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BIRDBATH is one dirty green bakery.
Its parent and provider of all the goods for sale is no other than CITY BAKERY, famed purveyor of hot cocoa, rustic bakes and salad bar eats.
No surprise here – City Bakery may aspire to be green but that doesn’t necessarily make it clean. Just feet away from the salad bars are malodorous and unhygienic latrines better suited to a down-and-out gas station rather than a bustling New York Eatery. There’s the same slicked over surface in the kitchen. The filth is apparent on the light switch just outside the kitchen doors – check out the the illuminating picture below. The bakes are so good that we’ll turn a cheek but not so at the over-visited salad bar that, while one of the city’s best, is still by its very nature a hygiene danger zones.
Back to Birdbath – from its website we know about organically sourced ingredients and the recycled components of store elements all the way down to employee uniforms. That’s all eco-fine-and-dandy but does little if cleanliness is not factored into the game. You ought to know where those baked goods come from – rustic charm yes, pig sty no.
Just cause you’re green don’t mean your clean.
CITY BAKERY, 3 West 18th Street, BIRDBATH BAKERY, 223 First Avenue and 145 Seventh Avenue. 
Posted August 11th, 2010 (6:19 pm) in newyork. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.