
Donuts at Rustic Canyon Wine Bar
Hold onto your canned biscuits Paula Deen: fried dough has gone upscale.
I’ve been to at least three restaurants recently that offered donuts on the dessert menu: Local in Dallas, the chic Stephan Pyles Restaurant also in Dallas, and Rustic Canyon Wine Bar in Santa Monica. At Stephan Pyles and Rustic Canyon, on the hearty endorsement of wait staff, I ordered them.
Both were served with fancy-shmancy cups of hot something for dipping—espresso at Stephan Pyles, hot chocolate at Rustic Canyon. It didn’t matter. Gorgeous though the presentations were, the fried nuggets of dough came up short. “They’re our favorite,” my waiters promised.
But I kept thinking: my white trash donuts are better. Was I wrong? Read the rest of this entry »