Food: No comment on the food quality. I never got a chance to taste it. Service: I tried placing an order for their special FNaF cookie pizza, but ended up waiting nearly four hours and called three times before they finally told me my address was outside of the delivery range. Seriously? The site didn't tell me that when I initially placed the delivery with my address included. They didn't tell me that the first time I called. They just kept giving me BS over not being able to get a driver due to how busy it was. It was only upon my third call that they told me the driver refused to go that far. And nobody thought to tell me this? No. They just gaslit me, saying I could've come and picked it up myself. Ugh. Horrible customer service! I will never order from them again! Ambiance Obviously I didn't go there in-person, but I would likely have given them a piece of my mind if I did. So unprofessional... read more

Yay for vegan cookies! I wish these were not so sweet. They reminded me of birthdays as a kid, trying to eat the sickly-sweet rosettes of frosting off grocery store sheet cakes. read more

LOVE INSOMNIA COOKIES! They're always warm and gooey and delicious. I loved the red velvet cookie they had a few months back. I wish they would bring it back. But instead they currently have mini red velvet cookies available, I think it was ~$4 for 6. I liked them, but they def weren't as good as the large regular sized cookies. I think the regular macademia white chocolate is the best flavor. Service is usually good, it's pretty quick and there's never a line when I go. read more

Insomnia Cookies - Desserts Near Me - Cambridge, Massachusetts

Insomnia is a national chain decimated to cookies. Their selection is pretty standardized across places and honestly there are no particularly special insomnia creations. That said, they do a good job with the classics, like chocolate chunk and snickerdoodles, and they offer these unique cookie pie things that are almost like cakes. The other appeal is that they are open late (for insomniacs, as implied by the name) so it's a good choice for a late night dessert, not that there are really any others. read more

The chocolate chip cookies, double chocolate cookies, and oatmeal raisin cookies are usually baked reasonably well, while the sugar cookies, birthday cake cookies, and snickerdoodles are consistently overbaked. Considering the relatively high price, you're better off at a real bakery like Pastiche, baking cookies from scratch using a site like allrecipes, or even buying and baking a tube of dough from the supermarket. The strongest selling points for Insomnia are probably the icing dips and the ice cream sandwiches, but these are better elsewhere as well. read more

Good cookies. I like the regular chocolate chip. Husband is celiac and tried the GF cookies chocolate chip. He did not like them however I actually like them. The taste and consistency is good. Unfortunately Insomnia (and many other food/bakery businesses) group all specialized diets together so the gluten free cookies are also made with non-dairy vegan chocolate.... which makes my husband sad. read more

I freaking love insomnia cookies. I don't live in Cambridge so I have to make a special trip to go here which my waist line is grateful for. I tried a cookie place over by me but it doesn't compare. I am for sure an insomnia cookie fan. read more

Insomnia Cookies - Desserts Near Me - Cambridge, Massachusetts

Delicious cookies! They have a variety of regular ($1.60 each) and deluxe ($3.20 each) cookies that come out warm, soft, and gooey from the oven. Flavors include chocolate chunk, double chocolate chunk, sugar, oatmeal raisin, peanut butter, double chocolate mint, m&m, and white chocolate macadamia. My favorite is the chocolate chunk, which comes with generous portions of chocolate. They also have cookiewiches available (scoop of ice cream sandwiched between two cookies of your choice) and milkshakes, although I have never tried those. I gave 3 stars because even though the cookies are delicious, I thought the price was quite high. However, there is a discount if you buy the cookies in bulk so it is good for study beaks or for meetings. The ambiance inside is also not conducive to staying for a long time, so it is really more of a grab and go place. read more

Insomnia Cookies - Chocolate chunk cookies ($1.60 each) - Desserts Near Me - Cambridge, Massachusetts

They offered a good deal for teacher appreciation week - spend $5 and get 6 cookies free! I enjoyed the cookies and they were soft and chewy. The mint chocolate cookie was so good! But I wouldn't pay regular price for them IMO as they're nothing too special read more

Classic insomnia service! The cookies were delicious. Only thing was that it wasn't as warm as we'd expected. It was rather lukewarm.

