Doughnut Plant

Hands down the most delish donuts in town. Boom!
The PB & Banana is phenomenal. An absolute indulgence.
Coconut cream is awesome too.
Pretty much almost all of them are recommended.
The only problem is the long line. There were times where I was waiting for 20 – 30 minutes in the line to get my donut.

I’ve been to this specific location twice and both times have been amazing! The first time my friend and I bought the coconut cream, tres leches, and mint chocolate. The filled coconut cream was beyond delicious, similar to a coquito (a Puerto Rican coconut «eggnog style» drink). The tres leches had us mind blown! The mint chocolate was okay, not my favorite.
The second visit we switched it up. We had the PB&Banana, the blackberry and PB, the yuzu (?) and the shiso (?). The PB&Banana tasted similar to baby food and was delicious. The blackberry and PB tasted just like a PB&Jam sandwich. The Yuzu was a magical burst of citrus that had both my friend and I saying «wow». The citrus came in layers neither of us expected. The biggest surprise of them all was the shiso which tasted honestly like clean cut, fresh grass. It was like biting into clean dirt as oddly as it sounds. My friend loved it, I did not. Either way it was money well spent and we will be returning.

After seeing the post of Taste of Japan on their Facebook site, I decided to come here to try the flavors out. I didn’t exactly get to try all, but I did pick each flavor in either cake doughseed or the yeast doughnut. I had the Azuki Kanako cream cake, Black Sesame cake, Yuzu yeast doughnut, Matcha doughseed and the Shiso yeast doughnut. The Azuki Kanako was my least favorite since the paste just tasted weird to me and it was a bit too sweet. The black sesame cake was a bit dry but the filling had a great black sesame taste similar to Chinese dessert. The Yuzu yeast doughnut was my favorite along with the Shiso. These two tasted light and had a glaze with a hint of the flavors. The yuzu is always a good choice if you like citrus flavoring. The Shiso had a sweet floral taste. The matcha cake was great too since I love matcha. Overall, I’d say it’s definately worth a try since it’s only there for this month and it’s somewhat exotic.

Just when I thought Doughnut Plant is going to running out of ideas! Nopes! January 2016, Doughnut Plant is celebrating being in Japan for 11 years with ‘Taste of Japan’ menu! This month they are featuring the following flavors: Yuzu, Shiso, Red Bean, Black Sesame, and Matcha. As a Yuzu lover, the availability of this flavor entices me to really make this trip happen! Well… I made more than one trip this month — let’s just keep it as that!
Yuzu Everything! Yup, that’s right — I tried the Yuzu Cake, Yuzu Yeast, and Yuzu Doughseed.
Yuzu Cake was okay and was my least favorite. It has texture like a slice of cake and Yuzu covered icing. Worth a try!
Yuzu Yeast, I thought this was going to be my favorite since I am always a fan of their yeast doughnuts. It was just the perfect chew with glazed Yuzu all over the doughnut. I would like this for breakfast!
Yuzu Doughseed was my absolute favorite! This was the one with cream filling in the middle! One bite and the Yuzu cream exploded my taste buds. I loved the Yuzu tangy and sweetness! I am looking to go home with a dozen of these and not share with anyone! All mine!
This Doughnut Plant location is absolutely the best one. It is more café style with more space for seating. There are super cute doughnut pillows on the wall!
Since January is not over yet, I’m definitely coming back!

Ah c’est certain, on repassera surement chez Doughnut Plant, qui me laisse de grandes envies de dévaliser toutes sa vitrine rien qu’à la regarder.
Visuellement ils m’ont bluffé, je voulais direct me jeter un par un sur tout les parfums proposés. On en partagé un, celui au café, afin que ça convienne pour deux. Nous l’avons gardé pour un peu plus tard dans la journée. En une bouchée, c’est terminé et il a su resté très bon malgré les heures passés.
Dans un prochain essai, je me permets de m’avancer que le résultat sera encore meilleur, avec un donut tout frais et à la saveur encore plus rigoureusement choisi. Si question prix on dépassé certes les 3 dollars, le bel agencement de sa boutique et l’attrait de ses pâtisseries, me feront à coup sur revenir ici.

