The Donut Pub

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"I was saddened when a building-near-collapse next door temporarily closed the original Donut Pub — founded in 1964 and long Manhattan’s finest producer of old-style donuts with a snaking Formica counter and minimalist sandwiches — but recently I ventured into the newer branch just off the NYU campus and found a wonderland of doughnut iconography: neon doughnuts on the walls, a panel of what looked like real doughnuts in a grid, and racks of real doughnuts gleaming behind the counter. Bewildered by choices between a Barbie-pink frosted with sprinkles and an eggy French cruller, I bought a bag that included a plain cake ($2.75) topped with thick, creamy chocolate frosting, wolfed one down in the store, and left with a chocolate-frosting mustache." - Robert Sietsema