Sidecar Doughnuts on Colorado Avenue makes doughnuts that justify the frequent description "the best in LA" — brioche-based, made to order, with flavours that rotate daily. The standards include a browned butter and salt, a maple bacon bar, and seasonal flavours that change with what is available. The coffee is from a good roaster and the queue moves faster than it looks.
This is not the kind of place that trades purely on novelty: the doughnuts are technically well-executed and the flavours are restrained enough to work. Worth a morning stop if you are near the Third Street end of Colorado, which is where most people are anyway.