..and this is our quest- to seek the Holy Grail of doughnuts.

Just before we left Georgia, we were hanging out with friends, waxing nostalgic for the best things of Atlanta.  Ah, the greenery, the cute neighborhoods, DragonCon.  "And Sublime Doughnuts," sighed my friend, Amber.  "Oh, yes,"  agreed Rachel.

Wait, what?  Where is this?  Sublime who?  Even Rachel knows about this? How did we miss this?

In a panic, we looked up their hours.  Already closed for the day.  Maybe we could get there before we went to the airport in the morning?  Bakeries open early, right? Sadly, no.  Bad Gregorys, no doughnuts. We were leaving Atlanta with a major stone unturned, and there was nothing we could do about it. 

But wait!  Just as hope died, Rachel sat up straight.  "I just remembered something.  I think they have another location, let me check...yes, here it is..'Sublime Doughnuts now opening second location in...BANGKOK!"  Seriously, what are the odds?

So, of course, we had to go.  Not to bore you with details, but we looked, and looked.  We used up a date night to search for it.  We told some friends about it and THEY used up a date night to look for it.  We tried calling. We Googled it.  We Facebooked it.  We hauled the kids downtown to look for it again (Doughnuts!  Kids! Doughnuts!  Keep walking!).  Our friends emailed the corporate office and got more directions.  And Saturday, we got ANOTHER babysitter and went out for our third attempt.

The directions told us it was in Fortunetown, a gigantic 5 floor mall that took up an entire block.  We asked at the mall inormation counter (Sub-lime? Sub- lime Do-Nut? No?) We decided to walk it anyway and started in the basement.  We passed Dunkin Donuts.  We passed Krispy Kremes.  We passed TWO Mr Donuts. By about floor three we decided maybe they meant the mall across the street, so we ran through traffic in the rain...no doughnuts.  Back to Fortunetown.  The Fourth floor was a technology fair, with no food stalls in sight and we'd been going for two hours.  Dejected, we were headed home, when suddenly...around a tiny corner...surrounded by iPad knockoffs...

SUBLIME DOUGHNUTS!!  

 



Only one problem:  They had no doughnuts.  At this point, we weren't leaving.  We staged a doughnut sit-in.  And sure enough, eventually a little cart rolled up and there they were.  Pretty tasty, but it might have been easier to fly to Atlanta to get them.  Here are the empty shelves:

And here are the pesky little guys in the flesh.  Sheesh!