Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

Soft and gooey, or crisp and crunchy? Fresh from the oven, or cool and firm? Milk, or no milk?

For the true chocolate chip cookie afficionado, choices are many, and almost all are good. But where can you find the very best of this popular confection?

Forbes Traveler attempted to find out. After exhaustive research, they came up with their 11 favorite places to indulge.

Here’s the list:

Levain Bakery, New York, N.Y.

Tate’s Bake Shop, Southampton, N.Y.

Marnee’s Cookies, Bath, Maine

Pearl Bakery, Portland, Ore.

Sweet Adeline Bake Shop, Berkeley, Calif.

Tom’s Mom’s Cookies, Harbor Springs, Mich.

Rene’s Bakery, Indianapolis, Ind.

Tartine Bakery, San Francisco, Calif.

Firehook Bakery, Washington, D.C.

Macrina Bakery, Seattle, Wash.

Rosie’s Bakery, Boston, Mass.

To find out what makes these the best of the best, and to catch a slideshow, visit Forbes Traveler.