Queen Donuts & Ice Cream
- Price Range: $
- Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
- Parking: Private Lot
- Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
12 Reviews for Queen Donuts & Ice Cream
24/7 donut and ice cream shop? You mean I can feed my sweet tooth at 3 AM in the morning without having to scrounge for leftovers in Safeway's bakery?
Lots of donuts and donut-related baked goods, including breakfast breads (in the morning only), and ice cream in all the usual flavors plus more unusual varieties such as mango and banana nut. I tried the mango and was pleasantly surprised to find icy chunks of mango flesh swirled into its condensed milky goodness. A small is huge (they really pile the ice cream on there), so I recommend only ordering a large if you're really really hungry.
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I like that they're open late, but at the same time I think it raises the chances of getting a stale donut. I went at around midnight and got a chocolate, chocolate sprinkle, a ham and cheese croissant and a cheese muffin. All of them were stale except the croissant was good, according to my boyfriend.
The price range seemed medium, $5 for 2 donuts, a croissant, and a muffin.
Overall I just wasn't crazy about it. I might go back because of the hours, but other than if I want something when every other place is closed, I don't think I'd go back.
I pass by Queens everyday when driving to pick up my daughter from school. My son is usually in the car with me. Every time we get close to Race street- I hear "OOO! MOMMA! I WANT DONUTS! I WANT THODAS!" If my two year old does not get time out at daycare then I reward him with a donut and a 7 up or yogurt drink from Queens. He always picks out the vanilla with sprinkles for himself, and the chocolate with sprinkles for his sister. Lately, he has switched to the strawberry raised for himself, and the chocolate raised for his sister. His consistency cracks me up! Four stars for tasty donuts and for not cringing at my little sugar booger who puts tiny finger prints and saliva all over the pastry cases!
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Donuts and ice cream 24 hours a day. Seriously, what else do you need to know?
Total hole in the wall, Queen's is easy to pass up as you drive along Race or Park. But if you manage to spot it and go in...you're pleasantly surprised.
Love their glazed, super big and puffy with not too sweet of a taste. Chocolate old fashioned is the right combo of dry and moist. Yummy lickalicious donut frostings. Takes credit cards.
I've never tried their ice cream because I always forget they have it....so hopefully one day, I'll update with that.
Service is fast and friendly, I am typically in and out in less than 3 minutes.
Donut drive-by.
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Great donuts especially when it's a 1/4 block from the homies house and it's open 24 hrs. I will always hit this spot up for a late night sweet.
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The donuts have gotten better then the years before. hope they continue to get better. before the donuts had a oily after taste.
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open 24 hours.
great donuts.
yum.
:)
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The donuts are okay, but only a little better than what you'd find down the street at Safeway. My favorites (frosted crullers) always seem really dry here, which is disappointing.
However, they are pleasant and fast, and not expensive, and they take credit cards, which is nice when I'm buying dozens of donuts for my class.
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Located in a random strip mall, you can get a pretty good donut at any hour of the day, seven days a week.
The key here is to figure out which type of donut is the freshest, but if you ask the owner he'll probably tell you that all of them are fresh. He makes them 'round the clock which is perfect for a 2am donut run.
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Okay, first of all, it's open 24 hours a day, which makes it amazing. Second, they bake fresh donuts in the middle of the night so if you're an insomniac like me and my roommates, you can grab a bag of hot, fresh glazed donuts at 2 am!!!
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Since they're open 24 hours a day, try to go late when they're making the donuts.
When I first walked into this place, that's not in the nicest of neighborhoods, I thought the owner was a jerk. He seemed to be getting super annoyed with my questions. After reading Ashley D.'s review, I knew I had to get a warm donut and I needed to know which ones were going to be warm. They guy was extremely unhappy, and I really thought to myself that I'm going to yelp the hell out of this place and give them 1 big fat star to say thanks for nuthin' dude.
However, when I got in the car and started smelling that warm glazed French cruller I thought I had died and gone to donut heaven. The donut melted in my mouth. I even contemplated going back and buying more. It was like donut crack... but I tried to hold back and just savor what was in my mouth.
I don't know if I'll ever catch that donut guy making those exact donuts at that exact time again, it was just one of those being in the right place at the right time kind of things.
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i frequent this place while doing my laundry next door and on occasional junk food binges:
the owner is super nice (he helped me carry a box of goodies to my car before work one morning) and they are open 24 hours.
i love getting eclairs after a night out - best drunk food ever.
just be sure the cops aren't sitting inside when you stumble in wasted...
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