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Best Doughnuts in the US


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Arizona

Le Cave?s Doughnuts1

Address: 1219 S. 6th Avenue, Tucson

Phone: 520-624-2561

Favorites: Glazed, chocolate-frosted, maple-frosted, powdered-sugar, cinnamon-sugar

Arkansas

Spudnut Shoppe2

Address: 810 West Faulkner Street, El Dorado

Phone: 870-863-9914

California

Bouchon Bakery

Address: 6540 Washington Street, Yountville

Phone: 707-944-1565

Favorites: On weekends only, all three Bouchon Bakeries produce extraordinary jelly doughnuts with house-made jam and equally addictive pastry cream?filled doughnuts topped with a serious dab of chocolate (sometimes these are called Boston cream doughnuts). Yes, they?re $3.50, but they?re worth every penny

Earl's1

Address: 20429 Devonshire Street, Chatsworth

Phone: 818-341-2869

Favorite: Chocolate-covered doughnuts

Donut Man2,3

Address: 915 E. Route 66, Glendora

Phone: 626-335-9111

Favorites: Strawberry doughnuts, French crullers, glazed doughnuts, peach doughnuts

Fritelli's Doughnuts and Coffee3

Address: 350 N. Canon Drive, Beverly Hills

Phone: 310-276-1408

URL: Frittelli.com

Favorites: Allison Winston gives designer doughnuts a good name. For anywhere between one and two bucks, you get doughnuts that are ethereally light, greaseless, and made with high-quality ingredients. The key-lime doughnut is refreshingly tart, and the blueberry buttermilk long John was light and actually tasted like blueberries

Primo's Westdale Doughnuts3

Address: 2918 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles

Phone: 310-478-6930

Favorites: Tart-sweet buttermilk bar, crumb doughnuts

Randy's1,2

Address: 805 West Manchester Avenue, Inglewood CA

Phone: 310-645-4707

Favorite: Apple fritters

Stan?s2

Address: 10948 Weyburn Ave., Los Angeles

Phone: 310-208-8660

Favorite: Peanut butter and fresh banana with chocolate chips

Bob?s Coffee and Doughnuts2,3

Address: 6333 W. 3rd Street, Suite 450, Los Angeles Farmers Market

Phone: 323-933-8929

Favorite: Plain cake doughnuts

Notes: Bob?s was also recommended by La Brea Bakery co-founder and serious doughnut fan and doughnut maker Nancy Silverton.

Connecticut

Coffee An

Address: 343 Main Street, Westport

Phone: 203-227-3808

Favorite: Chocolate cake doughnuts

Florida

Sunshine Doughnuts

Address: 701 SW 27th Avenue, Miami

Phone: 305-644-9055

Favorite: Glazed yeast doughnuts

Hawaii

Leonard's2

Address: 933 Kapahulu Ave., Honolulu

Phone: 808-737-5537

Favorites: Malassadas

Champion Malassadas2

Address: 1926 S. Beretania Street, Honolulu

Phone: 808-947-8778

Favorites: Malassadas

Agnes Bake Shop2

Address: 46 Hoolai Street, Kailaua

Phone: 808-262-5367

Favorites: Malassadas

Illinois

Old Fashioned Donuts

Address: 11248 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago

Phone: 773-995-7420

Favorites: Apple fritters, caramel-maple doughnuts.

Dat Donuts

Address: 8249 S. Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago

Phone: 773-723-1002

Favorites: The Big Dat, a 2-inch-high, 4-inch-wide glazed yeast doughnut

Kentucky

Spalding?s

Address: 760 Winchester Road, Lexington

Phone: 859-252-3737

Favorites: Glazed yeast doughnuts

Louisiana

Café du Monde

Address: 800 Decatur Street, New Orleans

Phone: 504-581-2914

Favorites: A beignet is a cloud-like, irregularly shaped pocket of fried dough with enough confectioner?s sugar on it to sustain dry cleaners all over New Orleans

Morning Call

Address: 3325 Severn Ave., Metairie

Phone: 504-885-4068

URL: morningcallcoffeestand.com

Favorites: Another great New Orleans beignet maker that moved to the suburbs many years ago

