The signature move is the Doughnut Delight, a dough saucer roughly the size of a dinner plate, loaded with ice cream and a dollop of whipped cream — more dessert event than individual pastry, and the kind of thing a neighborhood guide recommends over the shop's more normal offerings specifically because it's so much weirder. Normal offerings are still the real business, though: the owner has said the shop sticks to classic buttermilk and chocolate cake flavors rather than chasing trendy ones, and that discipline paid off when readers voted Huck Finn Donuts Chicagoland's favorite doughnut shop in an NBC Chicago poll, pulling 21 percent of the vote against a field of a dozen competitors.
The diner side of the menu runs omelets, skillets, French toast, pancakes, burgers, and soups — enough of a real menu that it functions as a 2 a.m. diner as much as a donut counter. No happy hour applies to a 24-hour donut-and-diner spot with no bar, but staying open around the clock since the 1970s is its own kind of standing deal with the neighborhood.
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