Whether you like your cookies sweet or salty, chewy or crunchy, bite-sized or as large as your face, there’s something here for everyone.

Here’s where to go for your chewy, toasted, or buttery morning bread of choice.

From the trendy Baked & Wired to old standbys like Fine Sweet Shoppe, here are the best bakeries, according to DCist’s staff.

Photo by volcanojw No Dish of the Week this week, but enjoy your regularly scheduled Small Bites. Small Bites Burger Eating Contest In the fine July 4th weekend tradition of eating contests, Z-Burger will be holding a burger eating contest at noon on July 2 at its Tenleytown location. The deadline for entries is June 29 at 10 a.m., and can be done by sending an email to zburgerdc@gmail.com. The first place winner will…

Photo courtesy a DCist reader The Going Out Gurus had the skinny yesterday on why popular downtown lunch spot The Breadline got temporarily shut down by the D.C. Dept. of Health at the end of last week:”Operating without a valid license, operating with incorrect hot and cold holding temps for potentially hazardous foods that do not comply with the food code and could not be corrected at the time of the inspection. Failing to…

Fried oyster po boy courtesy of buck82 Dish of the Week: Po boys Where: Acadiana, Breadline, Johnny’s Half Shell, Bardia’s, and Hank’s Oyster Bar Mardi Gras is coming up this Tuesday. It is that wonderful time of indulgence right before the abstention of Lent. And we all associate this indulgent day with New Orleans. What better way to celebrate than with some po boys? Nothing could be better than a mess of fried seafood…