America's Best Donuts

Re:America's Best Donuts (gostillerz)

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 18:42:34 GMT

Michael Hoffman

I am not a connoisseur when it comes to donuts, but for my money the donuts baked at Oram's in the center of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania are topnotch. Now, the thing is I'm a plain donut guy. No fillings, no glazing, no anything -- except occasionally some cinnamon and sugar -- for me. But with Oram's plain donuts I don't even need any coffee for dunking. Those things are flat out good.

I live 5 blocks away from Oram's, so I'm there a lot and they are awesome. And, they sell milk from Brunton's Dairy in glass bottles. Their chocolate milk is amazing!

I like plain doughnuts too, but it's almost a requirement to get a hubcap cinnamon roll as well.

RE: America's Best Donuts (Route 11)

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:45:56 GMT

Mrs. Murphy's in Southwick, MA. I am not a donut fan but their chocolate cake donut is dense, not-so-sweet and moist.

Re:America's Best Donuts (Sundancer7)

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:12:24 GMT

We all have our choices of what we like. Personally I grew up on Krispey Kreme. When I was a very young boy and my father who was a school teacher did not make a lot of money. It was a special treat on Sunday night to get a dozen of Krispey Kreme. I understand that a lot of folks appreciate other types but I can only relate what I felt growing up.

I still like them even though about three of them causes me some distress. I guess that is the yeast?

When they are hot, they melt in your mouth.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

Re:America's Best Donuts (lleechef)

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:18:59 GMT

I took one bite ONCE of a Krispy Kreme and threw it in the trash. NASTY! I am not much of a donut person but I do like Oram's glazed donuts. They're light as air. Delicious!

Re:America's Best Donuts (mjambro)

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:14:37 GMT

Michael Hoffman

Now, the thing is I'm a plain donut guy. No fillings, no glazing, no anything -- except occasionally some cinnamon and sugar -- for me.

Only cake donuts for me and second that plain (old fashion) or cinnamon is best.

Don't understand Krispy Kreme - to me they are simply sugar coated Wonder bread.

Re:America's Best Donuts (love2bake)

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:12:41 GMT

Maybe I missed it, but what about the Donut Man in Glendora, CA? Oooh baby. The chocolate iced Bavarian is my favorite. I think. Although the fresh strawberry ones are pretty amazing, too. Never been there during peach season, or that would be my fave.
http://roadfood.com/Resta...verview/7864/donut-man

On the SF peninsula, the Donut House in Redwood City makes the best powdered sugar doughnut I've ever had. Incredible snow pack on it with a lightly crunchy crust underneath. They're always fresh, because they sell out before 8:30 a.m.
http://www.yelp.com/biz_p...449rpzKtQ5NlvL5r9IkF8Q

Best maple bar on the SF peninsula is at Pilgrim Kitchen in Belmont, CA. The filling is soft and light--not like pudding--and rather than squeezing it into the doughnut they slice the bar and pipe the filling attractively.
http://www.yelp.com/biz_p...Q90fPUHLsin_P1f6smrN6w

Re:America's Best Donuts (Michael Hoffman)

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:49:22 GMT

I am not a connoisseur when it comes to donuts, but for my money the donuts baked at Oram's in the center of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania are topnotch. Now, the thing is I'm a plain donut guy. No fillings, no glazing, no anything -- except occasionally some cinnamon and sugar -- for me. But with Oram's plain donuts I don't even need any coffee for dunking. Those things are flat out good.

Re:America's Best Donuts (6star)

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:37:06 GMT

In an interesting cross-reference, Round Rock Donuts is featured in Roadside America (with pictures):

Round Rock, Texas - Donuts Larger than your Head
These doughnuts are truly tasty. They are a weird yellow color, but that has something to do with the recipe. You go inside to get your doughnut, but if you want to sit and enjoy it you have to sit outside at one of their four tables. That is the only downside to Round Rock Donuts. [Danielle O., 11/15/2012]

Re:America's Best Donuts (Wandering Chew)

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:09:23 GMT

Im surprised more New england Donut shops aren't mentioned. My favorite is Congdon's in Wells ME just north of Ogunquit in on US1. GREAT cake donuts- the cake with chocolate fudge topping is super, as is the coconut cake. In Rockland is the Willow street donut shop now on US1 WITH VERY GOOD plain, cinnamon and molasses -all cake donuts. Moody diners chocolate and plain cake are very good to as are most mom and pop diners in Maine who make their donuts fresh.

i've had Donut Plant donuts but only from Zabar's- good not great, a little heavy- did the travel wear them out?? i'd rather have the homemade rugallah.

winchells in LA and the West coast were great for a chain- are they still around. Ive had good donuts on the way to Maine from Logan (not Honey Dew) but someplace near the Clam Box in a small town - anyone know where? Very old fashioned and classic donuts.

