Top Pot Doughnuts and Coffee
Web Site: http://www.toppotdoughnuts.com/Address: 8611 Hillcrest Ave Suite 195 Dallas, Texas 75225
469-232-9911
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An upscale dough-nuttery in North Dallas, Top Pot provides delicious coffee drinks and hand crafted doughnuts— both amazing. Their doughnuts are mega-sized (after all, everything is bigger in Texas). Everything about this shoppe is lovely and upscale— including the prices. The dark chocolate glaze on my old fashioned doughnut was sublime— rich and heavily frosted. The doughnut was a bit on the “too cakey” side. Dallas is so big and so spread out— if you are near this neighborhood, definitely stop by or you may miss an opportunity for delicious upscale doughnuts.
Johnson Donuts
Web Site: On FacebookAddress: 2350 Hall - Johnson Rd # 135, Grapevine, TX 76051
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Donut Palace
Web Site: NoneAddress: 101 West Glade Road # 107, Euless, TX
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Donut Palace (a different one!)
Web Site: NoneAddress: 2100 W Northwest Hwy, Grapevine, TX 76051
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Donut Land
Web Site: NoneAddress: 2030 W. Glade Road, Grapevine, TX 76051
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Laura Soloman, me, Kerry Leaf, Eddie
These four donut shops in Grapevine share several characteristics— they are all Vietnamese owned and operated. They all are situated in strip malls off major thoroughfares.They all carry kolachkes and sausage rolls along with conventional-flavored donuts, including a nice variety of old fashioneds. They all also offer beautiful sprinkle yeast donuts with pastel frostings and, oftentimes, trendy rings—Disney princesses, for instance. They are all fairly typical small scale neighborhood donut shops.
There are several points of differentiation.
Johnson Donuts has a great cinnamon old fashioned donut and an equally splendid regular glaze old fashioned.
Donut Land’s sprinkled donuts are particularly beautiful as are their twisted and long john sprinkled doughnuts.
Donut Palace on Glade has a great tagline “where the customer is king”— but the goods didn’t exactly deliver on the tagline.
Donut Palace (no relation) on W Northwest Highway has an amazing dark chocolate icing on its old fashioned donut.
Donut safaris, like African safaris, often yield wonderful stories. Whenever I have embarked on a donut mission, I get to know interesting people--some of those are my fellow donut connoisseurs (or those desiring to become donut connoisseurs), donut entrepreneurs, and donut drivers. In our Grapevine, Texas, donut safari; we met a wonderful gentleman--Eddie. (I have omitted his last name for confidentiality purposes.)
Eddie picked us up in his black pick up
truck. He is a rough and rugged guy and told us right away he is a
football coach who will be moving to Oklahoma soon. Now, donut safaris
are not a time for politics and we assumed (early on) that Eddie was on a
different political "team" from us. But, we were having fun on our
donut safari and he was being a good sport--so politics was not germane
to the experience. That said, while driving us back to the hotel, Eddie
let drop that he did vote for Donald Trump but that Trump was not his
first choice then or now. We kidded Eddie that we could have had a
lively political discussion if only we had known.
Fast
forward an hour later. Eddie texted me his photos from the safari with
this text: "Who would have thought Democrats and Republicans could have
so much fun together...the miracle of donuts." Enough said.
Kountry Donuts
Web Site: NoneAddress: 102 S. Main Street, Grapevine, TX 76051
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Our last donut stop in Grapevine was Kountry Donuts--a charming drive through (small counter service) with the largest donuts in Texas (and that is saying something). They feature yeast donuts with various glazes and they are (best) served warm. Even this cake donut aficionado couldn't help but enjoy Kountry Donuts' fare. Yum. Delicious. Melt in your mouth. Light and airy. I didn't have a chance to taste the apple fritter but, suffice it to say, it was gigantic and looked scrumptious.
Emma Silver, Kerry Leaf, Robin Kosberg, Roberta Glick, me
