Birmingham Doughnut Shop Named Best In Alabama

BIRMINGHAM, AL — Doughnuts have long been the pastry of choice for millions of people across the U.S., and while some may be better than others, just about every doughnut shop offers someting delicious, and a recent report from Food & Wine magazine ranked the best doughnuts in the country, a list that includes a Birmingham eatery.

Hero Doughnuts & Buns, based in Birmingham but now with locations in three states, was listed as having the best doughnuts in Alabama by Food & Wine writer David Lansel.

"The delicate, plain-glazed beauties we've been sneaking from Hero Doughnuts in Birmingham make a strong case, even when Will Drake's fledgling empire was just a farmers' market pop-up," Lansel says in his report. "Let's say these two-day, brioche-style babies were screenplays—they'd be Tootsie or Chinatown, the ones that show everybody else how it's done. These doughnuts remind you that sometimes a plain glazed is so much more than a plain glazed. Marrying classic taste and feel with sophisticated modern technique, the result is the best of all possible worlds."

Started as a pop-up business at local farmers' markets, Hero now has restaurants in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina.