Culture By Lindsay Paulen Apr 8, 2021 12:50 AM
Vegans and non-vegans alike, head to Donut Run in Takoma Park for plant-based donuts with a cult-like following.
The donut shop, which opened earlier this year at 6904 4th St. NW, is hard to miss with the line of people who patiently wait outside the bubble gum pink storefront. Husband and wife Shawn Petersen and Nicole Dao opened Donut Run on Jan. 2 after two years of successful pop-ups around the city.
Every morning at 7 a.m., Donut Run places fresh, completely vegan donuts on display shelves built into the shop’s register counter for browsing. Donut flavors rotate in and out on a daily basis, but you can check for the flavors of the day on its Instagram story. The shop only carries about a dozen flavors of donuts each day, so you’ll likely be able to try a new variety each time you visit.
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Do not touch your face. Do not gather in groups of 10. Do not hug your mother.
In this year of do nots, many are finding a reprieve in doughnuts.
Artisanal doughnut shops are popping up everywhere. As such places tend to do, they are getting huge on social media, attracting around-the-corner (socially distanced) lines, and becoming prestige purchases as urban professionals with money to burn and carbs to spare go nuts for doughnuts.
Washington, D.C., alone has five prestige gourmet doughnut shops, which inspired a 2,500-word essay from the food blog
Eater D.C. Eater Editor and eater/editor Gabe Hiatt did the shoe-leather reporting himself, tasting the fares of Donut Run, Toscana Market, Rose Ave Bakery, La Bodega, and a bagel shop called Call Your Mother.
Inspired by their love for punk rock and doughnuts, founders Shawn Petersen and Nicole Dao have transformed their vegan pop-up into DC’s first vegan doughnut shop.