Best Of

• Bon Glaze (Buckhead)
• Da Vinci’s Donuts: mini donuts in Alpharetta, Sandy Springs, and Dunwoody
• Five Daughters Bakery: Original location in Nashville
• Revolution Doughnuts
• Scream ‘n Nuts: Ice cream, donuts, and coffee (Alpharetta)
• Sublime Doughnuts: Their glazed donuts are featured in Cypress Street Pint + Plate’s donut burger

• 1235Donuts (sold inside Lou’s Austin)
• Bougie’s Donuts & Coffee
• Fat Cats Coffee & Dessert (vegan & organic)
• Gourdough’s Public House
• Little Lucy’s
• Lola’s Donuts
• Round Rock Donuts
• Wheatsville Food Co-op (vegan)

• Blackbird Doughnuts: Brioche-style raised donuts and cake donuts. Blackbird is known for their fun, delicious flavor combos like the Everything Bagel donut.
• Boston Common Coffee: Donut Thursdays featuring cake, vegan, glazed or filled. 
• Confectionery Designs: Known for their handcrafted wedding cakes and gourmet donuts (Rehoboth, MA).
• Davis Square Donuts & Bagels
• Kane’s Donuts: Saugus and Financial District
• Lincoln Tavern: Check out their rotating brunch test kitchen menu on Fridays.
• Union Square Donuts: Boston Public Market, Brookline, and Somerville

Sorry, no Dunkin’ love here! According to Boston Magazine, Kane’s has the best Boston donuts in 2018.

• Do-Rite Donuts: Locations in Streeterville and the West Loop. Don’t miss their chicken sandwiches too.
• Doughnut Vault: Make sure you go early! DV is a tiny shop that often sells out quickly.
• Firecakes: I’m personally partial to their old fashioned donuts. They also have ice cream donut sandwiches! You can even book Billy the Truck for private events.
• Gurnee Donuts: Must check out their ube donuts!
• Stan’s Donuts: Try Le Stan, a huge croissant donut, the Biscoff pocket, or their old fashioned varieties. Several locations throughout Chicago. Also located in LA.
• West Town Bakery: Red velvet is one of their most popular donut flavors.

• Back Dough from Chef Tim Love: Find it at Love Burger Shack in the Fort Worth Stockyards or Queenie’s Steakhouse in Denton.
• Dough Boy Donuts: Former food truck and Fort Worth shop now in Burleson. All solid flavors, but my personal favorite may be the Sriracha Maple Bacon.
• Earnest Donuts: Trust me, just go. Unique flavors and custom donut options, including sushi donuts. (Lewisville, TX)
• FunkyTown Donuts Be on the lookout for their second location opening in Sundance Square in summer 2018. Later hours and alcohol options. (Fort Worth, TX)
• Glazed Donut Works Formerly open late-nights, this Deep Ellum shop is now only doing occasional pop-ups. Follow along their Instagram account for the latest. And try their red velvet and donut pudding with whisky when you can! (Deep Ellum neighborhood in Dallas)
• Hypnotic Donuts: Peace-stachio is my personal favorite! Don’t miss their chicken biscuits or their occasional donut and beer pairing events either… (East Dallas)
• Jarams: Croissant donuts are a must! (Far North Dallas & Lakewood in Dallas)
• Milk-Cream: Ice cream donut sandwiches FTW. Get it glazed or unglazed with your choice of toppings. (Dallas)
• Momo’s Donuts: Located in Sherman, but they deliver to Dallas every weekend. Known for their strawberries ‘n cream donut. My favorite may just be the carrot cake. No joke, this is where body builders go for post-show treats.
• Shipley Do-Nuts (franchise)

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• Astro Doughnuts & Fried Chicken: Also in LA.
• B Doughnut: Home of the Everything Bagel Donut and Malasadas.
• District Doughnut: Voted “Best Donuts” in D.C. 3 years in a row.
• Duck Donuts: Made-to-order mini cake donuts with your choice of toppings. (franchise)
• Sugar Shack Donuts & Coffee: Check out their newest venture, Luther Burger, which uses donuts as buns.

