Stephen Starr's Parc has the best free restaurant bread, Atlantic says

How it works: Atlantic writer Caity Weaver based her choice on more than 550 responses, months of research and 13,000 miles traveled.

By the numbers: Parc bakes 1,500 loaves a day — 200 of which are the cranberry-walnut.

• Starr told The Atlantic that Parc's bread basket, which has three varieties of bread including the cranberry-walnut loaf, costs about 60 cents a pop.
• At roughly 10,000 customers a week, Parc hands out nearly $500,000 in free bread every year (sans butter costs).

Plus: You can also find the loaf at Starr's French brasserie Le Diplomate in D.C.

What they're saying: The goal was to "create a breadbasket so satisfying that you didn't have to spend any money," Starr told The Atlantic.

• "You could just come in here, order the breadbasket, a glass of wine, and you're good for the next five, six hours. We just wanted it to be joyful.'"