I think this is the most comfortable location of Doughnut Plant, it’s roomy, spacious and the décor is pretty cool. I came here yesterday to try out their Taste of Japan doughnuts in celebration of their 11 years in Japan and I was really excited about the idea of trying Japanese inspired doughnuts. For the most part, I enjoyed them but there were hit and miss from the 9 different doughnuts. The doughnuts will be available for the month of January.
The food:
Yuzu Doughseed– For me, this was the clear winner, I thought the Yuzu cream was great, it had such a wonderful lightness and had a very pronounced Yuzu flavor. The flavor had a nice richness and tart flavor that I really enjoyed. I also thought the texture of the dough was great.
Yuzu Yeast– I was expecting a little more from this. It was kinda like a regular yeast doughnut with a Yuzu glaze that wasn’t very pronounced. It was good but it was more like a yeast doughnut with an essence of Yuzu. You should eat this one before the Yuzu Doughseed, if you do it the other way around you will be very disappointed.
Black Sesame Doughseed– This was good, the filling had a good amount of black sesame flavor and I enjoyed the outer glaze of the doughnut.
Black Sesame Cake– I think for the most part, the cake doughnuts were on the dry side and felt like supermarket doughnuts but the Black Sesame Cake one came out great. It had a good black sesame flavor and the doughnut itself was a little more moist than the other two cake doughnuts.
Kinako & Azuki Cream Doughseed– For me, the filling kinda reminded me of taro but a sweeter version. I thought this was OK.
Black Sesame Yeast– The general theme is the yeast doughnuts are kinda neutral tasting then they had a flavored glaze. The black sesame on this one was kinda hard to taste. This just felt like a regular yeast doughnut.
Shiso Yeast– It was too floral for me and not a pairing that I was crazy about. It kinda tasted like mint meets doughnut.
Matcha Green Tea Doughseed– I thought this was OK but I am not normally a fan of green tea to begin with. It did run a tad sweet to cover some of the bitterness from the green tea but I thought it came out too sweet.
Yuzu Cake– I didn’t like the texture of the cake on this one, it was too heavy and dry and the frosting was too sweet.

Doughnut Plant and Dough are the only two places that I go to whenever I’m craving doughnuts. The problem is that I can never leave either store with just one doughnut!
I saw Doughnut Plant had a special «Taste of Japan» menu to celebrate 11 years of Doughnut Plant in Japan. It’s a special menu for the entire month of January consisting of black sesame, azuki & kinako (red bean), shiso, yuza, and green tea donuts. Good luck if you think you can order just one. I planned on choosing two donuts and ended up buying three! From the special Japanese flavored doughseeds to cake donuts and yeast donuts, you’ll be bombarded with so many options! But don’t worry, you can just ask the employees what they’d recommend. With that, I went with the black sesame cake donut, the azuki & kinako doughseed, and the green tea doughseed.
They were all really good and tasted like their names advertised, but my favorite was the green tea doughseed. Covered in green tea frosting and gushing out green tea filling the more you bit into it. I could eat another one just thinking about it. My boyfriend liked the black sesame the best because of the cake texture. He also said this doughnut had the most flavor as the black sesame really came through. Funny because he hates black sesame. I love red bean and really expected more red bean flavor from the azuki & kinako; I would skip this one.
Doughnut Plant also has special Japanese drinks as a part of the ‘Taste of Japan’ menu with matcha lattes and Kukicha tea. I ordered the Kukicha, in which the employee described the taste to be similar to a green tea except Kukicha is made from the roots not the leaves. It was perfect on the semi chilly night and definitely made us feel healthier after feasting on three donuts LOL.
Definitely come try their special Japanese menu before its gone! It’s too good to miss!

Rave for this place for long and now finally got the chance to try it out — during my wait to Momofuku Nishi.
The donut place was cutely decorated with hand-​knitted donuts hanging on the wall. The sitting bench also has colorful donuts. Free wifi is available.
Got the yuzu specialty donut with cream filling. Sooooooo delicious! Cannot wait to try their filled square donut on my next visit!

