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Nassau Ave (G)
Mon-Sat. 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
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I don't often crave doughnuts. I can walk past them or even pass on a free doughnut, but whenever there's a special occasion and my coworker brings in a box or two, I can't say no!
First of all their huge, the biggest size doughnuts I've ever seen. But their light and fluffy and the glazes' aren't too sweet either.
My favorite is the plain glazed, my coworker can eat 3 of these. That's how good they are!
If I'm going to eat a doughnut, it has to be a Peter Pan doughnut. I will have no other.
The first time I had a Peter Pan doughnut it was a let down and failure. Had the chocolate with glaze that had to have been hours old. It was really dry and not in the good cakey way...just dry and crusty.
But then I went back. I got the chocolate with chocolate twist...ahh yeah, this lived up to the hype. It was moist and airy, the frosting was nice and sweet without over powering. I will make the trek for that one again. Gives me hope that the first experience was an anomaly.
I haven't been to The Donought Plant as of yet, so I enjoy PP in the meantime. PP is reminasicent, of an old skool donought shoppe. I would imagine, the inside of the shop hasn't changed much since opening. I like it.
I lke plain donoughts (glazed, whole wheat, old fashioned, powdered). I've enjoyed the plain donoughts here. They are not greasy.
I also tried the crumb cake. I have a habbit, of just eating the crumb part of the crumb cake, it is after all the best part) and it was very good at PP. Lots of crumbs.
I took my treats to go. But for thoose peopel who some time, there is lots of seating.
The donoughts are .90 cents a piece. Very fair price...........
There is not the largest variety at PP. Maby about 12 choices 0f donoughts. They also have gr8 crumb cake...
The service has always been friendly.
Great coffee for just $1. I don't even like old fashioned cake style doughnuts, but the ones here are just amazing. Always totally fresh, with just that perfect crunch when you bite into it,. Nomnomnom! And don't forget the ice cream sandwiches. Red velvet cake + vanilla ice cream = Love. As well as the cream crumb... and just about everything else there.
Diabetes in a box.
Red Velvet Donut.
If that doesn't tell you everything you need to know right there, then it's not even worth me continuing.
But let me stress this one more time.
Red. Velvet. Donut.
Yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum .
Ok, ok, I love Peter Pan, whatever. Nothing more to say that I haven't said in my other rave reviews.
But wait-- what's that? An ice cream sandwich? Made on a DOUGHNUT?! Oh, crap.
Yes. I heard about this phenomenon and went to see it for myself. God, was it amazing. My favorite part was the waitress telling me to pick an unglazed doughnut "because....well, because it's unglazed." She had a look of utter disgust that can only come, I'm sure, after watching countless pigs like me stuffing their faces with enough sugar to build a sand castle.
My friend and I both opted for the old-fashioned with pistachio ice cream. It was delicious. It did result in the worst sugar-crash I've ever had, but it was completely worth it. I dare say it may have been the best $3.50 I spent all summer.
I don't think they're serving them any more, but please....remember them next summer and demand your chance to knock a few years off your life.
All I need to say: Lately, I've been having dreams about Peter Pan donuts. The marble cruellers,… Read more »
Apple Crumb Donut.
This is the stuff that my donut dreams are made of. I have been waiting a very long time to go to this place. Dreaming about that red velvet donut, I was sad to arrive and alas, no donut for me:( Well, luckily I had the apple crumb donut and it was truly delicious and wonderful. I'm glad that I didn't get to miss this one.
I'll be back for you, Red Velvet donut...I promise that.
I mean, what could you possibly say about Peter Pan? The donuts are awesome, the muffins look wildly decadent, everything's, like, ninety-five cents, and the girls' uniforms are a delight. A very crucial Greenpoint establishment that laughs behind its hand at the Dunkin Donuts a few steps away.
Oh Peter~~~ Pan (Is this your real last name?)
The moment I dipped my soul in your Honey Dip, I was sold.
The original glaze lightly touched by honey - Ahhhhh. My taste buds just got goose bumps. Your friend Tinker Bell must have sprinkled some magic on it with her wand..... One small bite, the critic became a fan. And served by a couple of Wendies at the counter. They did look like Wendies in their lovely uniform.
