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Bill’s Donuts – The Delicious Dozen + WIN A DOZEN BILLS DONUTS !

October 17, 2018 By The Food Adventures Crew

Bills Donuts in Centerville receives National recognition each year

Unless you have been living under a rock, you know that Bill’s Donuts in Centerville has put Dayton on the national donut map. From National Magazine awards, to stars visiting while in town, Bill’s has a reputation.

The locals love it . You can typically find a line out the door on not only weekend mornings, but random times such as 9:30pm on a Wednesday. There is no rhyme or reason, there is only the good thing that they are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Through the decades of Food Adventures. beyond the dozens and dozens of donuts we have eaten from Saturday mornings, to the Superhero 5k. With all the press that has been written, what else can we say about this place that hasn’t been printed already?

The Legendary Pretzel Donut

Today, Food Adventures RANKS the best Bill’s donuts, individually, the baker’s dozen, one through thirteen, like only we would. After decades of research, we present the “Delicious Dozen.”

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THE DELICIOUS DOZEN (The best donuts at Bill’s Donuts….. in order… the top bakers dozen)

#1 THE PRETZEL DONUT:
The signature donut, the pinnacle of yeast donuts. Always plentiful and one of the few donuts that is equally as good with a glass of milk as it is with coffee. HUGE TIP – when you get one of these, pop it in the microwave 15 seconds when you get home and taste the fresh difference.

Longhjohn with Peanut Butter Creme and Chocolate Icing

#2 THE PEANUT BUTTER FILLED LONGJOHN:
The traditional chocolate covered longjohn with a peanut butter cream filling. OMG is that good. Bill’s signature donut, and the peanut butter addictiveness.

#3 THE PERSIAN WITH NUTS:
It might sound like a handsome stranger, but this donut is a lesson balance. It is a delicious donut, but it is IMPOSSIBLE to eat without spilling a piece of nut. Impossible we well you. The inside is a cinnamon delight, and the frosting is a caramel butterscotch, with chopped peanuts topping this confection of perfection

#4 THE CUSTARD FILLED LONGJOHN WITH CHOCOLATE ICING:

The Oversized Persian With Nuts has a Cinnamon lining – it is impossible not to spill a nut

An American staple, done better nowhere else. The grill marks on the bottom, The icing that sometimes melts unforseen or sometimes stays rock solid. When it all comes together in a big bite and the custard squirts out, well, then you have liftoff.

#5 THE DEVILSFOOD DONUT:
The absolute perfect, #1 donut of all time to have with milk. Again, use the trick of zapping this donut 15 seconds in the microwave.. Get the biggest glass of milk you can find. Find a quiet area and indulge. Crossed eyes and moans are normal here.

#6 THE BACON MAPLE DONUT:
A new experiment and limited time donut. It is a Longjohn with maple icing, and bacon crumbles on top. inside is a butterscotch creme filling. It is new, and it is a hit. Ask when they will be making them next, so you can give them a try.

The fairly new Bacon Maple Donut – harder to find than sasquatch

#7 THE GLAZED TWIST DONUT:
The most underrated donut in the case. A long, buttery twisted yeast donut with a hint of vanilla and cinnamon. It is a good bang for your buck too. It has that signature yeast taste from Bill’s, and is filling. Perfect with coffee.

#8 THE JELLY DONUT WITH WHITE ICING:
In the 80’s movie Strange Brew, Rick Moranis bribes a brewery worker with a jelly donut .. “Here .. it’s a jelly…” If that was a Bill’s Donut, he could have bribed the Canadian Government.

#9 THE ROUND VANILLA CREME FILLED with CHOCOLATE ICING:

Round Creme Filled with Chocolate Icing

It is a round donut with chocolate icing on top. the difference is in the filling is a white cream, like whipped cream. Again, the signature yeast donut that only us recognizable at Bill’s Donuts.

#10 THE BLUEBERRY CAKE DONUT:
A cake donut that is mixed with blueberries making a pleasingly purple donut. The donut is glazed and sometimes will have a chocolate or strawberry tint. This donut and a glass of milk is a ticket to heaven. Also great with a hot chocolate !

#11 THE POWDERED with CHOCOLATE CREME:
The messiest donut by far, but delicious as well. Get the chocolate creme filled for a trip back in time to your childhood. Passport not included. Neither is a bib or napkin and you will look like you lost a fight with a bag of flour if you eat it correctly.

