Pip's Original Doughnuts & Chai (Northeast Portland)
food: 4/5
experience: 5/5
overall: 4.5/5
Let's kick off the new year with doughnuts!
When I asked the Lyft drivers if I should go to Voodoo, the most famous doughnut eatery in Portland, they almost universally said it was overrated. One Portland native (one of the two or three out of more than ten) referred me to two doughnut shops, one of those being Pip's mini doughnuts and the other being Blue Star.
Pip's is a cute little place that serves you freshly fried doughnuts on a plate, just like a little doughnut cafe. The doughnuts themselves are adorable and the size of a Hostess doughnette. Depending on how many you get, they're about a dollar apiece. They come in six flavors and we got one of each. They always have one seasonal flavor. Today it was sweet potato pie. Mmmm sweet potato.
Their flavor descriptions are as follows: cinnamon sugar, raw honey and sea salt, nutella and sea salt, candied bacon maple, the dirty wu (cinnamon sugar with nutella and honey), and of course the seasonal sweet potato pie.
Here's what I tasted: cinnamon sugar, plain cake, cinnamon sugar with nutella, plain cake with nutella, plain cake with hint? of sweet potato?, and a delicious bacon doughnut with bacon on top.
As stated in the title, Pip's also sells several varieties of chai tea. We got an iced chai called Heart of Gold, which is a "toasted coconut chai" with turmeric, green tea, clove, and ginger.
I dunno about all that. What I tasted was kind of a watered-down chai tea with coconut flavoring. There may have been a hint of those spices but it was overwhelmingly just chai with coconut milk in flavor.
If I ever got the chance to come here again I'd just get all bacon and skip the chai. The bacon is sweet yet salty on top, and it tastes like they fry it in bacon fat, which they should. Bacon and doughnuts are the best creation this country has come up with yet. That and croissant doughnuts.
experience: 5/5
overall: 4.5/5
Let's kick off the new year with doughnuts!
When I asked the Lyft drivers if I should go to Voodoo, the most famous doughnut eatery in Portland, they almost universally said it was overrated. One Portland native (one of the two or three out of more than ten) referred me to two doughnut shops, one of those being Pip's mini doughnuts and the other being Blue Star.
Pip's is a cute little place that serves you freshly fried doughnuts on a plate, just like a little doughnut cafe. The doughnuts themselves are adorable and the size of a Hostess doughnette. Depending on how many you get, they're about a dollar apiece. They come in six flavors and we got one of each. They always have one seasonal flavor. Today it was sweet potato pie. Mmmm sweet potato.
Their flavor descriptions are as follows: cinnamon sugar, raw honey and sea salt, nutella and sea salt, candied bacon maple, the dirty wu (cinnamon sugar with nutella and honey), and of course the seasonal sweet potato pie.
Here's what I tasted: cinnamon sugar, plain cake, cinnamon sugar with nutella, plain cake with nutella, plain cake with hint? of sweet potato?, and a delicious bacon doughnut with bacon on top.
As stated in the title, Pip's also sells several varieties of chai tea. We got an iced chai called Heart of Gold, which is a "toasted coconut chai" with turmeric, green tea, clove, and ginger.
I dunno about all that. What I tasted was kind of a watered-down chai tea with coconut flavoring. There may have been a hint of those spices but it was overwhelmingly just chai with coconut milk in flavor.
If I ever got the chance to come here again I'd just get all bacon and skip the chai. The bacon is sweet yet salty on top, and it tastes like they fry it in bacon fat, which they should. Bacon and doughnuts are the best creation this country has come up with yet. That and croissant doughnuts.
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