Category Archives: Donuts

Savories Tasty Shop will open soon

Jan. 15, 201311:14 a.m.

The inside of the about-to-open Savories Tasty Shop & Coffee House.

Savories Tasty Shop & Coffee House, a new stop for donuts, pastries and coffee drinks, is set to open in a couple of weeks in the Mid American Credit Union branch 2900 Webb Road.

The shop is owned by Shawn Blattner, one half of the duo that created Dolci & Joes. That sandwich shop operated at 3425 E. Douglas (where Taco Tinga is now) opened in 2009 but closed a year ago.

Savories, which will open on Feb. 11, will have a drive-through and seating for about 18. It’ll open to anyone — not just credit union members — and it’ll serve donuts from the Flying Donuts, cupcake-shaped servings of cheesecake, carrot cake, chocolate cake and more, and a full line 0f coffee drinks.

Hours will be 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays.

Blattner said he and Josh Crowe still hope to bring Dolci & Joes food back to Wichita some time, but it’ll likely be two or three years from now. The problem with their spot, Blattner said, was that there wasn’t enough parking. Business went way down after College Hill Deli & Catering opened next door in 2010, and Blattner theorizes that parking was part of that.

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Donut Whole “cooking” the good stuff

Nov. 26, 20125:05 p.m.

Those of you who love AMC’s “Breaking Bad” as much as I do will no doubt be racing me to the Donut Whole in the morning.

Look what they just posted on their Facebook page: 

By Denise Neil | Tags: Filed under Donuts | Comments

Free doughnuts for pirates today

Sept. 19, 201210:02 a.m.

I know a couple of people who could pretty much cater a doughnut party today.

Yes, the rumors are true: Today is “Talk Like a Pirate Day,” and if you play along, Krispy Kreme will give you free glazed dougnnuts.

All day today, anyone who visits the Krispy Kreme at 7777 E. Central and talks like a pirate gets one free Original Glazed doughnut.  Those who walk in wearing full pirate attire get a dozen for free.

I was amused by the list of rules Krispy Kreme shared in a press release. Here they are:

Come to a participating Krispy Kreme location in full pirate costume for one FREE dozen Original Glazed doughnuts. NO WEAPONS ALLOWED!

Talk like a pirate or wear an eye patch to a participating Krispy Kreme shop for one FREE Original Glazed doughnut.

Offer good for one free doughnut per customer who wears an eye patch or talks like a pirate to a Krispy Kreme team member at a participating shop.  One free dozen Original Glazed doughnuts per customer who wears a full pirate costume into a participating Krispy Kreme location. 

Krispy Kreme is open 24 hours, so the offer is good until midnight tonight. For more information, call 316-618-3688.

By Denise Neil | Tags: Filed under Donuts, Free food | Comments

Big weekend for celebs at the Donut Whole

Feb. 20, 201211:41 a.m.

Comedian Kathy Griffin on Sunday with Donut Whole employee Breanna Cox.

The Donut Whole, the shop at 1720 E. Douglas that specializes in colorful and creative cake doughnuts, spent much of its weekend catering to celebs who were in town.

At about noon on Sunday, comedian and television star Kathy Griffin, who was in Wichita to perform at the Cotillion, popped into the shop. She ordered three doughnuts, then ordered four more to go, said co-owner Michael Carmody. (Round one: strawberry malt, chocolate streusel and a peanut butter/pretzel. Round two: sandwich cookie, S’mores, chocolate crunch and caramel sea salt.)

“I watch her show all the time on Bravo so I knew instantly who it was, but I didn’t want to make a big deal about it,” said Breanna Cox, the employee who first spotted Griffin. After a while, though, she and another employee approached the star and had a fun conversation with her, Cox said.

People who attended Griffin’s show later on Sunday night reported that she went on and on about the doughnuts while on stage. “We made extra doughnuts today just in case we got a flood of newbies,” Carmody told me this morning.

Also this weekend, the Donut Whole catered doughnuts for George Strait’s crew at Intrust Bank Arena. Carmody said that the shop is regularly asked to help fill “riders,” which are visiting artists’ list of requests outlined in their contracts. Also on Saturday, Carmody said, arena employees stopped in to pick up a half dozen Sunshine Citrus Crunch doughnuts, a request from Strait’s co-headliner and Kansas native Martina McBride.

Wonder if word of Wichita’s doughnut dominance will spread to Jason Aldean?

By Denise Neil | Tags: Filed under Donuts | Comments

Changes for The Jaded Pearl

Jan. 13, 201211:30 a.m.

A tea-loving reader alerted me earlier this week to the fact that The Jaded Pearl, the new tea shop that opened in late October at 1716 E. Douglas, is closed. So I called owner Michael Carmody to find out what was going on.

Customers were confused by the two-businesses-in-one concept, he said. The Jaded Pearl, which specialized in tea, toast with “schmears,” and cereal, operated right next door to The Donut Whole, 1720 E. Douglas, and is adjoined to it by a door. Even though the two businesses were technically one, The Jaded Pearl had its own counter and cash register. So a customer who wanted tea with his donut, for example, had to order twice.

