DONUTS!

I was talking to a friend the other day when he asked me if I had ever been to a little place called The Donut Pub. When I said that I had never even heard of it he looked at me incredulously, tilted his head back and threw his hands in the air “Come on! I can’t believe you’ve never been to the Donut Pub.” The little donut lover in me was also perplexed and upset by the fact that there was a supposedly great Donut place in New York City that had escaped me all these years. I made it my personal mission to buy some donuts as soon as possible.

This past Saturday I found myself standing on the corner of 14th and 7th searching eagerly for this ‘Donut Pub.’ Finally I found the unassuming little place and hurried inside. The interior is sort of a coffee shop/donut store hybrid with a whole wall of donuts and some counter seating if you feel like you can’t wait to eat.

My plan was to buy six different kinds of donuts and bring them to a friend’s house so that we might have our own little donut tasting. For this event I purchased a glazed donut a sugar donut, an original plain, a French cruller, a jelly filled donut and a chocolate frosted.

A couple of hours later disaster struck. I felt a slight twinge of hunger and decided it would be ok to tear into my bag of donuts. I started with the sugar donut. It was incredibly light and sweet but not overly so. I finished it, licked my lips and decided it would be ok to try another. I then ate the glazed donut which was also incredibly light and delicious. Both donuts blow Dunkin’s completely out of the water. They actually have the best qualities of Dunkin and Krispy Kreme without any of the faults. The donuts are incredibly light (like Krispy Kreme) without being overly sweet or rich and they have actually donut structure (like Dunkin, with Krispy Kreme being more like fried sugar) without being filling or too starchy.

After my tongue had been awakened to the joys of Donut Pub donuts, there was no going back. I ate half of the chocolate frosted, jelly, cruller, and original donuts for ‘research’ purposes and my little donut tasting idea completely fell apart. I love donuts.