The eviction discover has been posted to the entrance window of Mah-Ze-Dahr’s now-closed location within the West Village.
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Mah-Ze-Dahr, the high-end bakery identified for its cheesecake and brownies, has been given the boot from its West Village location. A two-week eviction discover for the enterprise was posted in April, and the storefront is now darkish. As of final week, a discover was posted to the bakery’s web site stating that there’s an “e-commerce transport hiatus” and orders will resume “subsequent week.” We tried to get some readability on the state of affairs, however texts and emails to proprietor Umber Ahmad, and others at Mah-Ze-Dahr, all went unanswered.
Ahmad, a former funding banker, and Shelly Acuña launched Mah-Ze-Dahr in 2013 as an internet enterprise with backing and a gold stamp of approval by Tom Colicchio. Acuña left in 2017, by which level the enterprise had turn into identified for its doughnuts, brownies, chocolate-loaf cake, and a cheesecake that Grub as soon as deemed New York’s finest, sufficient to provide it good standing when it lastly did go brick-and-mortar. In 2015, Mah-Ze-Dahr put down roots at 28 Greenwich Road, and Ahmad spoke about plans for worldwide partnership and growth to Los Angeles; Washington, D.C.; and elsewhere across the nation.
In the meantime, its West Village landlord first filed a petition over $107,751.93 in unpaid lease and costs in July 2022. A second case resulted in August 2024 with Mah-Ze-Dahr agreeing to pay the court-ordered judgment of $160,099.52. By December, the owner had filed one other petition over a further $82,353.72 of unpaid lease and costs since August. A 3rd location of the bakery, at 601 Lexington Avenue, was evicted in October, the identical month that meals distributor Cooks’ Warehouse filed a summons over $172,354.25 in unpaid invoices. This January, Mah-Ze-Dahr closed its 3,000-square-foot location in Arlington, Virginia. (A Washington, D.C., location, its first outdoors New York, shuttered in 2023.)
Is that this the tip of Mah-Ze-Dahr? In an Instagram publish, the model introduced the “closing” of the shop and its “plan to return to the West Village quickly.” No matter occurs, it’s not fairly curtains but: As of this morning, a counter location within the Brookfield Place mall was stocked with cream puffs and busy with clients.
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