Steve's Bakery - Yorkville, IL

Steve's Bakery

Steve's bakery is located at 646 W. Veteran's Parkway in Yorkville, IL.

Steve's Bakery came recommended to us by a few people who live in or around Yorkville. While the donuts were nothing too special in my opinion, I did absolutely love the place. The woman who runs it is just SO NICE and helpful and so easy to chat with. We did go late morning, so she told us they were already out of a lot of donuts, but I still felt like we got a pretty good sampling of what they had to offer and they had MANY different types for being such a small bakery. Its worth noting that they are one of the only place we have been to that uses lemon in their donuts and that just really made me wonder why more places don't!? It is definitely a great flavor that matches well with the airiness of a donut! 

Here are the kid's thoughts on this one:

M, age 11: I had the lemon long john, and son of a walnut, was that just the best doughnut I've ever had. It was filled with this delicious lemon curd stuff, and it had a drizzle of vanilla on top. I devoured it. I want to live off this doughnut. 10 out of 10.

L, age 8: I liked my donut.   I had the glazed  twist.  It smelled cheesy in there.

K, age 6: This place only took cents. I had a cinnamon roll. I also tried mommy's donut. This place was just okay for me. (editor's note: Steve's bakery only takes cash - and cents as noted here - in other words, no charge cards, which meant I had to clean out the ashtray in my car to score us some donuts). 

Bottom Line:  Another mixed bag for us.

A big plus about Steve's Bakery? Its just a short drive from the Yorkville Rocket Ship park which is a really fun place! We don't live very close to Yorkville, so we make one trek a summer out to this park. Combining that annual trip with donuts pretty much made it a little outing from Heaven ;)