- Top Pot Doughnuts is a Seattle-based doughnut chain that was named the best in America by the Daily Meal.
- I tried a latté and a half-dozen doughnuts including the Raspberry Glazed Old Fashioned, the Chocolate Feather Boa, the Maple Glazed Old Fashioned, the Maple Bar, the Bavarian Crème Bismark Filled, and the Lemon Glazed Blueberry Cake.
- The expertly crafted and simpler items blew me away, but some of the more creative doughnuts fell flat.
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Doughnuts are a delicious trap.
But the nature of traps is that you are lured into them, and Top Pot Doughnuts is the best chain for delicious traps in Seattle and, according to the Daily Meal, in the US.
On a recent sojourn to my emerald homeland, I was enticed into a Top Pot Doughnuts location by the smell of fresh coffee and the promise of expertly hand-forged circles of sugary dough.
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In an attempt to relive my adolescent doughnut-eating glory days, I ordered a half-dozen doughnuts: Raspberry Glazed Old Fashioned, the Chocolate Feather Boa, the Maple Glazed Old Fashioned, the Maple Bar, the Bavarian Crème Bismark Filled, and the Lemon Glazed Blueberry Cake - and a latté with which to wash them all down.
Here's what I thought: