Best of Boston
Best Muffin
Appleton Bakery Café
Boston
Enough with low-fat, no-butter baked goods. Muffins were meant to be savored. Appleton, the friendly, sunlit café, understands this, and answers the call with beauties [...] read more»
1999 Best Muffin
Appleton Bakery Cafe
Boston
The husband-and-wife team of South End caterers who opened Appleton last year make fresh muffins with delicious and often surprising combinations such as peaches and [...] read more»
1998 Best Muffin
Carberry’s Bakery and Coffee House
Somerville
A good muffin is a delicate thing. All you want is a little sweetness, not too much butter, and lots of fruit. Your delicate morning [...] read more»
1996 Best Muffin, Blueberry
Vicki Lee Boyajian
Needham
This is the standard to which all other blueberry muffins should aspire: denser than cake, but still light and flavorful, and filled with fresh blueberries. [...] read more»
1993 Best Muffin
Savoy French Bakery
Brookline
Savoy's blackberry-raspberry muffins define the form: enormous, light, moist, packed with fresh fruit, and not too sweet. read more»
1991 Best Muffin
Pentimiento
Cambridge
These not-too-sweet muffins are the most satisfying around. read more»
1988 Best Muffin, English
Joyce’s Gourmet English Muffin Company
Arlington
For the muffin maven, these are local contenders to the crown worn by the much ballyhooed Wolferman's out of Kansas City. read more»