Walk around the street food bazaar that is the Sunday edition of the Crescent City Farmers Market in City Park and you may pick up the aroma of fresh doughnuts next to sausage, eggs and cheese sizzling on the grill top for breakfast sandwiches. That’s Paw Paw’s Donuts, and the same combo will now greet visitors at its new walk-up breakfast service in Old Metairie.
Breakfast sandwiches are a specialty of Paw Paw's Donuts, a pop-up in New Orleans. (Contributed photo by Alex Marse)
Paw Paw’s Donuts, a pop-up and market vendor, is setting up shop for counter service four days a week at its commissary kitchen space in Old Metairie, beginning July 11.
Hufft Marchand Hospitality, parent company of Junior's on Harrison, has a catering division based at its headquarters on Pink Street in Old Metairie. (Staff photo by Ian McNulty, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
That’s at 619 Pink St., the home base for Hufft Marchand Hospitality (the company behind Junior’s on Harrison, Gail’s Fine Ice Cream and other restaurants). The same space is also home to Il Supremo, Hufft Marchand Hospitality’s own pop-up for pizza, pastas and parms (Sun.-Tue. 4:30-8 p.m.).
A batch of brioche doughnuts from Paw Paw's Donuts, a pop-up in New Orleans. (Contributed photo by Bryon Laurent Jr.)
At Paw Paw’s Donuts, look for breakfast sandwiches, kolaches, cinnamon rolls and doughnuts, with fillings like lemon curd, vanilla bean, chocolate cream and strawberry jam. There will be a coffee and espresso bar menu with beans from Cat & Cloud Coffee, a California-based roaster.
It’s a big step for founder Alex Marse, who said he plans to continue the service through the end of the year and then assess.
Sliders cook on the grill and donuts are ready in the case at the stand for Paw Paw's Donuts at the Crescent City Farmers Market one Sunday morning. (Staff photo by Ian McNulty, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
He started Paw Paw’s Donuts in 2021 with a doughnut giveaway outside the Hey! Café coffee shop on the Lafitte Greenway after Hurricane Ida. It has since made a name at events and pop-ups and for its Carnival time king cakes.
Find Paw Paw’s Donuts at 619 Pink St. Thursday through Sunday, from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. Paw Paw’s Donuts continues its Sunday appearances at the Crescent City Farmers Market, 8 a.m. to noon at Tad Gormley Stadium (Marconi at Navarre).
