Savory doughnuts are arriving at Parlor Doughnuts locations near Chicago, and the six-item lineup costs $29.95 for a full sampler pack.

Yes, you read that right. Savory doughnuts.

If your family loves a good food adventure on the weekends, this one is worth putting on your radar. Parlor Doughnuts, an Indiana-based chain with Chicago-area locations, recently rolled out a spread of six savory doughnuts that are turning a lot of breakfast assumptions upside down. The concept is straightforward: take a classic doughnut shape, swap the sweet toppings for savory ones, and see what happens. What happens, it turns out, is something genuinely delicious.

The six flavors in the savory lineup are Margherita, OG Pepperoni, Pig and Fig, Chicken Bacon Ranch, Buffalo Chicken, and Hawaiian BBQ Chicken. That’s a lot of ground to cover for one doughnut shop, and Parlor is covering it well. The chain also offers dipping sauces like ranch and marinara, available separately for $5.95 each, though you may find you don’t need them once you taste the doughnuts themselves.

The secret is the dough. These aren’t your typical cinnamon-sugar rounds. The base skips the sweet coating entirely and goes somewhere much more interesting, landing closer to a garlic knot than anything you’d find in a classic pastry case. A coating of Parmesan, butter, and garlic-forward seasoning gives each doughnut a savory foundation that sets up every topping to shine. That detail changes everything about how the flavors work together.

The pizza-style options are the most intuitive place to start. The Margherita brings pesto, red sauce, and mozzarella, and it tastes exactly like the kind of thing you’d happily eat for lunch on a Saturday. The OG Pepperoni layers red sauce, pepperoni cups, mozzarella, and Italian herbs into something that feels familiar and satisfying in the best way. These two are easy crowd-pleasers, the ones you’d want to order if you’re bringing a mixed group that includes skeptical kids or a spouse who raised an eyebrow when you suggested this outing.

The Chicken Bacon Ranch and Buffalo Chicken are solid entries too, leaning into the garlic knot base in ways that feel natural and well-matched. But the real conversation starters are the two doughnuts that also carry a sweet element.

Complicated. Surprising. Worth it.

The Hawaiian BBQ Chicken comes with pineapple bits and diced red onion, and it reads like something you’d find at a specialty pizza restaurant that takes creative risks and usually lands them. Taste of Home’s full review describes the experience of tasting the Pig and Fig as “a decadent marriage of sweet and savory,” and that’s the right phrase for it. Fig jam, mozzarella, and sausage crumbles on a garlic-buttered doughnut sounds like it shouldn’t work, and then it absolutely does. It’s the kind of bite that makes you pause mid-chew and reassess what you thought you knew about flavor combinations.

For families who’ve been looking for something new to do on a weekend, this is a genuinely fun outing that doesn’t require a long drive or a big commitment. The six-pack sampler at $29.95 gives everyone at the table a chance to try something different, and the variety means even the pickiest eaters in your crew will probably find one that clicks. If you’ve got kids who are old enough to appreciate the pizza-forward flavors, the Margherita and OG Pepperoni are great starting points. If your household skews more adventurous, the Pig and Fig is the one to go straight for.

The savory doughnut trend picked up serious momentum after creator Denise Marie posted a viral TikTok about her visit to a Parlor Chicago-area location, and it’s easy to see why the video connected with so many people. There’s something genuinely fun about a food experience that challenges a rule you didn’t even realize you were following. Doughnuts are sweet. That’s the rule. Except now, apparently, they don’t have to be, and the results make a strong case that the rule was never that important to begin with.

Parlor Doughnuts has locations across the Midwest, and you can check the Parlor Doughnuts store locator to find the one closest to you before planning your next family Saturday. The USDA’s food flavor research resources offer background on why sweet-savory combinations register so strongly with our palates, but you don’t need a science lesson to enjoy what Parlor is doing here. You just need a free afternoon and a willingness to let a doughnut surprise you.