" Peter Pan Bakery's Honey-Glazed Doughnut is an unfussy yeast doughnut, with a tender and featherlike crumb, gently fried and minimally sweetened with a light honey glaze." - Serious Eats
"The regular-sized doughnuts at Dough are often too heavy and well, dough-y. But the yeast doughnut holes are a completely different matter." - Serious Eats
"Donut Pub makes doughnuts holes in both yeast and cake. Try both forms in cinnamon-sugar, blueberry, plain, and (especially) red velvet cake." - Serious Eats
"Vegan doughnuts from Babycakes rank among our all-around favorites. …flavors: chocolate-y cookie crunch, vanilla sprinkle, a gooey caramel, and classic cinnamon-sugar." - Serious Eats
"Bouchon Bakery's Custard + Jam Doughnut is gigantic, with a substantial bread-like dough; it's stuffed with silky, yolk-rich Bavarian cream, and housemade raspberry jam." - Serious Eats
"The best of the bunch? This Oatmeal Cake Doughnut. Toasted oatmeal and tiny flecks of cashews, plus sunflower seeds, cranberries, and apricot mix.." - Serious Eats
"Bathazar's Banana-Pecan Cake doughnut is toasty chopped pecans, secured with [a coat of] frosting, the banana element is subtle between the sweet, delicate crumbs and the pecans." - Serious Eats
"Brindle Room's cake doughnuts are made with a bit of mashed potato mixed in the dough... It's key that you eat the doughnuts when warm out of the fryer...not so ideal once cool" -Serious Eats
"Peels' doughnuts are offered only on Sundays, a single batch made in the morning. Flavors change weekly, but keep your eyes out for the Cinnamon-Sugar" - Serious Eats
"Pies 'n' Thighs makes Cinnamon-Sugar doughnuts in both yeast and cake form, but it's the cake doughnut, dusted in the perfect ratio of cinnamon to sugar, which stands out." - Serious Eats
"Doughnuts at Trois Pommes are a weekend-only affair. The three-bite minis are my favorite... Pick one with ragged edges, fried a touch darker than the rest" -Serious Eats
Try "Sullivan Street Bakery's bomboloni. The one filled with vanilla pastry cream is our favorite, but the chunky caramelized apple and raspberry are excellent as well." - Serious Eats
"Bomboloni at Caffe Falai are light and delicate... They come in four flavors, including chocolate and vanilla crème, but our favorites were the chantilly and a sweet strawberry jam." -Serious Eats
"It's the Jelly Doughnuts that make a trip out to Leske's in Bay Ridge worth it." - Serious Eats
"We're not talking the light, eggy French cullers here, but the classics, an Old-Fashioned Cruller… about the size of a brick—best for sharing with a friend." - Serious Eats
"Though no one doughnut flavor stood out as exceptional from Mike's Donuts in Bay Ridge, this is nonetheless an all-around reliable classic coffee/doughnut shop." -Serious Eats
"Here, on the brunch menu we found our ideal doughnut... fried to order, tender and fragrant, transcendent in its humble dough nuttiness… and the coffee is killer." -Best of NYC 2011
On the brunch menu: "glazed yeast doughnuts are tall and puffy, and melt in your mouth like cotton candy." - Best of NYC 2011.
