I've eaten here before and it was good. But today their breakfast ham and egg muffin was tasteless. The coffee was mediocre. Expensive and below average today, I spent $17 and will never be back
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 3
Paul Michael Kindsgrab
Great bread and good pastries (10/10). Their service setup is very very inefficient (they serve like one person per minute through a tiny hole in the wall). The place does not have any bakery character. Missed opportunity.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 5
Service: 1
M K
Utterly baffled how this is not above a 4.5 this is one of the best spots in nyc. Breakfast sandwich is dreamy. Every bread is perfect. Even the coffee is great. Flawless establishment.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
marsilla fujisawa
Fish & chips batter were bitter and heavy. Fish fillet were chewy. It should be perfectly flaky, moist, and tender fillet. Light and easy to eat. Chips were really small portions and it came only one fillet for $24. I think they shouldn’t do fish and chips if they can’t do it right. Chicken meat balls came 3 of them and very small for $16. Russos next door make a better meat balls. I had the rotisserie chicken from here and it wasn’t impressively good for the price as well.
Luis Diaz
Everything I’ve tried so far has been great. The pizza is by far my favorite in the neighborhood and worth the price.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Lydia Yu
they messed up my order and tried to deny it both times i went, then only fixed part of my order, and finally lied to me that they’d refund it so i would leave and never did, so it does live up to its infamy. food itself: like the black pepper polenta fontina sourdough and jalapeño fontina focaccia. strawberry earl grey scone and sourdough croissant not bad. many others not worth at all.
Yechan Cho
Does it make sense that the food I ordered online 35 minutes ago still isn’t ready, while at least six eople who ordered in-store have already picked up and left?
Sarah Chandler
So easy to walk up and order at the window. Fresh cinnamon roll + coffee = perfect.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Zachary Taylor
Great bread. The croissants are delicious. Some of the sandwiches are excellent. (Not all, though. I thought you can’t possibly mess up a BLT until Winner proved me dead wrong with the slippery, gummy, chewy monstrosity they call a BLT.)
Staff is nice. But Winner’s system for taking orders is awful. The same person takes and rings up the order and then retrieves certain items, such as baked goods. It’s so inefficient and contributes to the length of the line. I feel like they want that line. It drives me crazy. Lines are for losers. But there I am, staring at my phone, waiting in line to get an $18 sandwich. (Not the BLT, of course. I’m not a total loser.)
Oh yeah, and what’s the deal with no baguettes until 2 pm? They’re making sandwiches with baguettes starting at 11. Are they trolling me?
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 2
SuBin Yang
To start off, it takes me more than an hr to go here and come back home BUT whenever i felt like treating myself, I'd make the trip just to get their sandwiches - because they were just that good!! (Despite the high cost and bad transit)
My favorites were the fried chicken sando + blt + veggie bahnmi
and today I went by to treat myself and ordered the fried chicken sandwich (with changed recipe?!) & the blt, paid nearly $40 to realize....they both didn't taste that good....
The new fried chicken sandwich was especially lackluster 😞
Like one of the other reviewers, i wish i could even pay more to get the original sandwich back - at least it tasted good and that's all i want 😭
Their bread is excellent but the service needs improvement. There is only one window to order at which results in very long lines, especially on weekends.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 2
bar zrihan
highly recommended great food and service!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Damilola Jones
Best ham and cheese sandwich I’ve ever had! Bread is absolutely delicious, layer of mustard perfection and cheese
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Moses S
There’s a little joint on 7th Ave in Brooklyn, Winner. You wouldn’t notice it if you weren’t paying attention, which is exactly what makes it worth your time. No glossy signage, no gimmicks, just the smell of bread doing what bread should do: stopping you dead in your tracks and pulling you in like a cartoon character floating toward a pie on a windowsill. I walked up thinking I’d grab a coffee and go. Keep it simple. But then the person at the little walk-up window smiled at me with this kind of conspiratorial warmth, like they knew something I didn’t. And they did. Next thing I know, I’m standing there with a cinnamon roll one of those perfect accidents you don’t plan but end up grateful for. Sweet, sticky, a little messy, and made by people who clearly give a damn. And then, the sourdough croissant. Jesus. Layers that shatter like good pastry should, but with that deep, tangy backbone that only sourdough gives you. It’s not delicate in that precious, Parisian way, it’s Brooklyn. Bold, unapologetic, a little rough around the edges. The kind of croissant that doesn’t just whisper “buttah,” it leans across the bar and shouts it in your face. Winner doesn’t try to be anything but itself. And that’s the charm. No pretension, no curated Instagram nonsense just honest, serious baking, handed over by the nicest person you’ll meet all day at a window on 7th Ave. You walk away with flour on your shirt, sugar on your fingers, and the reminder that sometimes the best meals are the ones you never saw coming.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
MAXB
Food was decent and the line moved quickly, but the overall experience felt oddly dehumanizing. The cashier was not very pleasant, the iPad prompted an automatic 18–20% tip on a to-go order. The menu listed pizza most days, but not some. Ordering at a side window and then waiting around the corner—alongside people on a bus stop (the bus kept stoping for them, but everyone on the bench was waiting for food)—made the whole thing feel less like visiting a hipster instagram bakery and more like standing in a bread line during a food shortage.
