The quest for good doughnuts in NYC continues: Doughnut Plant
Posted in Reviews on March 18th, 2010 by nathan – Be the first to commentFor the next two days I’ll be in the Finger Lakes region of New York touring vineyards. As a result, my “day off” will be Friday. And since I never post on Saturday, that means this is the fifth post for the week. Come back on Sunday!
So I write a lot of posts about doughnuts. There’s pretty much no question that I have an obsession. Of course, this is what happens when you grow up surrounded by the delicious tastes of Shipley Do-Nuts. As a result, and since I have strong opinions on pretty much everything, I have a strong opinion on New York doughnuts, which is this: they mostly suck.
I’ve railed against Dunkin Donuts and celebrated the Donut Pub, but the fact remains that there pretty much is no doughnut in New York even close to as good as Shipley. This was further proven by my trip Wednesday to the Doughnut Plant on the Lower East Side.
The doughnut plant has cute decorations, little ceramic donut-shapes in the windowsill, but that’s pretty much where the excitement (if you can call it that) stops. I tried two doughnuts, a “shamrock” doughnut (glazed with a random shamrock on it) and a “carrot cake” doughnut.
The reason for these choices is that I was on a food tour and that’s what was provided. Nonetheless, I was disappointed. The carrot cake doughnut was no good, but I didn’t expect it to be. The issue is the shamrock. A glazed doughnut should be the signature doughnut of a doughnut shop. It should be the best they offer, because it’s the most fundamental and likely the most ordered. When I go to Shipley, I always get some ridiculous doughnut, in addition to at least one regular glazed doughnut.
This glazed doughnut, however, was not so great. It was okay and perhaps if it were melting hot it would be even better, but as it was, I’m still on the quest to find good doughnuts in New York City.
Last night, I saw A Behanding in Spokane on Broadway, starring Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell (from The Green Mile, among others). First of all, the show was hilarious and quite awesome. Second of all, Christopher Walken is awesome.
So a bunch of magazines, including Time Out NY, suggest that the best burger in New York is that of Shake Shack. Now, since the same issue also suggested that Do the Right Thing was the “quintessential New York movie,” and since I didn’t think it was that great, I had my doubts.



Every year I try to see the Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films. It has been my experience that they tend to be amazing pieces with phenomenal animation, a great story, and they’re over before you have a chance to get bored. Last night, I went with a bunch of friends to the IFC to see this year’s slate.
Yesterday was the first class of my
So technically I still have two outstanding classes which I have yet to attend (Databases is a seminar on Mondays only and the other is explained below) but I’ve attended the bulk of my classes in two days so I figured I’d provide a prediction-rundown similar to
Saturday night,
On Friday, my family took a trip up to Shiner, Texas, to visit the Spoetzl Brewery, home of Shiner Bock. Shiner Bock, as you may know, will always hold a special place in my heart as my favorite beer. Thus it was a real treat to head up to the little brewery where it all began.
So I upgraded, as the title of this post suggests, to Windows 7 over the past couple days. The process was marvelously simple, especially considering that I had to do a “custom install” as I was going from Vista Ultimate 32-bit to 7 Enterprise 64-bit. I popped in the disc, rebooted, and a couple hours later, everything was running. After transferring my files from the “Windows.old” folder, everything was up and running. Here’s my thoughts of the new operating system: