Gourdough’s Public House
Iced Coffee
Dirty Plucker – Donut with hand battered fried chicken, honey butter, maple icing
Cream Corn
Count Gourdough Cristo – Turkey, Ham, Swiss, Red Pepper, Basil, Red Onion in a fried donut with cranberry jalapeno jam
Donut Pudding with Sweet Rum Sauce
Beginning as a simple, silver Airstream Trailer on South Lamar serving decidedly decadent donuts and subsequently growing its legend to a full-service brick-and-mortar…with a helluva lot of wood décor…Gourdough’s Public House is exactly the sort of thing I expected of the Austin food scene; a trendy, hip, kitsch, and stylish spot with enough substance to back it up. Part ‘sport’ with college hoops on the screen, part ‘brewpub’ with German drinking tunes piped overhead, but nearly 100% donut with a menu of burgers, apps, sandwiches, and even dishes like chicken n’ dumplings featuring Gourdough’s dough it was on the total of one ‘brunch special,’ one sandwich, a side, plus dessert that I eventually settled and save for ignoring my request for separate courses (and my empty water glass) everything was exactly as expected – golden-fried, overindulgent, and delicious. Beginning with creamed corn slightly sweeter than the usual and moving next to the surprisingly bright and light Monte Cristo it was clear from the first bites that Gourdough’s doesn’t skimp on quality proteins or produce and moving on to matters more indulgent, let’s just say that the kitchen knows their way around a bag of sugar; the bread pudding a hot, dense square of day-olds combined by custard and topped with ‘sauce’ closer resembling boozy ‘curd’ and the Plucker harkening all the flavors of Chicken and Waffles on a toasty maple glazed donut, and all the better for it.