I remember when I found out that there was a Doughnut Plant opening up in the neighborhood I grew up in (and not too far from where I work now)…I was super excited because other than Big Booty Bread Co. (across the street from here), there aren’t a lot of really good spots serving up some fresh baked goods in this part of town… there used to be a Krispy Kreme here years ago that was amazing, but alas — it (like so many amazing places in Chelsea that are even older… RIP Woolsworth… kudos if you know what I’m talking about) is no longer.
Considering that Doughnut Plant has been opened here now for quite sometime and I’ve only been there a handful of times — this is a testament to the willpower I can occasionally exhibit because MAAAAAAAAAAAAN do I like a good doughnut!
They have a lot of varieties here and each day there a few new ones specially made for that day — for Christmas they also had Christmas Tree and Star shaped doughnuts and for St. Patty’s Day they’ve got a delicious 4 Leaf Clover/​Shamrock shaped green one. Mmmmm… holiday doughnutsssssss (*insert Homer Simpson drool here*).
Flavor varieties aside, they also have different dough types from doughseed, wheat-​based, even vegan varieties for those who would rather watch their dairy intake — HUZZAH!!! The only con here is that these doughnuts can be a little pricey (most are $ 4 – 6 after tax) and small… but you’re paying for the name, better ingredients, always baked fresh and flavors you can’t just get anywhere… so yeah, I get it.
Types I’ve enjoyed here include their Crème Brûlée, Brooklyn Blackout, Chocolate Glazed and Chocolate Hazelnut doughnuts (not all at once, I swear O:), really). They also have a really solid selection of coffees and teas — a little something for everyone.
The sit down area here is modestly sized, but really cute. The bench that spans the back wall has a really nice, colorful doughnut print that is hi-​gloss and looks like a cross between glass and enamel paint.
The back wall also has these BEAUTIFUL, intricately embellished doughnut pillows. These are seriously ART and I wonder if it was a collaboration between them and Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) nearby. My favorite doughnut pillows are the one with the red roses and the one with the completely red sequins… there’s also tiny crème Brûlée pillows that mimic the shiny-​ness of the caramelized sugar topping of an actual Crème Brûlée doughnut. So awesome.
Next time I return I’d like to try their Triple Mint and their Dulce de Leche… unless their «Doughnut of the Day» gets me instead, lol.

The best doughnuts ever are here!
My favorite: carrot cake doughnut (hands down the best) cakey but suuuper moist with cream cheese filling– yum, so great with coffee!
All of the doughnuts are good but the best for me are the ones with filling — crème brûlée for instance is great and a strawberries and cream is exceptional too.
I’m personally not crazy about yeast doughnuts as they have no filling and it’s mostly the dough with frosting or glaze on top, but nevertheless here they are huge and look good.
Honestly, every type seems worth trying!

I actually think Doughnut Plant is overrated and the doughnuts are a hit or a miss. The doughnuts aren’t horrible, but I think overall, they just deserve a 3-​star review. I’ve tried several doughnuts from Doughnut Plant and the only one I would go back for is the Crème Brûlée filled Doughnut. It’s a tiny one, but it’s the best one and the only reason why I gave Doughnut Plant 4-​stars.
Crème Brûlée: It has the sugary glazed top that I love. It’s like a extra, extra large munchkin with the delicious cream filling. It can get really sticky, which is why they wrap it in the wax paper.
Tres-​Leches: (cake doughnut) I don’t understand why people like it so much. The flavor is somewhat milky. I’m not sure what to think of it, but I didn’t really like it.
Vanilla Bean & Blackberry Jam: (square filled doughnut) I wasn’t very impressed with this doughnut either. I heard a lot about this doughnut and I was the most excited for this one. But I didn’t get much from the filling.
My preferred doughnuts are yeast-​based. Ironically, I haven’t tried any of the yeast doughnuts from Doughnut Plant. So until I try a yeast doughnut, I won’t rule out Doughnut Plant. But I do recommend getting the crème brûlée doughnut.

Donuts to start my day? YES!
One word… DELICIOUS!
We ordered Tres leches, Coconut cream filled and Marzipan.
Tres leches is so yummy and I definitely recommend it! It’s very filling.
Coconut Cream is my favorite! The donuts are filled just right!!!
Marzipan is coconutty. It was good but my least favorite of the three.
I tried a few donut places during my visit to New York and this one is my favorite

Didn’t think these were anything special. First of all they are overpriced IMO. They are priced as gourmet donuts but I felt that they were fairly ordinary.
The chocolate peppermint was meh. Tasted like a cheap chocolate donut with a peppermint coating. I felt that it was a little too dense as well.

