National Donut Day in West Palm Beach, Jupiter; Thomas Keller news

It's a Friday made for having dessert first. After all, June 2 belongs to National Donut Day. But you may want to know that today's food-news buffet also includes summer sandwiches at a local gem, new coffee-shop treats with literary names and the promise of destination restaurant dishes with plenty of Michelin-starred shine.

Let's start with some sweet options for celebrating the fried-dough holiday.

The Salty Donut, the Wynwood-born cult favorite, will offer a special breakfast-inspired doughnut all day Friday.

The Mini French Toast Donut ($4) pairs brioche dough with a French toast filling. The doughnut gets a maple glaze, a dollop of mascarpone whipped cream and a sprinkling of maple brioche crunch.

The specialty treat will be offered at all Salty stores, including the newish one at The Square plaza in downtown West Palm Beach.

The Salty is at 460 S. Rosemary Ave., #170, West Palm Beach.

Wellington-based pastry chef Anna Ross calls National Donut Day her favorite holiday. She's making not one but four specialty doughnuts for Friday and Saturday.

There's the s'mores doughnut, a chocolate cake doughnut with a graham cracker crust, ganache and torched meringue. Ross’ key lime doughnut combines lime cake with lime sugar cookie crust and graham cracker glaze. Her cookie dough doughnut pairs chocolate chip vanilla cake with cookie crumb crust, brown butter glaze and a mini cookie. And the carrot cake doughnut combines carrot cake with toasted walnut coconut crust and cream cheese glaze. (All priced between $5 to $6.50 each.)

If you’d like a box stocked with the four varieties ($25 per box when purchased online), Ross suggests you place an order via her website, AnnaBakesfl.com.

Anna Bakes is at the Candid Coffee shop at 10120 Forest Hill Blvd., #160, in Wellington.

This Palm Beach County-born doughnut chain has a freebee for fried-dough fans. Get a free regular-priced doughnut when you buy one of equal or greater price. The fine print: "One person per transaction."

In its 10th year, Jupiter Donuts has five locations in the county and one in Stuart. The Palm Beach County shops are in North Palm Beach, Boynton Beach, Lantana, Royal Palm Beach and Jupiter (the original location).

To find a Jupiter Donuts shop, visitJupiterDonuts.com.

Zip through the drive-up lane at any Dunkin’ shop Friday and this National Donut Day deal can be yours: Get a free classic doughnut when you buy any drink.

What's a Dunkin’ classic, you may ask? Glazed doughnuts, strawberry frosted doughnuts with sprinkles, Boston Kreme doughnuts, sour cream doughnuts (my favorite), among others.

Find a Dunkin’ location atDunkinDonuts.com.

Summertime at chef Tim Lipman's Coolinary brings a buffet of happenings and specials. Lipman, who combined his Coolinary Café and Parched Pig bar concepts into one expanded space in 2021, has rolled out a new bar-bites menu for happy hour (4 to 6 p.m. daily throughout the restaurant; closed Sunday).

Some bar-bite highlights: birria tacos stuffed with braised beef ($10), Coolinary's chargrilled burger with tomato pistou ($12), pepperoni rolls with mozzarella and chili flake ($8) and s’mores candy bars ($5).

Lipman also will bring back his popular "Pickle and a Pig" pop-up sandwich shop on Tuesday, June 13, when Coolinary fans can enjoy a batch of made-to-order handhelds. (Think Coolinary "McRib," pork cutlet, OG Chicken and butter ham-and-cheese sandwiches.)

On Sunday, June 25, Lipman will host a rare weekend brunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. On the "Boozy at the Bar" menu: mushroom pizza with egg, fried Baja fish tacos, smoked breakfast sausage platter, fried green tomatoes, BLT sandwiches and shakshuka. The brunch event returns Sunday, Aug. 6.

Lipman also will host two travel-inspired dinners. The first on July 9, takes diners on a seven-course trip through Italy. The second on Sept. 10, features dishes from across Latin America.

Coolinary is at 4580 Donald Ross Rd., Suite 100, in Palm Beach Gardens. For information and reservations, visitTheCoolPig.com.

The news of Ta-boo's closing after nearly 83 years in business was followed by another, equally buzzy bit of breaking news involving its Worth Avenue address: star chef Thomas Keller plans to open a restaurant in the storied space.

This will be the second Florida restaurant for the Michelin-starred Keller, who has built a hospitality empire that includes The French Laundry in Napa Valley, Per Se in New York and The Surf Club Restaurant in Surfside.

The move into the Palm Beach island area is a kind of homecoming for Keller. Here's why.

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Have you been to the new Via Roma Café, the charming, European-style café with a menu inspired by works of literature? It's where a bagel and cream cheese is known as the Goldie Lox ($12.50), an Italian tuna tramezzino sandwich is called The Catcher in the Rye, a chicken and greens salad is known as A Kale of Two Cities ($16) and a cappuccino goes by the title "The Great Gatsbean" ($3.75, $4.75).

There's a reason for the literary puns. Proprietors Adrienne and Matthew Raptis also own Raptis Rare Books in the same building.

Here's a further peek at the place.

Via Roma Café is at 329 Worth Ave., Suite 5, Palm Beach, 561-249-1646,ViaRomaCafe.com.

Have a delicious weekend!

Liz Balmaseda

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Liz Balmaseda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA Today Network. She covers the local food and dining beat. Follow her on Instagram and Post on Food Facebook. She can be reached by email at [email protected].