The best donuts in NYC in 2026 are at Peter Pan Donut & Pastry Shop in Greenpoint for old-fashioned classics, Doughnut Plant for creative yeast and cake donuts, Dough for big, glossy hibiscus and dulce de leche donuts, and The Donut Pub for a 24-hour counter. Daily Provisions' maple crullers and Dun-Well's vegan donuts are also must-tries.
A Greenpoint counter shop serving classic donuts since the 1950s.
Peter Pan is a retro, pink-uniformed donut counter where Greenpoint has bought red velvet, honey-dipped and sour cream donuts for generations.
Good to know: Sit at the counter with a coffee and a sour cream donut.
727 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222
Inventive yeast and cake donuts, including the famous square jelly doughnut.
Mark Isreal's Doughnut Plant made New York's creative-donut scene, with crème brûlée, tres leches and seasonal fruit glazes, and square doughnuts filled corner to corner.
Good to know: The crème brûlée doughnut is the one to try first.
379 Grand St, New York, NY 10002
Big, fluffy yeast donuts with bold glazes like hibiscus.
Dough began in Bed-Stuy and is known for large, airy brioche-style donuts with glazes such as hibiscus, passion fruit and dulce de leche with almonds.
Good to know: The hibiscus donut is its signature.
448 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205
An all-vegan donut shop with flavors that rotate daily.
Dun-Well makes its donuts entirely vegan, with a changing lineup of creative glazes and fillings that win over non-vegans too.
Good to know: Go early in the day for the full selection.
102 Montrose Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206
A retro 14th Street donut counter that's been open around the clock for decades.
The Donut Pub has been frying classic donuts — crullers, black-and-white, Boston cream — on 14th Street since 1964, with a counter and stools straight out of the past.
Good to know: A great late-night stop; it keeps very long hours.
203 W 14th St, New York, NY 10011
Danny Meyer's all-day café, famous for its maple crullers.
Daily Provisions, from Union Square Hospitality Group, is an all-day café with excellent breakfast sandwiches and a maple cruller that people line up for.
Good to know: Crullers can sell out by mid-morning; come early.
103 E 19th St, New York, NY 10003
Cake donuts sold from a window inside a West Side car wash.
Underwest Donuts started in a Hell's Kitchen car wash on the West Side Highway, making excellent cake donuts in flavors like halvah and toasted coconut.
Good to know: Pair it with a walk along the Hudson River Greenway.
638 W 47th St, New York, NY 10036
Mornings. Popular shops like Peter Pan and Doughnut Plant are freshest early and can sell out of favorites by the afternoon.
Yes — Dun-Well Doughnuts in Brooklyn is entirely vegan.