I've been on the hunt for a good local donut place. After asking some friends, I got the suggestion to go to Your Mom's Donuts. So I went over on a Saturday and grabbed some donuts to go.
Here are the pros about Your Mom's Donuts:
- They switch out available flavors (six) weekly.
- They're HUGE! It's almost more like a breakfast pastry than what most people are used to in a donut.
- They do use local / state ingredients where possible (coffee is from a local Charlotte company, flour is from China Grove (I believe)).
- Frankly, they're quite delicious.
Even though there are a multitude of positives, there is one great big drawback: it's freaking expensive!! It's hard for me to justify spending $3 or $3.50 per donut (or $15 for a half-dozen or $24 for a dozen). For comparision, a local donut place in Bozeman, MT sells donuts at $0.75 per donut.
I suppose if I approach it more as a full-blown breakfast pastry than as a donut, the price difference is a little easier to bear. But not by much.