The store, at 1806 Greenville Ave., will open its doors at 8 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 20. It's located next door to the new Italian restaurant Via Triozzi and just down from Swizzle, the tiki bar.
Voodoo opened its first store 20 years ago and quickly became a sort of cult favorite. The menu includes a lot of the usual suspects but it maybe best known for the Bacon Maple Bar. The chain serves more than 50 flavors, including 25 vegan alternatives. There are 20 other locations across the U.S. and seven in Texas.
This fried-dough pusher is known for its quirky attitude: they swear the magic is in the hole.
Voodoo has expanded far and wide, including stores in Austin, Houston and San Antonio, but this will be its first location in North Texas.
Voodoo was founded by friends Kenneth "Cat Daddy" Pogson and Tres Shannon in 2003 in the hopes of achieving "world doughnut domination" with a new style of fried doughnuts: gourmet. From the outset, the two were creative in all aspects of running their doughnut shop, including hosting Swahili lessons, weddings (legal, if you wanted them to be) and concerts in the loft above the original shop. Aside from the antics, they also quickly won accolades for the doughnuts. In 2010, Bon Appetit anointed Voodoo one of the 10 best doughnuts in the country.
While many flavors and styles are over the top, like The Dirt topped with cookies and an Old Dirty Bastard with cookies and a peanut butter drizzle, the simple old-fashioned is popular as well. A Maple Blazer Blunt is a cylindrical doughnut dusted with cinnamon and sugar with red sprinkles at the end.
Gourmet doughnuts are having a movement in Dallas. Detour Doughnuts in Frisco, one of our local favorites, often has a line out the door. Dallas-based Hypnotic is a longtime star, as is Jarams on Preston Road in North Dallas and in Lakewood. The Salty Donut from Miami opened in the Bishop Arts District in 2020 and is regularly packed; they serve a brioche-style dough. We got a taste of Wow Donuts and Drips last year. Parlor is also new to town; they use a layered croissant type of dough.
Call me a purist but nothing beats a Shipley's warm, plain glazed.
But there's always more room at the doughnut table, so come on down, Voodoo.
This spot will likely do well along Greenville Avenue, which is surrounded by residential areas and draws a lot of foot traffic from all the bars, restaurants and shops.
