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Breads Bakery's Union Square location is an Israeli-style bakery and all-day cafe best known for its "Best of New York"-award-winning chocolate babka, alongside sandwiches, salads, pastries, and coffee served from 7am to 8pm daily. It has table seating at the back of the cafe and often outdoor seating as well, functioning as a walk-in counter rather than a reservation-based restaurant.
Available reviews and listings didn't surface specific reported wait-time figures for this location, so no numbers can be stated with confidence. As a popular, highly-reviewed bakery counter near Union Square Park, the safest general guidance is that midday and weekend hours are the most likely times to encounter a short line at the register or pastry case, with early mornings or off-peak weekday afternoons the more likely quieter windows.
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Damnlines does not have a live camera at this venue yet, so there is no real-time line or wait count available. It operates as a walk-in bakery/cafe counter (no reservation system found), and its Yelp listing and reviews point to it being a busy, well-reviewed spot for its chocolate babka and all-day cafe menu, so expect at least a short counter queue during midday and weekend hours — no specific wait-time figures were confirmed in research.
No reservation system was found for the Union Square location — it functions as a bakery counter and cafe with grab-and-go plus limited seating in back and often outdoors, so it's walk-in only.
It's an Israeli-style bakery and cafe best known for its "Best of New York"-award-winning chocolate babka, along with sandwiches, salads, pastries, and coffee served all day.
Per its Yelp listing, the Union Square location is open daily from 7:00 am to 8:00 pm.
18 E 16th St, New York, NY 10003, just south of Union Square Park in Manhattan.
Sources: Yelp — Breads Bakery (Union Square) · Breads Bakery official site — Union Square location