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Rating the donut stores in NOLA Metro
Posted on 7/23/11 at 10:25 am
Posted on 7/23/11 at 10:25 am
I'm craving a donut. As I've matured, I've realized I don't like beignets much anymore, so I'm not including them. Once again, because of my profound fear of crossing Lake Pontchartrain and the Misssissippi River, I have not included North Shore and West Bank eateries.
1) Tastee Kenner: I don't think I've ever been here when they didn't have hot glazed. The glazed are always very sweet, I think to please the largely lower class clientele, but I like my donuts sweet.
2) Blue Dot Donuts, Mid-City: the most innovative donuts in New Orleans. Their buttermilks are to die for.
3) Dunkin Donuts, Metairie: I'll get blasted for listing a chain so highly, but their donuts are of such great quality that they taste better a day old than some of the stores' hot donuts.
4) Chris's Donuts Bakery, NOLA East: Vietnamese run in a bad neighborhood, if you're into stereotypes, those two things make for a great donut.
5) Tastee, 7th Ward: I love getting a hot glaze on a Saturday morning here, chatting with the locals, and then walking down to McHardee's for the best fried chicken in the city to burn off the calories.
6) Baker's Dozen, Old Jefferson: Second best glazed in town. Limited hours, but delicious.
7) Tastee, Metairie: Not the gross one across from Krispy Kreme, but the one way out by the lake. It has a nice seating area, and despite the patrons, many of whom can be heard talking about how "blacks have ruined the city," I enjoy watching the suburbanites drive by in their steel coffins.
8) Krispy Kreme
9) Freret Street Donuts - kind of boring and limited selection, but it's the only place in the area you can get donuts.
Those are the only ones I can recommend. I haven't had good donuts elsewhere, but I haven't eaten everywhere. What u got?
1) Tastee Kenner: I don't think I've ever been here when they didn't have hot glazed. The glazed are always very sweet, I think to please the largely lower class clientele, but I like my donuts sweet.
2) Blue Dot Donuts, Mid-City: the most innovative donuts in New Orleans. Their buttermilks are to die for.
3) Dunkin Donuts, Metairie: I'll get blasted for listing a chain so highly, but their donuts are of such great quality that they taste better a day old than some of the stores' hot donuts.
4) Chris's Donuts Bakery, NOLA East: Vietnamese run in a bad neighborhood, if you're into stereotypes, those two things make for a great donut.
5) Tastee, 7th Ward: I love getting a hot glaze on a Saturday morning here, chatting with the locals, and then walking down to McHardee's for the best fried chicken in the city to burn off the calories.
6) Baker's Dozen, Old Jefferson: Second best glazed in town. Limited hours, but delicious.
7) Tastee, Metairie: Not the gross one across from Krispy Kreme, but the one way out by the lake. It has a nice seating area, and despite the patrons, many of whom can be heard talking about how "blacks have ruined the city," I enjoy watching the suburbanites drive by in their steel coffins.
8) Krispy Kreme
9) Freret Street Donuts - kind of boring and limited selection, but it's the only place in the area you can get donuts.
Those are the only ones I can recommend. I haven't had good donuts elsewhere, but I haven't eaten everywhere. What u got?
This post was edited on 3/7/12 at 1:36 pm
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Posted on 7/23/11 at 10:27 am to TulaneLSU
STFU
Posted on 7/23/11 at 10:30 am to OTIS2
Mad that I didn't include Dorignac's Bakery? They're not much better than the old McKenzie's donuts.
Posted on 7/23/11 at 10:41 am to TulaneLSU
Blue Dots are better in conception than execution. But overall are above average.
And I can't understand not liking morning call beignets
And I can't understand not liking morning call beignets
This post was edited on 7/23/11 at 10:44 am
Posted on 7/23/11 at 11:36 am to TulaneLSU
otis hates blacks so i think the metairie comment got to him
Posted on 7/23/11 at 11:42 am to Maximus
quote:Migets aren't allowed to post in this thread. Go away.