The Big Ragu getting powdered at Bill’s

#12 THE DUNKING STICK:
The oddest donut in the case. this old fashioned throwback is dedicated to the coffee lovers. Made specifically for dunking, this glazed donut is a yeast donut but has a cake feel. This long stick is an old favorite, but a new discovery for us in the pat couple of years.

# 13 THE SUGAR COATED JELLY DONUT:
A jelly donut rolled in sugar. The jelly is delicious and is the subtle feature here. Each bite has a slight crunch and the sweetness is perfect. A bit messy? Yes, But worth every napkin.

Honorable mention:
The Red Velvet Cake Donuts – a nice twist on a favorite cake recipe.
The Chocolate Brownies with Chocolate icing – Get a glass of milk for this rich treat that will put you into chocolate overload.

**** Which ones are your favorites? Do you agree ? Do you disagree?

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A Dunking Stick

HERE’S THE SKINNY ON BILLS DONUTS:

— Opened in 1960, it is now owned by a brother and sister team, Lisa and Jim. The store was handed down by their father Bill Elam, who passed away in 2010.

— A pillar in the community, they have supported countless sports teams, and local causes.

— Over the years. Bill’s has won multiple national awards and recognitions as one of the top donut shops in the USA.

—They not only make great donuts- they are very community involved and philanthropic. Right now they are collecting donations for Mexico Beach, Florida! You can help by donating: toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, deodorant, personal hygiene products, new underwear/socks, cleaning supplies, work gloves, shovel/rakes, batteries, flashlights, bug spray, trash bags, backpacks/bookbags and first aid supplies. A truck will be leaving on Oct. 22nd to deliver these items to those in need. Donations can be dropped off at the shop at any time.

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Browse below for more Bills Donut fun….

Powdered Donut

Red Velvet Cake Donuts

Bag o ‘ joy

Sugar Jelly

Vanilla Iced Jelly

Long John with Custard

Custard Long John with choolate icing

Chocolate Iceing – longjohn with custard

Persian with nuts

Pretzel donut

Glazed Twist Donuts

Dunking Stick

Bacon Maple Glazed

Round creme filled

Devilsfood

Peanut Butter stuffed

Pull apart goodness

Try a glazed twist

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a Donut !

April 14, 2016 By The Food Adventures Crew Leave a Comment

Look, over at Centerville Stadium, caped superheros of all sorts are descending on the track for a 5k / 10k Walk/Run this Saturday, April 16th! They are able to leap a dozen pretzel donuts in a single bound. They are the runners/walkers for this special event.

Dubbed the “Bill’s Donut Superhero Run,” this walk/run event is for kids and adults. Most importantly it benefits a local charity, the Dayton, Ohio Affiliate Chapter of “A Special Wish Foundation, Inc.,” covering Montgomery, Darke, Mercer, Miami, Greene & Shelby Counties.

The event allows families to participate together, or just kids, or just adults. Who is your favorite super hero? Green Lantern? The Flash? Wonder Woman? Who will you dress up as?

Join the fun and come dressed as your favorite super hero. Kids go crazy for this stuff, and what a fun way to promote healthy exercise in their lives. You even get to have some world famous Bill’s Donuts after the race, as well as Mikesells chips, bananas, and grilled hot dogs. What a fun Food Adventure!

Super heroes get hungry too, ya know. Plenty of bottled water will be available for re-hydration of our super powers after the race.

What is your favorite donut? Blueberry? Long Johns? Persian Nuts? Maybe even stop by for more Bill’s Donuts on the way home, around the corner from the stadium.

HERE’S THE SKINNY:

The Legendary Bill’s Pretzel Donut

— WHAT: BILL’S DONUTS SUPERHERO RUN,

Option for 1 mile KIDS FUN RUN, 5k walk/Run, or 10k walk/run

— WHEN: SATURDAY, APRIL 16th

7:30am – Check in

9:00am – Kids Fun Run

9:15am – 10K begins

9:30am – 5K Walk/Run begins

— WHAT ELSE: Donuts and other items will be handed out after the race.

— WHERE: CENTERVILLE FOOTBALL STADIUM – 500 E Franklin St, Dayton, OH 45459

— COST: Day-of registration: 10K : $50, 5K : $40, Fun Run : $15.

Thank you to the Elam family, who own Bill’s Donuts, for hosting the event !

— Have a super hero shirt or costume? Wear it !

This is one of the most fun and entertaining local races of the year. Come out and walk, run, or just people watch. Bring the kids and sign them up for the fun run, it is an absolute riot to see some of the youngsters in their “super hero” alter egos. Kudos to Bill’s Donuts, the Elam family, A Special Wish staff, and all the sponsors for helping out the charity “A Special Wish Foundation, Inc.”

