{"id":525262,"date":"2026-11-10T20:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T20:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/525262\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T20:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T20:40:07","slug":"johnny-doughnuts-after-4-months-cult-fave-closes-at-santana-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/525262\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Doughnuts: After 4 months, cult fave closes at Santana Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/06\/27\/johnny-doughnuts-santana-row-san-jose-grand-opening\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Santana Row\u2019s Johnny Doughnuts<\/a> filled its last orders for CroDoughs and Bismarks over the weekend, just four months after expanding to the South Bay.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday morning, the Marin-based bakery quietly closed that San Jose shop, plus one in San Francisco\u2019s Financial District and one in downtown Santa Rosa, in order to \u201cfocus on its core shops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those would be the shops in Marin and Napa counties. \u201cOur San Rafael, Marin Mart in Larkspur and Oxbow Public Market stores are open and operating as usual, and catering and events continue as planned,\u201d co-owners Craig Blum and Kim Diamond wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2012 as a food truck by Blum, a restaurant industry veteran, the doughnut bakery served tech industry and other corporate clients before opening brick-and-mortar shops. Shutting down three of those became necessary because \u201cwe expanded too quickly,\u201d Blum told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/food\/restaurants\/article\/johnny-doughnuts-bay-area-closures-22512455.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Food Network has rated Johnny among the\u00a0Top 5 Doughnuts in America, and the \u201cEat This, Not That!\u201d website judged the\u00a0vegan and classic cinnamon rolls the best in California.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny occupied a spot at Santana Row\u2019s Valencia Park, near Urban Plates, Smitten, The Counter and Maggiano\u2019s. During the early days of the business, a Johnny manager said, the doughnuts were popular with Maggiano\u2019s diners and nearby health club members.<\/p>\n<p>Details: 3055 Olin Ave., #1045, Santana Row, San Jose;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnnydoughnuts.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">johnnydoughnuts.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Santana Row\u2019s Johnny Doughnuts filled its last orders for CroDoughs and Bismarks over the weekend, just four months&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[10276,184,7,413,421,57615,181,23,992,3938,100,993,412,88,90,89,198,94685,200,420],"class_list":["post-525262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bakery","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-food","tag-food-and-drink","tag-in-case-you-missed-it","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-marin-county","tag-napa-county","tag-news","tag-north-bay","tag-restaurants","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-social-alert","tag-south-bay","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}