Lou's Restaurant & Bakery
Known for: Hanover's 1947 Main Street diner-bakery whose crullers (about 35,000 a year) and cider and cake doughnuts are the signature, including cruller French toast.
30 S Main St
Hanover, NH 03755
Monday: 6:30 AM – 3:00 PM; Tuesday: 6:30 AM – 3:00 PM; Wednesday: 6:30 AM – 3:00 PM; Thursday: 6:30 AM – 3:00 PM; Friday: 6:30 AM – 3:00 PM; Saturday: 6:30 AM – 3:00 PM; Sunday: 6:30 AM – 3:00 PM
Opened April 11, 1947 by ex-Marine Lou Bressett as a coffee shop and bakery near Dartmouth. Bob Watson owned it 1980-1992, then pastry chef Toby Fried and Pattie Fried 1992-2018, who sold to Tuck alumnus Jarett Berke and Cailin Berke in 2018 in a ceremony that passed a 'golden cruller'.
Open since 1947
Owned by Jarett and Cailin Berke since 2018.
Last checked 9/24/2026