Carmody decided to rearrange the counter at The Donut Whole, and when he’s done, people will place all orders on that side of the business. The Jaded Pearl room will remain open for extra seating and for private functions, but the counter will be gone. Carmody said he’s axing the cereal from the original Jaded Pearl menu but he’s keeping the tea and toast. In the meantime, The Jaded Pearl will remain closed.

The Donut Whole, meanwhile, will celebrate its third birthday next Friday, Jan. 20, with an all-ages party featuring music from Dustin Arbuckle and Wayne Long. The party starts at 8 p.m. For more information, call 316-262-3700.

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Question of the week: Most delightful doughnut

Aug. 10, 201112:00 p.m.

A sampling of doughnuts from Paradise Donuts, 3107 W. Central.

For this week’s dining page in Go!, I’m providing mini-reviews of three of Wichita’s newest doughnut purveyors: Paradise Donuts, Flying Donuts and Prairie Donuts.

I enjoyed sampling all three, even though I made myself and my co-workers fairly ill for the rest of the day. (Perhaps sampling one shop a day for three days would have been a more prudent idea.) Our favorite of the three was Flying Donuts, though they all had their redeeming qualities.

The question of the week: Which Wichita doughnut maker makes Wichita’s best? Do you have a particular doughnut at your favorite shop that you crave more than others?

Answer in the comments section below.

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Donut shop switcheroo

May 10, 20112:04 p.m.

Squeek’s Daylight Donuts closed its 1845 S. Rock Road store about three months ago (though the one at 734 N. Waco is still open.)

But that doesn’t mean the McConnell-ish area is without a donut shop.

Prairie Donuts opened two months later across the street at 1652 S. Rock Road, next door to the Starbucks at Harry and Rock. It’s owned by Samie and Matthew San, who are relatives of the owners of the closed store. They are now are making the same type of donuts — glazed, cake, long johns, cinnamon rolls, bear claws, apple fritters and more. Samie says she’d like to try adding kolache and croissants to the offerings soon.

The shop is open from 4:30 a.m. to noon daily and has about four tables. For more information, call 316-651-5553.

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Things we should not eat but want to

May 6, 20112:08 p.m.

I’m filing this new offering from Krispy Kreme, the Cookies & Kreme doughnut and accompanying “Chiller,” both made with Oreos, under the category “The Kinds of Things I Haven’t Allowed Myself To Eat Since College Even Though I’d Really, Really Like To.”

Also on that list:

*Blizzards

*Whoppers (the Burger King burger, not the malted milk balls)

*Fish and chips from Long John Silver’s

*Frappuccinos

*Stuffed crust pizza

What’s on your list? Do tell.

In the meantime, those of you with young metabolisms (such as my friend, Sandi’s, gorgeous 15-year-old daughter who often partakes of a sandwich with a nickname I cannot publish here that’s made of a McDonald’s fried McChicken sandwich stuffed inside a McDonald’s Double Cheeseburger) should feel free to indulge in Krispy Kreme’s new treat, available through June 26.

If you do, please report back to me what it tasted like. In very explicit detail.

By Denise Neil | Tags: Filed under Donuts, Frozen treats | Comments

Delicious things we probably should not eat (but will)

Jan. 21, 201111:21 a.m.

A couple of chain restaurants are making some decadent, potentially dangerous additions to their menus. They’re so dangerous, in fact, that they’re only available for a few weeks.

Krispy Kreme at 7777 E. Central is offering the Dark Chocolate Kreme doughnut, featuring a dark chocolate filling, dark chocolate icing and chocolate drizzle. Wash it down with Krispy Kreme’s new hot chocolate, which is topped with whipped cream and chocolate drizzle. Both are available through Feb. 14.

Over at Smashburger, 3570 N. Woodlawn, the Sin City burger — previously available only at Las Vegas Smashburgers– will be offered until Feb. 27.

It features a burger on an egg bun topped with a fried egg, applewood smoked bacon, melted American cheese, grilled and haystack onions and Smash sauce.

Customers who try it also can register on Facebook to win a trip to Vegas or free Smashburger for a year.

Let the calorie-fest commence!

By Denise Neil | Tags: , Filed under Burgers, Donuts, Restaurant specials | Comments

Krispy Kreepy

Oct. 22, 201011:26 a.m.

donutredoAI wrote about these doughnuts today in the Go! section, but they’re so pretty, I had to share them here in color. And I’m definitely going ot have to eat one.

To celebrate the scariness of the season, Krispy Kreme is serving four devilish doughnuts, including a pumpkin-shaped Jack-o-Lantern doughnut, a pumpkin spice doughnut, a chocolate-iced doughnut with Halloween sprinkles and a spiderweb doughnut.
The treats are available through Oct. 31, though the pumpkin spice doughnut will stay through Nov. 28.

By Denise Neil | Tags: Filed under Donuts, Seasonal treats | Comments