Glazed and Infused - Chicago

Glazed and Infused - Chicago (Hubbard Location)

While there is a small place you can go inside to buy your donuts, its just so much fun to go to the walk up window! I mean really - a hole in the wall that someone hands you donuts through!? YES PLEASE!

Glazed & Infused has three locations in Chicago, we visited the one at 30 E. Hubbard street.

Oh my gosh y'all. OH. MY. GOSH. We have hit the big time now - with our first of many donut shops we will be scouting out in the city of Chicago. Its just a whole different level of donut really. From all the research I have been doing, I think the biggest difference between suburb donuts and city donuts is that city donuts are FANCY.  And BIG. And probably deep fried in gold, cocaine, and bacon grease if Glazed & Infused is any indication of how good these fancy city donuts are all going to taste. I think the first thing to note about Glazed & Infused is that the donuts were literally bigger than my children's heads. If you are gonna charge $2.50 per donut, you might as well  give the people their money's worth, right?

Anyways, we got ourselves an assorted dozen and went to eat them on the newly completed Chicago Riverwalk. I can't see how we will top this experience, and I fear we have peaked on this summer-long journey in our first month, but we will somehow continue eating donuts withOUT kayakers to wave at for the rest of the summer. I guess. Our assortment included: Maple bacon long john, chocolate dipped, obscenely humongous glazed, chili-mango raised, old fashioned, lemon poppyseed old fashioned, triple coconut, something really chocolatey with chocolate curls on top, rainbow sprinkled cake donut, buttermilk dunking stick (that was way too large to actually dunk in any cup I own), and red velvet. While the chili-mango won the contest for me, I really have to give props to the cream cheese frosting on the red velvet. That frosting was so delicious I wanted to bathe in it.

We tried a bit of everything! The chili mango glazed one is second from the right on top and it was a real surprise! 

But who cares what I think anyways, here is what the kids and a special guest star blogger thought of this experience: 

M, age 11: I had the lemon poppy seed doughnut, part of the chocolate curls one, and a bite of the red velvet. I was impressed. All of the doughnuts were super big, and were really good! The lemon poppy seed one was good, but sweet. And the red velvet was very rich. But the chocolate curls one was flawless.

L, age 8: The donuts were big. I had the glazed donut AND I liked the maple donut after my mommy took off the bacon. I don't like maple donuts so it surprised me that I liked it. It was the first one I tried and I really really liked it. It was my favorite. Glazed was my second favorite.I did wanna say that the glazed donut did taste kind of good too though.

K, age 6: I liked the glazed donut but a little of the glaze was hard. I also had the sprinkles donut and the red velvet. The red velvet was good but had too much red stuff on it. The sprinkles donut was super super good. They were big but I did not really care that they were so big. This might have been my second favorite place. My favorite place was the one with the creepy doll.

SPECIAL GUEST BLOGGER: DAD!! (who does not even like donuts so who invited him?): Eh. I had the triple coconut. It did not have a heavy coconut taste. There was some filling inside but it did not taste like coconut. It had the consistency of a muffin and did not impress me.  The Chili-mango was not overly aggressive but wasn't very sweet so I wouldn't get it again. The one with the chocolate curls looked amazing but I did not try it because I am on a diet. I don't even like donuts.

Lest you think I was exaggerating, the donut really WAS as big as her head, and we really DID eat them with a picturesque view of the river.

Mother of pearl!! I have a freaking degree! I passed calculus! But  I'll be damned if I can figure out how to turn a $@*^#@*# picture in this blog interface! Anyways, here is the logo from the box.

Bottom Line: We LOVED this place. We took the left overs home and ate them for three days. You might have expected a mixed bag again because of Dad's review. We took a vote and Dad's opinion doesn't count here because: 1. He works and eats in the city every day and is hard to impress with fancy city baked goods of any kind, 2.He is on a diet so he is grumpy, and 3. He doesn't even like donuts. We really can not express our horror about #3 anymore than we already have. Who is this creature we live with!?