The best donuts in Kansas come out of a mini strip mall next door to a liquor store, in an Argentine neighborhood that most of Kansas City has no particular reason to visit. One local food writer admitted she had lived in the city her whole life and never had cause to hang out there. One trip changed her mind, which is roughly everyone’s story with this place.
Hana Simcak opened Hana’s Donuts in 2012 and has owned and operated it since; her argument wins on the basis of cake donuts, specifically. Most shops treat cake as the also-ran next to the yeast-raised case. Here it’s the main event: orange zest, forest berry, red velvet, pistachio almond, raspberry old-fashioned, chocolate cake with peanuts or almonds, vanilla cake with coconut.
The old-fashioned line runs $1.75 a donut, which in 2026 is a genuinely startling price for something handmade. If you’re eating through 50 states worth of donuts, this is the entry where the parking is easy, the prices are low, and the only real difficulty is that the doors close at noon.
What to Expect When Visiting Hana’s Donuts in Kansas City, Kansas
The bestsellers are the original glazed, red velvet cake, apple fritter, and wild blueberry fritter. That last one matters more than it sounds, because almost every donut shop in America makes an apple fritter and almost none of them bother with blueberry. Reviewers who want more berries in it still order it every visit…