Footscray Doughtnuts & Coffee, Footscray Station
Like everyone else, I loved Nick and his Olympic Doughnuts.
Or rather, in this case, I really loved the idea of Nick and his doughnuts – that he was and is such a legend and that Olympic Doughnuts was such a Footscray institution, even surviving the revamp of Footscray Station.
I thought the doughnuts OK, but found the jam they were stuffed amounting to not much more than, well, syrup.
This, as a pal has pointed out to me, is a ridiculous attitude to hold.
She’s right – these were not your hipster cafe vanilla cream-stuffed doughnuts selling for $5.
These were your street-food doughnuts – cheap, fresh and hot.
Well now Nick has retired – and much to the community’s widespread delight, a new doughnut operation is up and running at the station.
So I take it for a spin.
The doughnuts are … cheap, fresh and hot.
Though the jam is, well, syrup.
Who cares?
I do good through a deal that provides me two dougnuts and a pretty good coffee for $5.
And on a sunny Indian summer’s afternoon, the station plaza is a fine place to linger a while, watching the ebb and flow.
There’s a bench seat directly opposite the doughnut shop; the convenience store next door even had a couple of tables chairs.
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You must have got a different batch than the ones I’ve had – both times I’ve been the filling was definitely strawberry jam as opposed to the syrup that Nick and other doughnut trucks use.
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Hmmm, interesting! Could be the rather high heat turns jam to syrup? Or maybe one man’s jam is another man’s syrup?
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I was actually surprised the first time I bought them because they used jam instead of syrup! It seemed like a Cottee’s style, sickly sweet strawberry jam. The person serving also double pumped the jam into my doughnuts, which blew out the ratio of doughnut to filling and created a very sticky mess. Second time around, just the one pump, and the proper ratio made the experience more enjoyable, if still unspectacular.
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