Following the wild success of Doughnut Vault, Scott Harris has been talking up his Glazed and Confused concept (now up to three locations), but another restaurant group has snuck in and opened a spot under the radar first. At 6:30 this morning Francis Brennan, who was chef at L2O after Laurent Gras but subsequently replaced by Matthew Kirkley, and Jeff Mahin, who is chef-partner at Lettuce Entertain You’s Stella Rossa Pizza Bar in Santa Monica, opened Do-Rite Donuts with Lettuce backing in a storefront attached to Petterino’s at 50 W. Randolph. They’ll be offering an interesting assortment of “gourmet” doughnuts including peanut butter and jelly with a peanut butter mousse topping, and the “Old-Fashioned” cake doughnut topped with Tahitian vanilla or Valhrona chocolate. They will also have their own coffee blend from Dark Matters, developed especially to go with doughnuts. (We have yet to meet the coffee that didn’t go with doughnuts, or vice versa, but whatever.) [Gaper’s Block]