The store was filled with many versions of peter pans - not yet grown or fully grown or even over grown,..but, all together never growing inside.
While I was waiting for my bagel to be toasted, this all grown up peter pan, who looks rather belong to a gym pumping irons whispered to me... " You must try their black and white cookies!! It's ths best! " showing the waffle sized cookie from his paper bag. " Thanks, I will!" LOL.
The Bagel was served.. The verdict --- Oh My God~~~~
The bagel was perfecto toastiato, squeezing out cream cheese in can-you-stop-drooling? mouth watering way. My search for a meaning of Bagel has been completed.
I also recommend strawberry cheese - big as your face except shaped in tringle. Croissant pastry lined with cheese inside. Oh Jesus.. you love me.... The ones with fillers are almost too lustful with the cream or jelly attack.. So prepare yourself with napkins or clean hands where you can lick them off.
Whatever your pick is or how old you are, I won't judge you because once you find this Neverland, you can never go back.
Yes, the donuts and flagels are delicious.
BUT THE BREAKFAST SANDWICHES ARE LIFE CHANGING!!!!
CROISSANT
EGG
CHEESE
BACON
oh. my. fucking. god.
it's sinful, buttery heaven, sweetly clogging my arteries with every bit. i FANTASIZE about this sandwich.
JESUS!
get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nothing, especial. I tried their donuts and they are fluffy like Krispy Kreme. I think if you live in the area it is a better option than Dunkin. But I only resort to donuts when I am broke. Peter P's like a small dinner you can also order other things than that. It too far for me, I seldomly go to Greenpoint, only when I have the time and that is usually for shopping. But thanks for providing me a snack to go, while I read a poetry anthology book.
i heard that tina fey loves this place.
if i come here enough, maybe i will become a geek crush to millions of nerdy boys.
a girl can dream.
next time, red velvet or apple crumb (should have gotten the apple crumb last night)
Some of these reviews kill me - only in NYC! Please put in perspective any reviewer who uses the term "dining companion" when reviewing Peter Pan's. With respect to my Manhattan reviewer, Peter Pan's is exactly how a bakery can and should be - in fact, it is exactly how I remember the places I used to go when I was a kid.
All that aside, I love this place. Just no nonsense donuts. Nothing like Crispy Creme, just old school and doughy with a firmer outside. Come in, grab a spot at the counter and enjoy the goodness. I haven't strayed further than the doughnuts, holes and eclairs - all terrific. That all gets me to four stars....****
The fifth star is earned (showing my bias) because I love places like this that just keeping doing it their way. They could probably have wifi and serve lattes, but that would be the sort of pandering to who...that guy and his 'dining companion'. Nope. Fifth Star for authenticity and sticking to the plan!
This review is just a Cliff's Notes version of other, previous reviews. What more can be said -- it's not too hard to sum up what's great about this place: the neighborhood feel, the pleasant aloofness of the bored Polish teenagers who actually serve the donuts, the very under-rated breakfast sandwiches, and of course the actual donuts themselves, which are subtle and complex and classic and totally delicious. I've never tried the ice cream sandwich but I feel like I have after being inundated with images of them on seemingly every blog this summer. I love the red velvet donut, but the plain is also stellar in its own way. It's hard to go wrong, honestly.
This is the best donut you will ever have.
You know how the DD donut tastes like dough pumped full of air? It's not like that.
You know how KK tastes like it's right out plastic packaging? It's not like that either.
This is a bakery you will go out of the way for.
Donuts are $0.90, but you don't really get a discount on ordering the dozen, FYI.
Although I am not prone to eat donuts, this morning my boyfriend and I decided to treat ourselves to half a dozen from Peter Pan Bakery. We got a variety and I chose one at a time, cutting them in halves and we'd rate them as we enjoyed each for its own taste.
Sure, donuts aren't appreciated in the food community as much as other things, but we definitely enjoyed this venture off the beaten track of our usual healthy snacks. If you're going to eat donuts, make sure it's somewhere like this old school indie bakery.
