Plaza Pastries and Donuts

I have been thinking about this shop for a year now. We stumbled it across it last year while trying to find a place for breakfast. We had the best apple fritters in the world here AND the cake donuts were delicious too. A good old fashioned no frills bakery. I am so happy I looked on Unilocal and found it. I must return!

The donuts are fair to middling. I went at 9:30 on a Sunday and they were already just about sold out. They had no glazed donuts. Has the health inspector been in the place? It is filthy! I am not talking about its dirty because they did not have a chance to spruce up in the morning I am saying it needs a good hard scrub down inside. It has what looks like year old dirt and grease caked on floors surfaces and fittings. I will try them again and if it looks like they have addressed the issue then this will be updated. Bring cash unless you plan to order less then $ 6.00 worth

Plaza Donuts are the best doughnuts in town! They are made fresh everyday and you can taste the quality of the ingredients. They are crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, just how a donut should be. I can’t recommend them highly enough! My favorites are the buttermilk stick and the custard-​filled donut. My boyfriend goes for the brownie, which is just a little bit more firm than fudge and should probably be illegal. You have to get up early for those though because they sell out quickly! The owners are super friendly and remember our names when we go in. I have tried all the other «best» donuts in St. Louis and they don’t even come close to matching the Plaza!

I never have a bad experience! They’re always fresh and cheap. Love’em

Super friendly (especially for having been here a couple of hours already this morning)! I wound up buying more than I needed, just to support a local business (I’m sure I can share them). I’ll be back for sure!

Plaza Pastries is quite possibly my favorite doughnut shop in all of St. Louis, the donuts here are quality and filled with ingredients that match. I will admit that the fritters were are some of the best, but I cannot seem to stop without getting one of their amazing blueberry cake donuts, they are amazing.
In the past I believe that the neighboring restaurant had also shared a kitchen with Plaza Pastries, however I think there has been a shift in management and the owners are now focusing on the donuts, which is good however the restaurant was much better with the quality home made breads from Plaza Pastries.

My wife and I consider ourselves donut connoisseurs, and after our move to St. Louis about 3 years ago, we set to work sampling all the «best» donut joints in the city. Plaza Pastries is our favorite — they’re the best tasting donuts in St. Louis. Crispy/​flaky outside, moist inside, just the right amount of everything.
They’re nothing fancy (despite the name), but donut-​for-​donut, you won’t find better.
The owners are nice as well. If you’ve got your kids in tow, you can count of a few complementary donut-​holes.

Officemate brought in a box of mixed doughnuts and pastries today for a celebration. I had a piece of an apple fritter — which was flaky and tasty — a piece of a chocolate cake doughnut with chocolate glaze — which was chocolatey, cakey and heavy — a piece of a twisty thing that was basically a glazed doughnut — which was pretty airy — and a piece of a yellow cake doughnut with chocolate glaze and sprinkles.
Everything was heavy on the glaze — very sweet.

Hard to find; accidentally wandered into the restaurant next door, but that must happen a lot because they waved me right over to the donut shop without batting an eyelash. The dough is a bit heavy and they’re heavy-​handed with the glaze, making for an overly sweet, somewhat leaden donut.

Ummmmmmmmmm… Did you know there was a donut shop near S. Grand? My mind is blown right now. Laziness, gluttony, and Unilocal led me here. Best donuts ever? Probably not. But on par with most of the local joints I’ve been to. And cheap. And good enough. Just don’t eat six of them in one day because you might get sick. I have a… friend who did that once. Yeah. A friend.

Plaza has some of the freshest, softest donuts I’ve had the pleasure of inhaling. The glazed was light and fluffy, the chocolate glazed cake is just okay, but the butter twist? Oh heavens, that is a damned good donut.
Take a bag of butter twists, a coffee, and haul your butt to Tower Grove Park for a beautiful morning. Get a half dozen if you wanna feed the ducks some sugar, but save most of them for yourself.

I travelled throughout St. Louis looking for the perfect donuts. I finally found them at Plaza Pastries. The staff is nice and the area is great. They could do some upgrades on coffee sellection to help them all around.

Blinky Milk for Breakfast
On our quest for the perfect Saint Louis donut, the carpenter and I visited Plaza Pastries and Donuts Sunday morning. The donut shop itself is cute, and located in the back of the Plaza restaurant, where the owners told us they make all of the bread items on the menu in addition to donuts.
We didn’t have any cash on us, and luckily, you can still use credit as long as you spend 6 bucks. We picked out the standard, glazed so we could fairly rate Plaza against the other shops we’ve been to. Making up the rest of the cost, we got a raspberry filled, cinnamon bun, carmel long john, a large coffee, and a chocolate milk.
After talking with the owners a few minutes about their businesses on this strip of Morganford (day care, donut shop, and restaurant), we jumped back in the Scout, excited to try the donuts. Before we took off I opened my milk carton. I noticed that it smelled a bit funky, but I passed it off as maybe a weird carton/​chocolate milk smell combo. I noticed that the sell by date was a day old so I took a small sip. It seemed ok. So, I took a big gulp, but felt chunks of curdled milk swirling around in my mouth. Needless to say, I spit it right out on the parking lot, where it was so curdled, it looked like someone threw up donut.
The aftermath was simple. No more donuts from Plaza. I am sad about this point because I liked the donuts, all of them. Although they didn’t make my top three donuts in town, they also weren’t the worst donuts I’ve had in town. The glazed had a generous amount of glazed on it, which was great, but almost too much. The donuts themselves were all a lot heavier and more dense than other fried donuts I’ve had in the area. They all stuck onto each other in the bag. I never noticed this happening before from other shops. But, like I said, they had a nice flavor and weren’t that bad. But, all I can think about is the blinky milk I had for breakfast. I am willing to completely overlook a past sell by date by a day, because this shouldn’t mean the milk is bad. But I’m not willing to forgive poor refrigeration. Gross.

The best jelly donuts! This is my favorite donut shop. It might help that it’s around the corner from my house, but that doesn’t take away from the appeal.
I’m not a huge fan of the plain round donuts, or twists or anything with a coating of sugar glaze (don’t even show me a Krispy Kreme donut) I prefer the sugar coated versions and pastries of all kinds, and Plaza satisfies my needs in that department. They have some great things you don’t see other places too.
The Apple Fritters are huge and gooey. The little upside down cupcakes they call «Fudgies» are fantastic. Raspberry filled jelly donuts are awesome. Apple Flips… think giant sized hostess apple pie… are a must-​have. And the various danishes are the best I’ve had.
They’re so good I gained 40 pounds after they opened, because I went there at least 3 times a week for way too long. But I’ve finally taken off that 40 pounds, of course I’ve only been there twice in the last 3 months. I’m gonna get a Fudgie and a cherry danish after I lose another 10 pounds, then back on the diet.