Boston’s Best Doughnuts | Eater Boston

"Union Square Donuts in Somerville (and now in the Boston Public Market, Time Out Market Boston, and Brookline) is a doughnut shop of a different breed. Instead of having a plain old bakery display case — utilitarian furnishing is typical to old-school doughnuts shops — Union Square Donuts’s shops are furnished with fancy espresso machines and tables and countertops crafted by someone who cares about wood. Don’t let the hipster facade deter you; these are some of the best doughnuts you’ll ever eat. The brown butter hazelnut crunch is a treat, but Union Square’s doughnut magnum opus is its maple bacon. The flavor combination is a borderline cliché at this point — seemingly every cool doughnut shop from Portland, Oregon, to Portland, Maine, has a maple bacon situation — but it doesn’t matter because it’s perfect." - Terrence Doyle