Winner

Daniel Eddy opened Winner on Seventh Avenue in March 2020 — days before the city shut down — and the bakery answered the moment so well it became a small Park Slope institution. The counter moves from morning pastry and proper loaves through serious lunch sandwiches, with rotisserie chickens and prepared things to carry home for dinner.

It stays a takeout counter at heart, with a little outdoor seating when you're lucky, and the line down the block most weekend mornings is its own neighborhood ritual. The operation has since spread along the avenue — a wine bar, a butcher, a Prospect Park outpost — but the original bakery is the one worth planning a morning around.