Today, Flander’s Bake Shop in East Lyme This bakery has a good selection of donuts. Lines in summer are long, so it should be good, right? But here’s the thing, most of the donuts are just…okay. So we tried a…

Lemon Lavender Bombolini; Cambera Farm Bakery
Technically, this bakery doesn’t sell donuts. They sell bombolini; which are fried soughdough donut-holes on a large scale. The thing to know about them is that they are tougher and denser than donuts. But Cambera Farms Bakery in Willimantic does…

Chocolate Frosted Donut; Dottie’s
Everyone will tell you to get the Cinnamon Sugar Donut at Dottie’s in Woodbury. You can, it’s pretty good. The donut has a slight yeasty-flavor to it, like you are eating it in a brewery. The cinnamon and sugar on…

Croissant Donut Holes; Isabelle et Vincent
This place. This French bakery in Connecticut, this patisserie in Fairfield. I was so excited about this place. So excited. But everything we tried here was mostly disappointing. Except for the Croissant Donut holes. I know what you’re thinking: Cronut?…

Cherry Donut; Beach Donut Shop
On the search for the best donuts in Connecticut brings us to Beach Donut Shop in Clinton. Now the thing you are supposed to get at Beach Donut Shop is the sour cream donut. And it is excellent, no doubt.…

Chocolate Frosted Donut, Faddy’s Donuts
On the search for the best donuts in Connecticut brings us to Faddy’s Donuts in East Hartford. Faddy’s, as you can see from the photo, is a little cart. To find it, you need to go to the front of…

Donut, Lakeside Diner
On the search for the best donut in Connecticut brings us to Lakeside Diner in Stamford. This diner out on the far northern edge of Stamford is home to a very surprising donut. The Donut itself has a nice crispness…

Glazed Donut & Jelly Donut, Brooklyn Baking Co
On the search for the best donuts in Connecticut brings us to Brooklyn Baking Co in Waterbury. Embarrassingly, I can’t find the photos I took of the 2 donuts, so we’ll have to settle for a stock-ish photo from the…

Cider Donut, Lyman Orchards
On the search for the best donuts in Connecticut, and the best cider donuts in Connecticut, brings us to Lyman Orchards in Middlefield. Probably the most recognizable name for farm-related activities in CT, Lyman Orchards in 2020’s pandemic was much…

Cider Donut, Brown’s Harvest
On the search for the best donut in Connecticut, and the best cider donut in Connecticut, brings us to Brown’s Harvest in Windsor. These bite-sized donuts come in bags of a dozen or so, which is not good for any…