Welcome. I started blogging about donuts to coincide with the 2016 presidential inauguration. Initially, I explained my obsession with donuts like this: “they’re delicious, it's silly, and in a world so riddled with serious issues, donuts provide comic, tasty relief.” Over the last few years I have come to realize that a love of donuts is universal and can translate and enable dialogue across cultural, political, economic class, and gender lines. I haven’t met a cab or LYFT driver who was not willing to engage in a discussion about donuts—which gradually evolved into other topics. So, with that, I’d like your help. Please share your donut experiences with me (at wendonutopia@gmail.com) and while you’re munching on donuts, use that experience as an opportunity to listen to others' points of view. It works.

Donuts in Jerusalem

Donuts in Jerusalem

Decoding My Donut Ratings

Decoding My Donut Ratings
Practically perfect!
Highly recommended
Pretty good
Keep on walking (inedible)


Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Boston - December, 2017

Union Square Donuts
Web Site: http://unionsquaredonuts.com/
Address: Main location: 20 Bow Street, Union Square, Somerville, MA
Rating: 



Highly acclaimed, Union Square Donuts (Brookline location) was my first stop on a December 2017 trip to Boston.  I sampled three donuts— cinnamon sugar cake (crunchy with a spicy bite— delicious!), vegan with Belgian dark chocolate glaze (the chocolate was even too strong for me and the vegan didn’t hold a candle to Dun- Well’s vegan donuts in Brooklyn), and toasted coconut yeast (the icing was delicious, the donut was dry). 





There were many other premium flavors such as: cranberry, eggnog, Vietnamese coffee and more. I only had an appetite for three! The staff—including a young man, Micah, whose mom grew up in Wayne’s hometown, was super friendly. Alas, alack, Union Square, I wish you had more cake varieties and I wish I’d had a buddy along so there could have been more tasting!


Blackbird Doughnuts
Web Site: https://www.blackbirddoughnuts.com/
Address: Main location: 492 Tremont, Boston, MA
Rating: 



Blackbird Doughnuts, in Boston’s South End, describes itself as “ the only artisanal doughnut shop in Boston that bakes on site!” It does not disappoint. I found Blackbird to be one of the few doughnut shops I have visited with equal numbers of cake and yeast style doughnuts. Of course, I focused on the cake and sampled three-mocha chip (double chocolate with mocha glaze and chips), apple cider (generous amounts of cinnamon) and chocolate old fashioned (chocolate doughnut with vanilla glaze). There was one critical discrepancy at Blackbird (at least to this reviewer). What were touted as “old fashioned” doughnuts were really not old fashioned doughnuts at all— but rather traditional cake doughnuts (albeit  with awesome flavors) by another name. So that was disappointing. But if you’re after wonderful cake (and I assume yeast) doughnuts in Boston and aren’t too caught up in the Union Square doughnuts craze, visit Blackbird. A yummy breakfast indeed.





Kane's Donuts
Web Site: http://www.kanesdonuts.com/
Address: Main location: Two International Place, 90 Oliver St., Boston, MA 02110
Rating: 



Founded in 1955 and highly lauded, Kane’s Donuts (past the North End in Boston) is well worth the tunnel traffic. They had a wide array of cake and yeast style donuts and many seasonal and regional flavors sampled including— but not limited to— ginger beer, chocolate candy cane, blueberry cake, crepe brûlée, gluten free chocolate coconut, toasted coconut, chocolate cruller, chocolate iced with Christmas sprinkles. The ginger beer was divine!  I wish Kane donuts were closer to home!













1 comment:

Phyllis said...

It was a pleasure to go donut hopping with you this morning.