Re:America's Best Donuts (CheeseburgerChet)

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:48:33 GMT

Tim Hortons by far, the best donut is the Canadian Maple, long time reader, 1st time poster.

RE: America's Best Donuts (rainyday6)

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:24:28 GMT

For some reason, there are no real donut shops in downtown Sacramento. You have to go at least 6 blocks from "real" downtown, or to Old Sac tourist trap and pay $2. per starting at 11am. Best in the area, though is Marie's DO-Nut Shop on Freeport Blvd. They split a plain raised glazed and fill it with fresh whipped cream. Sometimes I don't want breakfast, I only want donuts and coffee. Plural on the donuts. Anyway, if someone wanted to open a donut shop downtown, they'd make a killing.

RE: America's Best Donuts (negativetom)

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:02:12 GMT

my 2 cents
Hands down: BOB'S DONUTS on polk street in san francisco. After midnight is prime time as they are coming straight out of the grease. The buttermilk with a jelly cross on top is probably as close to a religious experience as I will have.

Another great spot: Dixie Cream in columbia, MO. The cake donuts are almost poundcake dense. Perfect smaller size as well....what I would imagine homer simpson eating at the plant.

Voodoo donuts is great in concept but on my 4 or 5 visits the donuts themselves didn't really impress. Also had a high stale ratio. Dixie cream had a better bacon donut.

RE: America's Best Donuts (slow racer)

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:37:42 GMT

Fluffy Fresh Donut 10123 State Line Rd
Kansas City, has the best cake donuts bar none in the region old fashion sour cream donuts especially.
Perhaps a different take on donuts was the old R donut in Ft. Lauderdale, scenery and counter service were better than the donuts.

Re:America's Best Donuts (collinf)

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:57:10 GMT

BillyCheesesteak

I had always heard about how great Krispy Kreme donuts were so I stopped and bought some in South Carolina one time. Absolutely worst donut I have ever had.

My favorite is Yum Yum Bake Shops in Warminster, Colmar and Quakertown, PA

Yum-Yum is far better than Krispy Kreme. But then again, most places are. My vote for all-time worst donuts from a donut shop is Dunkin Donuts. I understand why they chose the name Dunkin Donuts because without the coffee you'd never be able to get them down.

Re:America's Best Donuts (BillyCheesesteak)

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:20:32 GMT

I had always heard about how great Krispy Kreme donuts were so I stopped and bought some in South Carolina one time. Absolutely worst donut I have ever had.

My favorite is Yum Yum Bake Shops in Warminster, Colmar and Quakertown, PA

RE: America's Best Donuts (Forsyth)

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:07:08 GMT

P.S. Anyone with suggestions for LI, holler!

RE: America's Best Donuts (Forsyth)

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:05:56 GMT

Funny this thread should re-emerge and be near the top of the list. I live in NY. Donut Plant, feh. Even when my Mom lived four blocks from the place I wouldn't bother with it. Ok, maybe they are an acquired taste.

In almost ten years in NY I've been looking for a light, cake-y cake donut that was tender inside, crispy on the outside, not greasy and had just the right chocolate icing.

Marshall Field's basement/tunnel bakery had the best years ago.

On the MI-OH leg of a NY-IL-MI-OH-NY driving trip, we got lucky. Took a wrong turn off I-94 one exit too soon and found:

Ericann Cookies & Ramberg's BakeryAd in Union Pier, Michigan.
Right off the corner of Town Line Road and Red Arrow Highway.

Just right, still a little warm at 7:30AM, I bought two. We wound up turning around and getting another half dozen "for the road."

They were just as good with coffee at noon in western PA.

RE: America's Best Donuts (Davydd)

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:37:08 GMT

Since the thread keeps reviving and I noticed Tobie's in Hinckley, MN was on the list and I knew of a place better. I feel I must settle this once and for all. The World's Best Donuts are in Grand Marais, MN. It says so.

RE: America's Best Donuts (ajp1111)

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:49:49 GMT

Was in Louisville last weekend and took the opportunity to drive across the river and go to Jeff's. Have to agree that they were great donuts, although I only had the opportunity to sample a couple because they were almost out by 10:00 on Sunday morning. That said, I had one of the greatest apple fritters ever! Heavier loaded with apples that any I have ever had. Definitely recommend.

RE: America's Best Donuts (myterry2)

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:18:24 GMT

All donuts, doughnuts are good....

