Midtown Lunch

If you thought the only way to try a cronut, the new Dominique Ansel pastry taking the city by storm, is either waiting in an absurd line in Soho at 7am or paying someone off, I’m here to tell you there is now a much easier option for Midtown Lunchers. This week, Gregory’s Coffee introduced a fried doughnut comprised of flaky croissant layers, filled with vanilla cream, and then glazed. Of course, for legal reasons, these are not cronuts, but croissant doughnuts. They’ll cost you $4 each, but that’s a dollar cheaper than the real thing and a whole lot less stressful.

Gregory’s Coffee, multiple locations

Filicori Zecchini is not the only coffee establishment that expanding it’s empire to 46th street last year. A recent lunchtime walk around midtown east revealed a semi-newish location of Gregory’s on 46th street between Madison and Fifth that opened just a couple of months ago and has a full baking kitchen cranking out fresh pastries. While Gregory’s was omitted from the ML Readers’ Poll this year (mea culpa, Gregulars!), we promise to give them a long overdue full ML treatment very soon. If you’re a Gregory’s fan, let us know what we should try in the comments.

Gregory’s Coffee, 12 East 46th Street, (212) 661-1722