Jane & Michael Stern

"America's 50 Best Donuts: Peter Pan Donut & Pastry Shop - The summer special at this old-school lunch counter is vanilla ice cream sandwiched between a halved red velvet donut."

Food & Wine

"In summer, customers can design an ice cream sandwich with doughnut halves in place of the traditional cookies. One favorite combo: a red velvet doughnut with strawberry ice cream."

FoodieHub

"Our choice for best doughnut would have to be the Cream crumb donut. This donut’s center is packed with a light delicious cream and then topped with cake crumbs and powder sugar."

Tejal Rao

"I love the classic, soft cake doughnut, cratered all over with crispy nooks and crannies, and washed with a very thin layer of glaze."

Greenpointers

"The ice cream settled right into all the nooks and crannies of the donut and the flavors melded together perfectly. Was it a bit messy? Yes. Over the top? Of course! Do I want another one? You bet!"

Nell Casey

"The "White Whale" of ice cream sandwiches lives at this legendary Greenpoint donut shop, where they will fill any of its cake-style donuts with luscious ice cream; because you deserve it. Their ridiculously good donuts need no more lauding and they've got a decent ice cream selection to boot, with flavors including chocolate, pistachio, cherry and banana."

Kevin Alexander

"An old-school standby in a rapidly changing part of New York, where the donuts and kolaches and bagels aren’t trendy -- they’re just really damn good."

Rebecca Fishbein

"The red velvet doughnuts—chocolate-glazed melt-in-your-mouth halos cloaking centers of blessed bright red cakey goodness—have been lauded for an eternity, and leaving them off this list would be a sin of sorts."

Bright Eats

"It was amazing. I had an old fashion cake donut with vanilla bean ice cream. The donut was perfect, just enough sweetness and crumble. I will definitely go back for a different combination"

Sarah Zorn

"While it’s spawned many, many imitators over the years (and who can blame them?) Greenpoint’s venerable Peter Pan serves the OG of donut ice cream sandwiches, which can be mixed and matched at will. In fact, there’s no reason not to try a new one every day of the week, including red velvet cake filled with chocolate ice cream, blueberry buttermilk paired with vanilla, and banana ice cream inside of glazed sour cream donuts."