I had never heard of it or knew it was a “thing” until my brother brought us.
Ice cream in a warm glazed doughnut, known as the “Milky Bun” for $6. The ice cream is tasty (and stays frozen for some time, as the bun is heated from the outside). We could have (and should have) shared one.
Definitely one of those “if the line is 10 minutes or less, it is worth the wait, but don’t wait more than 15 minutes to taste something that all the popular kids need to be the first to try” places.
Been to the one in Pasadena.
Lines and waiting issues aside, their ice cream is just too sweet.
Did I mention how sweet their ice cream is? Oh, and let’s not forget to mention that their ice cream veers on the sweet side. And who can forget just how over-the-top sweet some of their flavors are, including the Peach Mango, which reminded of a Starburst candy, but more sweet.
B Sweet on Sawtelle has something similar as well. Worth a try.
unfortunately for many new hyped dessert spots, the business model is to make something instagram worthy…afters, cotton-hi, churro borough etc…and it’s just that…all hype.
Afters also opened a pho and donut shop in OC with the same M.O: instagram worthy food (tastes ok at best) but catchy name/signage to instagram
I had it once, and once was more than enough. The doughnut wasn’t much to talk about, and the ice cream was only so-so. It wasn’t worth the 10 minute wait. I think this place was overhyped.
how’s the sweetness level on the ice cream?
1-10 it’d be an 11
Hard to say.
Can’t remember. Not even sure it was sweet.
well, surely if it was sweet, you would have remembered a high level of sweetness. therefore, the careful
reader must assume the ice cream is not really sweet, n’est ce pas?
I’ve yet to have a cronut (or relative of same), it took me at least a year to have a Krispy Creme after the first Northern Cal location opened, and I’ve been eating poke made at the local fish market for years, only to spend last weekend in So Cal to find out it was now a “thing.” But hey, I’m probably the first ever (and perhaps last, too) in my Berkeley 'hood to have a Milky Bun, albeit 350 miles from home.
As for the sweet comments, yes, it was sweet, but after a delicious salt bomb of a dinner (at Haven Gastropub), it was necessary!
So can someone explain to me the hype regarding this place? Had a strawberry something with chocolate milk bun yesterday. It was…fine.
It’s supposed to be a warm doughnut and cold ice cream…but I think it falls pretty short.
well I’m glad I at least understood the concept. It felt like an unglazed donut filled with ice cream.
I once stopped by here but tried the cereal milk ice cream with their housemade cornflakes. I thought it was pretty good, a lot of their other stuff doesn’t make so much sense to me, but it’s ok. Don’t really get the donut thing.
But their cereal concept is kind of strangely tasty! Anyone else ever try it here?
I don’t mind them but I also don’t crave it. But I am not much of a sweets/dessert guy.
Except for Thai coconut cakes, Blackball, green tea and black sesame anything.
Social media definitely helps.
They are local Little Saigon sons who did good.
But my opinion probably doesn’t mean much I am happy with Salt and Straw, McConnells, Scoops as much as store bought stuff.
I am really liking Ihwamun in Little Tokyo for ice cream. Probably my favorite right now.
@JulianKizmati Cereal milk ice cream may be inspired by Christina Tosi’s version at MilkBar. I tried it while in NYC and loved it. Sprinkles Ice Cream makes a pretty good version, too. I was not a fan of Afters version.
I’ve given alot of thought to Afters, maybe a bit too much, in part because I love me some good ice cream, and in part because I love me fried sweet dough.
And I’ve always felt that Ice Cream and Donuts (or Churros) would be an awesome combination just waiting to be discovered and popularized. Like the latent dessert version of peanut butter and jelly.
That said, the combination at Afters just is … not … right. I don’t think combining them in a sandwich is the way to go. The sandwich medium makes for a cold, almost stale like donut bun, with the ice cream being almost like a lubricant to wash down chewy dough. No bueno.
To really get maximum pique effect out of this combo the donut needs to be hot and warm, and the ice cream has to be, well, cold. In other words, donuts and ice cream are best served together, but in separate vessels. Never touching one another until they enter that large orifice underneath your nostrils.
It’s the contrast between hot and crispy/crunchy donut mixed with the cool smooth ice cream that gives you that “Bam!” moment.
Churros and ice cream IS awesome.
Churro Stix in Northridge. Lowbrow but awesome. But maybe this is a post for the drunk / stoned / hungry thread…
Have you tried the churro bowls at Nitrolado? I found this to be quite tasty, with the warm fresh churro bowl contrasting the nitro cold made-to-order gelato. Thai green tea in an Oreo churro bowl? NOM!
That’s looks good.
I’ve had churros and ice cream at Mama Churro Y Mas, and of course at Costco where it’s a vanilla frozen yogurt and churros bang-bang from the food court.
