Price: $3.74
Taiyaki NYC x The Dough Club in Harvard Square is a crossover of Japanese businesses: Taiyaki, known for its Japanese fish-shaped ice cream cones, and The Dough Club, which serves mochi doughnuts. I came for the latter, and ordered the churro (“cinnamon sugar”) version. It came out warm, which made a good first impression, but beyond that, it wasn’t anything special. The texture, from the mochi, was the best part. The doughnut was light and fluffy, but also doughy and chewy; it resembled the texture of a doughnut while definitively being its own thing. The taste, however, wasn’t great. It wasn’t very sweet and had only a slight cinnamon sugar flavor, so it just tasted plain – like a bland, bready pastry. Perhaps The Dough Club’s frosted doughnuts are better (options include tiramisu, ube and matcha, plus the seasonal pumpkin spice), but the churro flavor alone isn’t worth the trip.
Taiyaki NYC x The Dough Club, 6 Church St., Harvard Square, Cambridge
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