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Ham, Egg, and Cheese Kronut with Sugared Kronut Holes and Hash Browns
Apple Fritter
Cinnamon Crumb Cake
Sour Cream Old Fashioned
Kronut Petite - Raspberry, Chocolate and Cream, Double Chocolate, Peanuts and Chocolate, Cinnamon Swirl Raspberry
Every bit the "only in 'merica" mash-up of Centennial's Café Burger and UNLV stalwart Al's Donuts that the name would imply it was just as the doors unlocked at 7:00am that I entered Tenaya Village's newest tenant and although rather disappointed with my lone visit to Al's Southeast Flagship I must say the expanded menu, larger floor-plan, and general cleanliness of the space is unquestionably a step up. Apparently concocted as a merger of two separate enterprises and generally keeping their goods divided aside from a bit of donut/bun fusion it was unsurprisingly to a full range of fried pastries that my early morning visit was met and although the friendly staff of two middle-age women informed me that the full-menu was in fact available I largely stuck to the carbs, a bahn mi or burger breakfast simply not my style when confronted with sweets. Beginning with the tried and true in the form of a mixed box of donuts both classics and fancy I was immediately impressed by quality of the crumb in old fashioned while the fritter proved far less greasy than I remember from the spot on Harmon, a plethora of apples folded into the crispy, cinnamon-laced dough. Moving on to things more novel it was not long before my breakfast sandwich arrived and offered at a mere $3.99 with two sugared kronut holes plus hash browns the ham, egg, and cheese were relatively standard fare propped up by a now-softened kronut and although the concoction arrived a touch soggy after a trip to the microwave it still proved a pleasant foil to the intense sweetness of a quintet of 75-cent 'kronut petite' showing off admirable levels of lamination while house-made fillings delivered far better balance in this format than the full-sized versions I'd experienced from Al's in the past.
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