{"id":360866,"date":"2025-11-06T23:26:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/360866\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T23:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:26:22","slug":"when-is-famous-l-a-shop-randys-donuts-opening-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/360866\/","title":{"rendered":"When is Famous L.A. Shop Randy\u2019s Donuts Opening in NYC?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Randy\u2019s Donuts<\/a>, the Los Angeles icon with the enormous rooftop ring you\u2019ve seen in movies, TV and approximately a thousand Instagram posts, is finally touching down in NYC. The brand\u2019s first East Coast shop opens in early December at 185 Bleecker Street, right on the corner of MacDougal in Greenwich Village, bringing a little West Coast sweetness to a neighborhood more associated with falafel<\/a>, late-night students and decades of Village grit.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1952, Randy\u2019s became famous for the Inglewood flagship crowned by its giant doughnut\u2014a piece of pop architecture that\u2019s basically a billboard in pastry form. The original began as part of Big Donut, a quirky drive-in chain built around spectacle. Ownership shifted over the years (attorney Mark Kelegian took the helm in 2015), but the appeal stayed the same: oversized, fluffy doughnuts made with decades-old recipes and a breezy Angeleno sensibility. The brand now spans Southern California, Las Vegas, Phoenix and a surprising number of international cities, from Seoul to Riyadh, which makes the absence of a New York brand until now that much more surprising.<\/p>\n

New York\u2019s outpost will launch with more than 35 varieties, running the gamut from \u201cclassic\u201d glazed raised, chocolate raised and sugar raised to \u201cdeluxe\u201d old-fashioneds and Long Johns, plus \u201cfancy\u201d cinnamon rolls, jelly-filled numbers and apple fritters. There\u2019s also a \u201cpremium\u201d tier starring Texas glazed, Nutella raised and a s\u2019mores raised that feels engineered for finals-week comfort. And yes, Randy\u2019s Rounds\u2014the oversized doughnut holes\u2014are coming too, along with a full lineup of coffee drinks.<\/p>\n

The arrival of a California heavyweight comes at a fascinating moment for NYC pastry culture. The city is in the middle of a dessert arms race: Tokyo\u2019s I\u2019m Donut?<\/a> is drawing Times Square lines; Toronto favorite Cops<\/a> landed in the West Village; and Portland\u2019s Voodoo Doughnut<\/a> has a Union Square debut on deck. Meanwhile, bakeries like Papa d\u2019Amour<\/a> and Ferrane<\/a> are reshaping neighborhood expectations with high-design pastries and global influences. In short, if you\u2019re going to enter the ring, bring your A-game\u2014and your glaze.<\/p>\n

Randy\u2019s is betting that its blend of nostalgia, pop-culture fame and genuinely good doughnuts will hit the spot. New Yorkers pride themselves on fiercely local sweets, but there\u2019s always room for one more contender\u2014especially one with a 73-year r\u00e9sum\u00e9 and a Hollywood-famous rooftop doughnut. Stay tuned for the exact opening date; until then, consider this your warning to clear some counter space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Randy\u2019s Donuts, the Los Angeles icon with the enormous rooftop ring you\u2019ve seen in movies, TV and approximately…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":360867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,10633,405,403,10634,5226,5225,5228,5227,988,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-360866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-categories-restaurants","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-news-eating","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-restaurants","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115505344297448620","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360866","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=360866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}