teatpuller wrote:I got one of the last paczki this morning at Delightful Pastries at the Metra market. Must have been about $3.50 pre-tax! DAMN! Was this a paczki day premium or are they always that expensive? It was pretty good, but not worth $3.50.
teatpuller wrote:I got one of the last paczki this morning at Delightful Pastries at the Metra market. Must have been about $3.50 pre-tax! DAMN! Was this a paczki day premium or are they always that expensive? It was pretty good, but not worth $3.50.
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
Matt wrote:
Perhaps the "Old Town Premium" is eclipsed by the French Market Premium. Just looked at my receipt - I was at a 2:1 ratio of $3 paczki to $2 paczki; it appears that the specialty paczki were the more expensive and my tastes apparently skewed specialty.
rickster wrote:Is it normal for paczki to have not much filling? Here is a picture of a paczki from Oak Mill Bakery:
Less than a jelly doughnut, yes. Yours seems unusually light on the filling though. I had one of those custard ones from Oak Mill on Saturday and it had more filling than that. They had fresh from the fryer rose jam filled ones on Saturday that were delicious. The freshness didn't seem to hold through the day. One I had later was not nearly as good.
The best Oak Mill in my experience is the one in Niles. It's by no means revelatory, just generally solid.
bjt wrote:The whipped cream one. Oh, my. G-d.
teatpuller wrote:I got one of the last paczki this morning at Delightful Pastries at the Metra market. Must have been about $3.50 pre-tax! DAMN! Was this a paczki day premium or are they always that expensive? It was pretty good, but not worth $3.50.
shadesofjay wrote:I ordered 5 dozen of the smaller paczki from Oak Mill. I happened to pick them up on North Ave but they make everything elsewhere so I don't think there would be much difference. I was very underwhelmed by the amount of filling. So little I couldn't even tell there was any in some if it weren't for the hole and in others, like the blueberry, there was so little to not even to be able to really discern what filling it was.
Overall, I was very disappointed.
shorty wrote:I bought paczki from Oak Mill Bakery today. I had seen the paczki at Spunky Dunkers last weekend, but did not buy any because they looked so large (in diameter).
Is it normal for paczki to have not much filling? Here is a picture of a paczki from Oak Mill Bakery:
teatpuller wrote:I got one of the last paczki this morning at Delightful Pastries at the Metra market. Must have been about $3.50 pre-tax! DAMN! Was this a paczki day premium or are they always that expensive? It was pretty good, but not worth $3.50.
Suzy Creamcheese wrote:I am awash with desire for a rose paczki now. I'm really close to Bridgeport Baery, but have found their stuff to be just OK - how are the paczkis? And do they tend to have rose? Delightful is a long way for me to go now.
Josephine wrote:Delicious things tend to happen whenever I hang around with Cathy2. Today was no different. Bridgeport Bakery somehow appeared out of nowhere, and we were greeted by a display of large red and white boxes featuring Polish heraldry and announcing: "Paczki." It quickly became clear that they take their paczki seriously in Bridgeport.
According to the helpful woman at the counter, the best way to be assured of obtaining the paczki you want on February 28th is to make an order by phone. Here is where it gets intense. You must reserve your order leaving not only your last name, but your first name and phone number. When you arrive to pick up your order, you will be asked for your last name, then your other identifying information will be cross-checked with the paperwork on hand. (Cases of paczki-loving imposters making off with prepaid orders have been a problem in the past). For those who simply must have the first available paczki of the day, the staff will fill pre-arranged orders for those who knock on the door any time after 12:01 AM on the 28th. (Deliveries of very large orders can be arranged to take place for a couple of days before Fat Tuesday.) Also, if you order bacon buns, you can pick those up, too.
We were advised that it is best to order ASAP if you plan to buy more than a few paczki. As always, it's best to double check about special arrangements. I'd be sure to ask again about the 12:01 pickup option when I called to order if I were planning to be there just after midnight.
Here is a list of paczki flavors available at Bridgeport Bakery:
(75 cents each except as noted below):
Apple
Apricot
Blueberry
Chocolate Buttercream
White buttercream
Cheese (recommended by counter staff)
Cherry
Custard (chocolate)
Custard (powdered sugar)
Lemon
Peach
Pineapple
Plain
poppyseed
Prune
Raspberry
Strawberry (powdered sugar)
Strawberry & whipped cream $1.00
Whipped Cream .85
Bridgeport Bakery
2907 S. Archer Avenue
Chicago
773-523-1121
CrazyC wrote:If not, then I will have to get my lazy butt out of bed early. Doesn't that go against what Fat Tuesday stands for?!