Donut Plant, I’m a new fan of you.
I came in late on a Saturday evening about an hour before closing. The Pickens were a bit slim but fortunately for me, they had two really good choices left and that’s what this review is based on.
My first donut which is on their permanent menu was the Peanut butter with blackberry jam filling. It’s very large in size and words can not describe this donut and the flavor it possesses. Baked chunky peanut butter on top of a glazed donut and enough blackberry jam filling packed inside for you to get the perfect amount with every bite. Some may think the $ 4.00 price maybe a bit steep, but the donut is so worth it.
My second donut, which is also on the permanent menu, was the, Vanilla bean, glazed donut with blackberry jam filling. It’s a very large donut in size, extremely fresh in taste and packed well with that flavorful blackberry jam. $ 4.00 and worth it.
I was also impressed with Donut Plant’s Cortado. That is espresso coffee with warm milk. It’s very simple, but very good and the milk cuts the bitterness of the espresso coffee. Their Cortado coffee only comes in a medium size at a $ 3.81 price.
My brief experience at this location was very pleasant and I will definitely make a return trip when I’m in the area.

Oh, dear god.
This place is unmatched on the East Coast. Holy quality. Holy soft and fresh and sweet and… man. I should have bought more.
One of my Unilocal-​friends, Leo I., has raved about Doughnut Plant for as long as I’ve known him, so I knew I had to make a visit while in NYC. I walked in to a huge line, but some of the people were part of a group and were served together, so it worked out that it only took a few minutes to get to the front.
At first I asked for a crème brûlée doughnut, but they were sold out. I probably scared the guy with my high-​pitched, «I will never try a crème brûlée!!!» reply. The exact same thing happened earlier this year at Blue Star in Oregon, so I’m obviously not meant to try a crème brûlée doughnut. Ah, well.
Moving on. Instead I ordered a gingerbread seasonal, a blackout and a wild blueberry. I can’t even say which one was the standout, because they were all stellar. The blackout was obviously awesome and the gingerbread was perfect for the season. Plus, the wild blueberry still tasted great and not at all stale after I neglected to eat it for three days.
So, really. Just stop here and eat everything you see. You won’t regret it one bit.

Everyone knows latkes are Chanukkah cuisine, but doughnuts are also proper Chanukkah cuisine! What better way for my boyfriend and I to taste our way through the doughnuts the city has to offer and celebrate the holiday?
Doughnut plant, it wasn’t bad. But totally not blown away at all. Just, eh.
Upon entering, I was a little put off when the people in front of me looked at the menu, and walked out. That always concerns me, BUT, I was not going to be put off. The guy at the front counter answered all my questions, ie: the difference between a yeast doughnut and a regular doughnut (yeast is fluffer, regular is more cake like) and what a doughnut seed is (basically a cream filled doughnut). It was Chanukkah, and Doughnut Planet advertised around the store a Chanukkah doughnut, but I didn’t see any Chanukkah doughnut around. If it was there, it was not in Chanukkah colors, so, hard to identify. I didn’t really need a special Chanukkah doughnut, I’m not that picky.
I was a little disappointed in the size of my doughnuts for the price. Dough has HUGE doughnuts. Doughnut Planet? Same size as an entenmann’s. I got two coffee cakes, a tres leche and a marzipan. I was so excited for the marzipan doughnut. I can’t tell you how excited I was for the marzipan, I love marzipan. My doughnut on the other hand, does not love marzipan as much as I do. Could not taste an marzipan in my doughnut at all. The coffee cake, it tasted burnt. Burnt coffee. If I liked that taste, I’d drink dunkin donuts coffee, but I don’t. Tres Leches. Not bad. Just didn’t taste like a tres anything, let alone leche. However, my doughnuts were super soft and fresh, and even though I’m usually NOT a fan of stuff in my doughnuts (I just don’t like surprises), I didn’t mind that my doughnuts were filled. So I guess there’s that?
Overall. Pretty average and overpriced. But the décor was cool.

Let’s face it. Doughnut Plant has some of the most delicious donuts on the planet. Amazing flavor combinations and they have yeast and cake donuts in case you have your favorite. Sure, these donuts are ridiculously expensive, but I’m not even angry about it. I don’t need to eat them, and for $ 3.50-$ 4/​donut I don’t go there often. If they were cheaper I would probably be there every day and weigh about 50 pound heavier.
If you are in the area and have a craving for donuts, go to Doughnut Plant!

Okay the doughnuts are rather tasty. They’re just quite expensive for doughnuts but what do you expect for gourmet doughnuts.
Some of the doughnuts have filling, some don’t. I opted for one that had a chocolate hazelnut filling and it was rather tasty! The doughnut was a bit on the small side and I finished it in a few bites. The doughnut itself was doughy and sweet.
The bathroom code is on your receipt so don’t throw it away! The bathroom is really trippy with the multiple mirrors.

