I’ve walked by The Donut Pub 203 West 14th Street, New York, NY 10011 so many times. I’ve noticed it every time because you can’t miss that big sign, especially when it’s lit at night. I’m not sure why I’ve never tried a doughnut from them, but when I needed to find a good picnic dessert last minute, this popped into my head.
They have a nice variety of doughnuts so I grabbed a dozen for $12.99 and the guy threw in some extra doughnut holes.
Then I spotted some of their fancy doughnuts, one with a cherry pie filling, one was a marble cake doughnut with blackberry jam, two were crumb crullers with blueberry or apple filling. These are $2 each.
Generally, the doughnuts are fresh, but I find them too sugary and very average in flavor. Lon likes them because he calls it, “down and dirty doughnuts”, the kind he imagines that cops eat. I also noticed that the fancy doughnuts aren’t as good as the regular while more expensive so they should leave the fancy pants stuff to Doughnut Plant, the heaven of glorified doughnuts.
In related doughnut news, Tim Hortons (huge Canadian doughnuts and coffee chain) is taking New York by storm, taking over 13 Dunkin Donuts locations. We’ll be sure to compare those doughnuts soon, but it won’t be hard to beat Dunkin Donuts, which has been declining steadily in the last 5 to 7 years.
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plan a trip to Mumbai and come to Mad over Donuts. You will stay back 🙂
oh my… those look astounding!
I grew up right across the street from the Donut Pub 25 years ago, and every weekend my dad would go there and get us cinnamon rolls. These are not your regular yeasted cinnamon rolls, but instead are like glazed donuts, in a swirl shape with cinnamon wrapped up in there. Just went back this past weekend and they were amazing — super fresh, light, not too sweet, and tasted just the way they did 25 years ago when I was a kid!
You kinda gotta be Canadian, eh, to understand what Tim Hortons is all aboot. They don’t have good doughnuts, in fact when they changed their recipe a few years back in an effort to reduce cots, it created nation-wide mayhem. Nonetheless, the crappy doughnuts, crappy coffee, and all that – you can’t go more than 1 mile here without running into at least 4 of them, and they’re always packed. We here love our Tim’s. Just got back from a 2 week trip to the US, and what’s the first thing we did, Look for a nearby Tim’s. Didn’t have to travel far. Tim Horton was once a famous hockey player, so it can’t be all bad.