Bob’s Donuts & Pastries
Apple Fritter, Crumb Cake, Apple Pie Bread Pudding
Located on Polk Street with all the expected persons and characters close at hand Bob’s looks as if it has been exactly where it stands and exactly as it is for years, a family run business churning out hot donuts throughout the day and night for anyone with a few bucks to spare and a sweet tooth needing its fix. Arriving early and told by the lady behind the counter that fresh fritters would be out in about thirty minutes I wandered the neighborhood and returned with the fritters ready on cue along with a crumb style cake donut and a still-cooling slice of Bread Pudding fresh from the oven – a total price of $5.95 cash for about a pound of surprisingly high quality baked and fried carbs. From the crackling shell on the shellacked fritter with chunks of apple within to the dense crumb of the cake donut with glaze and a buttery crumble atop both donuts were classic in style and nice representations of their genre and moving on to the bread pudding there was donut, pie crust, raisins, apple pie filling, streusel, and even some sprinkles – a Frankenstein of leftovers soaked in custard and rebirthed into haphazard gluttony entirely embracing the roots of bread pudding as a means to use leftovers …and entirely delicious.
