- Aimee Levitt
- The view from Stan’s. Glazed and Infused is in the upper right corner.
I used to envy people in LA because they got to live in the Doughnut Capital of America. It didn’t matter that the designation was mostly self-proclaimed. They had lots and lots of doughnut shops. They had a giant statue of a doughnut. I, meanwhile, lived in the Land of Dunkin’ Donuts. When Krispy Kreme migrated north, it was a genuine thrill to eat warm doughnuts fresh off the conveyer belt.
Stan’s has positioned itself as a gourmet doughnut shop. There’s no bragging about the preciousness and quality of its ingredients (like, say, Do-Rite’s truffle doughnut), but the staff bakes doughnuts continuously throughout the day, so they’re always fresh and there’s none of that “we’ll only sell till we run out” business that can make a visit to the Doughnut Vault so aggravating. The coffee’s Intelligentsia. The doughnuts themselves go for between $1.75 and $3.75, which is silly if you consider a doughnut just a doughnut, but not as much as if you consider a doughnut a small, affordable luxury.
