Tribeca Treats

Photo: Cinzia Reale-Castello

Photo: Cinzia Reale-Castello

A job in investment banking doesn’t ordinarily precede employment as a baker, but that was the unusual career trajectory for Rachel Thebault, the chef-owner of a new, sprawling 12,000-square-foot bakery and boutique in Tribeca. Tots and their parents will enjoy her made-on-the-premises sweets, such as chocolate bonbons and truffles, decadent black-and-white (chocolate cake with vanilla icing and cocoa nib sprinkles) or peanut-butter-and-jelly (vanilla cake with berry jam filling and peanut-butter icing) cupcakes, fudge brownies and graham-cracker-and-cinnamon-cream sandwich cookies.

Photo: Cinzia Reale-Castello

The lofty rectangular space, decorated with a mocha-hued slate floor and pink and brown accents throughout, is divided into a retail area at the front and a bakery with an open kitchen at the back. Kids can snack and play at a table set up just for them with paper and crayons; adults have their own communal table. Thebault is offering iced teas, Ronnybrook Farm milk and Kobricks coffee to pair with the treats. And if you’re looking for gifts, you’ll find tools for aspiring chefs, including bakeware, dessert cookbooks, oven mitts and mini-aprons.—Leslie Price

94 Reade St between Church St and West Broadway (212-571-0500, tribecatreats.com).