Brammibal’s and Atelier Dough: two takes on a good donut
Brammibal’s bakes vegan with new flavours every month, Atelier Dough caramelises the crust. Two Berlin shops showing a donut can be more than dough and glaze.
You know the donut long before you have ever eaten one. Homer Simpson turned the pink donut with sprinkles into an icon, and the cliché of the cop with a bag of donuts has a real origin: in the fifties, donut shops were among the few places in the US open at night.
In Berlin it was long something you bought at the station, between two trains, from a chain. That was fine, but nobody went out of their way for it. The two shops here are worth the trip.
Brammibal’s – vegan, fresh every morning
Bram and Jessica started at Berlin markets in 2015. A year later they opened Europe’s first fully vegan donut shop on Maybachufer in Neukölln. The queues were long; an hour’s wait was nothing unusual. Today more than 170 people work for Brammibal’s in Berlin and Hamburg, there is a shop at BER airport, and the donuts are still baked fresh every morning without preservatives. For the fruit glazes they purée whole fruit, and the chocolate comes from Original Beans.
Every month brings its own flavours, in October 2026 Pumpkin Spice or Apple Biscoff, alongside the classic Strawberry Sprinkles. Since 2018, 50 cents of every Strawberry Sprinkles has gone to charities, more than 500,000 euros so far, currently to the cold bus of the Berlin City Mission. It is best eaten straight away, as Brammibal’s itself recommends.
Brammibal's DonutsNeukölln · Vegan
Brammibal's Donuts
See the Must EatAtelier Dough – craft from Paris
On the corner of Glogauer and Reichenberger Straße in Kreuzberg, things are quieter. Güven gave up his office job for a baking apprenticeship in Paris and opened Atelier Dough with his partner Angela in April 2023. A small café, light wood, and a glass bakehouse in the middle of the room where you can watch the team at work.
The donuts are made by hand every day using French technique and only basic ingredients like flour, sugar and salt. The team even makes its own marshmallows. The selection is small, and if you come late you leave empty-handed. The crème brûlée doughnut stands out for its caramelised sugar crust: crisp outside, creamy inside.
Atelier DoughKreuzberg · Bakery
Atelier Dough
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