17 Best Donuts in New Orleans

“Had to visit as I heard this was one of the best places to get donuts and coffee. Came here on our last night after dinner and got the espresso with ice cream and a shake along with a cinnamon roll to share with my honey. The shake was a perfect consistency. Then came here again the day we were leaving out as they have Koloches. Haven’t seen those since we lived in Texas. It was pretty good but that Vietnamese coffee 🤤🤤🤤 it was soo good. I’m craving it now as I write this. Then got some donuts for the road. All very good. Highly recommend this place.“

“The food was good. Cash Only the service was Bad and restrooms were nasty.“

“Had to visit as I heard this was one of the best places to get donuts and coffee. Came here on our last night after dinner and got the espresso with ice cream and a shake along with a cinnamon roll to share with my honey. The shake was a perfect consistency. Then came here again the day we were leaving out as they have Koloches. Haven’t seen those since we lived in Texas. It was pretty good but that Vietnamese coffee 🤤🤤🤤 it was soo good. I’m craving it now as I write this. Then got some donuts for the road. All very good. Highly recommend this place.“

“We moved nearby a couple months back and we find ourselves in the store multiple times a week. The lady behind the counter remembers us and specifically our dog (layla) and is always so welcoming, helpful and friendly. We have tried almost all the donuts and really like everything. Favorite is the apple fritter and bacon maple donut. Kids just love the donut holes.“

“Delicious and great wait staff“

“We stopped by this morning and everything we tried was amazing!! The beignets were delicious and life changing, the king cake was the perfect amount of sweet and fluffy, and my husband was completely satisfied with his shrimp and grits that he ordered. We will definitely add this location to our regular stops when we travel through!“

“We were staying nearby for a few days and visited the bakery several times. We tried several different treats, and my favorite was the chocolate caramel croissant roll! It was heavenly! My only regret is that I didn’t get a king cake to bring home!“

“2025 UPDATE: Previously, I gave this place 2 stars in 2021. They've worked their way up to 3.5/3 75. They've mostly done away with those overly sweet novelty donuts and instead stepped up their basic glazed donuts. A fresh, warm. glazed Hurts Donut has become my favorite bakery donut in the city. (Since Blue Dot closed)

2021 Review:
THE NAME SAYS IT ALL!!! These are NOT good New Orleans donuts like that of the old McKenzie's, Shipley's, The Buttermilk Milk Drop, or Blue Dot. These donuts look cute, but they HURT your stomach! Poor POOR quality ingredients, LOADS of crappy sugar, and NO real FLAVOR. They are just trendy and Instagramable, but as far as actually eating them... never again. We ordered a large box with a variety of flavors. The Jesus donut was the absolute sweetest! The Strawberry Cheesecake was the most artificial tasting and disappointing. No strawberry. No cheesecake flavor. Walmart Great Value Graham crackers thrown on top.. Just a large quantity of crap disguised as cool novelty donuts. Then I read they are from Michigan, no disrespect to Michigan, but that explained a lot. I'd take a classic donut from a place like Starbucks before I ever subject myself to another night on the toilet with these. FLAVOR over AESTHETICS!!! I gave them 2 stars because I do love the Andy Warhol theme boxes, but obviously, the bandaids over the donuts were a warning. Also,the best one seemed to be the Butterfinger/Bart Simpson donut. Still super sweet but actually tastes good when slightly warmed up.“

“I'm born n raised in New Orleans now reside in ATL but lemme tell you stopping here is the highlight of my stay. There's not a time I don't stop there when I'm in the city to get my chocolate donuts. I wish you shipped lol Better yet get a franchise in Gwinnett County lol.“

“We were visiting from Kansas City , MO over the 4th of July holiday. We had benêts from café du monde,which were delicious. The ambience was soo New Orleans. Then someone told us about the City Donuts establishment. So of course we had to check out yet another way to consume sugar. These were glazed and the
just as café du monde“

“Amazing lunch and top notice service from Ms Angie and Mr Mike. Ms Angie talked to us and made us feel like family. She was so awesome! She made recommendations and Mr Mike had our meal up in no time flat and even came out to tell us goodbye!“

“Accessing this using the Good Star method is hard . My husband and I really like this place, the donuts and food both are Very good,, the man who makes the donuts does a great job, you can tell her takes pride it doing so, not to mention he's gotta great personality, funny, never had an issue with my aggravating special requests,lol.. As for the service, as for that it friends on the day, shift and waitress. For the most part it's good, as the that"other part, let's just say I'm glad I've matured and learn to control myself in my old age, if not the server yesterday would've had a real quick, undesired, change of physical location before I left J/S.. She is lazy, hatefulland seriously needs to kill reconsider her choice of career..“

“The food was good. Cash Only the service was Bad and restrooms were nasty.“

“The food was good. Cash Only the service was Bad and restrooms were nasty.“

“Started the day at a quaint and friendly coffee shop with an 80's vibe. They had some great vegan and gluten free options, clean and fun atmosphere, and pet friendly 😋 Plus a unique little boutique area in the back. There was a lot of pay it forward kindness to some of the local homeless that wandered in as well...made the heart smile to see kindness in the world.“

“I recently just moved to the neighborhood so I was really delighted that I would get the opportunity to visit this wonderful place they have such delicious food. However what I do not like is that they have horrible service and the attitude of the staff is lackluster that it is very confusing when you walk in there as far as directions. That aside they tend to miss plate items simple as meat and bacon I have to keeping me waiting seems that I was number 16 and they call 17 18 19 20 then I became a little concerned they hastily put together my plate where the items did not match my order it was no due diligence in checking the tickets to make sure that the items match with the person actually paid for as if there’s no kitchen manager or it’s just a free-for-all back there seems I’ve worked in the kitchen previous places I can spot the weakness maybe they need a staff that’s more enthusiastic about working at such a fine establishment and if they can appreciate that maybe that whole family dynamic atmosphere that they try to create something that’s really a hindrance to the business model and with overall discourage people who want to return and spend their heart on money so that they can keep this black on establishment on and Poppin but as you can see this is why people say black on establishment suck and black on businesses suck and they don’t give you a type of business and respect that you deserve because Black people suck but as another black person I’m not able to say that because that means that I suck so what a predicament this put me in oh my gosh and bring back the turkey Bacon please.“

“Had to visit as I heard this was one of the best places to get donuts and coffee. Came here on our last night after dinner and got the espresso with ice cream and a shake along with a cinnamon roll to share with my honey. The shake was a perfect consistency. Then came here again the day we were leaving out as they have Koloches. Haven’t seen those since we lived in Texas. It was pretty good but that Vietnamese coffee 🤤🤤🤤 it was soo good. I’m craving it now as I write this. Then got some donuts for the road. All very good. Highly recommend this place.“