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| - Joe's Doughs has some major hits and a few misses.
The building is totally cool. It is a white brick exterior, with a huge "Joe's Doughs" sign and plenty of parking. The industrial interior, with a huge wall of windows that let in plenty of light, is a perfect setting for weekend work. While cement floors and white walls could look sterile, Joe's Doughs instead appears fresh, clean, and inviting.
Joe's Doughs makes yeast donuts, and claims that fresh donuts are made every hour. The menu changes depending on what the pastry chef makes that day; when I was there the options were Vanilla Icing with Sprinkles, Vanilla Glazed, Earl Grey and Blueberry Glazed, Cinnamon Sugar, Chocolate Glazed, and Maple Icing with Bacon. The options are cutely displayed on little pedestals.
My companion and I decided to try Vanilla Glazed, Chocolate Icing with Sprinkles and Cinnamon Sugar. The Cinnamon Sugar was very fluffy but the donut itself lacked flavor. The Chocolate Icing with Sprinkles was too chocolatey for us. I imagine lots of people would love it. The chocolate was likely semi-sweet, and just too rich for us. There was a perfect amount of sprinkles though! The star of the show was the Vanilla Glazed. The vanilla was made with real vanilla beans and it had good texture.
Joe's Doughs lacks an espresso machine, which always angers me in a donut store (see my review of Duck Donuts). Donuts need coffee, and drip just doesn't do it for me! The lack of an espresso machine, along with the $2+ price tag of the donuts, is why I gave Joe's Doughs three stars.
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