
Memorable | One of the Best
Do-Nut Dinette
Review by: Michael Stern
** THIS RESTAURANT IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED **
The neighborhood of Ghent in Norfolk, Virginia, has gone upscale in recent years and has become home to some of the finest fine-dining dining rooms in Hampton Roads. It also is where you will find Do-Nut Dinette, a counter-only diner with a salty short-order cook, sassy staff, and stools for scarcely more than a dozen customers (plus some wooden tables outside). The menu is a hash-house paradigm featuring eggs and various breakfast meats, greasy-good hash browns, and buttery grits; plus, as you might guess, donuts.
One big batch of donuts is made each morning (about twelve dozen on weekdays), so good sense demands arriving early. They will be fresh; and, more important, they will exist. It is not uncommon for a day’s supply to run out by noon. There is only one kind: raised & glazed. They are light, not cakey; but there is a pleasant doughy substance to them very unlike common donut blobs of sweetened, deep-fried fat that taste ethereal hot from the fry kettle but soon become leaden sinkers. One stool-sitter, who had lived in North Carolina back in Krispy Kreme’s salad days, declared Do-Nut’s donuts to be “Like Krispy Kreme was before they got full of themselves.”
Directions & Hours
1917 Colley Ave., Norfolk, VA , (Get Directions)
Information
Price | $ |
Seasons | All |
Meals Served | Breakfast, Lunch, Late Night |
Credit Cards Accepted | No |
Alcohol Served | No |
Outdoor Seating | Yes |
What To Eat
Do-Nut Dinette Recipes
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What do you think of Do-Nut Dinette?
One Response to “Do-Nut Dinette”
Llewellyn M
May 19th, 2023
They were the best. Does anyone know who has one that is comparable?