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6917 Hampton Ave. St. Louis, MO 63109

314-481-6050

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Best Cheese Flip
Award Winner 2008

Cuisine(s): Bakery

Hours: Sun,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat 5am-12pm

Price: $
Payment Types: cash

Features: Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible

Serving: Breakfast
Alcohol: None

Reservations: Not Accepted

Parking: Lot Available, Street

Description

Along Hampton Avenue, just south of Loughborough Avenue, sits the little green outpost that fires out tray after tray of fresh donuts everyday but Monday. The husband-and-wife-owned shop features long johns, frosted cake donuts, cinnamon twists and an old-fashioned loaf that is covered in a thin, sweet sugary glaze that keeps it moist and crisp. The donuts are made daily, as are all the pots of hot coffee that always seems to pair well with any of the choices underneath the counter, even their sweet, exclusive cheese flips. Enter along Hampton Avenue, and the shop has an off-street parking lot that wraps around back.

2008 | Best Cheese Flip

Technically, something is the "best" when it proves itself superior to its peers. Such is the case with most of the items in the issue you now hold in your hands. But should an item be excluded from this Best of St. Louis because it is unique Some things are unique because they are undeserving of imitation (like Provel cheese). But others are uniquely great. Such is the case with the cheese flip. A delicious hybrid of the Danish and doughnut family, the cheese flip looks like a long john... More »
2006 | Best Doughnuts

St. Louis Hills Donut Shop is a bright-green stand-alone edifice deep in south city. Like all doughnut shops whose names don't contain the word "Dunkin'" or "Krispy," it's a throwback. For fifteen years husband-and-wife team Larry and Teresa Magnan have run the show. Their current schedule has them showing up for work at 2 a.m., six days a week. He focuses on cookin', and she focuses on servin' up the long johns, doughnut holes and old-fashioneds, glazed with icing from crock pots behind the... More »

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By Gut Check | Fri, April 13, 2012

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The Eight Best Doughnut Shops in St. Louis

By Gut Check | Mon, January 23, 2012

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rftbestof | St Lous, MO | 149 Reviews

| Wed, May 6, 2009

Technically, something is the "best" when it proves itself superior to its peers. Such is the case with most of the items in the issue you now hold in your hands. But should an item be excluded from this Best of St. Louis because it is unique? Some things are unique because they are undeserving of imitation (like Provel cheese). But others are uniquely great. Such is the case with the cheese flip. A delicious hybrid of the Danish and doughnut family, the cheese flip looks like a long john folded in half around a layer of sweet cheese. It was invented over the course of many years at the St. Louis Hills Donut Shop, which remains the only place in the city, and possibly the world, where you can buy one. (An exhaustive Internet search turned up only one other mention of a cheese flip, in Portland, Oregon.) Yes, the St. Louis Hills Donut Shop sells the best cheese flip by default. But that does not make it any less worthy of inclusion here.

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St. Louis Hills Donut Shop

6917 Hampton Ave. St. Louis, MO 63109

314-481-6050

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2008 | Best Cheese Flip

2006 | Best Doughnuts

Bike and Binge Eat at Tour D'Onut 2012

By Gut Check | Fri, April 13, 2012

The Eight Best Doughnut Shops in St. Louis

By Gut Check | Mon, January 23, 2012

rftbestof | St Lous, MO | 149 Reviews

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