Joh And Doh! - Naperville

Joh and Doh! Donuts - Naperville

Joh & Doh: 1292 Rickert Drive #104, Naperville, IL 60540

HAPPY NATIONAL DONUT DAY!!! 

Its national donut day! This is a pretty momentous occasion in our home of course so we were excited to celebrate! And celebrate we did - by going to THREE different donut shops and basically eating nothing by donuts for each meal today.  One of these days, that trophy for my excellent parenting will arrive when I least expect it. I'm sure it's just lost in the mail ;)

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Anyways, we did the obligatory free donut at Dunkin' Donuts, which I am pretty sure you do not need us to review on this blog, and then we hit two other local small business donut shops. One of them we will write about later, but today we are going to review Joh and Doh! in South Naperville. It proved a little hard to find due to it being on the end and around the back of a strip mall that we drove back and forth in front of a few million times while swearing at Google Maps and wondering if it had closed, and the business hours online were wrong which led to it being closed the first time we went, but we sure are glad we decided to give it another try!! The donuts were DELICIOUS. 

 Today's haul!

Here are our reviews:

M, age 11: I felt like this place was pretty good. All of the donuts tasted really fresh, and you could just tell that those donuts weren't made of artificial  ingredients. Also, the glaze part of the donut was very neat. That is pretty important for me. :) Just look at that caramel one, or the light brown one. Perfection!!!

L: age 8: the  double chocolate tasted like  a chocolate cake.   I did  not Like the  apple fritter.

i liked  joh and dohs better than other places we have  tried.

K: age 6: this was great but i did not like apple fritter or the maple bacon long john. i did like the

vanilla  long john. this was the best place except for the apple and bacon. 

Mom, Age 29 ( just don't question it): This place was cute. The girl who works there remembered we were the ones who showed up after it closed the day before and gave me a discount for my trouble. She was super friendly as were the other two women working there. I love a female owned business so they got pretty quickly right into my heart and the donuts were good enough to cement them on in there forever. I would say the chocolate frosted cake donuts were just okay for me. But the strawberry glazed yeast donut was really yummy and I was surprised by how much I liked the maple bacon long john as I usually detest maple anything. I think the trick here was that the maple flavoring was light and the salty bacon perfectly offset it. The winner of the lot for me though, was the caramel frosted cake donut. I'm not sure I have really had anything like it before, and you could definitely taste that the caramel was authentic and home made. I would go back just for that one over and over (its the tan one in the middle-ish in the pic above). 

In case you are wondering how we are trying so many donuts without our pants getting TOO much tighter. 

Bottom Line: Four thumbs up! (five if you count Dad, who is insisting he is not participating in all this because he is sticking to his diet this summer, but who definitely snuck a piece of maple bacon long john!). Our first unanimous like!