ROSE GLAZED DONUTS?
Hello! Do you know any shop that bakes and sells "rose donuts"? They are donuts glazed with real rose petals... I saw this shop being introduced on the Travel Channel as one of the best donut shops in the US. Any ideas?
Happy Weekend!
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ballulah
Mar 30, 2007 08:29 AM
If you're curious you can get donuts FILLED with jam made from rose petals at most real Polish bakeries at this time of year. It's an Easter tradition. But alas, it's not the Donut Plant.
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re: fayehess
missmasala
Mar 31, 2007 10:09 AM
Might this be a case of a downhill alert. I haven't had a doughnut plant doughnut in over 5 years, but they used to be transcendant. perhaps they've simply gone downhill.
The other thing is that you have to be a yeast doughnut fan, i think. I only like yeast doughnuts (don't really understand the appeal of cake ones) and these (around the year 2000 anyway) were like the ultimate expression of yeast doughnuts, sweet, with the right amount of softness and chew.
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LFeinberg
Mar 29, 2007 07:11 PM
Doughnut Plant
379 Grand St
New York, NY 10002
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re: CornflakeGirl
daveena
Mar 30, 2007 08:22 AM
Also make sure all your fillings are intact. Doughnut Plant may be one of the most polarizing places in Manhattan - a lot of people seem to love their doughnuts, but they are the single most disappointing thing I've ever eaten in my life. Tough, greasy, and leaden. I got up super early one morning to make the trek, thinking that I'd get the freshest donuts that way, and got two cold hockey pucks (pear and Valhrona chocolate). I rarely throw away food, even mediocre food, but both of them went into the trash after one bite.
I rarely write broadly dismissive criticism, and I always try to understand how something I don't find delicious could be delicious to someone else. I am unable to transcend that barrier with DP's doughnuts.
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re: daveena
Midtown Jimmi
Mar 30, 2007 08:40 AM
Yeah, I've always wanted to like the DP donuts, but always am disappointed. The dough has that leathery, papery skin that bad Polish donuts get. And they're oily. But it's all personal pref.
I have a soft spot for the Driesen's donuts I used to get as a kid at their General Store in the Hamptons. In the 90s they used to sell them on the platform at Penn Station on Fridays. They still do that? -
re: daveena
totally agree with the above, try doughnut pub (14th and 7th), i much prefer. Although keep in mind doughnut pub is traditional doughnuts while doughnut plant is "innovative" doughnuts
i think i bash this place everytime a post comes up b/c i've tried it numerous times to no avail
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re: Lau
There's an article about Donut Pub in the Villager:
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re: daveena
Ha, I am one of those weirdos who loves DP doughnuts! Love em love em! I will say that they must be eaten immediately or within an few hours of purchase to be good, but I respect that people like their doughnuts soft and fluffy. I like the almost bagel-like chew to it. And the flavors I find are wonderful. Peanut butter and banana is just wonderful as is pumpkin! Yum yum.
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re: daveena
Melanie Wong
Mar 30, 2007 04:32 PM
daveena, you are truly my chow-sister-in-arms!
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/31312...-
re: Melanie Wong
daveena
Mar 31, 2007 08:53 AM
Eeee! Might MW called me "sister"! <happy dance>
I actually remember that thread... I hadn't read up on Chowhound prior to going - DP was getting so much great press at the time that it didn't occur to me that they could be less than delicious. I was totally despondent after my DP experience (seriously, it was like that Christmas morning when there were no presents under the tree b/c my parents, immigrants who never really "got" the present-giving thing, totally forgot, and my mom told me that Santa ran out of time and skipped our house) and came straight to CH to figure out what the hell happened. I was so relieved to find that thread.
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