Out comes a tray of fresh doughnuts, he grabs one and dips it into the orange zested vanilla icing. He places it on a cooling rack and gently sprinkles crushed pistachios over the top. He places it carefully into the box and calls my name. The box is exchanged with a nod of the head and a smile. I remove the doughnut from the box and take my first bite. The warm doughnut and incredible balance of flavour immediately warms my heart. It is devoured within minutes. I think I’m in love.
Doughboys doughnuts is a pop-up shop that make fresh gourmet doughnuts and great coffee every morning of the working week. The doughnuts are made to order and ‘dipped on demand.’ Your doughnut is crafted before your very eyes, which definitely adds to the excitement.
According to their website they are looking to hire some new bakers for summer which hopefully means they will stick around for a few more months. Fingers crossed. The sad thing about pop-ups, are that they don’t stick around forever so you sort of have to eat these fresh doughnuts every morning until they finish up to avoid severe doughnut remorse. This is where the magic happens. Doughnuts in the making.
It's temporarily located at Mr Nice Guy Thai which is on Little Lonsdale Street (between King & William) but you enter though Healeys Lane. The place is funky and kitsch with the colourful mismatched tiles and oil stained mirror along the wall.
The flavours are original and unique (and most importantly, delicious!). They alternate each day so sometimes they have different doughnuts available. I’m pretty sure they are all yum so it doesn’t matter which day you go.
We got a box of four. We tried the Cinnamon Apple, which was burnt cinnamon and torched apple on a vanilla bean glaze Y-U-M! there was also Lime Coconut, which was lemon and lime zested icing with toasted coconut, Choc Nut - Dark Monsieur Truffe cocoa with crushed walnuts and hazelnuts and Pistachio - orange zested vanilla icing with crushed up pistachio. All the doughnuts were really good. Plus they serve good coffee (Market Lane coffee) which is a bonus. Overall, it was a very good day.
I really want to try the salted caramel one and also the maple bacon. My advice is to go early to avoid disappointment (I’d say preferably before 9am) because these doughnuts are a best seller and often sell out. I walked out of there with pep in my step, ready to take on the week (and the world). It’s the perfect start to the day.
Olives x
Doughboys Doughnuts
Address: Shop J, 535 Little Lonsdale Street (enter via Healeys lane)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/doughboysdoughnutsmelbourne
Trading Hours: Monday - Friday 7am - 11am
10 thoughts on “Doughboys Doughnuts”
Wow! These are easily the best looking doughnuts I’ve ever seen. Maple bacon? I’m in love.
“Dip on Demand”! What a great service!! Sadly, donut is not that big in London (yet). I hope a gourmet donut trend will arrive in UK soon (^-^)
I used to be a “Dunkin Donuts” junkie, buying a box at their Piccadilly store and eating most of them on the way home…
I know what you mean. I intended on taking the box of doughnuts home to share. But they got eaten on the way home haha
Could you please let me know how I can follow your blog via RSS? Your blog will not allow me to add it to “feedly” – my reader 🙁
Oh no I’m not really sure how to add it to feedly 🙁 although I found this link, hopefully it helps 🙂 http://pasaii.com/hello/add-blog-to-feedly/
Odd – I just tried that, and another option suggested by Feedly and I still can’t find it. It seems to think there is a problem on your end of the blog, whereby it is not duplicating to the RSS feed properly 🙁
Oh well, do you have an option so I can follow by email?
Oops! I take it back – I managed to find it somehow!!
love that tagline – dipped on demand, aha!
Ugh! There goes my ban on bread!! LOL… thanks for liking my recipes Melissa! (mysisterscupboard.wordpress.com) I’ll definitely follow your blog. Love the name!