Maximus
Posted on 7/23/11 at 11:45 am to TulaneLSU
How can leave out Baker's Dozen on Jefferson Highway? They could very well be #1 on this list.
Posted on 7/23/11 at 11:46 am to Maximus
Oh. I was in that Tastee about six months ago, sitting in that room to the side, the cancer survivors room or whatever they call it. I'm enjoying my delicious donuts. Meanwhile, there was this group of about five or older men. They were talking LSU football. A final man joined the group and he started talking about JJ. The conversation quickly jumped from JJ to how he had recently been to Chucky E Cheese on Vets (no relation to Jay Cee) and every kid there was "a monkey" who "had no restraint. Their parents didn't give a @#@#. Overrun wit monkeys."
I got up and said, "Excuse me, but I do not appreciate your words. Kids misbehave everywhere these days, and it hasn't to do with race. Lazy parenting, which I'm sure, based on your proclivity to condemn others, thereby, showing your own self-guilt of doing the same, is to blame." The man, probably about 60, responded, "Who the $%$% do you think you are?" and started to get up. I think he thought he wanted to fight me. His friends on both sides grabbed him and told him to calm down. One of the guys apologized for him. I shortly left the restaurant, but the memory of that exchange has not been forgotten.
I got up and said, "Excuse me, but I do not appreciate your words. Kids misbehave everywhere these days, and it hasn't to do with race. Lazy parenting, which I'm sure, based on your proclivity to condemn others, thereby, showing your own self-guilt of doing the same, is to blame." The man, probably about 60, responded, "Who the $%$% do you think you are?" and started to get up. I think he thought he wanted to fight me. His friends on both sides grabbed him and told him to calm down. One of the guys apologized for him. I shortly left the restaurant, but the memory of that exchange has not been forgotten.
Posted on 7/23/11 at 11:48 am to Jason9782003
quote:
Baker's Dozen
I haven't been, but I've heard great things. I actually was given one donut from there, but it was a day old. Still pretty tasty.
Posted on 7/23/11 at 11:50 am to TulaneLSU
quote:
and it hasn't to do with race
did his statement contain racial overtones?
Posted on 7/23/11 at 11:52 am to Paul Allen
He used the n word once and the term monkeys many times in his description of his trip to Chuck E Cheese's.
This post was edited on 7/23/11 at 11:53 am
Posted on 7/23/11 at 11:54 am to TulaneLSU
oh, I see...I didn't know that he used that word.
you did the right thing.
you did the right thing.
Posted on 7/23/11 at 12:06 pm to TulaneLSU
Are you referring to the Tastee off of Transcontinental by Robert's and CVS?
Posted on 7/23/11 at 12:41 pm to ladytiger118
quote:the amount of rats you can see while waiting in the drive through line is astounding
Are you referring to the Tastee off of Transcontinental by Robert's and CVS?
Baker's Dozen and Sweet Things need to be on the list
Posted on 7/23/11 at 4:15 pm to TulaneLSU
Bakers Dozen is my #1
Posted on 7/23/11 at 5:10 pm to Paul Allen
quote:He was in Metairie. The most racist comments and peopel I have ever met are from Metairie.
did his statement contain racial overtones?
Posted on 7/23/11 at 7:38 pm to TulaneLSU
quote:
) Freret Street Donuts
The donuts are okay, the apple fritters are AWESOME!!!!
Posted on 7/24/11 at 8:41 am to ladytiger118
Had some friends work there in high school and will never eat there again.
Posted on 9/19/11 at 10:18 am to TulaneLSU
The first time I ever heard the word monkey, outside of sports related BS that got announcers fired, was in a diner in South Carolina eight years ago. It was from the waitress that was at my table with a co-worker at lunch. My coon-arse jaw neded a winch to pull it up off the floor. I had known that I was no longer in "Kansas" for three years, but that was a "welcome to 1965 southern whiteville" slap in the face.
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