Nightwood
Bacon Butterscotch Doughnut.
Done, end of review. That's it. That is why people go. That is what they want. And that is what they get. And so they should. Unless you're a vegetarian.
One could easily chalk it up to the bacon and the bacon craze sweeping the nation. You could say, "Anything with bacon is going to taste good." Not necessarily the case. As Bleeding Heart's lackluster bacon cupcake has shown (Sorry Bleeding Heart, I wish you made the cookies you used to make in the good old days of Ukie Village). You can't just put bacon on a doughnut. There are many ways one could screw up a bacon doughnut(strangely cold, too dense, too smokey, too fatty, too sweet, no balance). Let's give Enoch Simpson his due even though he has moved on to Girl and Goat.
The doughnut.
Who makes fresh doughnuts anyways? Not enough people in my opinion. Do you know how to fry up beautiful golden doughnut? Because if you do call me. (I mean that.) It's a lost art. This baby was perfectly chewy. Just the right texture, not too heavy or too dense, already for next part.
The glaze.
I have to say this but I love butterscotch. I knew there was a bacon doughnut, but I didn't know it was a butterscotch bacon doughnut. Oh. Oh. And this butterscotch was sweet, rich and bacon blessed. Let us all take this moment and remember bacon fat is a good thing. And one should never waste a good thing, especially when you can use it to make butterscotch. Maybe I am imagining it, but I am betting some bacon fat went into that sweet sauce. A perfect counterpoint to the pièce de résistance, perfectly cooked bacon.
Bacon.
Not just a decorative sprinkling. No, whole hog. Fill that god damn hole up with some crispy bacon. The key to this bacon was the crunch without the fat. If you had left any fat in that mound of bacon it would have completely changed the doughnut and sunk it. Instead what you received is pure bacon, salty, slightly smokey and crunchy. Oh, so good.
Now we have the doughnut, the sauce and the bacon. Normally, I am all for food you can eat with your hands, but this was a fork and knife kind of situation. One, because it's good to share with your friends. And two, that's a lot of bacon and sugar. Three, I could balance my bite. The perfect ratio of doughnut, glaze and bacon. And I enjoyed every mouthful.
So, Nightwood. Bacon Butterscotch Doughnut. Make your reservation and take some friends.
Oh, and wash it down with the Trifecta. Jameson, espresso and Old Rasputin Imperial Stout.
Cheers!
