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1600 Portland Ave. | 585-342-5263
ridgedonuts.com
Visitors to this Portland Avenue fixture are greeted with the phrase, “Ahhh the good donuts,” painted on the wall by local artist Shawn Dunwoody. That pretty much sums up why Ridge Donuts is a reader favorite. Family-run for nearly four decades, Ridge Donut is in a class of its own when it comes to the fried pastries with the hole in the middle. Whether you want your doughnuts glazed, iced, topped, or filled, it is hard to go wrong with the selection here. The only hard part is choosing which to eat there and which to take home. Leaving with one of Ridge’s famous apple fritters is a must, and while most of the doughnuts offered are traditional, innovations such as the Italian-cookie doughnut, a collaboration with Rubino’s, have drawn large lines of eager patrons. Ridge Donut shows no signs of slowing down and maintains its title of Rochester’s sweetest tradition for another year.
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