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| - I've had donuts from this place at a couple local events and they were ok little donuts, so I recently decided to stop in the shop and get a dozen for the family to have on a Sunday. The shop is cute (1960s psychedelic theme) and would be fun to eat in with kids, teens or music lovers, except when I visited there was a little kids' birthday party going on in there with "donut bar" that took up the booths and pretty much the entire store, making it hard for people who weren't there for the party to get around the shop and order. On the plus side it's a cute concept for a kids' party, and the donuts are "child sized" already. On the minus side it would be better if they hosted parties either in a part of the store space or outside normal hours (or closed the shop to regular customers when a large party was booked).
I discovered that this place is a chain and the concept is basically Cold Stone Creamery with donuts - there are about 100 ingredients that they'll put on a small (2 bite size) plain fried cake donut for you, ranging from sugars, frostings, fillings etc. The menu is up on a far back wall and isn't easy to read from the distance of the counter, plus the number of decisions as to what you want on each of your donuts is kind of a lot. If I went again I would look at their website in advance and write down the combos I wanted to get before actually going to the place. It would also be helpful if they had some type of ordering checklist where you could just check the ingredients you wanted on a donut, or better yet an automated kiosk.
They had several featured holiday donuts out on the front counter and I thought those would be a good choice, only to be told "we don't have that color frosting melted so we can't make them." ?? It's not a good plan to feature items that you don't have the ingredients to make, especially when you have like I said 100 things on the menu.
In the end I decided to just pick some simple frosted and pre-made donuts so I didn't have to stand there for 20 minutes choosing combinations. The donuts were decent but the price for a dozen is high - as much as 12 dollars, which is a lot for little bitty donuts. The pricing is really hard to figure out too - one price for a sugar, higher price for topping, higher price for filling, then there seem to be specialty ones priced the highest of all. Really hard to estimate what your bill is going to be if you're ordering more than a couple.
To sum up: Cute place if you just want to sit with your kids or your friends, and pick out a half dozen wacky donuts and eat them (and there isn't a party going on in there when you want to go). Or if you happen to find their pre-made donuts on sale at an event in the area.
Not so good for a quick stop to pick up a dozen donuts for work or for the family due to too many choices and high prices. For that I'd rather go to a place with fewer choices but they're all made up already and the donuts are adult-sized rather than kiddie-sized.
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