Bakery

DIY-style vegan donut shop opened 2019 in downtown across the arcade building. Offers options to create your own donut or choose from the ready made selection. Open Mon-Sun 10:00am-8:00pm.


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86 Reviews

First Review by ryancthompson

Meltron

Points +1082

Vegan
12 Aug 2025

Nice donuts

Great vegan donut place with a lot of options. They even have mochi donuts.

VickyNelson

Points +448

Vegan
27 Jul 2025

Beautiful and delicious donuts

They have some of the best donuts I've had

Updated from previous review on 2025-07-27

pp2347

Points +1134

Vegan
13 Jun 2025

Great selection

Not as sweet as I expected, but it's a great vegan donut spot.

MadhuriPydisetty

Points +760

Vegan
10 May 2025

Super Yummy & Creative All Vegan Donuts! 🍩

Yummy, fresh, not greasy… so creative.. need to try more flavors!!!

Maejunejuly

Points +747

Vegan
13 Apr 2025

Donut Skip

It’s the simple things, like donuts, that I miss as a vegan. These donuts were so tasty!! 🤤

igguana

Points +323

Vegan
20 Mar 2025

Always delicious

So many options to choose from and so delicious. I always go in thinking, ok just get one! And I always get 2 lol

lfusfeld

Points +342

Vegan
22 Feb 2025

Great donuts

Really love these donuts! Cute little place.

Akari000

Points +750

Vegan
03 Jan 2025

We’re addicted🤯🍩

We’ve been visiting here so many times, their donuts is the best donuts I’ve ever had:) 🍩
I tried almost every flavors. My favorite is old fashioned but I like everything. 😊

1AP1

Points +1455

Vegan
19 Oct 2024

Great donuts + ice cream

Stayed nearby and went everyday, dangerous for the waistline

takenspiderlady

Points +186

Vegan
14 Oct 2024

Nice

The ice cream was delicious!! I got their pumpkin one and was the right amount of pumpkin flavor. The donuts were good but not crazy good. My favorites were the mochi donut and the one with whipped cream and strawberries in the middle.

Updated from previous review on 2024-10-14

NicoleParks

Points +3450

Vegan
11 Oct 2024

yum!

huge variety of donuts and ice cream. the “give up the toast” donut (raised donut, maple glaze, and cinnamon crumb) and pistachio ice cream were delicious

Pilot.lj

Points +1604

Vegan
02 Oct 2024

A delight

Great indulgent treat and alllllll vegan!

sayurii

Points +516

Vegan
25 Aug 2024

Amazing

Amazing donut, great ice cream and staff is so kind!

CalypsoKorkikian

Points +90

Vegan
13 Aug 2024

Great donut variety

Fully vegan donut shop.lots of original options.

ghoulishboy

Points +82

Vegan
21 Jul 2024

Super Sweet Donut Goodness

If you know me, you know that I love vegan donuts. And believe me when I say that this is up there with some of the best flavors and widest selections of any donut shop I've ever been to. Nearly every time that I'm in Los Angeles I try to make a stop there to grab a few donuts. My only suggestion: these donuts are SUPER sweet, and I don't recommend having them first thing in the morning! I learned that the hard way.

Pros: Selection , Hours

Cons: Sometimes too sweet

Forakora

Points +588

Vegan
19 Jul 2024

Creative

Very creative and fancy flavor donuts. Hard to pick

adalea

Points +1156

Vegan
07 Jul 2024

good donuts, bad chai

i liked the donuts! crème brûlée and the danish especially stood out, but the nutella one could’ve been better. would go again

seal

Points +1702

Vegan
03 Jul 2024

delicious donuts

Donut Friend is consistently yummy. They have both classics and creative donuts, something for every taste. Also donut holes. Hooray for raised vegan donuts!

BurakDemir

Points +690

Vegan
06 Feb 2024

Insane donuts

A great place, bombs of vegan donuts

·X·

Points +25138

Vegan
11 Jan 2024

Donut Friend

Yes, we you can be my donut friend!!! The Angry Samoa donut was so delish!

Eidolon

Points +496

Vegan
09 Jan 2024

Virgin Voyage

This was their first location I tried. It was clean, not busy, and the doughnuts were delicious. My fave is the strawberry lab, but I have easily dropped $50-$75 on doughnuts here.

Pros: Amazing doughnuts, Clean, Great service

Cons: Downtown

vegandinosaur

Points +621

Vegan
26 Dec 2023

Unbelievably vegan

The strawberry shortcake is the best thing I have had in my life. This place is amazing and I don’t understand how it’s vegan

divyaj

Points +696

Vegan
17 Dec 2023

Raised donuts!

We dined in at this store in the morning. Every donut looked great. We got one of the raised ones, and the other probably a cake donut. The raised donut was exceptional, soft and airy plus the frosting on top blended in beautifully. The denser donut came with exciting toppings like candied walnuts and chocolate chips, and it was superb. It was served with 2 donut balls apiece, and those were amazing as well. We also got the chai tea here, seems to be from the brand Tea Pigs and was strong and refreshing

Updated from previous review on 2023-12-13

Huraiquire

Points +10305

Vegan
16 Dec 2023

When food makes you cry 🥹🥰

The lavender donut gives me life. Sweet, but not diabetic-coma-inducing, fresh lavender topping, simple and beautiful. A muuuust for lavender lovers.

Kimya369

Points +379

Vegan
25 Nov 2023

Fantistic Coconut and Lime Doughnut

Really delicious coconut/lime doughnut. They almost had too many options to choose from. If I lived in LA, I'd go back all the time. Very kind staff as well!

burnsria

Points +1528

Vegan
27 Oct 2023

Love this place

I first went here in 2019 when I was in LA for my birthday. The Donuts are amazing and Strawberry Lab donut was my favorite and was one of the best donuts I've had in my life. I do think that the highland park location has better quality though. When I went to this location this past August I did not enjoy the location as there was nowhere to sit and eat and no parks nearby either.

Pros: Fluffy Donuts, Creative Flavors, Cute names

Cons: Location

ChrisJacobs7

Points +188

Vegan
16 Oct 2023

Vegan donuts

Great selection of vegan donuts. The strawberry lab was my favorite.




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