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a shop · NYDoughnut Plant

also: Doughnut Plant NYC

Federal Donutsabout 97 miles across
Doughnut Plant and the counters around it.

A New York bakery that treats the donut as a thing to redesign: square filled donuts, crème brûlée donuts, shapes that do not come off a standard cutter.

Written down by Bon Appétit

When they’re open

MMonday: closedTTuesday: closedWWednesday: openTThursday: openFFriday: openSSaturday: openSSunday: open

open closed not published · Cited · osm · why so many close Sunday

The story Cited · wp-doughnut-plant

Mark Isreal started making donuts in the basement of his Lower East Side building in 1994 and delivered them by bicycle to restaurants and food shops. The first storefront opened on Grand Street in 2000.

Today Cited · wp-doughnut-plant

Bon Appétit and Saveur have both named it an early influence on the American artisanal donut shops that followed.

The particulars

stateNY
statusopen
founded1994
doughboth
regionNew York City
address379 Grand Street, New York, NY Cited · wp-doughnut-plant
where40.7163, -73.9885 (street) · OpenStreetMap · open in maps Harvested · osm-nominatim
confidencehigh · updated 2026-09-16

Near here

Crow-flies miles; the road is always longer. The finder sorts every shop in the country from wherever you're standing.

Who it runs with

stylesThe New York corner counterThe city's other model, at a third the price.and of this page it says: The other New York model: one shop, one obsession, higher price.storiesThe price of a dozenWhere a five-dollar donut sits.

Who talks about it

styles · on this pageThe novelty shopInvention without the costume.

Where we got it

Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.

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