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Vino e Tarallucci (north side of 18th, between Broadway and 5th) has them sometimes, and on the occasions I've had them they've been quite good.

I made this tonight and everyone in my family loved it! very creamy and satisfying. Next time i'll add some sauteed mushrooms and sundried tomatoes to punch up the taste even more.

My husband and I enjoyed beignets from a few different shops while in New Orleans. We did the Cafe du Monde thing and then we hit a couple of other coffee & beignet shops and thought the little coffee shops sometimes made a better product. Anyway, we did the tourist thing and we bought two boxes of Cafe du Monde's beignet mix. We were pretty disappointed with the end result. So I googled beignet recipes and found two totally different recipes that produced very good results. One recipe was yeast based, the other was very buttery and eggy, both were delicious. I do not recommend the box mix, make your own, it's cheaper and tastier.

I agree with Kathryn that the best beignets can be found at The Bar Room. If you want some Italian doughnuts Abboccato has fantastic bomboloni made from chocolate and filled with nutella.

Butter on Lafayette btwn East 4th & Astor Place has really great raspberry beignets.. and their chocolate tastings are definitely worth trying!

Also, the Dean and Deluca on Madison and 85th definitely stocks the Cafe du Monde beignet mix.

If you're ever in Brooklyn, I know NoNo (North of New Orleans) in Park Slope has them. Never partaken, but their lunch fare is tasty.

The Bar Room at the Modern. They're great and come with dipping sauces: maple ice cream, mango marmalade, caramel. Piping hot and tucked into a white napkin. We'll get two orders for the table when we eat there.

Prune and Cookshop also have them for brunch. Little Owl has them too for dinner but we didn't partake after the table next to us complained of undercooked dough.