National Fried Bits of Heaven Day
Jun 5, 2009 St. Louis, missouri, restaurants
It’s not news because everybody seems to know it’s National Doughnut Day. Whether you call it a churro, beignet, fritole or donut, the people of the world know fried dough is delicious, and they’ve been celebrating that fact on the first Friday of June for over seventy years. What is news is that in celebration of the big day (well a day late as they’re doing it on Saturday), Harvest’s Executive Chef, Nick Miller, is knocking out Pan Roasted Hudson Valley Foie Gras with Homemade Glazed Donut and Espresso Gastrique
Bonus un-news: this is not exactly the first time they’ve done this.
When you’re the first guy with a Krispy Kreme franchise, you apparently get some territory of ownership and nobody can open up a Krispy Kreme in your zone unless you give them the okay. Whoever that guy is in St. Louis, he was a big fan of Harvest when I worked there in the late nineties, and would always bring in boxes of donuts. Gleefully we would ravage through them and, on one of those thankful occasions, we amused him with a mini doughnut we’d cut from one of his larger doughnuts, topped with foie, and drizzled with the now classically Harvest foie pairing of gastrique.
Sinfully delicious then and sure to be sinfully delicious now.
Tags: Doughnut, Harvest, Krispy Kreme, National Doughnut Day
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June 5th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
If you’re going to come out of your posting shell, this is an excellent way to do it.
Hopefully, I can make it there Saturday night to try it out.
June 6th, 2009 at 9:58 am
The best donuts in the St. Louis metro area come from Kruta bakery in Collinsville.
June 9th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Contrary to what Alton Brown said, Stl isn’t much of a donut town. A lot of the shops I’ve been to even have no clue as to what a Cruller is, which I attribute to St. Louisan’s apparent appreciation of tooth achingly sweet bake goods.
Though it’s from KC, I’d have to vote for Lamar’s as having the best donuts in stl.