A Little Bit About a Lot of Things

We have always hit up the Doughnut Plant at their flagship lower east side location, but since we were staying in Soho this time around, we decided to pay a visit to the Hotel Chelsea location just a few blocks away from our hotel.

The walls are festively decorated with “doughnuts” and there are a few tables if you just can’t wait to get home to eat your doughnut!

The blackberry jam filled square doughnut was delicious. Just the right amount of filling in every bite and a light sweet glaze to sweeten the deal. Did you know that the doughnut plant makes all of their own jams and fillings in house?

The coffee cake “cake” doughnut was also delicious (and filled!). It was a little sweet for my taste, but certainly a nice change of pace…I mean, we were on vacation after all, right?!

Background: Mark started the Doughnut Plant with his grandfather’s recipe in 1994. For 5 years he made doughnuts at night, in the  basement of a lower east side tenement building that was converted into a bakery, and delivered them the following morning on his bike. In 2000, with the help of his father, Mark moved from the basement bakery into their flagship location on Grand Street. In 2004, Mark developed the signature jelly filled square doughnut and in 2005  the Doughnut Plant sold its first cake doughnut. In 2006 the tres leches doughnut appeared (one of my all time favorites) and in 2011 Mark opened the Chelsea Hotel location.

Doughnut Plant

Chelsea Hotel, 220 W 23rd Street (bet. 7th and 8th), New York, NY

http://doughnutplant.com

Tags: casual dining, dessert, doughnuts, new york, restaurant