Happy National Doughnut Day!

The Serious Eats Doughnut Honor Roll:

Bouchon Bakery
Yountville, CA
Phone: 707-944-1565
Favorites: On weekends only, all three Bouchon Bakeries produce extraordinary jelly doughnuts with house-made jam and equally addictive pastry cream'filled doughnuts topped with a serious dab of chocolate (sometimes these are called Boston cream doughnuts). Yes, they're $3.50, but they're worth every penny.

Earl's
Chatsworth, CA
Phone: 818-341-2869
Favorite: Chocolate-covered doughnuts

Donut Man
Glendora, CA
Phone: 626-335-9111
Favorites: Strawberry doughnuts, French crullers, glazed doughnuts, peach doughnuts

Fritelli's Doughnuts and Coffee
Beverly Hills, CA
Phone: 310-276-1408
Favorites: Allison Winston gives designer doughnuts a good name. For anywhere between one and two bucks, you get doughnuts that are ethereally light, greaseless, and made with high-quality ingredients. The key-lime doughnut is refreshingly tart, and the blueberry buttermilk long John was light and actually tasted like blueberries

Primo's Westdale Doughnuts
Los Angeles, CA
Phone: 310-478-6930
Favorites: Tart-sweet buttermilk bar, crumb doughnuts

Randy's
Inglewood, CA
Phone: 310-645-4707
Favorite: Apple fritters

Stan's
Los Angeles, CA
Phone: 310-208-8660
Favorite: Peanut butter and fresh banana with chocolate chips

Bob's Coffee and Doughnuts
Los Angeles (Farmers Market)
Phone: 323-933-8929
Favorite: Plain cake doughnuts
Notes: Bob's was also recommended by La Brea Bakery co-founder and serious doughnut fan and doughnut maker Nancy Silverton.

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