Growing up in Venezuela, Claudia Monroy didn’t really eat doughnuts. But when she moved to Seattle from Florida for a job at Amazon, she noticed a local phenomenon: people brought boxes of these confections into the office nearly every day. If someone announced, “Doughnuts in the kitchen,” she says, “Everybody would rush to the kitchen. It doesn’t matter what floor, or what building.”
Monroy and her husband, Damian Castillo, took note. In spring 2023, the couple opened Doce Donut Co. on Stone Way. The shop’s lineup of 10 brioche doughnut flavors applies Latin pastry traditions to America’s signature form of fried dough. Cuban pastelitos de guayaba
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