened for business on Aug. 9 at 30 Rockefeller Center. Created by the team behind the popular bakery Café d’Avignon, the new space boasts a delicious menu of baked goods and bites by day and Mediterranean-style meals and libations by night.
“We are known for beautiful artisanal handmade breads that are served at some of the best restaurants in the city. We also have a few little coffee shops where we pair our freshly made pastries with superb coffee, this is our niche,” said co-founder Uliks Femhiu. “When we were invited to Rock, they wanted us to maybe expand on what we do and stretch our services towards the later hours in the day, the after-work hours or pre-theater hours.”
Femhiu said that the team loves a challenge, and creating this dual identity for the space played right into Rockefeller Center’s vibes. Even in coming up with the name, the team fell in love with The Tipsy Baker because it plays into the playful energy they wanted to achieve.
“We do not take ourselves too seriously even though everything that we do is, to the best of our ability, very cool,” said Femhiu. “It’s the bakery and it’s the bar. You sit down and nothing looks wrong. Actually, it looks exactly how it should be. It looks like a speakeasy, we are underground but when you enter the space, it’s designed in that way that you forget where you are, which is, I think, absolutely amazing.”
Like many cafes, The Tipsy Baker has a lineup of breads, pastries and coffee options, allowing New Yorkers to pop in and grab something to grab and go or hang for a while inside. The Tipsy Baker’s lunch and dinner menus were brought to life by executive chef Andres Grundy, Chef de cuisine Finnian…
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