ELBOW BREAD, Chinatown
Made a specific trip for this newish spot and was not disappointed. I had all sweet things - I generally don’t get exercised about bread - and a few of them were outstanding.
This is a tiny joint, but the options on a Saturday morning were very plentiful. I had trouble deciding, so I got three things. Well, I wanted three, but when I went rummaging through the bag later, I found there were four - I had changed my order midway through, and apparently the clerk misunderstood me. Oh well, more things to taste.
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Clementine /sheep’s cheese Danish - this was a stunner. I was most excited about the donut, but this Danish took the cake. I meant to try all the pastry I bought one bite at a time, so I could compare them all while everything was at its freshest, but I couldn’t stop myself from eating this entire (enormous) thing on a bench in front of the shop.
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Sour cherry and buttermilk cake donut - definitely called to me, has all the things I love. I generally avoid the buzzy/viral donuts everyone raves about, because they are yeasty (I prefer cake style), too sweet by about 200%, and too busy (three or four flavors at once.)
This wasn’t those things, but it also wasn’t as good as the Danish, even still warm. That said, a very good donut. I ate most of it several hours later and enjoyed it more.
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Malted almond elbow - This was disappointing. Kind of dry and meh. I tossed half of it.
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The thing I didn’t actually want but found in my bag - a chocolate chip cookie with nori on it. This was a great cookie, very much in the style of CCC I prefer, but the nori was dumb.
Would definitely go back.