Insomnia Cookies is one of those late night cookie delivery businesses. But it turns out that they also have a storefront where folks can walk in and get a cookie to go! As a home baker, I found their prices a bit on the high side, particularly since their regular cookies $1.60 aren't all that big. Even the Deluxe cookies were a bit small at their supersized price of $3.20. But the sweet smells were not to be denied. I ended up ordering a cookiewich $5.60 made of two white chocolate macadamia cookies filled with a generous scoop of green tea ice cream, requesting that the 2nd cookie please be set on the side for later. Eating my purchase open-faced made for a yummy mess. Both cookie and ice cream were much enjoyed. Cookies are baked on site. Ice cream is purchased from suppliers such as Breyers. read more

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We came around 5pm on a Saturday night and the staff couldn't be less happy to see us! I never felt so unwanted... I couldn't tell if they were closing up shop or what (but a glance at the hours tells me they don't close until 3am)... We got one chocolate chunk cookie and it was super basic. I felt the batter lacked flavor but I did like how the cookie itself wasn't overly sweet. Their cookies are the soft kind so if you prefer the thin and crispy, this isn't the place for you. The size of the cookie leaned closer to a smaller size for the cost. It was over $1 for a cookie the size of the palm of my hand. I probably wouldn't come back as the customer service (or lack of) was more memorable than the cookie. They only accept credit at the moment. read more

Insomnia Cookies - Chocolate chunk - Desserts Near Me - Cambridge, Massachusetts

Insomnia as a franchise is great. The employees at this location, though, are extremely rude. I ordered via DoorDash and they simply never delivered my order. I recommend going in store to ensure that you get what you pay for. The employees here seem to eat customers' orders and hang around on the clock. read more

This place is dirty and overpriced. (Almost $2 per cookie and over $8 for an ice cream sandwich). I had always wanted to come here but when I did I was extremely disappointed. The place looked like it had not been cleaned in a few days and there were old cookies just lying around on the counters and floor. I got 3 small cookies and an ice cream sandwich, my total came to $18. The cookies are good like any other ordinary cookie. The ice cream sandwich did not impress me. At all. The only upside to this place is that it's open till 3am. Don't make a trip to this place. I'd only try it as a last resort. read more

Insomnia Cookies - Desserts Near Me - Cambridge, Massachusetts

Tasty, melty, soft with the edge crunch chocolate chunk cookie! Though it was free for national cookie day$1.85 a pop is pretty standard. Open late and good service. You can find an insomnia at Harvard out BU. read more

Insomnia Cookies - Chocolate chunk cookie - Desserts Near Me - Cambridge, Massachusetts

I ordered (via Grubhub) at 7:55 PM. An unknown Philadelphia number called at 8:20 PM but didn't leave a message. Starting at around 9 PM, the app said to expect the arrival of my order soon. At 9:20 PM, ten minutes after the estimated delivery window, there was still no food, so I called the restaurant. They said that they had been "trying to contact me" because they were out of brownies and didn't know what to substitute. So my extremely simple order (two cookies and a brownie) sat there for an hour and a half, during which time they called me ONCE (from a random, non-local phone number) and didn't even leave a message. I've had trouble before with their inventory, delivery, and communication, so this was the last straw. Never ordering from them again. read more

Once again, they are out of peanut butter cups, s'mores and chocolate chunk. Here is an idea, make a larger percentage of these cookies since they are so popular. Happier customers and more revenue seems like a great idea read more

These cookies are too good! My favorite is the regular chocolate chip, they're so chocolatey and gooey, baked exactly the way I like them! They also offer cookie cakes and ice cream and ice cream sandwiches, they all look delicious too although I've never tried them. Make sure you grab some milk to go with them! read more

