{"id":8209,"date":"2025-06-24T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/?p=8209"},"modified":"2025-06-24T09:01:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T14:01:45","slug":"old-town-donuts-in-florissant-crowned-best-in-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/old-town-donuts-in-florissant-crowned-best-in-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Town Donuts in Florissant Crowned Best in the Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A big congratulations is in order for Florissant\u2019s own Old Town Donuts<\/a> \u2014 they\u2019ve officially been named the best doughnut shop in the entire country!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Located on North New Florissant Road, this beloved local bakery beat out 63 other contenders from across the U.S. in a bracket-style competition hosted by The64<\/a>. The tournament, dubbed the Best Donuts in America<\/em>, featured head-to-head matchups where the public voted for their favorite spots in each round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Old Town Donuts<\/a>, a mainstay in the St. Louis County community for over 50 years, is known for keeping the fryers going 24\/7 to make sure fresh donuts are always available. Their round-the-clock dedication and loyal fanbase clearly paid off \u2014 in the final round, they edged out Jason’s Donuts from Eagle River, Alaska, to claim the title.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The64 team built the bracket using public nominations, shop achievements, and their own review process, but it was the fans who carried Old Town across the finish line. Voting for each round lasted two days, with the final vote wrapping up this past Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the win, Old Town Donuts took to Facebook<\/a> to thank their supporters, saying, \u201cThank you to everyone that voted and helped get the word out. We love all of you!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you haven\u2019t tasted what all the fuss is about, now might be the perfect time to treat yourself to a fresh one \u2014 or a dozen \u2014 from America\u2019s new favorite donut shop.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A big congratulations is in order for Florissant\u2019s own Old Town Donuts \u2014 they\u2019ve officially been named the best doughnut shop in the entire country! Located on North New Florissant Road, this beloved local bakery beat out 63 other contenders from across the U.S. in a bracket-style competition hosted by The64. The tournament, dubbed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1,276,7],"tags":[17,12,1211,147,70,19],"class_list":["post-8209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-town","category-blog","category-family","category-inside","tag-around-town-2","tag-blog-2","tag-donuts","tag-family","tag-food","tag-inside-fun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/old-town-donuts.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JMKA-28p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8213,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209\/revisions\/8213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}