The Doughnut Project
White Chocolate with Pink Peppercorn Glaze Doughnut
The New Old Fashioned Doughnut
Tullamore Dew Whiskey and Espresso Doughnut
The Bronx Doughnut with Olive Oil Glaze and Black Pepper
Having enjoyed the fried Dough, though less-so service, at Troy Neal and Leslie Polizzotto’s The Doughnut Project in 2017 it was with tempered expectations that a new location at 912 7th Avenue was visited Sunday, the smaller floorplan thankfully doing nothing to diminish selection while staff was efficient and pleasant.
Known to generate lines on Morton Street in the West Village since 2015 Doughnut Project number two continues to focus on producing unique toppings for a collection of leavened Brioche, popular choices like “Everything” and Lemon Love Letter always available while several daily specials are also rotated frequently.
Tightly packed and close to Central Park, arrival at 9:00am finding a small line, it was in four items that $15.50 was invested and taking the box outdoors to indulge it was with fingers quickly sticky that White Chocolate with Pink Peppercorn Glaze came first, the base springy and exceptional while just a touch of heat was detected amidst sweetened Cocoa Butter.
Described as “Mad Scientists,” though the “New Old Fashioned Doughnut” looks and tastes awfully similar to that at Blue Star out West, it was returning to raised rings that Whiskey and Espresso came strong, the bitterness barely kept in check by Sugar while a best-seller called The Bronx comes out of left-field but performs remarkably well by using Olive Oil to form Icing that is then kicked up with Black Pepper.
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