Insomnia Cookies - Desserts Near Me - Cambridge, Massachusetts

The hype was not real. Even though I didn't go to a university in Boston, I've heard of the infamous Insomnia Cookies being delivered late at night (or should I say early in the morning) to students as they crammed for midterms and feverishly wrote papers. I wish they had this when I was in college in Houston. Enough reminiscing. Since we were in the area visiting Harvard and Harvard Square, we made a pit stop at Insomnia Cookies. Braving the rain and cold, we walked into the store and were greeted with warm air and the mesmerizing scent of freshly baked cookies. I wish I could've bottled up that smell and taken it with me. What we weren't greeted with, however, was friendly customer service. The cashier behind the counter pretty much ignored us which sucks when you're a tourist from the state of hospitality (aka Texas). Maybe the rain got her under the weather or she was having a rough Memorial Day but her demeanor certainly took away from my experience of Insomnia Cookies. We got the "Six Pack" (which only allowed "traditional" cookies - no "deluxe" cookies can be included in this deal): 2 snickerdoodles, 2 double chocolate chunks, 2 white chocolate macadamias, and 1 mint chocolate cookie. We immediately devoured some of them on the spot. I tried the mint chocolate one first and appreciated how Insomnia keeps their cookies warm. It was the perfect combination of mint and chocolate and, the cookie seemed to melt in my mouth. It wasn't anything gourmet or special but a simply good cookie. I was ready to brave the rain again on our walk back to the T. Since we were all sugared out for the day, we saved the rest for the following day, and I can attest that they still tasted delicious and fresh. As tradition, I also gave some to my friend who was studying for a final the next day. There's nothing like some decent cookies to get you through hours of studying. Even though these were pricey at $1.65 each (for the "traditional" or $3.30 for the "deluxe"), you get what you pay for, and they were worth it. I think their main appeal is the fact that they deliver warm, fresh cookies LATE at night (they're open until 3am), and they're close to Harvard and MIT. For a tourist, I would recommend checking it out if you're in the area but not going out of your way to visit. Summary: food 3/5, ambiance 2/5 (small shop with no seating), service 2/5. read more

Insomnia Cookies - Our half dozen cookies were placed into three bags instead of a box (reserved for deliveries) - Desserts Near Me - Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Will deliver and open late. Lots of large groups buy a box for meetings/events, and sometimes parents/friends will gift a box to students at Harvard. They did botch a cookie delivery (completely different time and day than scheduled), but redelivered again when someone was available to accept. The main reason for the 2 stars is because their cookies are just.. not good. Nauseating, actually. Over the years I've been in Cambridge, I've tried almost all of their varieties (yes I'm a sucker) and have a) gotten sick of the cookie after eating half, and b) felt actual stomach aches. Reader, I am a verifiable glutton. Turning down cookies is not part of my dna. But Insomnia Cookies are so greasy, oily, and over-sweet that they taste like burnt clumps of oil held together by chocolate chips and m&ms. No flavor complexity, no regard to texture, and the cookies leave oil puddles in their box. It's a hard pass for me. read more

What a Fantastic experience! (:end sarcasm:) Semi-expensive cookies (which is ok for quality), and you get yelled at for taking a picture of the menu on the wall. The cookies themselves range from very good to ok (some were great and moist - ex: white chocolate macadamia nut, and others were older/dried up). But getting yelled at by the employee, who was already yelling at someone else on the phone (personal call), for taking a picture of the POSTED menu on the wall was unnecessary. Supposedly it is prohibited (seriously? If this is actually true, which I doubt, there is something wrong with the corp policy). Getting 2 cookies and being yelled for taking a picture of the menu to share with yelp is not how I want to spend my day. I am sorry, but people like that should not work with/in front of other people. What a miserable experience in an otherwise good cookie place. read more

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I am extremely disappointed with this shop. My group of 15 included one person with an egg allergy and a child with a tree nut allergy, both could eat here. The girl working was talking on her phone when we walked in, we were the only people there and took up the entire shop but we had to wait a few minutes for her to acknowledge us. We asked about the allergies and were told the cross contamination risks. We requested she open a fresh container of ice cream for the tree nut allergy child. She responded that she couldn't do that. She then told whoever was on the phone that we were asking about allergies and rolled her eyes. We were dumbfounded. We again explained this was a child and all we needed to ensure her safety was to wash the scoop and scoop it from a tub that hadn't had a possibly contaminated scoop in it. She seemed very annoyed and again said she couldn't. I pointed out she could but was unwilling, she disagreed and said she couldn't open a new package. We left without purchasing anything. She was on her phone the entire time all 15 of us were in the shop. We could not believe they were able to accommodate a child with allergies but refused, not to mention that she was talking on her phone the entire time we were there. read more

Tray of 100 cookies was ordered a week in advance. Delivery was late; when I called, was promised the driver would be there in 5 minutes. The storefront two blocks away--the cookies showed up an hour later. They comped me a partial refund, but still I would not recommend for large events further away from (in this case) Harvard Square. read more

I have to say the cookies were really good, very rich. The flavor doesn't excited me cause I love nuts. The macadamia cookies aren't bad but white chocolate is too sweet for me. read more

We stopped in for a late night snack and fell completely in love. I had the snicker doodle cookie with vanilla in the middle.