The Big Ragu, Hungry Jax and Chef House will be in attendance volunteering passing out donuts, and even participating in the walk/run. Come join the Food Adventures Crew and hundreds of others.

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A little vanilla frosting on top

Super Heroes !

Wolver-Cream

Chips and Donuts

Familiar Faces

Even heroes need a break

Incredibles!

Iconic

Butterscotch

Dogs are cooking !

Family fun on the kid run !

Bacon Maple Donut

Americana Festival: 5k, FOOD, Fireworks & Fox

July 2, 2014 By The Food Adventures Crew Leave a Comment

Pork Chops on the Grill

Run, eat and watch fireworks in the street. The Americana Festival is celebrating 41 years strong with this year’s event in downtown Centerville. This year we have the star spangled scoop on some new Food Adventure attractions and happenings.

The Big Ragu is a lifelong Centerville guy, so this festival is close to our homes and our hearts. We cant think of a better way to celebrate freedom and the good ole’ USA, than this event.

Here is a day in the life of a 4th of July Food Adventurer at the Americana Festival:

7:30am: 5K RUN at Centerville Stadium. Why? So we can eat all day, guilt free, that’s why !

9:30am: Sneak between the chairs lining the streets, dart across State Route 48 and see what food vendors are open early. Ragu actually had a 9:45am cheesesteak 2 years ago.

10:00am: Watch the AMERICANA FESTIVAL PARADE. We hope to march in he parade someday, carrying flags with cheeseburgers on them, and wearing sequin shorts…

Harvest Mobile Food Truck will be at the Festival

11:30am – 4:00pm: STREET FAIR: We are excited to be checking out these MUST EATS !!

—HARVEST MOBILE: Who else loves the healthy “Local Wrap?”

— ZOMBIE DOGZ: The Nibbler Dog ! Heck, any hot dog they have is a true original and something you wont taste anywhere else!

— EL MESON FOOD TRUCK: Empanadas to die for !

— MOM’S HOMEMADE GOODIES: Incredible Soft Pretzels

— SANTORINI’S GREEK KITCHEN: The Gyros are must eats. They are grilled fresh by these guys in from Indianapolis.

— TIM HORTON’S: You may need the coffee for some quick energy

— OLD TYME POPCORN: Kettle Corn experts !

— LaROSA’S: You gotta get some pizza slices from this Cincinnati icon

— CINDY LOU’S BBQ: Any BBQ entree is delicious here !

— KONA ICE: Cool off with a SnoCone cup with tiger’s blood sauce !

El Meson will be at the Street Fair

— CORK N BOTTLE’S AMERICAN GRILL: Any one of their sandwiches are delicious, cheap, and a handful !

— BLACKJACK GRILL: The best grilled porkchops in Dayton

—NELLY’S CHICKEN: The rotesserie roasted, Bolivian recipe chicken is nothing short of amazing on flavor !

As you can see there are gonna be plenty of options to light your fireworks. We didnt even mention the carnival type food, or local places within walking distance like SWEENEY’S SEAFOOD HOUSE, JOHNNY’S SLICE OF NY, BILLS DONUTS, MARION’S PIZZA, CITY BBQ, GRAETERS ICE CREAM, ROOT48, and MCDIGGERS PUB.

We will also be hanging out with Fox and Friend’s Brian Kilmeade who will be in town promoting his new book!

10:00PM: FIREWORKS AT CENTERVILLE FOOTBALL STADUM. We usually cap off the night by attending the fireworks with family, after napping off a food coma.

Show your patriotism this Friday. Whether it is chanting USA, or wearing a US Flag t-shirt, we hope you have the time of your life. We suggest you do just that in downtown Centerville on the 4th !
Even Uncle Sam will be there, and so will The Food Adventures Crew.

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Six Pack: Top 6 DRUNK DINING SPOTS in the Dayton Area

July 25, 2013 By The Food Adventures Crew 9 Comments

Intoxicated royalty: The “Awful Waffle”

Here is another original food story that you won’t see anywhere else. However, it is a part of Miami Valley eating that is worth mentioning. Behold the dreaded DRUNK DINING.

We have all been there, or at least helped a friend through a night of inebriation. What’s the best fix? Answer: Soak up that alcohol up with a full blown Food Adventure. We are here to help you, not unlike Betty Ford, but our expertise is more on the caloric end. The Big Ragu, Chef House and Hungry Jax have compiled Dayton’s first ever TOP 6 DRUNK DINING SPOTS. These are just our six pack. We would love your comments below on who made your list.

