Adrian M.
Yelp
Absurdly expensive & highly overrated. I'm being generous with my 3 stars, but my visits (tried 3x over the course of the last month) have all been totally disappointing. I'll use todays experience as the most recent (& the last...) example.
Came a little before 11am on a Tuesday, & the selection was solid, which was encouraging. I bought 3 donuts: ube cake w/ crumbles (Ube, or purple yam, is a fave of mine), strawberry glazed old-fashioned, & a custard filled chocolate glazed donut. 3 donuts, $6.50. Wow...$2+ per donut. The times, they are a-changin'...
Of the 3, only the custard-filled tasted fresh. The Ube was okay, but didn't have much flavor, & tasted as if it was more likely made yesterday than earlier this morning (donuts don't dry out in just a matter of hours, typically, & this one was dry-ish).
The "strawberry" glaze on the old-fashioned tasted like nothing. It was basically just pink sugar. Not even a hint of berry flavor. A miss.
That left me with another typical favorite: custard-filled. While this was definitely more fresh than the others (as in, made today, not made yesterday...), the fact that I had to bite more than halfway into the donut before I hit my first drop of "custard", was an automatic "fail". It might have been a blessing in disguise tho, as the "custard" (like most everything I ate here...) had almost no flavor other than "sweet". It was a kind of odd white/ grey color that almost looked like Mayo (ew), if I didn't know better. Not the golden yellow of most custard (& custard filling). The filling also had a weird, slightly chemical aftertaste. Guaranteed it wasn't ACTUAL custard, but what it was...I couldn't tell ya.
$6.50 for 3 donuts is nuts. $6.50 for 3 donuts with no flavor/ gross flavor, not fresh & barely filled? That's a crime. Bummer cuz it's nearby, but...3 strikes & you're out (Not So) Delicious Donuts & Bagels