Is The Holy Donut Still Open? Food Paradise Update (Portland, ME)

Food Paradise, Season 18, Episode 2

Food Paradise's "Off-the-Chain Eats" episode (S18E2) featured The Holy Donut, a Portland, Maine bakery known for potato-based doughnuts, marketed on its own site as "Gourmet Potato Donuts." A direct check of theholydonut.com on 2026-09-08 returned the site loading normally, with a 2026 copyright notice, a working online-ordering system, and posted hours extending into early evening on weekends. Google Places lists the business as operational at 177 Commercial St, matching the address on file for this business's existing database record.

Man v. Food, Season 8, Episode 26 Aired March 31, 2020

On Man v. Food, Casey Webb visited The Holy Donut in Portland, Maine, where the specialty is a dense, cake-style donut made with mashed Maine potatoes folded into the batter. The episode highlighted the bakery's rotating case of flavors, from classic sugar-and-cinnamon rounds to toppings like maple bacon and dark chocolate sea salt. The Holy Donut opened in Portland in 2010 as a small storefront and grew into a multi-location bakery, with shops on Commercial Street and Park Avenue in Portland plus a Scarborough location, according to the company's own website.

Yelp's April 2026 update for the Commercial Street shop shows continued customer reviews and recent photos, and the bakery's own site lists that address among its current stores. The potato-donut format that drew the show's attention remains the shop's signature product line, sold daily across its Maine locations.