The girl working 4/18/21 around 3:20 PM completely ignored me when I asked her questions about ice cream. I eventually walked out after being ignored. Worst service ever! NO WELCOME greeting or anything, so unwarranted. read more

At 2:30am in the morning after a long day, I found myself dissatisfied listening to my stomach grumble. As I dug into my internal food database for places open late, brilliance hit me: insomnia cookies. Just a few hours earlier, I had passed by the place, making a mental note to myself not to cave in to late night cravings. Unfortunately, my brain used it as manipulative opportunity to coerce me into late-night snacking. Dragging a friend into the cold, we walked to the tiny 600 square feet shop, where we got the chocolate chunk and macadamia nut cookies. Straight out of the warmer, the cookies were soft, thick, and gooey - a delight to my eye as the cashier slipped the cookie into the classic paper pouch. Yet the cookies were disappointing. The chocolate chunk was comparable to a cookie I would grab from the dining hall, minus the thickness, warmth, and beauty of the melting chocolate. Or perhaps more like a pre-made cookie batter I could easily pop into the oven. There is always a "however" in life; Insomnia is no different. The macadamia white chocolate chip was delectable, with hints of coconut flavor, chunky white chocolate, and nuts. The soft-center cookie was rich and buttery, intensely balanced in its flavor profile, subtly reminding me of my childhood in Hawaii. Simple ingredients. Powerful taste. In this case, there are two "however's". I have a feeling Insomnia Cookies will start to define Harvard culture and the social scene - why I bumped the rating from three to four stars. Just like the Kong, just like iHop, I can see students bonding over Insomnia Cookies. Imagine...it's 2am and your pset / project group is nowhere near done. A dozen Insomnia Cookies? Check. Or if on a Saturday night, after a trip to the Kong...craving some rich desserts.... read more

Insomnia Cookies - Desserts Near Me - Cambridge, Massachusetts

Whose evil idea was it to build a cookie shop across the street from the gym? $1.25 for the regular-sized guys (M&M is mmm, mmm good), $2.75 for the bigger ones that cancel out your entire 4 mile run. S'mores deluxe is marshmallowy sweet. My favorite is the Chocolate Peanut Butter...PB chips & reeses's PB cups smashed onto a warm, gooey, perfectly kinda soft/kinda chewy cookie...it's diabolical. I spied ice cream cookie sandwiches, but that could start a big problem, so I just avert my eyes when I walk by. Sweetest thing in the shop: awesome Aussie blonde behind the register! read more

Insomnia Cookies - Desserts Near Me - Cambridge, Massachusetts

Hands down the best place to get a late night dessert! Every time I come to Cambridge this is the first place I come too. It's a large chain on the East Coast and it has earned the great reputation for a reason. The cookies are fair in price and amazing in quality. They stay open really late and they even deliver. Your cookies will come out warm just like I love. There is a variety of cookie choices and you can even add ice cream to it. My favorite is chocolate chunk and peanut butter! The customer service is great as well, I have not had any issues. Also if you are looking for something to wash the cookies down with, their chocolate and strawberry milk is a decent choice! Overall, check this place out! You won't regret it! **This review was based on trying this place more than 15 times. I believe in trying a place multiple times before reviewing in order to give an honest and fair review. read more

I'm in love and I don't care who knows it. If you don't think cookie-wiches are the most lethal of sandwich combinations you should probably stop reading my review, head over to Insomnia Cookies and try it out for yourself. Then thank me for sharing my knowledge through an Insomnia Cookie giftcard. M&M cookies with Cake Batter ice cream, sugar cookies with Cookies 'N Cream. Warm. Gooey. AMAZING. They don't skimp out on the ice cream. I suggest getting these in the evening (like I do) so when you shove it into you mouth no one sees nothin'. Heads up: get napkins. Whoever said money can't buy happiness never maximized the use of a $5 bill at Insomnia Cookies. read more

