Donuts are on the rise (pun intended) across the United States. What was traditionally the stuff of cliché cop jokes is now the focus of serious culinary attention, catering to all tastes and cultural stylings. Chicago is no exception to the trend, with a scene as varied as donuts themselves. Our Windy City favorites include a 90-year-old bakery, a six-month-old pop-up, a South Side staple, and a James Beard Nominee’s Wicker Park dessert destination. Given the sheer number of bakeries and donut varieties in Chicago, this list is a mere sampling of the best the city has to offer…

Sprinkled vegan donut (and hole!) at Fritz Pastry

Fritz Pastry gives you the whole donut—hole included. For those of you with an extra sweet tooth (and vegan restrictions), we recommend the rainbow sprinkle donut ($2). The dough and frosting are made with soymilk—don’t knock it ’til you’ve tried it.

We are fully into delivering donuts of daunting quality to dandy donut diners everywhere. Keep an eye on the daily doses of donuts here at Fritz Pastry and you basically follow along with our mental landscape, ready or not.

We’ve got donut-friendly plans we’ll be executing, keeping you abreast of such occurrences as they happen. But for now, here’s a look at some of the donuts that have crossed your path upon your crossing of our threshold. We can provide any of these or a custom donut for you, from one to infinity–and that’s actually pretty true. See what you think:

Simple can be good. Powdered.

We almost always have a few different varieties of donut, the better to fit all tastes.

Enough berry in this raspberry donut to make the top of your head blow off. Seriously. Not.

The “Chicago Donut” is always one of our most greedily snapped up donuts. We hope it’s the taste, but think it has something to do with City Pride also.

Our donut menu here at Fritz Pastry is changing daily, according to our creative whims, which we then shape into reality and serve to you.

Did we mention our donuts make a ridiculously cool wedding treat? And that we handle any and all catering requests, wholesale queries and we make any type of event donut-licious! Get in touch with us here.