I think it best to show you how great it was, while we didn't pay attention to the movie, the food and food trucks were great, at Food Truck Friday at the Art Museum.
We tried food from Pie on the fly:
The pie slice was eaten, by me, before I took a picture of it. I'd say a 3 out of 5 stars. They are located about 20 feet down the street from Strange Donuts, on Sutton.
So, how many people show up at these nights on Art Hill, in Forest Park? Well...
Afterwards, as the mosquitoes started to come out and attack us, we visited Strange Donuts. This is Strange Donuts:
Let me try to explain the love for Strange Donuts: When I was young, my father used to take me or one of my other 3 brothers to the best donut shop in the city, called Donut Drive-in. The Donut Drive-in, was a smallish building with a tiny one lane drive through window. At times when there were no cars driving through, we used to walk up to the drive through window and look in and watch the older gentleman baker carefully make each donut batch, by hand. The smell of the baking process was incredible. After we watched, we went in and my dad would let us choose a donut that we wanted.
This donut place, is featured on all sorts of Route 66 shows and cooking shows as the donuts win awards for the fact that they are hand-cut and cooked donuts. The bakers in this shop have been making these donuts for at least close to a hundred years, I would guess, since my father knew of it being there already in the 50's. Every trip that I took to this donut place was special, it was special time with my father and brothers as we would sit on the hood of his car, in the lot and eat our freshly cooked donuts. This was before fake flavors, high fructose corn syrup and any other preservatives. These donuts felt like a warm hug or the sunlight on your face on a cold day. They were incredible and I thought no other donut could come close.
But then there is Strange Donuts:
I am going to say it, but if the Donut Drive-in has the best donuts in the Metropolitan area, Strange Donuts has the second best. There are all kinds and flavors of donuts at Strange Donuts, but when a bite in any one of them brings back the memories of my childhood and the Donut Drive-In, while other donut places have been unable to do so, means that this place is that good. The flavors are varied and delicious and taste so old school that they must have found so classic or traditional recipes. I can't say that they are the best in Saint Louis. It would be to me as saying that there is a restaurant that makes a dish better than your grandmother or mother. Would you actually say that? This donut spot has been the location of so many happy food memories that only a really, really good donut place could come close to even being thought of next to it.
All the donuts, as weird as they were, were also all delicious. They were new as while I have made my own maple and bacon donut, I have never seen a gooey butter cake donut. I have to give them, at Strange Donuts, a 4 out of 5 stars. They are good and strange and weird and non of their flavors are half-thought of. I mean that if they wanted to do a Smores donut, they do so even with a marshmallow on top. I wish the guys at Strange Donuts the best of luck and happiness. I hope that they get spread out throughout the city and bring happy memories to those that they server and see.
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