Insomnia Cookies opens in Huntington
- Steven Keith
- 6 minutes ago
- 3 min read
A national cookie store known for baking sweet treats for pickup or delivery until the wee hours of the morning has opened a new location at 1544 Third Ave. in Huntington near the Marshall University campus.
It’s the Insomnia Cookies chain’s second location in West Virginia, joining one already in place at 2161 University Ave. in Morgantown near WVU.
The company was started back in 2003 by a group of college friends in their dorm late one night (studying, I’m sure) who were craving something sweet to eat but couldn’t find anything open that late. Or shall we say, that early?
So they baked up a plan to start their own business, began making cookies on a small scale and then opened their first brick and mortar in Syracuse, New York, some three years later. Food trucks soon followed and now the appropriately named former startup has grown to more than 200 locations nationwide.
While you can find brownies, ice cream, ice cream sandwiches and cookie cakes on the menu now, it’s sales of the chain’s more than a dozen classic and six deluxe cookies that pays the bills.
Although I couldn’t make the grand opening in Huntington on April 25, the company offered to ship me “a few cookies” to sample at my convenience. A few ended up being more than three dozen, so we’ve been nibbling on those suckers all week!
And I have to say, we enjoyed them much more than the Crumbl Cookies we sampled last year, since these were actual moist and delicious cookies and not overwrought (yet undercooked) cake-like creations.
Our favorites were the snickerdoodle, salted caramel, chocolate peanut butter cup and oatmeal (with either raisins or chocolate and walnut) but there were lots of other options flecked with macadamia nuts, chocolate chunks, M&Ms, peanut butter chips, mint candies, sprinkles, marshmallows and more.
The Huntington location will be open from 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Monday-Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 3 a.m. Thursday-Friday, noon to 3 a.m. Saturday and noon to 1 a.m. Sunday. For more information or to place orders for delivery, call 304-241-2770 or visit www.insomniacookies.com.
Bahnhof owners opening new restaurant
The owners of the oh-so-delicious Bahnhof WVrsthaus & Biergarten in Huntington are opening a new restaurant at Pullman Square in Huntington.
The new Bask Smokehouse at 279 Ninth St. will take over where the company’s original Black Sheep Burrito location closed last December after 13 years in business.
The same folks also run Black Sheep Burrito and Brews in Charleston and Luna Pizza in Huntington.
In a Facebook post announcing the big news, Bask promises to offer something “bold, smoky and totally new” by applying contemporary Appalachian interpretations to the smoked meats and sides you’d find in BBQ pits throughout the Southwest, Texas, Kansas and the Deep South, along with seafood and vegetarian options.
An opening date has not yet been announced, so stay tuned here for more details to come.
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Steven Keith is a food writer and restaurant critic known as “The Food Guy” who writes a weekly column for the Charleston Gazette-Mail and has appeared in several state, regional and national culinary publications. Follow him online at www.wvfoodguy.com or on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest. He can be reached at 304-380-6096 or at wvfoodguy@aol.com.