Dish · 4 kitchens in 3 cities
Doughnuts
Fried yeast dough — filled, glazed or soaked in honey.
Nobody paid to be here. Each kitchen is described from its own menu where it publishes one, unranked, so each note says how that kitchen makes it.
In London
Bola de Berlim
Lisboa Patisserie · Golborne Road · ~£6 pp
Bola de Berlim, a fried yeast doughnut filled with custard and dusted with sugar. The second pastry.
Doughnuts
Breadahead · Borough · ~£12 pp
Doughnuts baked in the Borough ovens and filled. One apiece goes in the bag first.
In Athens
Loukoumades
Krinos · Aiolou · ~€6 pp
Loukoumades, small puffs of dough fried to order, soaked in honey and dusted with cinnamon. Eat them hot, the moment they land.
In Warsaw
Pączek z marmoladą wieloowocową
Pracownia Cukiernicza Zagoździński · Wola
A pączek, the Polish doughnut, filled with mixed-fruit marmalade, made by hand and fried in lard to the founder's recipe. The only thing the house makes, so it gets all the attention.