Pip's mini cake doughnuts with five-spice chai: doughnuts come hot, six to a basket, served with a flight of cardamom, dirty, vanilla and lavender chai.
Pip's Original Doughnuts and Chai opened at NE Fremont and 47th in Portland in 2012, with Nate and Jamie Snell pairing cake doughnuts to house-made chai. The pairing is the point: tiny cake doughnuts (raw honey and sea salt, dirty doughnut with cinnamon and Nutella) come basketed and hot, served alongside a four-glass chai flight. Cardamom and lavender are the marquee pours. Pip's pulled off the rare Portland trick of inventing a category. Other shops now run chai flights but Pip's still defines the form.
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