All it takes is one visit to ruin it for you. Insomnia was flying high in my book. Any time I was craving cookies at 1:30 in the morning on a Friday night and they were there waiting and not all that busy, and normally pretty amazing. This past weekend all but ruined it for me, I'm not even sure if I can go back. It's rather simple what happened.... THE COOKIES WERE NOT COMPLETELY BAKED! I have never tasted anything so awful in my life. If you held the cookie up, it just crumbled and fell apart in your hands, leaving a trail of whatever goo was inside down your inner palm. Of course I didn't find out about my $14 dozen until it was too late and I was far enough away from the location to turn around and complain. It looks like I survived any sort of salmonella scare since we didn't get sick after. But, gross gross gross. Not only were what we got not baked but they were still open for another hour and a half and they ran out of peanut butter cookies? You would think that this location has been open long enough, they'd have a pretty good idea of how many ingredients need to be stocked or how many batches of each flavor need to be made. It doesn't take long to make up another few dozen and I would have seriously waited (hell, maybe this batch would have been COOKED). But no, they weren't willing to throw in anymore and we just had to live with the choices. Better training is needed by your staff or something, it is inexcusable that your cookies weren't kept in the oven long enough. What a waste of money and time driving to Harvard for this. read more

This place always hit the spot. We've been to several locations from the west coast to the east coast. The cookies never disappoint.

Best cookies in Boston . It's my go to each time . Our Emeegency department at Mount Auburn are hooked on them. .

Amazing cookies. Love the smell when you go in. The brownies are amazing as well. Highly recommend it.

OK, I only got to try a S'mores cookie but it was sooooo goood, how can you not love a warm, ooey, gooey cookie filled with an explosion of marshmallow?!?! I love how chocolatey and rich it was but not overbearingly sweet! My only qualm was holy mother these are expensive...I know this is a deluxe cookie but the price point is a bit steep. read more

Insomnia Cookies - Delux s'mores cookie! - Desserts Near Me - Cambridge, Massachusetts

Grab em while they're warm!!! I was SO excited to see Insomnia as I walked to the MAC. I would pass it day after day and resisted each time (I mean I didn't want to defeat the purpose of my efforts each day, doy) but finally gave in one evening and headed there with my sister and baby. We did not try the delivery service this time because we live right around the corner. I first had Insomnia in NYC years ago, 2008?! I had them deliver to my hotel in Murray Hill and the entire idea of delivery in the middle of the night was so foreign to me. I texted my sister as soon as I noticed the little shop, I had no idea they even opened. One night after dinner we were both craving something sweet, and both knew exactly what the other was thinking.. time to try Insomnia!! The cookies themselves were A-OK. The service was quick and efficient and the little store front is just as practical as can be. We got the ice cream sandwich-peanut butter and double chocolate with cookies and cream. We stood by the window and devoured our dessert. It reminded me of Diddy Reese in W. LA (not as cheap) but the ice cream (Hershey's) was a little sweet for my taste. All in all, it was still a fun treat. I'll have to try the delivery service next time. I must say, A fun addition to Harvard Sq!! read more

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Yes yes yes yes YES Insomnia's cookies live up to their incredible reputation I was absolutely blown away. I have only gotten cookies from their physical store (which is conveniently located and not a hassle) and not delivery so I can't speak to if the quality holds up on that front. The store itself is quite small and usually has a few people in line, although it seems to hit prime business during post dinner hours. The staff is super friendly and accommodating if you want to get cookies or ice cream to go. Now onto the cookies...OMG. They're served straight from the warmer so they have the perfect almost cookie dough consistency and gooey chocolate chunks. I've gotten a cookiewich and a s'mores cookie from here. For the cookiewich I got chocolate chunk cookies and campfire s'mores ice cream. Tip: you can get two different types of cookies for a cookiewich! The warm cookies make it kind of difficult to eat so in hindsight I wish I had gotten a la mode instead since the process of eating it is essentially the same. The s'mores cookies was yummy and rreeeaaalllyy chock full of marshmallow, but not so much chocolate. Both options satisfied my late night cookie cravings. The one caveat to going to Insomnia is that their cookies are wildly overpriced. Almost $4 for a deluxe cookie? Crazy. Though if you want to treat yourself, know that Insomnia is damn tasty. read more

