Paris Bakery’s Cookie Imperfections Become Culinary Hipster Badge of Honor
KEY POINTS
- •Mokonuts, a daytime-only restaurant in Paris’s 11th arrondissement, opened in 2015.
- •Co-owners Moko Hirayama and Omar Koreitem popularized rye, cranberry, and dark chocolate chunk cookies.
- •Their cookies are baked irregularly shaped with chopped baking chocolate and served warm all day.
- •Their cookbook, launched in 2025, retails at $43.99 on Amazon and emphasizes embracing imperfection.
Since 2015, Mokonuts—helmed by Moko Hirayama and Omar Koreitem—has been serving the Paris 11th arrondissement with food so indie it makes oat milk look mainstream. Their star player? The notoriously imperfect rye, cranberry, and dark chocolate chunk cookie, praised by cookbook goddess Dorie Greenspan and whispered about among elite holiday cookie swap circles like a secret handshake. Hirayama insists on chopping actual baking chocolate rather than choking on chocolate chips, because imperfection is gourmet rebellion. They bake cookies all day, piping hot and ready to steal, while selling their 2025 cookbook at a suspiciously discounted $43.99 (from $49.95) to help you live that flaky salt life at home.
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Mokonuts invented the ‘it’s not a bug, it’s a feature’ cookie—imperfect shapes, real chocolate wrecking your snack standards since 2015.
Forget perfect cookies; Mokonuts prefers looking like a toddler finger-painted them with bittersweet rage and rye grace.
When your cookie looks like a crumpled visa application but tastes Nobel-worthy, you know Parisian food snobs are winning.
Source: Eater | Published: 12/2/2025 | Author: Erin DeJesus
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