These donut shops are winners of Bay Area Parent’s 2025 Best of the Best reader survey. Read the full list of winners here.
East Bay
Gold: Colonial Donuts. This family-run donut shop offers fresh baked donuts in all the favorite shapes, sizes and flavors as well as other pastries, coffee and tea. Two locations in Oakland. facebook.com/colonialdonuts.
Silver: King’s Donuts. Concord. kings-donuts.restaurants-world.com.
Bronze: Donut Savant. Oakland. donutsavant.com.
Peninsula
Gold: Royal Donut Cafe. This spot has been serving donuts and other breakfast favorites since 1968. Burlingame. royaldonutscafe.com.
Silicon Valley
Gold: Stan’s Donut Shop. This family-owned donut shop has a fun retro counter where you can watch them make donuts. Santa Clara. stansdonutshop.com.
Silver: Donut Wheel. Cupertino. yelp.com/biz/donut-wheel-cupertino.