Dynamite Donuts

While tacos might be my true love, donuts might just be my first love. As a kid, it was a weekly Sunday ritual to head to the local donut shop and choose half a dozen cream-filled and chocolate-glazed treats to bring home and share with the rest of the family. As my taste buds have ventured out of plain cake and powdered sugar, I’ve come to appreciate the more adventurous cruller like the tres leches or the pistachio from Doughnut Plant, or the delightful hibiscus or lemon poppy from Dough, or even the black sea salt mini dunkers over at the Doughnuttery. Recently, I was upstate for the weekend and ran across Gypsy Donut in Nyack and knew then and there that all the clamoring that “donuts are the new cupcakes” might just be true. Gypsy, opened just a year ago, is a rather impressive donut-and-coffee-shop that really raises the bar on sweet buns. The donuts here are all made from scratch daily, and although the store favourites like the Maple Bacon and the Salted Caramel are perennial, each week they also turn out three to four speciality flavours, depending on what’s in season (like a Triple Berry Jam with Whiskey Reduction). They serve up Stumptown coffee, and if you ask in advance they’ll even make you some gluten free goods as well. The main locale is in Nyack, but they have an outpost inside a bike shop in Piermont. Check out the little video below about the two shops, and see if you can watch all the way through without rushing out to get some tasty pastries.

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