In honor of National Doughnut Day last Sunday, the SoMa StrEat Food Park threw a Doughnut Disco — and yes, they played “The Hustle.”
Sugar-seeking Bay-destrians could join the fried-dough bonanza for $5 at the door, $25 with bottomless mimosas.
Jared Lombardo and Cami Peer saw the event on Facebook, like most of the attendees, and decided that the compromise between her love of breakfast food and his distaste for it was Banana’s Foster doughnuts from Hook’t.
“I like breakfast food, so I woke up and was, like, ‘Sweet, doughnuts sound really good!’” said Peer.
“I actually strongly dislike breakfast food, but doughnuts are the one thing that I like,” said Lombardo.
Different trucks and stands offered different takes on doughnuts — ranging from Hookt’s very sweet and dessert-like doughnuts to That Donut Girl’s pancetta or pomegranate creations, and culminating in the signature Dirty Disco Doughnut — a BBQ chicken sandwich on a doughnut from the Sarap Shop.
With its central location and a doughnut for every preference, the Doughnut Disco offered an alternative to standing in line for brunch. In fact, with a live DJ playing favorites like Earth, Wind & Fire and Michael Jackson, you could dance away your morning.
“We live here,” said Bryn Baughman, holding a piece of doughnut out of licking distance from her dog, Norah Bones. “Our friends are in from out of town, and we’ve been here a couple of times. It’s a good spot for all-you-can-drink mimosas and food, and they’re dog friendly.”
Even the guy I asked for a quote who didn’t know what anything was (he was just waiting for his car at Costco across the street — which is fine, we’ve all been there) enjoyed a breakfast beverage.
The real star of the Doughnut Disco, however, was the $2 coffee — real, tasty, honest-to-goodness $2 coffee in our sweet little San Francisco. You could get it from the truck in the back with the flowers painted on it, which, apparently, doesn’t have a real name no matter how many times I try to Google Street View it or search through the website — I’m sorry, I’m human.
I drank it too fast to snap a photo, but I swear it’s real.
