City Bakery, Famous In ‘Sex In The City,’ Coming To Detroit

DETROIT, MI — The New York City bakery made famous by HBO’s “Sex in the City” is opening its first location outside of Manhattan and Japan in Detroit’s historic, marble-clad Fisher Building. In the series, Carrie and Samantha, like all New Yorkers, love the pretzel croissants, rich hot chocolate and, as Carrie raved, the best brownies in New York. By fall, Detroiters should be able to drool over the confections themselves.

The Detroit City Bakery — part coffee shop, part bakery, part cafeteria and part caterer — will be open from early morning and until late afternoon. Breakfast, lunch and afternoon desserts will be be offered, and this winter, expect City Bakery to host a Detroit version of its popular hot chocolate festival. In New York, the City Bakery Hot Chocolate Festival draws about 50,000 aficionados of the wintertime staple.

“When we opened our first location in Union Square, the neighborhood was on the cusp of revival, much like New Center is today,” City Bakery founder Maury Rubin said in a news release. “We are especially thrilled to be in the historic Fisher Building. Coming to Detroit in this moment of rejuvenation is special enough, and being able to open in a landmark like the Fisher Building is a gift.”

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Albert Kahn’s 30-story Fisher Building, which encompasses an entire block at the corner of West Grand Boulevard and Second Street, is one of the most celebrated architectural structures in the Motor City, where the Art Deco masterpiece is known as “Detroit’s largest art object,” and around the country. More than 40 types of marble, obtained domestically and from Germany, Austria, France, Italy and Spain were used in the construction of what remains the largest marble-clad building in the world with 325,000 square feet of marble tiles.

The current owners, who paid $12.2 million for the Fisher Building, are making space for City Bakery inside the stunning ground-floor Fisher Arcade. The undisputed grande dam building of the New Center Area, it anchors what Forbes recently called “the next hot Detroit neighborhood.”

“Creativity is the lifeblood of City Bakery, and the creative mood and landscape of Detroit right now is something we want to be part of,” Rubin said in the news release.

Photo courtesy of City Bakery