Just popped in here the other day and was a very happy customer. The cronut is good but too sweet (like a krispy Kreme, so if you like that you'll LOVE this.). My test of a good donut place is their apple fritter. These were perfect. Fluffy and moist inside with a crispy glazed exterior. I also had the glazed old fashioned which was pleasantly enormous and very satisfying. With only 4 donuts (all MASSIVE) I took a LOT home for the wife.
Christopher K.
I saw this place on the edge of town coming into Santa Cruz from the north. I drove past it but drove back from our hotel a day later and I'm glad I did. The donuts here are larger than what you'll normally find at most donut shops. But don't think they're only making than huge to get you to buy them. The quality and taste of these are on par with the best I ever had and I would like to think of myself as a donut connoisseur. The donuts here are classic. Don't expect to find ones that you see at some of those shops that claim to have gourmet donuts with all sorts of flavored colorful toppings but on a cookie cutter mediocre donut. This place doesn't do that crap. Ferrell's does it right. I recommend this place to anyone visiting Santa Cruz. They're one of the best food places in the whole city.
TheBayArea831
Yummy! Ive always been a fan of this donut shop. Still one of my favorites in Santa Cruz.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Donuts
A. Paschal “Yobi” Blumberg
Update: This is a veteran hostile, imagined class exclusive, and a personal place of private association open 24/7. Not a publicly serving, nor benefiting business. In my considered life evaluation as a professional expert upon delivery of customer service, community engagement and support, and above all, A DEDICATED ADHERANT TOTHE SAFETY OF ALL LIVING HUMANS. To include the aggressively hostile, or violent. It is my duty to be able, as I may, resist such aggression with equal, if not exact projected will, else allow suffering to increase in the world through such tyrannical lopsided power differentials. If the police cannot provide an equal weapon to every registered citizen it contends to 'serve', then the differential is a leading Indicator for the potential for a misunderstanding of natural law to possibly strengthen the false notion that there is any human without value unequivocally demonstrabke in their living existance. To understand that ANY OTHER HUMAN, whether by word, deed, output, projection, or defense against, can ever be breathing yet also be devoid of value is not a statement of that person's degraded or depraved state. The person or persons whom believe any system exists that confers right to permanently end the continued life of another is THE LEADING INDICATOR of a human who has yet to attain maturity. They should not, therefore, as a matter of collective safety, be in a position designated exclusively to be held by a demonstrable, observable, testable, mature human adult. This is a collective and subjective SAFETY ISSUE. As I may, I will continue this Public Service Announcement as it is correlated in natural processes, logic, nature so stridently as to be considered 'law' , as well as adhering to the core principles which may be found in clear, critical analysis of religious concepts, and from those core concepts, the entire religious expression demonstrated to be consistent.The bonus output of such an exercise is to sort clearly human, fear based intention from all others. I stopped by to notify them that some of my fellow veterans recieved the report of my treatment at this PRIVATE PROPERTY called Farrels that maintains an EXCLUSIVE CLIENTELE CONSISTING OF, from my observations in the short time I spent happily spending $55 dollars here on sugary confections and backroom speculations, and might attempt to reach out and see if they could determine what the challenges were, as well as attempt to establish a dialogue. I got yelled at again and threatened.So much for talking anything out. From the scuttlebutt, they generally don't actually like customers. Enough to make a person wonder what is really hiding in the back behind all those donuts, perhaps Wonka and a small indentured servant troupe?
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Justin Kersten
One word: Cronuts!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Donuts
Roy M
Best donuts I ever had .
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Donuts
Malia S.
Homer Simpson, who i consider to be the king of donuts would not be able to change my mind about Ferrell's as it's probably the worst donuts I've ever had in my life. The inside of the bakery reminds me of a bathroom from the 50s when people were using tacky covered tiles for flooring giving it an old diner look and feel. Service was great, the cashier made some recommendations and was so patient and informative while i was ordering. I understand that this place is open 24/7. However, that is no excuse to serve stale old donuts to a customer. I aas so eager and excited to try this place out as they had Cronuts on the menu. I've had cronuts from places like Paris Baguette, which were phenomenal from the taste to texture. No clue who's making the cronuts for Mr. Ferrell. Because the Cronuts here are absolutely a nightmare. One bite and all i got was a chewy dry texture of an old croissant that needs to be put in the toaster to rejuvenate its original texture. Dry, chewy, and had Homer Simpson crying. The raised donuts are again, dry, chewy, and I'm pretty sure they were worst than the donuts at 7/11.... And that says something and which has me so confused on how this business remains operating.
