Always go here for donuts. Great food and friendly service.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Michael Muñoz
Your friendly neighborhood donut shop. The owners are very kind and their donuts and kolaches are always fresh and delicious.
You don’t go to Fresh Donuts on Thaxton Road because you’re looking for a theme or lofty notions of challenging what exactly a donut shop can be. You’re not there to pay premium prices for half-baked (or half-fried) vessels to deliver some novel topping or flavor with dubious execution. No, you’re likely there because you’re in the area and your options are limited.
This is not an indictment against the quality to be found at this humble shop nor a cynical jeer at the dedication that’s at work here. Fresh Donuts deals in the Platonic idea of the donut and they do it remarkably well. The evidence is in the balance of velvety airiness and crispy sweetness in every bite of a classic plain glazed; the captivating ratio of cinnamon to sugar on a cinnamon twist that is never cloying or bland. When the thing you make lines up cleanly with the archetype, anything else becomes a diversion. Sharks have changed relatively little even after millions of years.
While many shops are content to serve glorified pigs-in-a-blanket, Fresh Donuts make their version of Texas kolaches adorned in a soft golden brown bread that melts in your mouth. That same kolache bread, along with croissants, is used to make simple but satisfying breakfast sandwiches as well.
Taste is subjective, often stubborn, sometimes fickle. So don’t just take my word for it. Ask any of the locals and passers-by who frequent the establishment and help make Fresh Donuts an integral locus point of the community. One only needs to leisurely nurse an apple fritter at a corner table to witness the mutual connection between the steady parade of customers and the beautiful couple behind the counter.
This is why you’re there.
Food: 5
Service: 5
Dustin LeBlanc
This is the best place for donuts and pastries in the area!! They are made fresh every day and you can taste it! They closed for a month while the owners went on vacation and I tried at least 5 different donuts places in a 10 mile radius. None of them came close to being as good as this place’s donuts!!! As a bonus, the people who own and run Fresh Donuts are some of the nicest people I’ve ever met!! Definitely worth checking out!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Apple Fritter, Donuts and Kolaches, Bavarian Cream Chocolate Donut
Stephanie Wolf
Delicious donuts!!! 🍩
Pamela Falks
Best in S Austin, we’re new here and looked all over for good donuts. This is the place !!!!!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
brett brashear
My favorite donut shop!
Stephanie Macedo
These are the best, fresh, fluffy, tasty donuts!!! The family run business is awesome! Very friendly....very humble owners.
I walk in, the woman is far in the back of the shop yelling asking me what I want. I knew she wouldn't hear me from way back there, but said my order knowing she would come closer to hear it again, so after asking for a kolache again, she gave me a very cold uncooked cheese kolache . Worst I ever had.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Noslen Naes
Excellent donuts!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Edward Lundin
These donuts are in a class by themselves. You’ll never be satisfied with any other so-called donut. Always fresh. Really delicious
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Ryan Laurel
Donuts are always fresh and taste great. The owners are super friendly. Great for stopping in before school or work for a breakfast sandwich, donut, and coffee. Or to grab a box for your friends or coworkers!
Always go here for donuts. Great food and friendly service.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Your friendly neighborhood donut shop. The owners are very kind and their donuts and kolaches are always fresh and delicious.
You don’t go to Fresh Donuts on Thaxton Road because you’re looking for a theme or lofty notions of challenging what exactly a donut shop can be. You’re not there to pay premium prices for half-baked (or half-fried) vessels to deliver some novel topping or flavor with dubious execution. No, you’re likely there because you’re in the area and your options are limited.
This is not an indictment against the quality to be found at this humble shop nor a cynical jeer at the dedication that’s at work here. Fresh Donuts deals in the Platonic idea of the donut and they do it remarkably well. The evidence is in the balance of velvety airiness and crispy sweetness in every bite of a classic plain glazed; the captivating ratio of cinnamon to sugar on a cinnamon twist that is never cloying or bland. When the thing you make lines up cleanly with the archetype, anything else becomes a diversion. Sharks have changed relatively little even after millions of years.
While many shops are content to serve glorified pigs-in-a-blanket, Fresh Donuts make their version of Texas kolaches adorned in a soft golden brown bread that melts in your mouth. That same kolache bread, along with croissants, is used to make simple but satisfying breakfast sandwiches as well.
Taste is subjective, often stubborn, sometimes fickle. So don’t just take my word for it. Ask any of the locals and passers-by who frequent the establishment and help make Fresh Donuts an integral locus point of the community. One only needs to leisurely nurse an apple fritter at a corner table to witness the mutual connection between the steady parade of customers and the beautiful couple behind the counter.
This is why you’re there.
Food: 5
Service: 5
This is the best place for donuts and pastries in the area!! They are made fresh every day and you can taste it! They closed for a month while the owners went on vacation and I tried at least 5 different donuts places in a 10 mile radius. None of them came close to being as good as this place’s donuts!!!
As a bonus, the people who own and run Fresh Donuts are some of the nicest people I’ve ever met!! Definitely worth checking out!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Apple Fritter, Donuts and Kolaches, Bavarian Cream Chocolate Donut
Delicious donuts!!! 🍩
Best in S Austin, we’re new here and looked all over for good donuts. This is the place !!!!!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
My favorite donut shop!
These are the best, fresh, fluffy, tasty donuts!!! The family run business is awesome! Very friendly....very humble owners.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bavarian Cream Chocolate Donut
Favorite place to go to in the morning and I’m always looking forward to the donuts.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Always friendly. Always delicious.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Their sign says 5am. Google says 5am. They were in there at 5am. They won't serve donuts until 6am.
Service: 1
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I walk in, the woman is far in the back of the shop yelling asking me what I want. I knew she wouldn't hear me from way back there, but said my order knowing she would come closer to hear it again, so after asking for a kolache again, she gave me a very cold uncooked cheese kolache . Worst I ever had.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Excellent donuts!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
These donuts are in a class by themselves. You’ll never be satisfied with any other
so-called donut. Always fresh. Really delicious
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Donuts are always fresh and taste great. The owners are super friendly. Great for stopping in before school or work for a breakfast sandwich, donut, and coffee. Or to grab a box for your friends or coworkers!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Amazing donuts and kolaches!?❤️
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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