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Who's got the best donuts in Seattle?

Because maybe all you want for breakfast is a donut and some coffee? There's nothing wrong with that.

Let us know where you go for the best donuts in Seattle, and if we use your answer in our upcoming breakfast guide, we'll send you a prize!

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  • 11443802614723fe566385e_small
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    Daily Dozen in Pike Place Market, hands down. I love Top Pot and Mighty-O too, but both of those fail the crucial test: readily available hot, fresh, donuts.

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    Michou (in the Market near the original starbucks) makes a really really great tunisian bomboloni. Crispy on the outside, dense and chewy on the inside, sprinkled with sugar. It's a thinkin' man's doughnut for when a man wants to think happy thoughts.

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    Best.donuts.ever = the Daily Dozen in Pike Place Market. Super hot, super fresh, cinnamon and sugar-coated chewy mounds of fluffy goodness, shaken skillfully (the way an angry baby-sitter shakes a crying infant) in little paper bags by equally hot punked-out dudes. It makes my mouth water just thinking about it (not the baby-shaking part).

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    Within official Seattle city limits: Family Donut, on Northgate Way just west of the freeway. They do twists and crullers along with the standards, and are much lighter and less greasy than Top Pot's.
    Just outside official Seattle city limits: Golden House Bakery and Treats, in White Center. Their plain cake donut has a lovely intense mace flavor; the maple bars are in a different realm from Top Pot's--a happier, more peaceful realm, where elves make the donuts. A Vietnamese coffee with the unglazed cake donut is a spectacular breakfast.

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    As my stomach isn't a grease trap, the only donut for me is Mighty-O. They are available at various coffee shops when you don't want the temptation of an entire box from their Wallingford store with the added bonus of the cute barista thinking your a hip vegan. Personal favorite at the moment, Cinnamon and Sugar, pure elegance that melts in your mouth.

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    Mighty O. Hands down. I don't even like donuts usually (and I'm not vegan) but theirs are heaven with a hole in the middle. Especially the pumpkin donuts they have in the fall.

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    Ly's on 45th in the U district. Hands down.

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    Well, since that's my picture your using (cool!) I obviously love TOP POT!!!

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    Golden House in White Center makes Top Pot seem like old bagels. Donuts should be light as air. Top Pot has great locations, but their donuts should learn something from Golden House.

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    top pot for big ones, the daily dozen for little ones.

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    Chuck's Donuts way out east by southeast of Lake WA is the closest thing to a uniformly best donuts for ALL their donuts, - and Family Donut takes the cake inside city limits, but I agree with poster Clayton in that WHICH donut you seek CAN make a difference in how you answer.

    I go for only 4 or so kinds of donut.
    Toppot maple bars - huge and thickly topped. They've got me by the short ones there.
    but Toppot Boston Creme? too dry and the chocolate too melty, the 'creme' is clearly some canned pudding-ish mix rather than made fresh. (Tony at Family Donut makes a decent boston creme, but I long for the old days when SCCC's bakery used to make fresh donuts and pasteries every morning and sell them at that groundfloor storefront that's since been turned into something else....) *sigh*
    Cake donut - french toast flavor? Mighty O!!

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    I know it isn't Seattle but it is worth the trip to Bellingham and having donuts at Lafeens. Best. Ever. Especially at one in the morning.

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    Daily Dozen. Hands down. Get powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar because the use the fresh hot ones to make it. If you get frosted they won't be warm or as fresh.

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  • 475x316_small
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    Ahhh Donuts. HERE IS THE DEAL, you did not ask your question, you asked a question.

    You asked
    "What is the best Movie!?!"
    You meant to ask
    "What is the best Comedy Movie!?!"

    See donuts are all about THE donut! For examples, I live in NYC now (Instead of Seattle) and out here NOBODY has ever heard of a Maple Bar! So to me, the Maple Bar is the only donut I am interested in.

    Now like cupcakes, fat people tend to fat-out over all the types and they just call themselves a fan but donuts are different. Donuts can pack a hell of a lot more sugar than a cupcake, so people tend to find a couple that they can stomach and then try to find the best ones of that type.

    So its all about the kind of donut you like. If you like mint then Top Pot is a shithole that you would sooner burn down than eat at, where as Mighty-O is your BFF that is into blowjobs.

    Nowhere in Seattle has all-good donuts. In Vancouver on Granville Island 15 years ago there was a Donut shop in the market that had ONLY GOOD donuts, oh sweet Obama were those donuts awesome. If you need some sort of credentials I can assure you that I am a million pounds.

    I will however say that Mighty-O is probably the best donut place, I wish that the chefs could train some non-vegan people so we could live in a world that has vegan inspired non-vegan donuts.

    Also Top Pot has terrible Maple Bars.

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    Leave town. Go to Richland, to the Spudnut Shop in the Uptown Shopping Center. Raised or cake, plain or glazed, potato flour makes the unsurpassed donut, for texture & flavor. (but if I'm only eating local, then the little bakery at Endolyne, 2 blocks up from the Vashon ferry, makes a great applesauce cake donut at least one day a week...) chow ^..^

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  • 47_small
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    I hate the fact that we don't have Dunkin Donuts out west. They're 100x better than Krispy Kreme.

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  • Photo_on_2012-01-03_at_17
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    Agghh! How can you people NOT like Krispy Kreme donuts?!? Hot off the line they melt like buttah in your mouth! I could probably eat 2 dozen in 5 seconds!

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