c/o Doughnut Plant
Doughnut Plant, the homegrown bakery widely credited with launching the city’s artisanal doughnut craze, has officially opened its first Upper East Side shop. If you’re an early riser, it’s ready for you well before most of the neighborhood is awake.
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The new shop is at 1285 First Avenue, between 69th and 70th streets, and it’s open daily from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. East Side Feed first reported the plan in August.The menu has yeast-raised and cake doughnuts, vegan options, gluten-free cake doughnuts and rotating seasonal flavors, plus small-batch coffee, espresso drinks, teas and chai. The company says it was first to create several doughnuts, including the crème brûlée doughnut, the square filled doughnut and the vegan Sourdoughnut. None of the doughnuts contain eggs, so the whole lineup is vegetarian, and all of them are certified kosher by the International Kosher Council.
Doughnut Plant goes back to 1994, when founder Mark Isreal started making doughnuts from his grandfather’s recipe in a Lower East Side basement and delivering them to neighborhood coffee shops by bicycle. That grew into a storefront on Grand Street and eventually a small chain with shops on the Lower East Side, in Grand Central Terminal, Prospect Heights, Williamsburg and Long Island City. The Long Island City space is the company’s bakery and headquarters, where the doughnuts are made by hand every day before they’re sent out to the shops.
The Upper West Side is next. Doughnut Plant is also taking a space at 2169 Broadway, between West 76th and 77th streets, which is expected to open before the end of December, as our sister site I Love the Upper West Side reported.
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