1) THE WAFFLE HOUSE – The greasy spoon, the unruly crowd. Simply put, the ‘awful waffle.’ The only time that the Waffle House sounds good is when you are too drunk to know what you are getting yourself into. Go in this place at 2:30 a.m. and not a sober person is to be found. It is a land where diets are blown and the key words are smothered and covered. We are talking about hash browns, covered with cheese and another assortment of ingredients. The rest of the food isn’t worth mentioning and the good thing is that you won’t remember anyhow. We also recommend not going into the bathrooms after 3 a.m, it looks like a war zone in there. This restaurant gets extra points for the sheer entertainment factor of other drunks in the dining room. It is like a 3D movie, but without those annoying glasses.

The sign is like a beacon, calling all buzzed

2) PERKINS – Pound for pound, their waitresses are the biggest bad asses. Some have even been seen chasing drunk patrons in the parking lot. But alas, the wonderful, green neon sign is a beacon. It calls to inebriated souls to come in and sober up with some pancakes. In fact, they have some of our the pancakes around. But don’t mess around with the Sugar Free Syrup, we learned the hard way that it screws up a perfectly done pancake. Perkins also offers many fried foods such as cheese sticks, green beans, chicken tenders. If that won’t sober you up, at the front counter is a bakery display with muffins the size of your head. Those should surely soak up the booze. A full breakfast and dinner menu offers plenty of choices that will act as a sponge in your stomach, sucking you back into sobriety.

3) TACO BELL – If your vision is blurry then a ‘run for the border’ is in order. The late night drive thru makes life simple. This might be everyone’s “Go To” drunk dining place. The food is cheap, the meat and tastes so damn good when you are a bit hammered. The worst part of Taco ‘Hell’ is that the drive thru that takes forever. That would be because every other drunk person has the same idea as you. What do we recommend here? Does it really matter? It is all the same. Flour Tortilla, Melted Cheese, & that questionable ‘meat product’ loaded with fillers. For you healthy drunks out there, there is the Cantina Collection of lower calorie options. Like it matters at this point! Drawbacks like ‘early morning gas’ kept this restaurant out of the number 2 spot.

Mexican Pizza – because red sauce & bean paste is a good idea to mix into a volatile stomach

4) WHITE CASTLE – Oh, how we love our White Castle! It is one of greatest dining experiences a person can have either drunk or sober. First, the strong smell of the onions will start to sober you up immediately. Secondly, the first one tastes so damn good, you just keep stuffing yourself until you don’t know any better. Want a side dish? Splurge on a get a large sack of onion chips and go to town on these. When your friends are drunky pants, White Castle will make them dance. Get a crave case, that way you won’t crave em for a while. We particularly love when our friends launch into philosophical drunk conversations about why there are 5 hole punches in the meat patty. The bad news is the 24hour White Castle Restaurants are only in Cincinnati these days. You’re buzzed and happy and then all of a sudden it happens. A belch and then the stomach cramps. It is pretty much all over from here. Our advice: Roll the windows down on the way home so you don’t create a “Rolling Dutch Oven” (you might have to google that term). It is the gift that keeps on giving because the next morning, you can be assured that you will be doing a lot of sitting. You know why they call them sliders? Because they slide in and slide out. Unfortunately, only 2 White Castles are nearby. One is on Salem Ave and the other is in Franklin off I-75.

Onion chips soak up the alcohol

5) STEAK N SHAKE – This restaurant is the only late night choice for drive thru OR dining alongside other corralled patrons. The slick floors offer an obstacle course like dining room for some of the more drunk guests. It is like Russian roulette to see who gets squeezed into a booth next to the Big Ragu for an elbow filled eating experience. Great prices and decent drunk food make this a stellar choice, probably one of the greatest drunk dining spots in America! The burgers and shakes are incredible. The staff are used to drunk bastards, and they will even give your drunk ass one of those little white Steak n Shake paper hats to wear while dining. This place has food that mixes well with alcohol like chili cheese dogs, steak burgers & milk shakes. Plus it is open 24 hours and serves breakfast.

6) DENNY’S – This is one of the more interesting places that you can visit after 3am. There is only one remaining in Dayton, on S. Main St. near the fairgrounds. The food isn’t the greatest but does the trick. We actually love the onion rings. The choices from dinner to breakfast give you a good variety, if you can read the menu at this point. Denny’s is the best spot to see an unusual variety of people from all walks of life. Nothing says drunk dining like eating a Grand Slam Breakfast next to a drag queen.