Who doesn't love donuts? It can be hard to find good donuts, though. You can get decent donuts almost anywhere, but good donuts... not so much. Sunrise Donuts in Bloomington is a good place to start in your search for good donuts. The faded sign and the old curtains hanging in the windows are a good indication that this place knows donuts. It's a tiny hole-in-the-wall at the White Bear Center on Lyndale Ave. The interior is straight out of the 70's with a few booths and some stools at the counter, the cafe style stools and short counter, where you can sit with a donut and coffee and read the newspaper. They even have a couple large donut photos hanging on the wall that have to have been hanging there for at least 30 years. The place seems to be owned and operated by a Vietnamese family. They open up early on weekdays, 5:00 or 5:30 am, and close at 11:00 am (or maybe 11:30). They are also open on Saturdays until noon, but I don't think they open until 7... maybe.
I have only had a couple of the plain old fashion donuts and a couple of the chocolate frosted cake donuts. Both the old fashion and cake donuts are crispy on the outside and very soft on the inside. The old fashion donut almost melts in your mouth once you get through the crunchy exterior. The cake donut's interior has a little more substance than the old fashion, but it is still very soft and moist. My wife loves the glazed old fashion donut, but I have only been there at about 11:00 on a Saturday. You need to get there earlier than that to hope to get a glazed old fashion. In fact, by that time there isn't too much left to choose from. These donuts are very good and easily beat anything you'll find in a grocery store. They may not be the best donuts ever, but the only donuts I've ever had that were better were from the Donut Drive-In in St. Louis.
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Dunkin' Donuts still rocks my world ---in past tense.
I'm not even sure if I've ever actually had Dunkin' Donuts. I think there used to be one in Detroit Lakes, MN (near where I grew up), so it's possible.
Oh, I finally had a glazed raised donut at Sunrise. It was super soft when I bit into it and I got little pieces of hardened glaze all over me. It was awesome. The glaze didn't leave an aftertaste that other glazed donuts seem to leave in the back of my mouth.
Sunrise made the best cruellers I've ever had! I say "made" because I drove by last Friday and the shop was gone! I'm in mourning and will console myself with Denny's 5th Ave Bakery's almong kringle.
Are you sure it's gone? I know I drove by there a while ago and they remodelled the exterior of that strip mall and all the signs were down.
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