Insomnia Cookies - Cookiewich with chocolate chunk cookies and campfire S'mores ice cream - Desserts Near Me - Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sold us extremely stale red velvet cookies that were obviously cooked before Valentine's Day. Absolute waste of money. Can't believe they would sell such obviously old, dry, stale product or even keep it on the shelf for so long. read more

staff are kinda pressed and rude. they don't even seem understaffed either just not the best attitudes. the cookies are pretty skimpy for the price. they have great hours. 1.5 stars rounding up to 2. is small inside. read more

This insomnia cookies used to be my favorite. Now it sucks. Literally the worst place I have ever been for foods (at any hour), ESPECIALLY for places that are SUPPOSED to be open late. I was there at like 11pm. The girl behind the counter said "we don't have much right now" and I was like "that's ok!! Let me know what you do have, or what you don't, whatever's easier" and we just kinda looked at the menu. Then we asked a couple times if they had a few different cookies. "No, we don't have that", ok next one, "no we don't have that", ok next one, we repeated this about 7 times with a bunch of different cookies because I have a nut allergy (and no other allergies), my friend has a milk allergy (anaphylactic, not lactose intolerance) and our other friend was allergic to only peanuts (they are not a nut). I usually avoid telling a server about my allergy just in case they hear me wrong and think I'm ordering nuts, but when I asked "what cookies DO you have", to which they listed like 20 cookies off very quickly and expected us to memorize it, I asked about the very few I did memorize from her list, which were vegan/gluten free. I said "what do the vegan cookies use as a substitute for animal products?" And I kid you not, she didn't even answer me. She walked away and then came back holding a binder with a bunch of lists, which were clearly the recipes for the cookies (I used to work at a nearby bakery so I know this place very well and they know mine). In my head, at this point, I'm still pretty friendly and just happy to be there, like, "wow thank god she has a list of the ingredients, most places don't have that, I'm so grateful", so I point to a couple of the cookies like, "you said you had this, right?" And she rudely said "no. I said multiple times that we only have [these cookies]" and I was like ok sorry I just had trouble remembering. Meanwhile, the other girls with the other allergies were able to quickly order their cookies, and have already received them. So while I was still looking through the book and my 4th friend had not ordered yet, the girl behind the counter walked away and grabbed her manager, who came back and said to my friends "you guys need to leave if you aren't in line. You can't stay in here we don't allow patrons" and I was so pissed off because this was a carpool from a school event we come to Boston for from a city 20 miles away. And it was like 20 degrees. And my car was like 4 blocks away. I had to leave because MY allergy was too much trouble for them to cater to, to the point where they had to give ME their RECIPE BOOK, which they should know the basic ingredients of (especially allergens) right off the bat, and THAT TOOK TOO LONG because they couldn't help me THEMSELVES so they made my friends leave because they had already gotten their food...so I had to leave. They couldn't just wait outside by themselves in the cold in little dresses and crop tops from our performance.....the employees were incredibly rude. I have literally never experience bad customer service before and even when I don't love the service or the food I give a hefty tip and am very friendly and grateful. However, these people had no reason to be rude. I was being super nice, as were all of my friends, and these employees work at a place that USED TO BE OPEN FROM 7PM TO 7AM. And now they close at 1am. Maybe they didn't work here before and they don't understand that these hours are way better than the previous hours, which is fine like I know 1am is still late but honestly everything closes at that time and it's not an excuse to be outright rude, and the fact that they couldn't just like, cross out what they didn't have, or give us a list of what they did have, and instead had to yell at us, is crazy. It is a very basic expectancy for a customer service job to answer the customer's questions. The next step up is to ask them what they want/cater to their needs. The next step is to be friendly. I don't know why those three things were so difficult for these people. I have worked a bunch of customer service jobs that were way worse than this, many Black Friday all nights, many busy mall holidays, and you know what, even the meanest employees at the worst McDonald's in the worst areas of the neighboring 7 states have had nicer employees than these people. I thought insomnia cookies was a privately owned local business with a few locations, but I guess it has become a corporate chain with careless franchisees. read more