The Donut Factory

Glazed donuts are to dieeeee for. Very good, very soft and delicious.
I bought three glazed donuts and got tons of donut holes. Loves it
Their cream filling are the best too.

I had a ham and cheese croissant today, my ham was a weird color and hard. Like if it was old.

Cash only, gtfo it’s 2016 you a-​holes. NO I won’t pay a $ 3 ATM fee, are you insane?! Not to mention they profit from that. Poor business practice.

Typical donut shop that offers croissants, sandwiches, smoothies, and Ice blended drinks, in addition to donuts of course. Decent selection of all the classic donut flavors and shapes.
I had the coconut donut and got two free balls, woooohooooo. The donut and balls were pretty average but hit the spot in my donut quest that day.

I gave this place a couple chances because it’s convenient to my morning commute, and I’m pregnant and donuts are my weakness.
The first time I went in the woman behind the counter wasn’t friendly at all. In fact, she was so unpleasant I almost didn’t go back. I asked for a decaf coffee and she grumpily said the pot was empty. When I asked if she could make more, considering it IS an item on their menu and I’m a paying customer, she flat out said «No!» as though I was inconveniencing her by this request. Whatever.
Cut to a couple weeks later, I gave it another try. This time there was a different woman behind the counter, and she was at least nice to me. Got home with my deliciously somewhat stale donuts (it was the afternoon so I gave them the benefit of the doubt for that)… About halfway through my chocolate bar, I bit down on a foreign object and pulled an inch and a half of hard plastic out of my mouth. It appeared to have been cooked inside the donut. YUCK
LESSON LEARNED. Buyer beware. Never again.

Guilty pleasure. My favorite neighborhood donut shop. never disappointed. We’re regulars here and the girls are awesome!

I was on my way to work this morning and decided to bring donuts 2 my co — workers. Although I live in simi valley and I should have gotten donuts here before heading to the sf valley. I figured if I get them in sherman oaks they would be fresher since I am 2 minutes from work, opposed to driving in the hellish 405 for 1 hour and the donuts and chocolate sticking to one another in the 107° heat. Anyhow i decided to try this place just to be super disappointed. so I asked how much for a dozen $ 8.00 she replied, which is a bit more then my local donut shop in simi valley. I thought what the hell, let me get them anyways. After selecting the dozen it was time to pay. As soon I walked over to the register and pulled out my ATM I noticed a 1 inch by 2 inch hand written sign the size of a stick of gum wrapper taped to the register reading «cash only» WTF? I keep a couple buck on me for tips but not enought to purchase the dozen donuts. I apologized to the clerk that unfortunately I didn’t have the right amount of cash on me. She then quickly pointed at a booshie a** ATM machine inside the donut shop. I was like «Oh hell no» after the ATM surcharge and the bank fee for not using a chase ATM I would end up paying $ 12 instead of $ 8. I threw up my duces and said” later!” to her. Bottom line this place was a complete waste of time and inconsiderate of their customers. Donut factory would rather have their patrons pay a $ 4 dollar surcharge rather then, them paying the $ .25 cent charge per transactions most credit card machine leasers charge the business per transaction.

The Donut I ate was a little dense.
Although I did get complimentary donut holes:)
Can’t complain.

Miss this place. My papa and I used to live down the street and he’d take us here to get a donut and hot chocolate. Used to get a dozen of donuts all the time. But this was like 20 years ago. LOL. The best donuts in the valley. I’ll go back whenever I’m in town.

This place is great! They have a wide selection of donuts and breakfast items. Will definitely come back here again!

..Ah, the Donut Factory, where’s there’s nothing factory about it when there’s little automatization and my fried dough with added sugar is low– which is good of course, as one must keep a figure. It’s close to home and their donuts are mostly good.

This was not an intended destination stop but happen to see it on the way home after having Tacos up the street, the name Donut Factory caught my eye and I started thinking of all the possibilities like BACON!
As I walked in and saw the selection or lack of I was quickly disappointed but hey they did have my go to Apple Fritter!
Apple Fritter ($ 1.75)
A nice size fritter though (.25 — .50 Cents) higher than most, nice amount of apples and a HEAVY cinnamon flavor which I liked…
The fritter
was like a BRICK, as you can see the apples are just on top and the inside was like very dense cake like donut… Not good!

Horrible donuts! the dough is very thick and bread like. Where are all the good donut places?

