You enter Nevada’s best doughnut shop by walking through a doughnut. An oversized three-dimensional one, set into the wall on Main Street, with lit sprinkles suspended overhead, leading into a room with pink stripes on the floor, pink paint drips down the walls, a fake spilled coffee, and a seven-foot doughnut statue. Restraint was never the goal here.
Pinkbox Doughnuts opened in 2012 in Las Vegas and put its second shop in Henderson by 2015, and the aesthetic is only half the story. Everything is made from scratch daily with house-made fillings and toppings, with no preservatives, across more than 70 varieties, plus a line of smaller ones called PEE-WEEZ. The Las Vegas Review-Journal’s readers have voted it the city’s best doughnut several years running.
It is also the only entry in this series with its own coffee program, its own energy drink line, and official doughnut partnerships with both the Raiders and the Golden Knights. If you’re working through the 50 best donuts nationwide, this is the one that behaves like a Vegas production and still fries a genuinely good apple fritter.
What to Expect When Visiting Pinkbox Doughnuts in Las Vegas, Nevada
Order a Doughcro, which is the house invention: croissant dough and doughnut dough crossed into something light and flaky, available in a range of flavors or fully customizable. The Plain Face version is the one to start with if you want to taste what the hybrid actually does before the toppings arrive…