- IT’S THE TEXTURE: That makes Paradise Donuts a standout
By request, another week’s worth of breakfast suggestions around Arkansas, on the way. We’re starting this morning with Paradise Donuts.
Russellville might have another doughnut shop squirreled away somewhere, but this is the only one that I know about or care to know about. I became acquainted with their product first not at their store but on the campus of Arkansas Tech University. On Monday mornings when I was school (back when rocks were soft and dinosaurs roamed the Earth), there would be a doughnut delivery to Chambers Cafeteria — and if you got out of bed and over there before 7am chances were you could score a few of those golden rings of goodness and a cuppa joe before class.
It’s not like Paradise is new, then. In fact, it dates back further than that. Alan Neumeier’s dad owned several of the Winchell’s doughnut shops out in California. He came to Arkansas decades ago to run the original Paradise donuts in Paris. The eatery moved to Russellville, and when his dad passed in the early 90s Alan took over. His family’s been raking in the dough as it were for decades.