The mysterious DONUT SMELL.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Sometimes when I walk down Highland Avenue in the morning, I distinctly smell fresh donuts. I catch this whiff in a varying location between the Willow and Hancock intersections. However, there are no donut shops or bakeries that I know of near this section of road. The closest donut-aware bakeries I could name are in either Davis or Ball Squares, which are just too far away from this location.

So: is there a hidden donut shop I, tragically, don't know about, in that area? Or am I just falling victim to wishful smelling?

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[hrafn.livejournal.com]

The only non-Dunkin Donuts, non-Baskin Robbins that whitepages.com gave me (on a "donuts" search) is:

Russ Donuts
2 Highland Rd.
Somerville, MA 02144
617-623-0529

(switchboard.com has the address as 2 Highland Ave, which does not match up with anything anyone here has said. I've never much liked switchboard.com.)

[count0.livejournal.com]

The building is so strange. No numbers on it. No signs. But there is something that looks like a mail slot in one of the doors.

I also checked Boston Magazine's website but couldn't find any articles about secret donut factories in Somerville in their online archives.

(Your name is hrafn?? Heh! I was just in Iceland a couple months ago and saw many of them! Amazing birds, apparently originally brought over by the Vikings from Norway. Beautiful country, Iceland...fire and ice... )

[emblebug.livejournal.com]

I also checked Boston Magazine's website but couldn't find any articles about secret donut factories in Somerville in their online archives.

It was an article earlier this year - maybe in the winter - that focused primarily on the Dunkins vs. Krispy Kreme debate, but also talked about small, locally-owned donut places. I might still have the hard copy in my apartment somewhere. I will have to look for it.

[emblebug.livejournal.com]

I also checked Boston Magazine's website but couldn't find any articles about secret donut factories in Somerville in their online archives.

Here's the article:
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/ArticleDisplay.php?id=219

Unfortunately, it's only about DD and KK. I think the place in Somerville was mentioned in a sidebar, along with some other small donut bakeries.

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

Yep, the "2 Highland Rd." address looks right. It's at the intersection of Highland Road and Morrison.

Highland Road and Highland Ave are perpendicular, about three blocks apart, and do not intersect. Gotta love Boston-area street naming conventions.