Beacon Doughnuts

Staying with some friends who happen to be vegan, I asked them to bring me to their favorite spots. So for breakfast one morning, we stopped at Beacon Doughnuts to grab a half-dozen doughnuts and wow, were they delicious!We pulled in and parked along the street very close to the shop a little after 8:30am on a Saturday. Walking down the alley, I was stunned by the awesome artwork all around Beacon Doughnut's window to order and pick-up their treats. There is no spot to sit so this is a pick-up and leave situation but that was fine, we planned on eating our doughnuts elsewhere anyways. The line was somewhat long but was moving fairly regularly, we were there maybe about 10-20 minutes total. The women working behind the counter were incredibly friendly and courteous! We placed our order and it was ready in little to no time and we were on our way.For my two, I went with Beacon's Vanilla Bean Cronut and Cinnamon Coffee Cake doughnut. Both were incredible! The taste, texture, and size were excellent. The Vanilla Bean Cronut was tall and had the texture of a doughnut with the light, fluffy inside of a croissant; I am in love! haha The Cinnamon Coffee Cake doughnut was just as delicious and had the right amount of coffee cake-like topping on top without all of it falling off after each bite. I did my best to savor every bite and was plenty full after.Beacon Doughnuts is an awesome breakfast spot with friendly staff and a smaller, but focused, menu. I definitely want to come back and try more!

Forget al the other high brow donut spots in Chicago. This should be the only place on your list. Beacon is where it's at. Their donuts are solidly at the top of the heap -- nothing over the top -- just great ingredients and the best tasting donuts in town.A you can't beat the easy pickup -- order ahead, yes ORDER AHEAD. I'm an early bird, so I order online the night before and am there by 7:30 a.m. to pickup and go easily in the alley.Thanks to the super friendly team at Beacon!

Putting a walk-up window in an alley is something that looks cool in photos and sounds neat, but in reality you're just standing next to dumpsters and standing in garbage water while you wait for your donuts. That being said, The donuts from here are pretty tasty. We got a half dozen because it was the most cost effective. They had several unique flavors and then your basic standard style donuts. I really enjoyed the blueberry pancake. It had a nice ribbon of blueberry jam running through it. I also liked the coffee cake donut. Service was friendly but kind of slow considering all they're doing is grabbing donuts and putting them in boxes. I expected it to be a little faster. Price is what you'd expect for an upscale donut shop in Lincoln Park.

It's hard to believe this is vegan like how do are these donuts so fluffy and delicious and better than all other non-vegan chain donut places in Chicago~ The alley entrance is actually quite cool and beautiful as well - we came early on a Sunday and had trouble only picking two flavors. We went with the blueberry pancake and vanilla bean cronut. The blueberry pancake was my favorite - dense but still fluffy and the jam inside wasn't too sweet either. The vanilla bean cronut was a nice complement as it was lighter and fluffier yet not too flakey. Basically the perfect synchrony of donut and croissant! I also got a tasty hot coffee to wash these down. Cannot wait to come back and try all of the other flavors!

My friends and I stopped here after brunch ~ 1:30 PM on a Sunday and they luckily still had all the donut choices still! I didn't realize how popular this place was since we just walked by the sign and decided to check it out! I got the 2nd to last blueberry pancake cake donut (10/10) and it was delicious and had a large amount of blueberry filling in it which I really enjoyed! My friends got the chocolate frosted glazed (8/10 I'm more of a cake donut girl) and the apple fritter (9/10 good with apple pieces throughout!)I do wish there were spots to sit or at least a table set up to stand at while we ate for the quick minute since they were pretty messy!

Amazing donuts! We stopped by here once before, but it was later in the afternoon and most of the options had unfortunately sold out.This time we decided to place an online order to make sure we could get some flavors that we wanted to try! It's a cute little place tucked away in an alley with a little sign on the sidewalk to point you in n the right direction. There was a decent line, but the online order window was empty so I was able to walk up and grab my donuts right away. The donuts were all very unique and delicious! I cannot wait to come back and get a half dozen or dozen to try even more flavors!

Freaking love Beacon. They are consistently an amazing and love the seasonals and specialty flavors. They now come to the wicker park farmers market which made my year haha recently tried the pistachio raspberry and it's another home run! Can't go wrong with beacon!

Really good donuts! The alleyway is super cool. I got one of the chocolate glazed brioche and one blueberry pancake. They were both so good, I couldn't decide which I liked better!! The blueberry pancake had a nice ring of blueberry filling that was perfectly balanced, and I loved the icing on the chocolate. Will definitely be back to try more!

Oomm so good. I love the variety of flavors. I can't say I've had a bad donut from these people. The wicker park farmers market is my go-to spot. Very friendly folks with excellent donuts.

I am really upset that I spent over $50 and really went out of my way to try and get these donuts for my husband for Valentine's Day. We both absolutely love stans and donut vault. We had previously had some really really good donuts from Beacon that I had been dying for. They don't deliver and the hours are very select so it's always a pain trying to get there to get the donuts . I ended up doing a Uber pick up which cost me $23 for a $33 box of donuts. My husband and I were so excited for the white chocolate, raspberry doughnut that they had on special for Valentine's Day . I had to have it, especially since it was in a heart shape so I ordered four of those. We both agreed that the donut was dry, except for the cream that was on the inside, which actually had chocolate chips in it, which I'm not a fan of crunchy things inside. Since the donut was so dry, we decided we would try all of the others and I am absolutely shocked that literally every single donut was extremely dry . I'm not sure if this was due to them maybe pre-batching a ton of donuts for Valentines and maybe we got stale donuts or what .The Oreo and red Velvet were shockingly dry and both tasted like nothing other than deep fried grease. The red velevet has a frosting on top but it was very hard. Again, seemed stale. But I can say that I don't think I'll ever go out of my way to get these donuts again . We were both really bummed, and wished that we would have just got Stan's Donuts, which is literally across the street from where we live.