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| - Bosa Donuts makes donuts and sells donuts, and their donuts taste like donuts. I could stop there, but I'll elaborate a bit.
I went to Bosa expecting some mind-blowing fried-dough experience based on everything I'd heard about them, but I left with a pink box full of carbohydrates that were merely average. Their donuts taste just fine, but they are nothing special: they're just freaking donuts. You can have the same circular dessert experience by picking up some donuts at Fry's or Albertsons: nothing bad, but nothing particularly memorable. I was hoping, based on the reviews I's read, to have a donut experience on par with Voodoo (in PDX) or Banbury (SLC), but was instead treated to absolutely average donuts.
I arrived at roughly 7PM at this converted former Taco Bell (I don't care about what the building looks like, but this is a story, not a scientific journal) and asked which donuts were freshest (which I've been told is the thing to do at Bosa). To my surprise, I was told that NONE of their donuts were fresh because they were all made early that morning. Well, at least they're honest. I picked an assortment of donuts (some of which were not available so substitutes were picked for me without asking) and drove off into the sunset ready for donut nirvana. Instead, I was treated to a mouthful of average fried dough.
I'm not sure what it is people love so much about this place. I'll give it another shot some day in the morning when they're slinging fresh product, but I just fail to see what is so great about Bosa. Their donuts are average, and maybe even a bit below that. Why? They're not sweet enough. That's not usually a complaint you'll get from me since I don't like my sweets to be too sweet, but goddammit, if I'm going to shove hundred of empty calories down my gullet, I want to at least feel like I'm eating a donut instead of simply plain dough fried in oil (though they're old fashioned styles are okay).
Since the donuts are average, I'll turn to service. Yeah, it was quick, but on the other hand, it was imperfect. There are two major complaints I have. First, as mentioned above, when I asked for a particular kind of donut and they were out, they simply subbed in a different kind, without asking me. Second, the charge an extra fifty cents for credit card transactions that total less than five dollars. Not only does that eternally piss me off, it's violative of their merchant agreement (http://consumerist.com/2008/07/more-on-minimum-purchases-surcharges-and-other-credit-card-merchant-agreement-violations-from-the-co.html).
So, in summary, Bosa is average. I like that they're locally owned, but their donuts just aren't that great. If my next experience isn't better, I'll go elsewhere for my unnecessary caloric indulgences.
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