Posted on 08/23/2022 8:18:56 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
What makes Red's Donuts, a 72-year-old Monterey institution, stand out among the thousands of independent California doughnut shops? And were they really the purveyors of Betty White’s favorite morning treat? I just had to find out.
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There’s a few reasons why Red’s is the place for doughnuts on the Central Coast. It’s old: Red’s started in 1950 on Alvarado Street, the main drag in downtown Monterey, when Hermann “Red” O’Donnell (the nickname came from his shock of auburn hair) bought it for three grand on a whim.
It’s original: While a second location, which now houses the baking operation, was opened in nearby Seaside in the mid-1980s, the original Alvarado Street shop is still bustling today. Same cushy vinyl stools and sunbeam yellow countertop, same framed newspaper clippings and janky clown-themed art on the wall, same coffee machines and even — same employees. Red’s is a constant in a neighborhood of ever-changing bar and restaurant store fronts.
It’s prolific: Red’s bakers crank out up to 350 dozen doughnuts a day, more when special events like the recent Concours d’Elegance car show or AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am are in town.
And if you can’t make it to either Red’s location before they sell out in the morning — and they do sell out fast — chances are you’ll be close to a Red’s drop zone if you’re in the area, from Acme Coffee Roasting Co. in Seaside to Nielsen Bros. Market and Deli in Carmel.
Most of all, the doughnuts are delicious.
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Are you allowed to eat doughnuts in Cali? If so it must be an oversight.
I’ve been there. My late wife was from Monterey. She grew up in a house on a dead-end street off of Cass Street.
Now you’ve done it!
My favorite Donut shop is Duck Donuts, originally started in Duck, North Carolina on the Outer Banks...
LOL. And in the ‘70s there would be near universal-derision for people who looked like the second photo. Now they’re celebrated.
We will stand in line for Round Rock Donuts in Round Rock, Texas
As you would expect, they’re Texas BIG!
I once brought a dozen home on the plane.
I saw a food show about that place. Yuuuge!
Do you get the California costal attitude tax there?
Wow, the kids in the 1970s picture were born in those awful, restrictive 1950s! They look like the victims of horrific mistreatment!
Only in their own minds and the media. Fat is fat, obese is obese, neither is particularly attractive in any sense.
Oh yeah. And all for good causes, right? 🙄🤮
”A surprising and little-known fact is that Canada is your largest per capita consumer of doughnuts.”
Commie donuts.
No thanks.
A friend of mine actually gained weight while on chemotherapy by drinking lots of milkshakes. Don’t know if doughnuts were part of that diet as well.
Mmmmmm, forbidden donut
New Year’s resolution from 2019 - no more doughnuts. Holding and still fine with it. Satan’s croutons....
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