Maya's Cookies

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Maya's Cookies in Grantville, San Diego, is a Black-owned, woman-owned gourmet vegan cookie company operating a production bakery and retail storefront at 4760 Mission Gorge Pl Ste G, 92120. Founded in 2015 by Maya Madsen, the operation grew from a farmers-market booth to a national shipping brand after receiving over ten thousand online orders in a single month during 2020, and the Grantville storefront — marked by a hot-pink awning on an otherwise industrial block — opened later that year. Every cookie in the lineup is 100-percent plant-based, using no eggs, dairy, or animal products, and the flavor rotation runs more than 20 options: chocolate chip, chocolate chip s'mores (with a marshmallow center), marble fudge, birthday cake, snickerdoodle, chai snickerdoodle, white chocolate macadamia, caramel pecan, espresso white chocolate, and seasonal releases tied to Black History Month and holiday calendars. The vegan dessert corridor in College Area includes the plant-based deli tradition at Ben & Esther's Vegan Delicatessen on El Cajon Blvd, and the two Black- and woman-owned food businesses together represent a vegan infrastructure uncommon in eastern San Diego. Vegan soft-serve ice cream and drip coffee round out the storefront counter, and gluten-free chocolate chip cookies serve the overlap between vegan and celiac dietary requirements. Maya's ships nationwide and fills corporate and event orders ranging from one bag to 200, and the San Diego Business Journal recognized the company with its Black Business Matters Award in 2021. Mission Gorge's craft-production corridor in Grantville also includes Good Pressure Brewing Co., and the industrial-park setting that both businesses share reflects Grantville's identity as a maker district within the 92120 ZIP. The staff bakes thousands of cookies per day out of the Mission Gorge Place kitchen, and the line that frequently extends out the storefront door on weekends confirms the brand's crossover from online phenomenon to neighborhood anchor.