• Hugs & Donuts
• Lee’s Fried Chicken & Donuts
• Morningstar

• Cinotti’s Bakery: Family-owned and operated. People talk about their pumpkin donuts!
• Good Dough: Coffee and artisanal donuts made from scratch (Brioche yeast style). All flavors look good, but check out their fun hybrids like Avocado Dough-oast and Fried Chicken Doughwhich.
• Urban Bean Coffeehouse: Unique flavors that are baked, not fried, in-house (Orange Park)

• Astro Doughnuts & Fried Chicken: Also located in DC and Virginia.
• Birdie’s LA
• Blue Star Donuts: Also located in Portand, OR.
• Cofax Coffee
• Donut Farm: Organic and vegan.
• Donut Friend: Secretly all vegan, but I’ve heard they taste anything but!
• Fōnuts: Baked donuts including vegan and gluten-free options.
• Kettle Glazed
• Mr. Holmes Bakehouse: Known for their cruffins and donut hybrids. Also located in SF and Seoul.
• Primo’s Donuts: Opening a second location on Main Street in Venice, Fall 2018.
• Randy’s Donuts: Landmark building with the giant rooftop donut.
• Sidecar Doughnuts & Coffee: We’ve heard from several people that this is the #1 shop in the country! (Santa Monica & Costa Mesa)
• SK Donuts: Known for their “SKronut” and deemed “Best donuts in LA” by The LA Times.
• Spudnuts: Made with potato flour; winner of the former LA Donut Fest.
• Stan’s Donuts: Also in Chicago.
• The Donut Man: Originators of fresh strawberry and peach-filled donuts
• Trejo’s Coffee & Donuts

*DTLA hosted an LA Donut Festival at Union Station in June 2018. We heard there were a few kinks. Will they return next year?

• Honeybee Doughnuts
• Mad Max Doughnuts: Brought to you by Chef Max Santiago, former Head Pastry Chef from The Salty Donut. Opening spring 2019. 
• Mojo Donuts & Fried Chicken
• Nani’s Dough
• One Donut Company
• The Salty Donut

• A Baker’s Wife
• Angel Food Bakery & Donut Bar
• Bogart’s Doughnuts
• Cardigan Donuts
• Glam Doll Donuts
• Mojo Monkey Donuts (St. Paul)
• Mucci’s Italian (St. Paul)
• Thirsty Whale Bakery

• Five Daughters Bakery: Known for their 100 Layer Donut.
• Fox’s Donut Den: Fun fact — one of my sisters surprised me with these donuts during my bachelorette party. What a sweetie!
• The Donut + Dog: Artisanal donuts and hot dogs.

• Broad Street Dough Co. (Oakhurst)
• Glaze Artisan: Home of the Italian rainbow donut (New Milford and Wayne)
• Fractured Prune (National chain with a local franchise in Ocean City)
• McMillan’s Bakery: The owner of Federal Donuts in Philly recommends the cider or cream-filled donuts.
• Montclair Bread (Montclair)

• Comfortland: Counter-service shop from the Queens Comfort / Donut Diva NY crew (Astoria).
• Dough Doughnuts
• Doughnut Plant
• Dun-Well Doughnuts
• Du’s Donuts: Now serving wine and beer too! Donuts available for national delivery via Goldbely.
• Peter Pan Donuts
• Supermoon Bakehouse: Cousin to Mr. Holmes Bakehouse in SF and LA
• The Doughnut Project
• Underwest Donuts: Artisanal cake donuts served inside a car wash. Also available for delivery via Goldbely.

• Buttermilk Bakery (Winter Park)
• The Glass Knife (Winter Park)
• The Salty Donut
• Orlandough 
• Valhalla Bakery
• Valkyrie Doughnuts: Square, vegan donuts

• Beiler’s Doughnuts (Reading Terminal Market, University City, Lancaster and Maryland)
• Curiosity Doughnuts (Whole Foods in Spring House, PA)
• Dottie’s Donuts (vegan)
• Double Knot, a self-proclaimed “coffee shop meets nautical izakaya”
• Duck Donuts (franchise)
• Federal Donuts & Fried Chicken
• Suraya’s Rose Pistachio Cruller

• Just Good Donuts
• Oakmont Bakery: Go for the donuts, stay for the cakes, pies, pastries, and breads.
• Oram’s Donuts: Bryan from @donutsunplugged recommends their blueberry cake donut or cinnamon rolls.

