Wake N Bake Donuts
Known for: Over-the-top yeast doughnuts such as the maple-bacon 'Waken Bacon' and Fruit Loop-topped 'Loopy Morning', plus daily cake doughnuts and fritters; winner of Cooking Channel's Donut Showdown.
3 locations
Carolina Beach, NC · Wilmington, NC
Danny Tangredi and his wife Amanda moved from Maryland and opened the Carolina Beach shop in fall 2014 to give the island a year-round doughnut shop; a takeout-only downtown Wilmington shop followed in October 2016, and a third location later opened at Racine Commons.
Open since 2014
Owned by Danny and Amanda Tangredi.

