Back Door Donuts
Bakery · Dukes County
5 Post Office Square, Oak Bluffs, MA 02557
Highlights
This chic bakery turns into a speakeasy at night, serving giant apple fritters and fresh donuts from its purple back door.
This chic bakery turns into a speakeasy at night, serving giant apple fritters and fresh donuts from its purple back door.
"It’s worth the ferry ride for these piping-hot doughnuts. The doughnuts scent the night air for those arriving to Oak Bluffs late — and they’re sold via the bakery’s purple back door to those wandering by from 7 p.m. to midnight. By day, enter through the front for coffee and doughnuts. The shop does the classics very well (honey-dipped, cinnamon sugar, and chocolate) and always offers a few curveballs. The apple fritter is the size of a dodgeball. Note: Back Door Donuts closes during the off-season on Martha’s Vineyard, but the team is operating a year-round pop-up in Boston with late-night service at Loretta’s Last Call near Fenway Park. (Or, if late-night doughnuts are not your thing, the shop started collaborating with Loretta’s on a decadent booze- and doughnut-filled brunch series every Saturday.)" - Erika Adams
"It’s worth the ferry ride for these piping-hot doughnuts. The doughnuts scent the night air for those arriving to Oak Bluffs late — and they’re sold via the bakery’s purple back door to those wandering by from 7 p.m. to midnight. By day, enter through the front for coffee and doughnuts. The shop does the classics very well (honey dipped, cinnamon sugar, and chocolate) and always offers a few curveballs. The apple fritter is the size of a dodgeball. Note: Back Door Donuts closes during the off-season on Martha’s Vineyard, but the team is operating a year-round pop-up in Boston with late-night service at Loretta’s Last Call near Fenway Park." - Eater Staff
"As a teenager, after nights of dancing to Parliament Funkadelic at house parties in Oak Bluffs, we’d regularly make a stop at the Old Stone Bakery’s back door."
"The origin story of Back Door Donuts is that people would stop by Old Stone Bakery late at night (and maybe after a few drinks) and beg for donuts. So in 2018, they opened this late-night donut spot. Everything is very good, but the apple fritters are the best thing they do. Plus, the line outside the shop is its own kind of fun hang, with everyone full of fresh seafood and booze. " - tanya edwards
"The origin story of Back Door Donuts is that people would stop by Old Stone Bakery late at night (and maybe after a few drinks) and beg for donuts. So in 2018, they opened this late-night donut spot. Everything is very good, but the apple fritters are the best thing they do. Plus, the line outside the shop is its own kind of fun hang, with everyone full of fresh seafood and booze." - Tanya Edwards
