BomboBar
Raspberry Bombolini
Salted Caramel Bombolini
Coffee & Caramel Crisp / Charcoal Oreo Gelato
With most Restaurants these days in a rat race of maintaining their identity while still generating enough new material to keep guests coming back it appears Bar Siena has found its hook in BomboBar, a kitchen side window at the corner of West Randolph and North Green Street serving nothing but filled-to-order Italian Doughnuts, Coffee and Ice Cream from 8am until 11pm daily.
Originally opened in late 2015 and still somewhat under-discussed in America’s best city for Doughnuts whether they be from Dat, Firecakes, Stan’s or the Vault, BomboBar takes the idea of “made to order” in a new direction by batch frying Bombolini several times throughout the day and presenting them naked with squeeze-bottles of housemade Sauce, a cost of $3.50 each and six flavors plus occasional specials getting cheaper per piece the more one orders.
Not exactly a comfortable space during the humidity of summer or chilly winters, a man at the window loudly broadcasting that BomboBar patrons may not enter Bar Siena without making purchases from a table, it was after a brief wait in sun unblocked by the awning that items were taken across the street to shade, first bites of scratch made “Charcoal Oreo” Gelato really no different from standard Cookies & Cream save for the color while Coffee & Caramel Crisp fared far better thanks to a smooth and lightly bitter base flecked in bits of crystallized Sugar.
Moving on to the Bombolini after fears off melted Ice Cream were abated, the 90ᵒF Heat and 70% Humidity seemingly not so different from a deep fryer to someone who lives in a desert, one would be pressed to decide if the sour Compote with Seeds or creamy sweet and saline Filling were better inside a fluffy pocket sprinkled with Sugar, but to make sure its strongly recommended to keep squeezing until overflowing and then apply more after each bite.
www.bombobar.com
