Antoine's Cookie Shop

About Antoine's Cookie Shop

Antoine's Cookie Shop is a small bakery that does one thing: cookies. The Palo Alto shop sits in Town & Country Village on El Camino Real, across the road from Stanford, in Building 1, Suite 15. It is one of four shops run by a business that began with a single craving.

The founder is Antoine Tang. As the Mountain View Voice told the story in 2020, he wanted a warm cookie late one night in 2013, found no bakery open and went looking for a recipe to make his own. He started baking for a church group, then sold cookies online. He later left his job at an Apple store to deliver cookies to homes and offices around the Peninsula. In 2016 he opened his first shop in downtown San Mateo, which still operates on 2nd Avenue.

The Palo Alto shop opened on January 15, 2021, in a space that Babka by Ayelet had left earlier in 2020. It started with pickup and local delivery and sells the same cookies as the San Mateo original. Antoine's has since added shops on West Main Street in Los Gatos and on Market Street in San Francisco's Duboce Triangle area.

The cookies

Antoine's sums up its goal on its website as the "perfect balance of texture and flavor," and it says its mission is authenticity. The ingredients it names are butter, real vanilla, organic flour and Guittard chocolate. The Town & Country Village listing adds that the shop mixes its dough in house and sells about ten varieties, baked to be crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside. That is the classic bakery style rather than the thick, underbaked kind.

When the Palo Alto shop opened, the lineup reported by the Voice included:

• Chocolate chip, the original recipe that started the business
• Oatmeal chip and walnut chip
• Peanut butter cup, one of the first flavors sold
• Toffee and dark chocolate chip
• White chocolate macadamia and snickerdoodle
• Cookies and cream, which was the top seller at the time

Social media posts at the time also hinted at off-menu cookies. Flavors rotate and this list is several years old, so check the website for the current choices.

How to buy

You can walk in and buy cookies in the shop. The website takes online cookie orders for pickup. The center's listing also mentions curbside pickup, which is handy if you are driving through on El Camino Real and do not want to park. For bigger occasions, the website takes catering orders. It also sells gift cards through Square.

A box of cookies is an easy gift to bring to a dinner, an office or a dorm. Because the shop bakes its own dough, cookies are often fresh from the oven, so plan to eat a few right away.

Who it suits

Antoine's is a quick stop rather than a place to linger. It works for a treat after lunch at Town & Country, for a parent visiting a Stanford student or for anyone who needs dessert for a group without baking. Families with kids will find the simple flavors easy to choose from. Evening hours until 8 p.m. from Monday to Saturday make it a good after-dinner errand too. If you want a full bakery with bread and pastries, Manresa Bread is a short walk away in the same center.

The shop does not publish allergen details on the pages we read. The cookies contain butter and flour. Several flavors include nuts, so ask in the shop if you have an allergy.

Tips for visiting

• The shop is in Building 1, Suite 15 at Town & Country Village. The center has its own surface lots, but spaces fill at lunch and on weekend afternoons.
• Sunday hours end at 5 p.m., three hours earlier than the rest of the week.
• Use catering orders if you are buying for an office party or a large event.
• Pair a visit with a walk around the rest of the center. Our Town & Country Village guide covers the shops and food stops.
• For more sweets around town, see our guide to bakeries and desserts in Palo Alto.

Location and getting there

Antoine's Cookie Shop is at 855 El Camino Real, Suite 15, Palo Alto, CA 94301, in the Town & Country Village area of Palo Alto. Our Town & Country Village guide covers what else is around.

The nearest train stop is the Palo Alto Caltrain station, about 0.4 miles away. That is roughly a 11 minute walk.

Parking: the center's own free surface lots.

Hours

Hours from the business's own website, checked October 29, 2026.

What is nearby

• Marigold Row, store, under 0.1 mi
• The UPS Store El Camino Real, service business, under 0.1 mi
• Marine Layer, store, under 0.1 mi
• Ruti, store, under 0.1 mi
• Margaret O’Leary, store, under 0.1 mi
• Town & Country Village, under 0.1 mi
• Stanford Stadium, 0.3 mi
• Pacific Art League, 0.4 mi

Other bakeries, ice cream and sweets nearby: Kara's Cupcakes (under 0.1 mi); The Penny Ice Creamery (under 0.1 mi); Sweet 55 (under 0.1 mi); Manresa Bread (under 0.1 mi). Browse the full bakeries, ice cream and sweets list.

Before you go

• Popular items can sell out by early afternoon, especially on weekends. Go early for the best choice.
• Many bakeries take orders for cakes and large quantities. Allow a few days' notice for special orders.
• Seating is often limited, so plan to take treats to a nearby park if the shop is busy.

About this listing

Checked October 29, 2026 against Antoine's Cookie Shop website; Town & Country Village tenant listing; Mountain View Voice: Antoine's Cookie Shop to bring warm chocolate chip cookies to Palo Alto. How our listings work. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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