Friendly neighborhood donut shop keeps Montrose locals in thrall with delicious donuts and more.

515 Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX 77006

(713) 520-7557

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5AM–2PM (Mon–Fri); 6AM–2PM (Sat–Sun)

We’ve been haunting B&B Donuts for months (especially true when we don’t have the coin to drop on amazing pastries next door at La Sicilia). Aside from being run by genuinely nice people, B&B has all the sweet and savory essentials you know from other area donut shops: fresh donuts at sub-dollar prices, kolaches (including boudin), and those comforting pre-made donut shop tacos that are somehow better then they have any right to be. B&B takes the Houston donut shop trip further than most, though, while steering well clear of anything upscale and expensive. $2.50 gets you a strong, sweet Vietnamese iced coffee. There are two salsa choices for the tacos and they don’t come in plastic packets. If you want a meat-free potato, egg, and cheese taco they’ll go in the back and make you a fresh one. And they have lunch. We decided to drop in for coffee, donuts, and bánh mì on a Friday afternoon and liked what we found.

Vietnamese sandwich (AKA BBQ pork bánh mì, $3.99). B&B only sells one kind of bánh mì, filled with fatty BBQ pork, pickled carrots, a big slice of cucumber, and some cilantro. The sandwich is served on a soft roll rather than a toasted baguette, with a very light smear of mayo and maybe a little pâté. Our sandwiches didn’t include jalapeños, but we loaded them up with packets of sriracha from the counter and will ask about chiles next time around. On the surface it’s a pretty basic bánh mì, but the pork has appealingly crispy edges and the whole experience of chowing down on one of these alongside a cherry-frosted, froot-loop-encrusted donut and some sweet, creamy iced coffee is not to be missed. Would you rather pay a similar price for some soulless corporate chicken sandwich combo meal? We’d hit this repeatedly for sure.

Frosted donuts ($0.79 each). Who doesn’t like donuts? Especially donuts with bright red frosting and sugary cereal on top. And when you buy donuts here they always put some free donut holes (plain glazed and chocolate) in your bag. We like the donut holes so much that sometimes we just order those (and end up with more than we ordered).

Iced Vietnamese coffee ($2.50). Yum.

Conclusion: go get donuts, sandwiches, and coffee at B&B Donuts right away. Thanks to the fact the B&B folks are hardy badasses, you can even stop in at 5AM most days. They also sell other lunch stuff like cheeseburgers and fries that we see people who look like regulars ordering. If it’s payday, drop in next door at La Sicilia and hook yourself up with a next-level pastry for 6 or 7 bucks. Go to B&B the rest of the month.

For those who are interested in learning more about donuts and the people who make them in Texas, we’d like to share Keeley Steenson’s excellent short film, Donut People: