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)


Monday, March 25, 2019

Phoenix Area - March, 2019

Peoria Donut Cafe 
Web Site: None
Address: 7539 W Peoria Ave Unit B101, Peoria, AZ 85345
Phone: 480-231-5710
              
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On our way to a Chicago Cubs Spring Training Game (one of our other passions), we dropped by the Peoria Donut Café. Run by a very friendly Cambodian gentleman, Roeun, it features traditional cake and yeast donuts in a mom and pop strip mall atmosphere. I tried a chocolate glazed old fashioned.  It was good and worth multiple bites! If you’re not looking for a particularly elite donut tasting experience, this one’s worth a trip if you are in the neighborhood.








Daily Donut 
Web Site: None
Address: 9133 W Thunderbird Rd #107, Peoria, AZ 85381
Phone: 602-327-1990
              
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Next stop was Daily Donut. The décor was lovely and appropriately donut-themed. But by the time we arrived (we are learning that when donut hunting, the earlier in the morning the better!), the pickings were rather slim.  One bite of a coconut-glazed cake donut was sufficient.  Good, but not great.  Daily Donut is probably worth visiting but was not a worthy visit on this particular day.






  

Donutsville 
Web Site: donutsville.com
Address: 8275 W Lake Pleasant Pkwy, Peoria, AZ 85382
Phone: 623-825-4406
              
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If you like the Local Donut in Scottsdale, you will also like Donutsville, in Peoria. The donuts are fresh, with a great variety—including multiple flavors of old-fashioneds and many many more innovative flavors.  They even have a drive through!  Absolutely worth a visit if you are in the neighborhood and want predictably wonderful donuts (and who doesn’t!).








Golden Donuts 
Address: 1818 W Baseline Rd, Mesa, AZ 85202
Phone: 480-350-7566
              
Rating: 

On the way to yet another Cubs Spring Training Game, we visited Golden Donuts (a stone's throw from Sloan Park) - another in a series of Cambodian or Vietnamese-owned donut shops. The proprietor, Millie, was very friendly and the plain old fashioned donut was divine.  Sometimes, you just need to stick with the old basics.  The other glazed old fashioneds looked just as wonderful.  Traditional, clean, welcoming, and delicious—which is not always the case. I would definitely go back!  

 Hard to beat this combination!!!!
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