Open Christmas Day! Hallelujah!
I recently rediscovered my love for donuts — how could I forget in my youth I actually gave up donuts for lent?!
Christmas day we were driving around looking for something that was open and being that I live in a predominately Jewish neighborhood I was praying something tasty would be open. I had passed by The Donut Factory a handful of times but never stopped in. Finally, on Christmas Day I say the glowing «OPEN» sign and was beyond elated.
The man working the shop was the sweetest guy. Not sure if he’s this sweet all the time or was eager for a tip but I didn’t care — bless him it was the holidays and he was working. I ordered a few donuts and holes and he even gave me a few extra when he realized I tipped him. Fluffy and fresh I have ZERO complaints … this place might be my new donut go-​to donut shop in the area.
Small parking lot, corner of Hazeltine & Burbank inside a dinky strip mall. I think it’s cash only?

I love this place. I walked from my place down the block because I was craving a donut. To my surprise they had a very large menu with tons of delicious sandwiches, and fresh fruit juices and smoothies, they even have boba! So I ended up getting more than what I’d planned – a breakfast sandwich, mocha boba, and two donuts all for $ 8. They’re very friendly and owned by a sweet Asian family I think. Love! Only down part is that it’s cash only but they have ATM machine that charges a few bucks for a withdrawal.

This place has so much potential… it looks like it can make some fantastic food, but below are what need to be worked on:
— Cash Only, seriously? Your losing a lot of customers cause of that.
— Service, as nice as our cashier was, I asked for a strawberry boba not a strawberry milkshake with boba… if she didn’t know she should have asked me… but it was good anyways.
— Donuts… it’s a plus and a minus. Small selections for a «factory», great bear claw… so so custard filled chocolate glazed…
— Parking, as most places are around that area, even Ralphs has a small parking lot so street is most convenient.
Other than that, it’s almost up there with my go to K’s Donuts. Just this place is a little out of the way, but I wouldn’t mind stopping by here every once and a while when I’m driving home from Target/​Bevmo/​Petco.

Originally I had it at a 2-​star review… but now I’m upping it to a 3.
I was picking my brother and his friends up from high school and on the way home dropping them off we stopped here. My brother got a GLAZED TWIST BAR and I took a bite of it and it was AMAZEEEENG!
Went back a coupla days ago to buy myself a whole GLAZED TWIST BAR to see if I’d been hallucinating and it was indeed the BEST one I’d ever had.
I tried it at 2 other donuts shops and there’s wasn’t as good as the one here.
Conversely… I tried 2 other donuts here at Donut Factory this week and they were subpar.
GET THE GLAZED TWIST BAR if you do come here though…
Oh yeah… bonus points for cheap donuts. $.70 — $.75-​cents each :-)

This little place makes pretty good doughnuts, I’d say better than your average Mom and Pop shop. I had their, glazed, sugar, chocolate glazed custard filled, raspberry filled and apple fritter, all tasty and fresh. However, I didn’t see or taste apples in the apple fritter so that was a bit disappointing. Perhaps they forgot, but, wow, it was one of the best looking apple fritters I’ve seen. It was big and it was of a deep, dark, golden brown color (the way I like’em) all shiny from the hardened glaze, it was beautiful!
I’ve been overly obsessed with sugary fried dough lately, and have been on a quest to find the best, independently owned, Mom and Pop doughnut shoppes in the L. A. area, preferrably in the SFV, cuz that’s where I live, and this is the best shop I’ve found so far in the Valley. I prefer theirs over the USA Donut shop up the street, and they make pretty good fried dough.
Anyhow, if you’re in the area and craving doughnuts or want to treat your undeserving, slacker co-​workers to a sugar high on a happy Friday morning, you won’t be dissappointed and your colleagues will appreciate it.

As a diabetic, Unilocal can be quite problematic for my health. Sure I could go out and review a salad bar or something but there are nights when I pass by something like The Donut Factory and just had to try it. I’ll probably die a lot sooner than I should, but places like this make life worth living.
It’s your typical donut shop. Nothing fancy about it. The place actually looks modern… if it were the early 90s. There’s nothing really aesthetically pleasing about it, but then again you’re not here for the ambiance. It’s not a Starbucks or Panera Bread, just get your donuts and go.
The donuts are your typical fried dough balls of goodness. I was lucky enough to stop by when a fresh batch was made. It’s moist and soft; flaky and chewy; tender and light. Everything you’d want from a donut.
The best part is the morning after factor. Even when its several hours old, it still tasted just as good. It would be great to go with some coffee, but I couldn’t wait for a pot to brew. What about the morning after the first morning factor? I wouldn’t know because it never got to that point.
Sure you can have some krispy kremes or some dunkin donuts but nothing beats a huge, fluffy donut that comes in a big pink box.

Best donuts in the area. And looky, NO ONE knows about this place!!! These are your traditional L.A. mini-​mall donuts, but just done really well. They used to be open until 11 p.m. and donuts came fresh out of the oven every night… but now they close at 6.
Still, go get yourself an Apple Fritter and enjoy your life, or what’s left of it after you give yourself high cholesterol and diabetes.