[Photo: Kathy YL Chan]

Housemade doughnuts are $2.75 each at the recently opened Bowery Diner. They're hefty creatures of the yeast variety, on the oily but oh-so-satisfying side. Look in the right case for the classics—sugar glazed, cinnamon-sugar, and chocolate glaze with rainbow sprinkles. But the left case holds all the exciting doughnuts. Think flavors like pistachio glaze (pictured above) with a chocolate filling. The milk chocolate is piped in tight, a voluptuous pudding cocooned by the fluffy interior. Chocolate streaks run along the pistachio surface, and while the pistachio flavors are faint, it's true to taste. If stuffed doughnuts are your style, they also do a peanut butter glaze with jelly filling and strawberry glaze with vanilla pudding filling. As for my favorite non-filled doughnut? The very sophisticated and (un-diner-like) combination of lime and orange blossom glaze.

The Bowery Diner

241 Bowery, New York NY 10002 (map)
bowerydiner.com

About the author: Originally from Honolulu, Kathy YL Chan blogs at Kathy YL Chan, where she chronicles her eats and travel adventures between Hawai'i, New York and beyond. She firmly believes that there is always room for dessert.