Deerfields’ three locations pull out all the stops for Paczki Day with more than 20 varieties. This year’s options include pineapple coconut, birthday cake, salted caramel, and many more. Order online through the bakery’s website.

European-style bakery Beth’s and the doughnut-and-grinder experts DB3 teamed up for Paczki Day with fluffy, cloud-like submissions in four flavors: strawberry and cream, raspberry, bananas Foster, and chocolate mousse. These treats are so sought after that preorders have already sold out, but a limited number will be available to walk-in customers on March 1.

Bennison’s New World-style paczki come in seven traditional flavors (including cheese, chocolate custard, and prune) and four premium varieties (among them, banana cream and German chocolate). They’re already available for in-store purchase, and customers can order online from Monday, February 13 through Friday, February 23 via the suburban bakery’s website.

Smack Dab’s paczki are back for Fat Tuesday in a range of flavors such as apricot, black cherry, raspberry, chocolate, vanilla pastry cream, and lemon curd. Fans can pre-order boxes of six or three for pickup via Tock. Interested parties would be wise to move fast, as this Rogers Park staple is known to sell out completely.

Delightful Pastries features paczki all year long, but ownership still steps things up for the holiday, some years making more than 50,000 for Fat Tuesday. There’s an assortment of flavors like custard, plum butter, and rose petal jelly, as well as gourmet options like a brand-new Dulce de Leche version. Grown-ups can also indulge in boozy submissions, dubbed “Drunken Paczki,” such as Jameson whiskey with chocolate custard or moonshine and lemon. Customers can place orders over the phone or online with a minimum purchase of $36.

Located in Humboldt Park, this 112-year-old Chicago bakery icon sells thousands of its paczki every year for the Fat Tuesday season. Some are iced, and some are simply sprinkled with powdered sugar. Expect flavors such as apple, blueberry, and caramel custard. Call the bakery to place preorders.

Alliance Bakery keeps its Paczki Day game tight with just six flavors: blueberry lemon, chocolate salted caramel, strawberry, raspberry rose, vanilla bean ganache, and apple cinnamon. Customers can preorder online, and paczki will also be available in-store on a first-come, first-served basis starting from Thursday, February 16 through Wednesday, February 22.

This playful bakery and diner from Fifty/50 Restaurant Group will offer a limited selection of paczki but only on Paczki Day proper. Call at least 72 hours ahead or place orders online for pickup at the West Town, Wrigleyville, and LaSalle Street locations on Tuesday, February 21.

There’s no reason for vegans to feel left out of Paczki Day festivities thanks to Liberation Kitchen (previously known as Liberation Donuts), Chicago’s first all-vegan doughnut shop. Place pre-orders online for a box (or several) of six cherry paczki (three glazed, three with powdered sugar).

Familiar Bakery debuted in 2022 in Revival Food Hall and quickly made a name for itself in Chicago’s Paczki Day madness. This year’s special flavors are blueberry chamomile, raspberry rose, coconut cream with macadamia butter crunch, chili cinnamon chocolate cream, Persian spiced apple butter, and passionfruit black pepper. Place orders online for pickup. The bakery has a second outpost at From Here On, the newish food hall inside the renovated Old Post Office.

This Little Italy bakery will soon have online ordering up on its website. Expect classic flavors, including cherry. Check back soon for when the site will be updated for Fat Tuesday pickup.

Marz’s annual Paczki Fest returns to the McKinley Park brewery from noon to 8 p.m. on Sunday, February 19. They’ll have paczkis from three spots: Bridgeport Bakery, Brunchlox, and Zeitlin’s Deli. The brewery will also celebrate the annual release of its Paczki Stout in original, pistachio, and cream puff varieties. Now, that might be too sweet to enjoy with a paczki, but the beermakers insist that because the roast is mild enough that go ahead that they will complement each other. Check back soon online for ordering info.

This nearly 40-year-old South Side bakery is taking orders for its paczki, which come in flavors including strawberry jelly, poppyseed, blueberry, and more. They also come as adorable mini-paczki for those trying to moderate consumption. Order the old-fashioned way, by phone.

Croatian bakery stalwart Pticek & Son, originally founded in 1943, offers an abundance of paczki flavors including cheese, peach, almond, and lemon. Call to place orders.

With four locations in the suburbs and one in Chicago, Oak Mill Bakery will produce plenty of paczki for Fat Tuesday, with options ranging from an “American assortment” (custard, raspberry, rose, and caramel), a “European assortment” (custard, rose, prune, and advocaat, a creamy Dutch alcoholic beverage not unlike eggnog), and a “gourmet assortment” (filled with fruit and cream). There are even more premium a la carte flavors, like kukułka, a sweet Polish cake. Order online by Thursday, February 16.

A text thread with Eater Chicago editor Ashok Selvam and Jim Graziano produced giardiniera-infused paczki that will be sold on Fat Tuesday at the West Loop sandwich shop and Italian grocer. Graziano enlisted Northwest Side bakery Il Giardino Del Dolce to create giardiniera-spiked chocolate and vanilla custard varieties. Available for pickup only.

This Polish market has suburban locations in Schaumburg, Schiller Park, Mount Prospect, and Wheeling. The preorder deadline passed on February 14, however there will be some available for walk-ins. Filling skew more toward the traditional with plum butter, raspberry, and rosehip. More modern choices like Nutella, vanilla pudding, and blackcurrant are also available.

Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises’ cafes will all sell paczki at its counters on Fat Tuesday. There are two flavors: vanilla custard with dark chocolate icing and cake crumbs or raspberry paczki coated with powdered sugar.

Doughnut chain Stan’s has paczki available through February 21 at all locations. There are four flavors: cherry, chocolate cream, pastry cream, and cannoli. Available for online ordering or walk-in.