Fay?s Take-Out and Honey Whip

Address: 801 Kepler Street, Gretna

Phone: 504-366-9077

Favorites: Donut pies (doughnuts filled with sweet potato purée), king cake doughnuts

Maine

Congdon?s

Address: 1090 Post Road, Wells

Phone: 207-646-4219

Favorite: Buttercrunch cake doughnuts

Massachusetts

Downyflake Donuts

Address: 18 Sparks Avenue, Nantucket

Phone: 508-228-4533

Favorites: The plain, sugar, and chocolate old-fashioned cake doughnuts, which are all good, all simple, and all you have to choose from

Marty?s Donut Land

Address: 8 Central Street (Route 133), Ipswich

Phone: 978-356-4580

Favorites: Chocolate, honey dew, honey dipped

Butler?s Colonial House

Address: 461 Sanford Road, Westport

Phone: 508-672-4600

Favorites: Whipped-cream and jam-filled long Johns that are so good they have reduced many a doughnut lover to tears

Michigan

New Martha Washington Bakery

Address: 10335 Joseph Campau Street, Hamtramck

Phone: 313-872-1988

Favorites: Paczki (jelly doughnuts)

Zingerman?s Roadhouse

Address: 2501 Jackson Avenue, Ann Arbor

Phone: 734-663-3663

URL: zingermansroadhouse.com

Favorites: Crisp and light cake doughnuts

Mississippi

Shipley Do-Nuts

Address: 2151 S. Lamar Boulevard, Oxford

Phone: 662-281-8414

Nevada

Bouchon Bakery

Address: The Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino, Venezia Tower, 3355 Las Vegas Boulevard South, Las Vegas

Phone: 702-414-6200

Favorites: See above

New York

Bouchon Bakery

Address: 10 Columbus Circle, 3rd Floor, New York City

Phone: 212-823-9366

Favorites: See above

The Donut Pub

Address: 203 W. 14th Street, New York City

Phone: 212-929-0126

Favorite: The Honey Dip

The Doughnut Plant

Address: 379 Grand Street, New York City

Phone: 212-505-3700

Favorite: Tres leches cake doughnuts

North Carolina

Britt?s Doughnuts

Address: #11 Boardwalk, Carolina Beach

Favorite: Dark brown, extra-crunchy, glazed yeast doughnuts

Notes: Open only in spring and summer

Krispy Kreme

Address: All over, but the first was in Winston-Salem

Favorite: Glazed yeast doughnuts

Oregon

Annie?s

Address: 3449 NE 72nd Avenue, Portland

Phone: 503-284-2752

Favorites: Old-fashioned cake doughnuts, raspberry fritters

Voodoo Doughnuts and Wedding Chapel

Address: 2 SW Third Avenue, Portland

Phone: 503-241-4704

Favorite: Bacon-maple doughnuts

Rhode Island

Iggy?s Doughboys and Chowder House2

Address: 889 Oakland Beach Avenue, Warwick

Phone: 401-737-9459

URL: iggysdoughboys.com

Favorite: Doughboys, which are a local Rhode Island specialty. They?re basically square pieces of fried dough rolled in granulated (not confectioners') sugar.

Allie?s

Address: 3661 Quaker Lane, North Kingstown

Phone: 401-295-8036

Favorite: Crullers

Vermont

Mrs. Murphy?s

Address: 374 Depot Street, Manchester Center

Phone: 802-362-1874

Favorites: Plain, sour cream

Washington

Top Pot

Address: 2124 5th Avenue, Seattle

Phone: 206-728-1966

URL: toppotdoughnuts.com

Favorite: Glazed-ring cake doughnuts

Spudnut Shop

Address: 228 Williams Boulevard (Uptown Plaza), Richland

Phone: 509-943-3000

URL: http://www.richland.tri-cityshopping.com/spudnuts/

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voodoo doughnuts is amazing. not just for the doughnuts, but for the atmosphere. you never know what kind of weird people you're going to meet in there. if you ever visit portland, make sure you get a "cock n balls" or a bacon maples, or a "grape ape" or a "nyquil" at voodoo doughnuts late at night.

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