Travelers returning from a distant land called Greenpoint speak of a wondrous donut shop. Shaped like a castle, it has a thousand rooms! All lined with gold foil, adorned with rubies, emeralds, and diamonds, the counters embellished with lapis lazuli.
The baker is a jolly old man with a white beard and twinkly eyes. His assistants are 27 Polish dwarfs. The door to the shop is guarded by a three-headed dragon and inside the shop, sitting on the stools, are seven golden-haired mermaids.
Anyway, that's what you begin to think, reading all the amazing reviews of this place...
I liked it. I got eight donuts for $7.50, friendly service (not from a dwarf, however), and a tasty selection of sinkers.
This shop doesn't offer the whimsical creations that you'll find at Donut Plant (and I like the toasted coconut donut they offer at Donut Pub better than any of the ones I got here). Instead, you'll find a good selection of plain and chocolate crullers, old-fashioneds, apple crumbs, the usual donut suspects...
Every neighborhood should have a gathering-spot/bakery like this place just a short walk from your apartment.
Tell that to the New Urbanists!!
I checked this place out on whim after reading about it on a blog. I really just trekked out there to try their doughnut ice cream sandwiches.
Unfortunately, they didn't have much of a selection of doughnuts at the time (Friday around 3ish). I got an old fashioned doughnut with vanilla ice cream. It really was delicious. The doughnut was fresh, crunchy on the outside and soft and fluffy inside with ice cream all over the place. I had half of one and 2 hours later still feel I did something wrong. Its the same feeling I used to get when cutting class in high school. Odd. It may be physical, it may be mental, but whatever it was that did me in was well worth it.
Everything was reasonably priced too. 1 ice cream sandwich, an iced coffee, and an iced tea for 7 bucks.
peter pan do it right.
quite possibly the best donuts in the city. and their bagels are phenomenal. perfect. toasted, they have just the right amount of crunch with just the right amount of chew with just the right amount melty butter and cream cheese.
i do wish they would enter into modernity. it wouldn't be too hard. just supply the teenage polish slave girls with new uniforms (did they time travel here from the lowell mills?!). install some new lighting and signage. do a deep clean of the facilities.
also, why no peanut butter donut (you know the kind with crushed peanuts on top?) or orange glazed donut? how about vegan cream cheese as an option? i'd buy it.
More new things at Peter Pan that just make it better and better...now they have amazing Donut Ice Cream sandwiches...totes amazing, and can be made with any cake donut! Check it out:
http://gprecs.com/2009...
Peter Pan just added the Red Velvet Cake Donut to their menu...I think I'm in love...sooo… Read more »
Great donuts, and an alternative to something like.. dunkin donuts in williamsburg/greenpoint. and affordable. right now donuts are 90 cents, muffins are 1.20
I had a vanilla egg creme soda for 1.95, yum! good alternative to starbucks for an iced beverage.
good for a cool drink after an afternoon in mccarren park
Gosh, why did I ever look up pastries on Yelp. Now I discovered red velvet donuts and I can't live without them. I'm doomed.
Super moist, rich, cakey donut with a slight sugary crisp of glaze on the outside. Perfection. Type II diabetes, here I come.
What am I missing here? My dining companions and I all found the donuts here to taste just like any other donut we've ever had. It was good, because donuts are good by nature, but I didn't see anything that could be worthy of an almost unanimous 5 star rating. Some of them were even borderline stale tasting. We came here from Manhattan specifically to try the donuts but I'd rather just stick with Dunkin Donuts to be honest. Especially at 90 cents a pop without a volume discount. I really feel like I'm in the twilight zone since everyone else seemed to have a life altering experience while I left apathetic.
Let's talk about the Cream Crumb doughnut. Imagine a plain yeast doughnut, smothered with a layer of a whipped-cream substance that I imagine to be nothing more than straight powdered sugar with a touch of vanilla in cream form, and all that topped with chunks of an old-fashioned and finished with powdered sugar.
Apple Crumb, you're next.
Quality: 4.5
Service: 4.5
Price : 4.8
I love this place, I take my breakfest here every morning.
Word on the street is that they have added donut ice cream sandwiches to the menu. Oh . . . my . . . lord . . .
