Atlanta’s Sublime Doughnuts. Twelve Is Tough.

On a business trip to Atlanta a few weeks ago, I went to dinner with my friends, Dave and Molly. I plan to blog about the dinner next week (we ate at Bacchanalia), but for now, I want to share with you the doughnuts you see above from Sublime Doughnuts in Atlanta. Unfortunately, at post time, the Sublime Web site was down, so you’ll have to settle for a Yelp link instead. If heaven is a place on Earth, that place was inside this bakery box filled with twelve of the most ecclectic doughnut flavors I could have ever imagined. Before we dive into the dough, however, let’s think outside the box.

Sublime Doughnuts maintains a low profile in a strip mall just down the road from the massive Turner Complex that sits on I-75. I don’t know Atlanta very well, but I think the doughnut shop was very near the Georgia Institute of Technology which explained it’s collegial feel. I didn’t get a picture of the exterior, but if I remember correctly, there’s just a sign on the facade that spells, D-O-U-G-H-N-U-T-S, in big red basic letters. In other words, it’s easy to miss.

I walked in, and told the tattooed guy behind the counter that a friend had recommended the place, and that I wanted a dozen doughnuts to go. He grabbed a box, and asked which flavors I wanted. I had no idea, so he proceeded to walk me through what seemed to 20 or 30 flavors. I don’t think there were that many, but they had so many good ones, that I kept thinking, “Yep. Gotta try that one. Yep. Gotta try that one, too.” But, I was limited to a dozen, so I had to choose carefully.

Thank God the place wasn’t busy, and the guy helping me seemed to have the patience of Job, because after he told me every flavor, we started over as I began to make my selection.