RE: America's Best Donuts (c abro)

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:31:59 GMT

I realize this is an old thread but I have to put in my two cents worth. If you find yourself traveling northbound on I-65 around the Ohio river, I would highly recommend a detour at exit 0 in Indiana. Go to the bottom of the ramp and turn right. About five blocks or so on your right, on the corner of Court Ave. and Walnut is a place called Jeff's Bakery. I would put Jeff's up against anybody's doughnuts. They mostly do yeast doughnuts but on Saturday and Sunday they also do some of the best cake doughnuts I have ever eaten. Jeff's also makes the best apple fritter I have found in years. My only knock on the place is he's sometimes a little too generous with his frostings and glazes. That's why I like the weekend but you have to be quick. I've been in there at 7:00 and the place looked like a swarm of locusts hit it. If you're traveling southbound it's not easy to get to. You have to get off on Hwy.62 and work your way through several blocks south and then east. They're open at 5:00 a.m. Tuesday through Sunday.

Re:America's Best Donuts (mar52)

Thu, 21 May 2009 23:37:07 GMT

Stan's Donuts in Westwood, CA.

Home of UCLA and the best donuts I've ever had.

Believe me when I say I've had a few.

Banana chocolate peanut butter. Swooooooooooon!

http://www.stansdoughnuts.com/history.html

Re:America's Best Donuts (Beverly K)

Thu, 21 May 2009 21:58:39 GMT

I'm familiar with the chains, DD and KK, and the local chain, Maple Donuts, but Giant Supermarket makes their own donuts. Not a huge variety, but the apple-raspberry jelly and the chocolate frosted, peanut-butter creme are the best.

RE: America's Best Donuts (Soccer862923)

Wed, 20 May 2009 08:39:45 GMT

My favorite is a donut institution in Dayton. Bill's Donuts in Centerville. And for those who live in Dayton who may disagree I have tried Donut Haus (very dissapointed), Milton's Donuts (Unique Apple Filled but lackluster glazed), Stan the Donut Man (Meh!), and Jim's in Vandalia (have a great cream horn and cheese danish, but again found the glazed pretzel to be lacking).

Anybody else from Dayton have a favorite I haven't tried yet?

RE: America's Best Donuts (carolina bob)

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:48:05 GMT

Not everyone shares my feelings, I know, but I love the glazed donuts at Krispie Kreme. I first had them as a kid down in North Carolina in the ' 60s, and it was love at first bite. Until about a year ago, we had a place here in Lansing, the late lamented Village Bakery, that had the best cake donuts I've ever had. The buttercream chocolate frosting was just incredible. Boy, do I miss them!

RE: America's Best Donuts (Baah Ben)

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:28:30 GMT

Billy - I thought dumplings and noodles with Chinese bbq pork, duck, etc. I was with JohnA today for lunch and we were talking about Ellen and how she goes to 75 places in a day (just kidding Ellen)

Hey, if we can get a group and do a dumpling/noodle/bbq meats Chinese or pizza journey sort of like Lewis and Clarke..That would be terrific. I know of a few good Dumpling places also.

RE: America's Best Donuts (billyboy)

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:32:57 GMT

Ben, I'm game for pizza or Chinese, a;though Chinese might be the best options as we can walk through Chinatown and find some good places. My buddy here in NYC who first put me on to Roadfood knows just about every place in Chinatown. Is there any particular type of Chinese you're interested in trying? Bakeries? Noodles? Dumplings? Etc... The "some pies" is assuming there might bee a big group of Roadfooders. Personally, I'm only good for one pie between two people.

The Doughnut Plant guy is Mark Isreal. Interestingly, he only has the one shop in NYC, but has 9 in Japan and one in 1 in Korea where I've heard good reports on their popularity and I think his dad has a hand in running the Japan locations.

RE: America's Best Donuts (Baah Ben)

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:57:02 GMT

Billy - Do you like Chinese food? If not, we can do pizza..If I were your age, I guess I could do "some pies" and walk through (does that mean eating? As in dumplings, etc) and eat "some Chinese" and then the donuts. More realistically for me would be either or and then dessert at the Donut Plant. Anyway, we can figure it out. I can see this being pretty funny.

Stawberry and Mango? Wild....I envision this guy (I think his name is David?)coming to work each day and really liking what he does for a living. How many people can say that....Who puts this much time and effort in a donut? Wild....

Doesn't he have more than one location now?

RE: America's Best Donuts (billyboy)

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:17:18 GMT

Baah Ben, Sounds good to me. Just give me a heads up the week before so I can mark it down. Split some pies, walk through Chinatown and then polish off some sugary, fried goodness. The Coconut Cream is pretty good. He makes a mean strawberry and mango doughnut too.

RE: America's Best Donuts (Tony Bad)

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:09:02 GMT

Baah Ben

Positive comments most recently are about their coconut cream donuts.

I had a coconut cream one last week...very good. They had gingerbread on list, but were out when I got there. Rats!