Jose Chavez
Great experienceGreat customer serviceDelicious donuts...
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Rachel C.
The perfect little donut shop was exactly what we hoped it would be, Amazing! Sweet Lady helped us pick some of our favorites. Adorable, cozy beach shop that seems almost of yesteryear. Best news, the donuts were perfect. Even hours later when we ate the remaining ones, they were still yummy.
Justin Beck
Very underwhelming despite all the hype. My 3 donuts were all a bit stale. The employee apologized for being distracted in the back for a few minutes leaving the front and his three customers waiting for service. I will not be
Health hazard!! This place is gross and dirty. There is a sewer issue. Used to love this place...it's different now. There has been a puddle in the parking lot for weeks. It smells pretty gross. I saw an employee use his hands to handle food. The doughnuts were not fresh. One or maybe 2 days old.. I asked if they were made in the morning I was told yes! I then saw that same employee pull doughnuts off a rack that had the previous days date on it. When I asked if he was selling me day old doughnuts at full price he was snotty and said "we've never been busier and if I don't like it...go somewhere else" I am writing this because I pay a premium to support local businesses and this place was gross. The doughnuts that were fresh were heavy. They were kinds tasty (mostly just sweet) but, my experience was really bad and I'm considering calling the health department. I plan on taking the advice of this lousy employee and going somewhere else.
Emily S. McElyea
It has been many years since we have been into Ferrell's & my man & I were so excited to see the new space...huge glass display cases, drink coolers, a very cool apparel line seating & plenty of room for a big crowd of hungry Ferrell's lovers!24/7 open, friendly, CLEAN, brightly lit & smells sooo good!Ya gotta get some! :)A Santa Cruz CA - "MUST GO HERE!!" PLACE!
Craig Hauck
Geat price and delicious donuts. Bearclaws the size of actual bear's claws.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Donuts, Fresh Apple Fritter
Roberto King
Lovely choice of tasty doughnuts at a great price.The girl behind the counter was very helpful and friendly.And their coffee tastes great as well.Easy to park up, with ample parking around the property.Rob recommends: Their maple syrup glaze doughnut
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Doughnut, Donuts
Lisa
No restroom, limited doughnut flavors. But was open late nite!
Just popped in here the other day and was a very happy customer. The cronut is good but too sweet (like a krispy Kreme, so if you like that you'll LOVE this.). My test of a good donut place is their apple fritter. These were perfect. Fluffy and moist inside with a crispy glazed exterior. I also had the glazed old fashioned which was pleasantly enormous and very satisfying. With only 4 donuts (all MASSIVE) I took a LOT home for the wife.
I saw this place on the edge of town coming into Santa Cruz from the north. I drove past it but drove back from our hotel a day later and I'm glad I did. The donuts here are larger than what you'll normally find at most donut shops. But don't think they're only making than huge to get you to buy them. The quality and taste of these are on par with the best I ever had and I would like to think of myself as a donut connoisseur. The donuts here are classic. Don't expect to find ones that you see at some of those shops that claim to have gourmet donuts with all sorts of flavored colorful toppings but on a cookie cutter mediocre donut. This place doesn't do that crap. Ferrell's does it right. I recommend this place to anyone visiting Santa Cruz. They're one of the best food places in the whole city.
