{"id":360217,"date":"2025-11-06T17:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/360217\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T17:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:03:17","slug":"las-randys-donuts-is-opening-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/360217\/","title":{"rendered":"LA\u2019s Randy\u2019s Donuts Is Opening in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Randy\u2019s Donuts<\/a>, the iconic Los Angeles shop, is opening its first East Coast location in early December at 185 Bleecker Street, at MacDougal Street, in Greenwich Village. The expansion brings more than 70 years of West Coast doughnut culture to a corridor better known for<\/a> shops like Mamoun\u2019s Falafel, post-hippie cafes, and hordes of students, than a home to a drive-in brand from California (unless, of course, you count the old McDonald\u2019s<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Founded in 1952, Randy\u2019s California flagship is marked by a giant rooftop doughnut that looms over Inglewood, a sight featured on TV, in film cameos, and across social media. Randy\u2019s began<\/a> as part of an L.A. drive-in chain called Big Donut, created by a doughnut-machine salesman who leaned into spectacle. The Inglewood store was renamed in the 1970s. Attorney Mark Kelegian bought<\/a> the business in 2015 and expanded it across Southern California, Las Vegas, Phoenix, and international markets, including South Korea, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, and Japan.<\/p>\n

Randy\u2019s New York location will open with more than 30 doughnut varieties across \u201cclassic\u201d glazed or chocolate raised, sugar raised, and sprinkles; \u201cdeluxe\u201d old-fashioneds; \u201cfancy\u201d jelly-filled, cinnamon rolls, and apple fritters; and \u201cpremium\u201d tiers with Texas glazed, s\u2019mores raised, and Nutella. Also look for its doughnut holes called Randy\u2019s Rounds, and a full lineup of coffee drinks.<\/p>\n

New York\u2019s pastry landscape<\/strong><\/p>\n

Randy\u2019s entry lands amid an unusually competitive moment for New York pastry culture. Tokyo import I\u2019m Donut? <\/a>opened in Times Square, and draws lines for plush doughnuts and limited-run savory specials. Toronto\u2019s cult favorite Cops<\/a> landed in the West Village with a rotating menu and seductive ads. Portland\u2019s Voodoo Doughnut<\/a> is planning a Union Square debut.<\/p>\n

Beyond doughnuts, the bakery field keeps widening: Swedish-leaning Ferrane<\/a> opened in Brooklyn Heights with cardamom buns and princess cakes, Papa d\u2019Amour<\/a> from Dominique Ansel arrived in Greenwich Village, and Upper West Side institution Silver Moon Bakery<\/a> resurfaced in collaboration with Buttercup Bake Shop. And in parallel niche bakeries, Dilj\u0101n<\/a> will open from Bryan Ford, the Afghan bakery in Brooklyn Heights, with the partners of Astoria\u2019s Little Flower Cafe, later this month.<\/p>\n

New York pastry culture has shifted from neighborhood mainstays to high-visibility openings, limited releases, and influencer-fuelled lines. It involves pastry mavens like Lys\u00e9e<\/a>, kuih specialists like Lady Wong<\/a>, and croissant experimentalists like Lafayette. Neighborhood favorites brush up against international entries like Tuscany\u2019s La Tazza d\u2019Oro<\/a> in featuring a spectrum of baked goods as well as those focused on single-item offerings<\/a>. Like Voodoo, Randy\u2019s brings a different category \u2014 a West Coast doughnut institution defined by cultural recognition and everyday appeal.<\/p>\n

\u201cRandy\u2019s Donuts is about as iconic a food destination as there ever has been,\u201d Eater\u2019s former Los Angeles editor Farley Elliott<\/a> noted after the desserts were featured on The Tonight Show a decade ago, when Jimmy Fallon jumped through an inflatable version of the giant doughnut. New Yorkers, who pride themselves on neighborhood bakeries, bagel shops, and Italian pastry counters, now get to decide whether this Southern California symbol should be embraced in Greenwich Village.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Randy\u2019s Donuts, the iconic Los Angeles shop, is opening its first East Coast location in early December at…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":360218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337,11647],"class_list":{"0":"post-360217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-nyc-restaurant-openings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115503838783199547","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}