I've eaten here before and it was good. But today their breakfast ham and egg muffin was tasteless. The coffee was mediocre. Expensive and below average today, I spent $17 and will never be back
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 3
Great bread and good pastries (10/10). Their service setup is very very inefficient (they serve like one person per minute through a tiny hole in the wall). The place does not have any bakery character. Missed opportunity.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 5
Service: 1
Utterly baffled how this is not above a 4.5 this is one of the best spots in nyc. Breakfast sandwich is dreamy. Every bread is perfect. Even the coffee is great. Flawless establishment.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Fish & chips batter were bitter and heavy. Fish fillet were chewy. It should be perfectly flaky, moist, and tender fillet. Light and easy to eat. Chips were really small portions and it came only one fillet for $24. I think they shouldn’t do fish and chips if they can’t do it right. Chicken meat balls came 3 of them and very small for $16. Russos next door make a better meat balls.
I had the rotisserie chicken from here and it wasn’t impressively good for the price as well.
Everything I’ve tried so far has been great. The pizza is by far my favorite in the neighborhood and worth the price.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
they messed up my order and tried to deny it both times i went, then only fixed part of my order, and finally lied to me that they’d refund it so i would leave and never did, so it does live up to its infamy. food itself: like the black pepper polenta fontina sourdough and jalapeño fontina focaccia. strawberry earl grey scone and sourdough croissant not bad. many others not worth at all.
Does it make sense that the food I ordered online 35 minutes ago still isn’t ready, while at least six eople who ordered in-store have already picked up and left?
So easy to walk up and order at the window. Fresh cinnamon roll + coffee = perfect.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great bread. The croissants are delicious. Some of the sandwiches are excellent. (Not all, though. I thought you can’t possibly mess up a BLT until Winner proved me dead wrong with the slippery, gummy, chewy monstrosity they call a BLT.)
Staff is nice. But Winner’s system for taking orders is awful. The same person takes and rings up the order and then retrieves certain items, such as baked goods. It’s so inefficient and contributes to the length of the line. I feel like they want that line. It drives me crazy. Lines are for losers. But there I am, staring at my phone, waiting in line to get an $18 sandwich. (Not the BLT, of course. I’m not a total loser.)
Oh yeah, and what’s the deal with no baguettes until 2 pm? They’re making sandwiches with baguettes starting at 11. Are they trolling me?
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 2
To start off, it takes me more than an hr to go here and come back home BUT whenever i felt like treating myself, I'd make the trip just to get their sandwiches - because they were just that good!! (Despite the high cost and bad transit)
My favorites were the fried chicken sando + blt + veggie bahnmi
and today I went by to treat myself and ordered the fried chicken sandwich (with changed recipe?!) & the blt, paid nearly $40 to realize....they both didn't taste that good....
The new fried chicken sandwich was especially lackluster 😞
Like one of the other reviewers, i wish i could even pay more to get the original sandwich back - at least it tasted good and that's all i want 😭
Restaurantji Recommends
Their bread is excellent but the service needs improvement. There is only one window to order at which results in very long lines, especially on weekends.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 2
highly recommended
great food and service!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Best ham and cheese sandwich I’ve ever had! Bread is absolutely delicious, layer of mustard perfection and cheese
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
There’s a little joint on 7th Ave in Brooklyn, Winner. You wouldn’t notice it if you weren’t paying attention, which is exactly what makes it worth your time. No glossy signage, no gimmicks, just the smell of bread doing what bread should do: stopping you dead in your tracks and pulling you in like a cartoon character floating toward a pie on a windowsill. I walked up thinking I’d grab a coffee and go. Keep it simple. But then the person at the little walk-up window smiled at me with this kind of conspiratorial warmth, like they knew something I didn’t. And they did. Next thing I know, I’m standing there with a cinnamon roll one of those perfect accidents you don’t plan but end up grateful for. Sweet, sticky, a little messy, and made by people who clearly give a damn. And then, the sourdough croissant. Jesus. Layers that shatter like good pastry should, but with that deep, tangy backbone that only sourdough gives you. It’s not delicate in that precious, Parisian way, it’s Brooklyn. Bold, unapologetic, a little rough around the edges. The kind of croissant that doesn’t just whisper “buttah,” it leans across the bar and shouts it in your face.
Winner doesn’t try to be anything but itself. And that’s the charm. No pretension, no curated Instagram nonsense just honest, serious baking, handed over by the nicest person you’ll meet all day at a window on 7th Ave. You walk away with flour on your shirt, sugar on your fingers, and the reminder that sometimes the best meals are the ones you never saw coming.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Food was decent and the line moved quickly, but the overall experience felt oddly dehumanizing. The cashier was not very pleasant, the iPad prompted an automatic 18–20% tip on a to-go order. The menu listed pizza most days, but not some. Ordering at a side window and then waiting around the corner—alongside people on a bus stop (the bus kept stoping for them, but everyone on the bench was waiting for food)—made the whole thing feel less like visiting a hipster instagram bakery and more like standing in a bread line during a food shortage.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 5
Service: 1
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