Artisan doughnuts are sweeping the nation, and while places like Doughnut Plant in Manhattan and Dynamo Donuts in San Francisco may be at the pinnacle of the movement, with impeccable ingredients and near faultless results, neither shop is as fun as Sublime Doughnuts in Atlanta, and it’s due to owner Kamal Grant.

Grant is a quote machine who has the background to back up his talk. He was a cook in the Navy and attended Culinary Institute of America before he started producing “electric chair” doughnuts in a strip mall near Georgia Tech. The space already housed a donut shop, but Grant took it to another level with his inventive new recipes.

By the time we reached Sublime, Kamal Grant and his human doughnut assistant were running low on fried pastries, but we still had plenty of options.

Grant makes 27 different delights per day, with a reasonable price ceiling of $2. We ordered a half-dozen, including an airy doughnut with Dulce de Leche ($1.25) frosting; a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup ($1.75) with peanut butter center and crumbled Reese’s studding the chocolate frosting; and a Fresh Strawberry N Cream ($2) sandwich dusted with powdered sugar.

The bottom half of the box was even better, featuring a Raspberry Filled Heart ($1.25), an A-Town Mocha ($1.75) with a coffee cream core and the frosted Chocolate Banana Fritter ($1.75), which you can also order “Elvis Style,” which I’m guessing means loaded with bacon.

Some styles inevitably slipped through the cracks, including the Chocolate Ganache Beignet w/Drunk Cherries, Tangerine doughnut and Butter Toffee doughnut with Caramel Chocolate Icing. On my next visit to Atlanta, I’ll make amends for my oversights.

Grant’s creativity, deft hand with the fryer and surprisingly light results ensured that Sublime lived up to its name. His approach has even prompted an apt box-top disclaimer: “Warning Contents in box Extremely DELICIOUS!!!”

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2 Comments

1. mattatouille, December 2, 2009:

   that’s awesome! this will be so useful the next time i’m in Atlanta…

2. tiffany, December 5, 2009:

   Oh my! This is not too far from my office. This means I will be five pounds heavier by the end of next week.

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