Opening Spring 2019 in Kittery, Maine, Lovebirds Donuts is a longtime vision come to life for co-owners Tamara Monroe and Ryan MacDougall. Ryan's early interest in food came at the age of 13 while helping out at his parents' breakfast restaurant. He spent the next decade cooking for and managing restaurants along the Maine seacoast. Tamara, too, worked her way through high school and college at restaurants along Maine’s Seacoast. They drew inspiration from these experiences.

Wanderlust lured Tamara and Ryan out into the world—and after some time in San Diego and Boston where they grew diverse careers in marketing and finance, respectively. When not traveling, they spent much of their downtime exploring new foods, brewing beer, or baking.

Yeast-raised donuts became a special obsession of Ryan’s. Raised donuts use simple ingredients and when fermented in the traditional way (like how you make bread), this donut style possesses a unique and sophisticated depth of flavor. While Lovebirds offers both raised and cake donuts in an array of locally and internationally inspired flavors, the yeast donuts are truly the apple of Lovebirds Donuts’ eye.

It’s this love that inspired these doughy creations and they decided to return to their roots and share their experiences with their community. These donuts are the culinary embodiment of comfort, love, fun, and nostalgia.