Layers Of Sweetness
Parlor Doughnuts Brings Its Small-Batch Delights To Southlake.
When you think of a doughnut, you traditionally think of the soft yeast and cake variety topped or filled with creamy, sweet and fruity flavors. But Parlor Doughnuts is reinventing how people enjoy the beloved breakfast treat.
Founded in Evansville, Indiana in 2019, Parlor Doughnuts is a rapidly growing chain that has expanded to 50 shops across the nation, including its most recent one opening on Southlake Boulevard near Bicentennial Park. Embodying a nostalgic Americana aesthetic complete with black-checker flooring, a vintage RCA radio and an American flag proudly draped in the entryway, the shop has built up a reputation for continuously baking small-batch doughnuts all day long — sometimes up until the last half-hour of service.
But these aren’t your typical doughnuts. Rather than mixing and kneading the dough as many other shops do, Parlor Doughnuts instead stacks layers of butter dough on top of each other before deep frying it, resulting in a texture that’s flaky and crispy on the outside like a croissant but with the same soft and airy doughnut texture on the inside that you know and love.
Parlor’s original Plain Jane doughnut isn’t as sweet as others are, but this allows customers to be as decadent with the toppings as they wish. Their most popular flavor is the French Toast doughnut, which is glazed and drizzled in maple syrup and dusted with powdered cinnamon sugar. The Strawberry Shortcake is coated in a strawberry glaze and topped with fresh strawberries, crushed graham crackers and whipped cream, while the Maple Bacon is coated in a maple glaze with crispy fried bacon. Of course, you can never go wrong with the Chocolate Chocolate, which has a double coating of chocolate glaze and syrup along with mini chocolate chips.
No sweet tooth? No problem. Parlor Doughnuts also has an assortment of delicious breakfast options to choose from as well. Its breakfast tacos come with a choice of chorizo, bacon or avocado, while the sourdough toast has a hearty spread of avocado, hard-boiled egg slices, tajin and sesame seeds. The Plain Jane doughnut can also be sliced in half for a bacon, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich that is equal parts sweet and savory. You won’t want to miss out on the coffee either, with its Indiana-grown beans helping to make the most flavorful hot, cold or iced beverages.
Come for their inventive take on the classic doughnut or any one of their breakfast staples, because you will taste the difference at Parlor Doughnuts.