Knead Doughnuts Elmgrove ★ 4.4
Knead Doughnuts has multiple Providence storefronts; the Elmgrove cafe on the East Side is the steadiest. Daily rotating brioche and cake-doughnut menu.
Worth the queue: Maple bacon brioche
Seven Stars Bakery Hope Street is a bakery in East Side, Providence.
Editorially verified May 31, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Address: 820 Hope Street, Providence, RI 02906
Knead Doughnuts has multiple Providence storefronts; the Elmgrove cafe on the East Side is the steadiest. Daily rotating brioche and cake-doughnut menu.
Worth the queue: Maple bacon brioche
Seven Stars Broadway opened in 2007 as the West Side sister to the Hope Street original. Country breads, pain au chocolat, the same croissants.
Worth the queue: Pain au chocolat
Scialo Bros opened on Atwells in 1916 and reopened in 2021 after a pandemic-era closure. Cannoli filled to order from brick ovens dating to the 1920s.
Worth the queue: Cannoli, filled to order
LaSalle on Smith Street is the Smith Hill neighborhood Italian bakery; cakes, cookies, sandwiches, breakfast pastries, a steady morning line.
Worth the queue: Cake by the slice
Knead Doughnuts on Cromwell Street in Providence, the Rhode Island gourmet doughnut counter using locally sourced flour and dairy with rotating seasonal.
Worth the queue: Brown butter glazed yeast doughnut
Knead Doughnuts has multiple Providence storefronts; the Elmgrove cafe on the East Side is the steadiest. Daily rotating brioche and cake-doughnut menu.
Worth the queue: Maple bacon brioche
Knead's Smith Street outpost serves the daily brioche and cake-doughnut rotation in the same morning window as the other shops; counter ordering.
Worth the queue: Classic glazed brioche