Portland's most photographed pastry: a yeast-raised maple-glazed doughnut bar topped with two strips of bacon. Sweet, salty, fatty, fried.
Voodoo Doughnut opened in 2003 in a Portland storefront between two Old Town nightclubs. Co-founders Kenneth Pogson and Tres Shannon experimented with absurdity from the start, and the bacon maple bar (yeast bar, maple glaze, two crisp bacon strips) became the photograph that travelled. It crossed national TV in 2006 on Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations, and it has been the bestselling Voodoo doughnut every year since. Portland claims it the way Chicago claims the slice. The pairing is older than the doughnut, with maple-and-bacon a southern brunch staple, but Voodoo gave it a wax-paper handle and a $5 price.
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Pip's Original Doughnuts & Chai ★ 4.7
alberta-arts · 4759 NE Fremont St, Ste C, Portland, OR 97213
Nate and Jamie Snell's mini-doughnut counter on NE Fremont in Portland, with house-made chai flights paired to small batches of cake doughnuts since 2012.
Voodoo Doughnut Old Town ★ 4.2
downtown · 22 SW 3rd Ave, Portland, OR 97204
Kenneth Pogson and Tres Shannon's original Voodoo Doughnut in Portland's Old Town, open since 2003 with the bacon maple bar that became a city symbol.