NEW YORK -- Inside the West Side Highway Car Wash in New York City is Underwest Donuts. The doughnut shop, which opened in November 2014, is a venture by former Chanterelle executive sous chef Scott Levine, whose father-in-law owns the car wash, said a report by gothamist.
Inside a hallway next to all the jets of water and squirts of soap, a small manufacturing and retail area offers coffee, tea, juice and soda, and features cake-style donuts made by a Belshaw Adamatic Donut Robut. Like the washing operation, this process is robot-operated.
Initial flavors were "old fashioned" (plain), sugar-coated and glazed. Sugar-coated flavors now include Coco Raspberry, Cinnamon and Espresso Bean; glazed flavors now include Halva, Dark Chocolate, Coconut Lime and Brown Butter.
And it has just unveiled a new flavor--Maple Waffle Donut, which, according to the report, "is intensely maple-y."
In a separate report, amNewYork described it as "a traditional glazed doughnut infused with maple syrups … topped with a Belgian stroopwafel, pecans and maple syrup glaze."
For the full Underwest doughnut-car-wash experience, watch the embedded video. Click here to view the gothamist reports,and click here to view the full amNewYork report.
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