NFriday wrote:Bennison's has them. I just checked their website. You can order them ahead of time. I believe they are still limiting the number of customers in their store.
spinynorman99 wrote:Bennison's are fantastic. Last year they had traditional as well as cream-filled (more like a cream puff).
Pucca wrote:I love their chocolate French and blueberry cake doughnuts. Their French cruller is so light and airy - just the way I like them. We ate our doughnuts and coffee at the counter one Sunday morning and was very impressed by the constant flow of customers. It is well deserved.LAZ wrote:This independent doughnut shop is definitely worth a visit. Both their cake and raised doughnuts are very good, they do a variety of seasonal items (cherry cake doughnuts for Washington's birthday, for example), and they're open 24 hours.
Spunky Dunkers Donuts
20 Northwest Highway, Palatine
847-358-7935
http://www.spunkydunkersdonuts.com/paczki_day
3 days, 10,000 doughnuts. Community rallies around Palatine bakery that asked for help online: ‘We knew people liked us, but I had no idea.’
Katie wrote:My Polish neighbor brought me two packzi (which, upon my asking, she said was pronounced "ponsh ki", and my internet searching suggests is right). The two she brought me were raspberry and creme filled, both great.
Vital Information wrote:I really think that Dobra and Delightful Pastries make the best paczki in town; there's an elasticity to her dough that lightens the donut without losing its essential donut-ness. That said, Kolatek's is a lot closer to our daily path. We stopped in there for our fix.
Normally, Kolatek's has a tray or so of packi for sale, along with their assorted baked goods--some can be pretty good, but their baked goods are not quite as strong as their breads, deli or prepared foods*. Today, a good portion of the baked goods were replaced with trays of donuts and a little bit of mayhem as the bakery section does not normally use numbers. We brought home the aptly named Advocat, a few "pudding" (custard) and a few raspberry. Like I said, Dobra makes the best, but what the hey. These hit the spot.
Although most of their clientele at Kolatek's is a Thursday Paczki Day kinda crowd, they will be doing this again on Tuesday. What's especially enticing is beyond the donuts, all the range of Lenten-ish foods already on display at Kolatek's. They smoke salmon and whitefish chunks and whole trout. There are multiple kinds of herring. Blintzes were on display today. I'm going to have fun shopping here in the next few weeks.
Kolatek's
2445 North Harlem Avenue
Chicago, IL 60707-2047
(773) 637-3772
*There are so many reasons to love Kolatek. One is their daily specials (except the Tuesday special of "luncheon meat", but maybe that's something authentic I don't get). Anyways, on Saturday, the butter cookies (not all of them on any given Saturday) go from $6.99 to $2.99.
Of course, sometimes I like the deal and sometimes I splurge on the cookies further up the street at Palermo.
The GP wrote:I don't have enough to share at work so they are hiding in their box under my desk.
Six things to remember about a particular Polish fried pastry as millions fan out over the city.
First, say it right.
The word “paczki” is not, as I sometimes do, pronounced “pash-key,” like artist Ed Paschke.
Nor “push-key,” like the Jewish charity box.
“Punch-key” is close. But not quite.
“Poinch-key,” said Warsaw-born Dobra Bielinski, of the Polish pastry so ethereal it has its own holiday in Chicago, Paczki Day, Tuesday March 1. “That’s how you properly pronounce it.”
Cynthia wrote:Had my first paczki today. Really lovely. And thank you, Binko, for the correct pronunciation.
The GP wrote: I know rose is a frequent flavoring used in paczki and it is still one I don't really like.
On Fat Tuesday, February 21, J.P. Graziano, the beloved sandwich shop that grew out of an Italian grocer along Randolph Street in the West Loop, will sell a Chicago first, combining two foods that inspire a tremendous amount of civic pride: Chicago, meet the giardiniera paczki.