You wouldn't know it, since it's not on the menu (actually, they don't have a menu, other than the… Read more »
The best donuts I've ever had.
If you haven't been here yet, you just don't know that you're missing.
This is the only place I've ever been able to get a jelly donut minus the powdered sugar that I abhor. And it's melt in your mouth good.
Then again, everything here is good! Anything with vanilla cream or jelly, crullers, sour cream donuts, marbled, blueberry --- you can't go wrong.
This may very well be donut heaven.
Thank God I live nowhere near here. I shudder at the thought of what might happen if I lived within walking distance.
Hard to walk by this place without stepping in. Their delicious donuts are staring you right in the face.
There's no "modern decor," they don't use a "new take" on donuts, it is mostly older Polish men hanging around inside.
But they are probably the best simply made donuts I've had in the city.
If you're curious as to whether or not it is worth getting up as early as you possibly can to catch the new and extremely popular Red Velvet Cake doughnut: IT SO IS. But be warned that just one could send you into a diabetic coma. Approach with caution.
Sticking to a reasonable diet is hard with Peter Pan in my neighborhood. Luckily I am off to work… Read more »
All I can say is that it's a darn good thing that I don't live in Greenpoint. Spending a month working there was a dangerous thing indeed, mainly because of the vile temptress, Peter Pan Bakery. How's a girl gonna ditch the winter pudge when she can smell the sweet aroma of Peter Pan from a block away?
Get there early in the morning and your socks will be knocked off! The doughnuts are light and delicious, probably the best I've ever had. Foodies beware: if you're looking for Smoked Bourbon Truffle Oil Madagascan Vanilla Key Lime Pie doughnuts, look elsewhere. But if you want an old-fashioned doughnut that will make you want to cry into your grandma's apron, this is the place.
A friend recommended the toasted coconut doughnut. So light, so fluffy!
If I used this doughnut as a pillow I would have the sweetest dreams.
And sticky hair when I woke up.
Red velvet donuts! Just one, that's all you need. Everything else is good too.
When I walked into P.P. last Saturday for my much anticipated weekly egg & tomato flagel sammich and I saw the red velvet donuts on the shelf, I was tickled. What a pretty and delicious donut! Maybe not my favorite, I'm a sucker for the coconut varieties, but definitely in my P.P. top five.
Blue-collar donuts just as I remember them from my childhood. The crullers, french crullers and donut holes are my go-to items. Slightly crunchy exterior and cakey interior - MUCH better than Dunkin or any other national chain.
Huge chocolate coconut doughnut for just 80 cents!
It was so good!
(There are crumbs on the floors of the 99 cent store a few doors down)
I couldn't understand why Peter Pan Bakery has so many fans after I visited there a year or two ago and got some of their donuts for the first time. It was late in the day, and the pickings were slim. The donuts I got were not impressive at all; Krispy Kreme would have been better.
But I just stopped by again this weekend (unfortunately, late in the afternoon when many of the varieties had already sold out).
Had two really, really good donuts: a coconut flake-covered, cream-filled donut and a chocolate-covered donut. One of them was still warm, even. Delicious. I only wish the woman who ordered right before me hadn't taken the last sugar-covered, and that they didn't put candy sprinkles on their chocolate-covered donuts.
The Donut Pub (14th St & 7th Ave, Manhattan) still has the best donuts in NYC, for my money. But Peter Pan's not only cost less but are pretty darn tasty; plus, they have several varieties you can't get elsewhere, and the staff are friendlier.
It's where Homer Simpson will go when he dies.
I effin love this place..I'm not usually a donuts kind of girl but this place has converted me..their red velvet donuts are for sure going to turn me into a 300 pound whale but honestly i don't care..they are sooo good and always fresh..i love this place and all you yelpers who recommended it..it's so hard to find good food in Greenpoint including bakeries so i'm beyond happy with peter pan and i def recommend it.
I don't feel the need to say anything more except this:
Order the bacon, egg, and cheese on any roll or croissant. It's not on the menu board, but they have it! I think they have ham too. My favorite is egg and cheese on a toasted sweet roll with a little bit of mayo. NO KETCHUP! =)
I'm sure you'll figure out what to have for dessert.
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