Donut I Love U

Our story

A kitchen with nothing to explain.

Mithoon and Lindsey grew up in families where food was how you said the thing you didn’t say out loud. When they built their own kitchen, they made it one where nobody gets handed a shorter list.

Lindsey and Mithoon, who founded Donut I Love U, inside the truck.

One board, on purpose

Every donut, every drink, every day: 100% gluten-free, made in a kitchen that has never handled wheat. There is no separate fryer, because there is nothing to separate. A guest who has spent years reading labels can put the phone down and just order.

The truck went first

Before NoDa, there was a window and a generator and a lot of driving. That’s how we found the people who follow us now — across North and South Carolina, at markets and breweries and back yards. The shop didn’t replace the truck. It gave it a home base.

First responders and military

The people who show up when it’s bad get looked after when they show up here. Ask at the window.

What we buy, and from whom

Coffee roasted by Coal Coffee Roasters in Mooresville, half an hour up the road. Sodas built with 1883 Maison Routin syrups. Packaging chosen so it can go in the right bin. We source close by where we can, and we’d rather tell you the brand than call something premium.

Hospitality is the product

Three donuts, one flavor, on a plate, handed over warm — that’s a small thing that takes eight minutes and the whole point of the place. We’d rather be the shop a neighborhood claims than the one it drives past.

Come see us, or have us come to you.