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Fills Donuts Has Replaced a Blue Star Donuts and Is Flexing on Voodoo Doughnut With Unexpected, Savory Recipes Look what we did with your crappy maple bacon doughnut.” (Wesley Lapointe) Portland s doughnut scene abhors a vacuum. When Blue Star Donuts declared bankruptcy and began closing locations, Fills Donuts announced plans to rise in what was once the only Blue Star, on the same stretch of Northwest Washington Street as Grassa and Lardo. Like those spots, it s part of Kurt Huffman s ChefStable restaurant group, as is Bar King in Southeast. The Bakery at Bar King s Katherine Benvenuti is also the main pastry brain at Fills, in tandem with Noble Rot pioneer and cannabis chef Leather Storrs, who s also one of Huffman s oldest friends.