About Old World Levain Bakery
Old World Levain Bakery serves Asheville from 295 Haywood Road, about 1.4 mi southwest of central Asheville.
It is one of 58 bakeries and sweet shops we list in Asheville — about one per 1,638 people living in the city. If you want to compare, OWL Bakery sits less than 0.1 mi from here.
Old World Levain Bakery opens as early as 8 AM and stays open until Noon on its longest day, for about 16 hours across 4 days a week. Weekend visits work too — it is open Saturday and Sunday.
Levain Bakery was founded in 1995 on West 74th Street in New York City by friends Pam Weekes and Connie McDonald. Its 6-ounce Chocolate Chip Walnut cookie became famous after The New York Times called it possibly the largest, most divine chocolate chip cookie in Manhattan.