• BoSa Donuts: Several locations throughout the Phoenix area
• Donut Parlor (Tempe)
• Fractured Prune: National chain founded in Ocean City, MD. The ordering process is similar to Duck Donuts (choose your own glaze and toppings).
• Nami: Vegan bakery also known for their soft-serve “tsoynami”
• Welcome Chicken + Donuts: Chicken, donuts, ramen, and beer! Vegan donuts on the weekends.

• Blue Star Donuts
• Doe Donuts
• Pip’s Original

• The Holy Donut: Potato donuts made-from-scratch
• Lil’s Cafe & Bakery: Located in Kittery, about an hour from Portland

• Knead Doughnuts
• PVDonuts

• Bad Bakers: Winner of the Sacramento Donut Festival two years in a row. Don’t miss their mochi donut.
• Milk Money: A former pop-up and self-proclaimed “Gangster ass ice cream and donut shop” that opened 10/26/18.
• Shorty’s Doughnuts: Food truck by Pastry Chef Morgan Hunter.
• The Parlor Ice Cream: Known for their ice cream puffs (Sacramento, Anderson and Roseville).
• Totem Coffee Co: Winner of the “Fan Favorite” award at the 2018 Sacramento Donut Festival (Placerville).

• Cake Thieves Bakery: All vegan
• Duck Donuts (national franchise)
• Maybelle’s Donuts: Artisan donuts from scratch. Made by the Pastry Chef behind Bakery Lorraine.
• The Art of Donut
• The Original Donut Shop: Also known for their breakfast tacos.

• Copper Top Gourmet Coffee & Donuts: Made-to-order cake donuts in a drive-through hut.
• Dark House Coffee Roasters: Home of the Skinny Donut (vegan).
• Devil’s Dozen Donuts: Walk-up window in the Little Italy neighborhood.
• Donut Bar: Currently in San Diego and Vegas, with recent expansion to Pasadena, CA and Scottsdale, AZ. They’re known for their massive donuts with flavors like French Toast, Strawberry Split, and donut cone concoctions.
• Frat Boy Donuts
• Nomad Donuts: Lots of vegan options here.
• Sidecar Doughnuts: New location in the Del Mar Highlands Town Center coming late fall 2018! Until the shop officially opens, you can grab donuts from their pop-up in front of the storefront every Friday from 10 am to 2 pm or ’til they sell out. 
• Streetcar Donuts & Fine Chicken
• V.G. Donut & Bakery: Owned and operated by the Mettee family since 1969. V.G. stands for “Very Good,” in case you were wondering.

• Bob’s Donuts: Family owned and operated bakery since the ’60s. Finish a giant donut in 3 minutes or less and win a Bob’s t-shirt and your name listed on the Hall of Fame.
• Dynamo Donuts & Coffee
• Johnny Doughnuts (San Rafael, Hayes Valley & Marin Country Mart as of September 2018)
• Mr. Holmes Bakehouse (also in LA and Seoul; cousins with Supermoon Bakehouse in NYC)
• The Rolling Pin Donuts (San Bruno)
• Vive La Tarte: Handcrafted pastries (check out their croissants, taco croissants a.k.a. “tacros”, donuts and monkey bread), plus brunch and specialty coffee. 

• Banbury Cross Donuts: Traditional donut shop.
• Fillings & Emulsions: Eclectic Latin pâtisserie with cruffins, macarons, tarts, and brioche pastries.
• Fresh Donut & Deli: Traditional donut shop. Try their maple bars!
• My Sugar’s Donut Shopp: Located in an industrial area off the beaten path.
• Provo Bakery (Provo, Utah)
• The Big O Doughnuts: Vegan donuts, coffee and tea.

• Daddy’s Donuts: Located in Kenmore. Mini fresh donuts served in a cup. Try the donut sundae combos!
• General Porpoise Donuts
• The Donut Lab: Made-to-order malasadas.
• Top Pot Doughnuts: Also located in Dallas, TX.
• Wink Doughnuts: Organic and gluten-free.