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Western PA Has State's Best Doughnut Shop: Food & Wine

A western Pennsylvania shop has been lauded by the magazine for its outstanding doughnuts.

BEAVER FALLS, PA — Doughnut shops abound throughout Pennsylvania, but only one can be the best. According to Food & Wine, the state's best is Oram's in Beaver Falls, Beaver County. In an article on each state's best doughnuts, Oram's took the top honor in the Keystone State.

"In an age when even the most stubbornly classic doughnut makers have capitulated to the visually-minded crowd, not that there's anything wrong with bright colors and brioche dough (if you know what you're doing), one of the finest doughnuts in America comes from a charming little relic called Oram's Donut Shop, in a relic of a town called Beaver Falls, up the road from Pittsburgh," the article stated.

"Plenty of people know that the best doughnuts around, you've got to make a little bit of a
drive. If you've ever had a cinnamon roll doughnut before—which is exactly what it sounds like: two delicious things at once—chances are you've never had one as especially gargantuan as the number one seller at Oram's, in business since the 1930s. That and a selection of their classic cream-filled, with a schmear of frosting on top—they're absolutely worth a drive, and from a lot farther than Pittsburgh."

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