Any day is made better with a donut! But if you need an excuse to get donuts, June 7, 2024, is national donut day.
Whether you prefer glazed or cake donuts, there are so many great donut shops in Omaha to choose from. What’s your favorite?
Best Donuts In and Around Omaha
Square Donut
15825 West Maple Road, Omaha, NE 68116
This local shop serves square donuts like its name suggests. The donuts are hand-crafted and come in a variety of traditional and specialty flavors.
LaMar’s Donuts & Coffee
17202 Audry Street, Omaha, NE 68136
Lamars Donut is a national donut shop originating in Kansas City, MO, in 1933. Their menu features many traditional and specialty donuts, bars, bizmarks, knots, fritters, cinnamon rolls, and coffee.
Sunrize Donuts
17676 Welch Plaza #7, Omaha, NE 68135
Sunrize Donuts has been family-owned for over 30 years. They offer more than 50 varieties of doughnuts made from scratch daily. A staff member makes fresh dough every morning. Fifty percent of the dough is hand mixed, and fifty percent is mixed with an automatic mixer. Cutting, pinning, rising, frying, and finishing is all done by hand.
Sugared Ledge
920 N 204th Ave ste 120, Elkhorn, NE 68022
Make your day a little sweeter with one of these donuts that are made fresh daily. Their espresso donut is a must if you like coffee!
Winchell’s Donut House
2905 South 120th Street, Omaha, NE 68144
Winchell’s Donut House is a national chain based in California. Winchell’s provides a huge variety of donuts, bagels, muffins, croissants, rolls, breakfast sandwiches, and specialty drinks.
Krispy Kreme
707 South 72nd Street, Omaha, NE 68114
2715 South 120th Street, Omaha, NE 68144
Krispy Kreme is known for their traditional and specialty donuts and drinks. Inside, customers can watch the doughnuts traveling along a conveyor belt as they are cut, fried, and glazed.
Olsen’s Bake Shop
1708 South 10th Street, Omaha, NE 68108
Olson’s Bake Shop is a small, family-run bakery. They offer various baked items, including doughnuts, cookies, cakes, bars, bread, brittle, and kolache.
Pettit’s Pastry
502 North 16th Street, Omaha, NE 68102
Pettit’s Pastry has been an Omaha based, family-owned pastry shop for over 65 years.
Hurts Donut
1726 N 126th Street, Omaha, NE 68154
Hurts Donut is unique and options are endless, which reflected their hours of operation. They’re open 24/7!
Each Hurts Donut location is independently owned and operated. They have oversized specialty donuts designed to “break all the rules with their uniform-free toppings and amped up flavors.”
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Ditmars Orchard and Vineyard – 19475 222th St, Council Bluffs, Iowa
Ditmars offers freshly made apple cider donuts, a fall favorite around the Omaha metro.
Sweet Magnolia’s Bake Shop – 813 North 40th St, Omaha / 1222 Nicholas St, Omaha
Sweet Magnolia’s is a locally-owned boutique bakery in the historic Joslyn Castle neighborhood. Sweet Magnolias offers a huge variety of breakfast items, including donuts, scones, coffee cake, rolls, knots, buns, danish, and quiche.
Jones Bros. Cupcakes – 2121 South 67th St, Omaha / 2615 South 180th St, Omaha / 10000 California St Suite 6570, Omaha
Jones Bros. Cupcakes is a locally owned cupcake shop that appeared on Food Network’s Cupcake Wars. Jones Bros. also offers a variety of breakfast items, lunch items, treats, and beverages.
*This post was originally written in 2020 and has been updated in 2024.
