Stepping into Crush Cookie Bar, you’re greeted by the sweet-smelling aroma of freshly baked cookies and a colorful, inviting atmosphere. Your taste buds start watering as you look at the menu, seeing that this week’s options include Oreo Explosion and Stuffed Nutella.
Located in Englewood, Crush Cookie Bar offers a kosher twist on Crumbl’s giant, unique cookies. Crush’s owners, David Warner and Mariette, his mother, opened the store in March of 2022 and created this bakery to sell warm kosher baked goods.
The inside of the bakery is designed in a fun and colorful way, with a decorated mural on the wall. Great Kosher Restaurants, a website that reviews kosher eateries, describes how “Local teens can come to hang out and take Instagram pictures of themselves next to the massive mural by local artist Dennis Menas featuring every cereal character from Tony the Tiger to Captain Crunch.”
Like Crumbl—a famous company specializing in creating large, fun cookies—Crush is known for having giant, warm cookies with unique flavors and toppings. This week’s cookie options at Crush include Hershey’s Cookies N’ Creme Cookie, Reeses Madness, Apple Pie, and Chilled Key Lime Pie. At Crumbl, this week’s options include Lemon Cake, Chocolate Crumb featuring Oreo, and Classic Peanut Butter.
“I love the cookies at Crush Cookie Bar,” Ava Jacobson (’25) said. “When I went there with friends, we split a box of six cookies. The flavors were all so good, but did remind me of Crumbl; they were extremely similar to Crumbl’s flavors.”
Now, you may be thinking: How is this cookie company different from Crumbl? After discovering that Crumbl is not kosher, Warner, who frequently visited Crumbl as a kid, decided to open a kosher cookie shop, according to Great Kosher Restaurants. As we live in a community that has a large number of Jewish people, many of them want to go to a bakery that is kosher but cannot find one. Crush Cookie Bar is “under the strict supervision of RCBC (Rabbinical Council of Bergen County),” ensuring that their food matches the kosher standards, according to the Crush Cookie Bar website.
Aside from Crush selling freshly baked cookies, it also serves ice cream, frozen yogurt, allergen-free sorbets, ice cream cookie sandwiches, different types of milk, and coffee.
The store hours accommodate Shabbat observance. It is open Monday through Thursday from 12 p.m. to 11 p.m., Friday from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday from 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m., and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m.
This unique bakery accommodates the dietary needs of the Jewish community, but is similar to Crumbl Cookies. It makes one wonder if a collaboration between Crush and Crumbl could bring new possibilities to the cookie world.
