The sweet yeast bread is taken so seriously there, in fact, that when Israel-born, Denmark-trained Uri Scheft opened his first bakery in Tel Aviv a decade ago, he brought a flour-dusted babka ...
In the battle of New York City's babka bread, there's a clear winner, as far as we're concerned. Breads Bakery's chocolate babka is consistently named one of the best desserts in the city.
In search of New York City's very best chocolate babka. After Seinfeld made it mainstream in the '90s, babka, the half-yeasted-bread, half-cake hybrid from Eastern Europe, is bigger than ever.