Vancouver is not unfamiliar with lavish gourmet treats—an $850 pizza from Steveston Pizza and Dougie Dog’s $100 kobe-beef hotdog come to mind—but would the city be ready for a precious metal-wrapped dessert?
It would if it wanted to follow in the footsteps of trend-setting New York City, where the latest craze is something normally thought of as a simple snack: doughnuts.
The fried goodies in question are not your usual coffee companion, but one made of Ube—the sweet purple yam used in many Filipino desserts—covered by icing made with Cristal champagne and flecked with 24-karat gold.
The restaurant's owner and chef, Björn DelaCruz, working on one of the golden doughnuts. (By Tabakodelacruz via Instagram)
Manila Social Club, a Filipino restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is selling them for US$1,200 per dozen, or US$100 each. Gold was last trading Tuesday at $1,078 an ounce.
Björn DelaCruz, the restaurant’s owner and chef, has also created a "black and gold" doughnut flavoured with an IPA beer from Bushwick and dusted with 24-karat gold.
By Tabakodelacruz via Instagram.
If Vancouver diners were to opt for such a confection, it wouldn’t be the first time a doughnut has made headlines in this city by following a New York trend. Swiss Bakery in Mount Pleasant caused a minor gastronomical stir in 2013 when it introduced the city’s first cronut—a mixture of a croissant and a doughnut—which at the time was a trend in NYC.
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