Pleasanton Restaurant Has Best Cookies In Bay Area: East Bay Times

PLEASANTON, CA — East Bay Times readers think that Denica’s Real Food Kitchen in Pleasanton has some of the region’s best chocolate chip cookies.

After the paper published a preliminary list in April, which included the East Bay Bakery in Danville, readers wrote in to give them even more ideas. At the top of the list was Denica’s Real Food Kitchen, which recently opened on Rosewood Drive in Pleasanton and also has locations in Dublin, Livermore, and Castro Valley.

The celebrated restaurant is famous as the best place for any kind of breakfast food, whether it’s a cookie, croissant, pancake, omelet, or French toast. They offer 18 varieties of cookies baked fresh daily, including classic chocolate chip, oatmeal chocolate chip, peanut butter chocolate chip, ube coconut, and many more, including a signature blue box of a mix of the most popular cookies.

While the menu is extensive, owners James and Denica Freitas got their start with cookies and pastries. James Freitas once owned a business called Cookie Express. Namesake Denica Freitas owned a business called Cakes by Denica, and the two merged their businesses to open the original Denica’s Pastry Café in Dublin.

Visit denicascafe.com for more information. See here for the full East Bay Times list.