Omg. I have finally fulfilled one of my childhood dreams. I remember when I was 14, (now 22) I saw on food network «the best things I’ve ever ate» and this peanut and butter jelly donut was the best thing one of the celebrities ate. I freaked out… Pb and j in a square donut…
I finally made it down to NY and I finally found one! I got their blackberry and vanilla stuffed donut since they were out of the PB&J ones. It was 4 $ which isn’t too too bad for a gourmet donut. The inside was really cute and indie with a huge menu board and donuts out on display to show if they’re available or not. The donut itself was amazing. It was a glazed square one with vanilla and blackberry jam. Totally worth it.
Will be back:)

Wow. Coming here at 10 pm on a Saturday. This place always has amazing service and had quite a few people here.
I was a little upset they ran out of the matcha green tea donut. However it was understandable given the time of day

Doughtnut Plant. When I moved back to Los Angeles, I didn’t think I’d miss you that much, but I was wrong. When I visited NYC last month, this was one of the places on my list that I had to visit during my short vacation. Doughnut Plant is always exploring new frontiers with doughnuts. Less of a plant and more of a laboratory, Doughnut Plant is always engineering new doughnut flavors.
I really love the crème brûlée doughnut here. They took the idea of crème brûlée, fused it with a doughnut, and the result is amazing. Another feat of doughnut engineering genius is the tres leches doughnut. It is glazed on the outside, and inside, it the bread is soaked in tres leches. It blew my mind when I first bit into it. I highly recommend trying these two doughnuts as they are my personal favorites.
In summary, Doughnut Plant is the trifecta: cheap, delicious, and filling. I highly recommend this place.

Si vous êtes de passage à New York, ignorez les DD (une grande chaîné de Donuts qui a pignon sur rue…) sur votre chemin et venez plutôt tester ces donuts. Ca reste gras et sucré, hein, pas de miracle, mais passé les premières secondes de culpabilité, il faut avouer que c’est délicieusement bon. Un must à essayer? Le donut «crème brûlée» légèrement craquant sur le dessus. Environ 3 ou 4 dollars pour un donut, mais ils sont assez conséquents.

Excellent !!! Excellent !!! Excellent !!!
Un large choix !!!
Le meilleur de Manhattan !

Minuscule boutique de doughnuts à deux pas du magnifique Chelsea Hotel, faites vous plaisir et bravez la très possible foule qui peuple l’intérieur. Les saveurs sont assez classiques mais très finement exécutées, on a le choix entre des versions fourrées ou non (je vous laisse deviner où ma gourmandise m’a guidée) et on a plutôt intérêt à prendre à emporter pour né pas s’enterrer dans l’obscurité et le bruit du magasin.
Je vous conseille celui que j’ai testé, le pb&j a.k.a le peanut butter and jam a.k.a le beurre de cacahuète et confiture qui est tout simplement monstrueusement bon: glaçage au beurre de cacahuète avec vraies cacahuètes incrustées et intérieur confiture à la fraise ou autre fruit rouge (il faut dire que dans cette explosion de goûts et de calories, ça importe peu, au final), il est très gros, il est très bon, il est très inoubliable, il donne très envie de venir tester la suite des possibilités de Doughnut Plant.
Miam !

¡Es el paraíso de las donas! Aquí inventaron la dona cuadrada con relleno y una de sabor crème brûlée, pero yo prefiero cualquiera de las de relleno ‘cake’, no me decido entre coconut lime, blueberry, carrot cake o tres leches ;)

Une petite boutique de Doughnut typiquement New Yorkaise.
De super Doughnut, qui en donne pour tous les goûts et c’est juste délicieux. Une bonne présentation dans une bonne grosse vitrine ou tous les doughnuts vous font de l’oeil, du coup tu goutes a un peu de tout. Et tu dégustes tout ca dans un décor de doughnut.
Pour découvrir ou apprécier un bon doughnut, c’est un des endroit ou il faut aller.

Oubliez les grandes chaînes de donuts tout secs et tout pas bons, ici c’est gourmand et ça donne vraiment envie, il y a un bon choix, et certaines saveurs qui suivent les tendances du moment sont plutôt originales (en tout cas pour des donuts !)
Bön ok c’est beaucoup plus cher que d’autres enseignes mais finalement ça le vaut carrément vu la qualité et le goût.
Celui au matcha est juste excellent, l’apple/cinnamon très bon, et enfin le vanilla east, plus classique, se défend très bien lui aussi (8,50 $ les 3)