Who’s going to notice a breakfast biscuit next to a display case filled with Fruity Pebbles doughnuts, Snickers old-fashioned, and red velvet glazed with cream cheese frosting?
Doughnut production relocated to the new, larger location earlier this summer, and though they can stand up to any in the city’s doughnut establishment—whether textured old-fashioneds encrusted with alien green pistachio, overinflated strawberry glazed, or Valrhona chocolate-iced cake doughnuts—they all do the job they were made for.
The proliferation of fancy-pants doughnuts was a hangover remedy from the Great Recession, and now that we’re staring down another one, maybe we better not give up on them too soon. Philippas is betting we won’t. He has plans to open three more Joe Donuts in 2020, one or more of them possibly in the city. v
6969 N. Milwaukee Ave., Niles 847-596-0125joedonut.com