Yummy! Ive always been a fan of this donut shop. Still one of my favorites in Santa Cruz.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Donuts
Update: This is a veteran hostile, imagined class exclusive, and a personal place of private association open 24/7. Not a publicly serving, nor benefiting business. In my considered life evaluation as a professional expert upon delivery of customer service, community engagement and support, and above all, A DEDICATED ADHERANT TOTHE SAFETY OF ALL LIVING HUMANS. To include the aggressively hostile, or violent. It is my duty to be able, as I may, resist such aggression with equal, if not exact projected will, else allow suffering to increase in the world through such tyrannical lopsided power differentials. If the police cannot provide an equal weapon to every registered citizen it contends to 'serve', then the differential is a leading Indicator for the potential for a misunderstanding of natural law to possibly strengthen the false notion that there is any human without value unequivocally demonstrabke in their living existance. To understand that ANY OTHER HUMAN, whether by word, deed, output, projection, or defense against, can ever be breathing yet also be devoid of value is not a statement of that person's degraded or depraved state. The person or persons whom believe any system exists that confers right to permanently end the continued life of another is THE LEADING INDICATOR of a human who has yet to attain maturity. They should not, therefore, as a matter of collective safety, be in a position designated exclusively to be held by a demonstrable, observable, testable, mature human adult. This is a collective and subjective SAFETY ISSUE. As I may, I will continue this Public Service Announcement as it is correlated in natural processes, logic, nature so stridently as to be considered 'law' , as well as adhering to the core principles which may be found in clear, critical analysis of religious concepts, and from those core concepts, the entire religious expression demonstrated to be consistent.The bonus output of such an exercise is to sort clearly human, fear based intention from all others. I stopped by to notify them that some of my fellow veterans recieved the report of my treatment at this PRIVATE PROPERTY called Farrels that maintains an EXCLUSIVE CLIENTELE CONSISTING OF, from my observations in the short time I spent happily spending $55 dollars here on sugary confections and backroom speculations, and might attempt to reach out and see if they could determine what the challenges were, as well as attempt to establish a dialogue. I got yelled at again and threatened.So much for talking anything out. From the scuttlebutt, they generally don't actually like customers. Enough to make a person wonder what is really hiding in the back behind all those donuts, perhaps Wonka and a small indentured servant troupe?
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
One word: Cronuts!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Donuts
Best donuts I ever had .
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Donuts
Homer Simpson, who i consider to be the king of donuts would not be able to change my mind about Ferrell's as it's probably the worst donuts I've ever had in my life. The inside of the bakery reminds me of a bathroom from the 50s when people were using tacky covered tiles for flooring giving it an old diner look and feel. Service was great, the cashier made some recommendations and was so patient and informative while i was ordering. I understand that this place is open 24/7. However, that is no excuse to serve stale old donuts to a customer. I aas so eager and excited to try this place out as they had Cronuts on the menu. I've had cronuts from places like Paris Baguette, which were phenomenal from the taste to texture. No clue who's making the cronuts for Mr. Ferrell. Because the Cronuts here are absolutely a nightmare. One bite and all i got was a chewy dry texture of an old croissant that needs to be put in the toaster to rejuvenate its original texture. Dry, chewy, and had Homer Simpson crying. The raised donuts are again, dry, chewy, and I'm pretty sure they were worst than the donuts at 7/11.... And that says something and which has me so confused on how this business remains operating.
Great experienceGreat customer serviceDelicious donuts...
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The perfect little donut shop was exactly what we hoped it would be, Amazing! Sweet Lady helped us pick some of our favorites. Adorable, cozy beach shop that seems almost of yesteryear. Best news, the donuts were perfect. Even hours later when we ate the remaining ones, they were still yummy.
Very underwhelming despite all the hype. My 3 donuts were all a bit stale. The employee apologized for being distracted in the back for a few minutes leaving the front and his three customers waiting for service. I will not be
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 2
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Health hazard!! This place is gross and dirty. There is a sewer issue. Used to love this place...it's different now. There has been a puddle in the parking lot for weeks. It smells pretty gross. I saw an employee use his hands to handle food. The doughnuts were not fresh. One or maybe 2 days old.. I asked if they were made in the morning I was told yes! I then saw that same employee pull doughnuts off a rack that had the previous days date on it. When I asked if he was selling me day old doughnuts at full price he was snotty and said "we've never been busier and if I don't like it...go somewhere else" I am writing this because I pay a premium to support local businesses and this place was gross. The doughnuts that were fresh were heavy. They were kinds tasty (mostly just sweet) but, my experience was really bad and I'm considering calling the health department. I plan on taking the advice of this lousy employee and going somewhere else.
It has been many years since we have been into Ferrell's & my man & I were so excited to see the new space...huge glass display cases, drink coolers, a very cool apparel line seating & plenty of room for a big crowd of hungry Ferrell's lovers!24/7 open, friendly, CLEAN, brightly lit & smells sooo good!Ya gotta get some! :)A Santa Cruz CA - "MUST GO HERE!!" PLACE!
Geat price and delicious donuts. Bearclaws the size of actual bear's claws.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Donuts, Fresh Apple Fritter
Lovely choice of tasty doughnuts at a great price.The girl behind the counter was very helpful and friendly.And their coffee tastes great as well.Easy to park up, with ample parking around the property.Rob recommends: Their maple syrup glaze doughnut
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Doughnut, Donuts
No restroom, limited doughnut flavors. But was open late nite!
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 3
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Donuts