MACHINO DONUTS — Restaurant in Toronto

I keep seeing Machino's Ube Creme Brulee in social media saying that it's the best donut in the city. So I have to find out if this is true. And since I love anything ube, I was excited to come here and try it.

Let me tell you that the donuts here didn't blew me away, nothing special about them.

Overall the donuts tasted dry and dense like bread. The fillings/icing/toppings were unpleasantly sweet and some have underwhelming flavour. I've tasted other vegan donuts and it doesn't even come anywhere close to Machino.

I have to try these donuts to see what's the hype about them:

Ube Creme Brulee Utter disappointment is what I felt upon taking my first bite of the Ube Creme Brulee donut. There is no way you can taste the ube in this donut! Artificial ube flavouring/color - a big YES, real purple ube flavour - resounding NO. Trust me I know, since I grew up eating ube and can distinguish the real taste of fresh ube vs artificial ube flavour.

This donut also has a description saying ube custard but doesn't even taste like one since the filling has a thinner consistency.

Classic Apple Fritter They said this donut is very popular and everyone's favourite. But I beg to differ since this is my least favourite donut. The donut has a sweet and salty flavour combination that makes the pairing less successful. It borders more on excessive saltiness that overwhelms the delicate sweet flavour of the donut.

The apples in the donut were very limited and lacking the flavour you normally find in an apple fritter.

Devil's Chocolate Before buying this donut, I asked the cashier if this is dark chocolate and she said yes. Shouldn't have listened to her coz this is one of the worst donuts I have tasted and there's no way this is made with dark chocolate.

The combination of the cocoa glaze topping plus the chocolate cake crumbs and chocolate ganache is the worst flavour combination ever! It's nauseatingly sweet and I didn't even enjoy it.

I don't even see any positive thing about this place. The store is small, it's just a takeaway place and designed for customers to grab their donuts/drinks and go. I was even planning to buy coffee but quickly changed my mind when I saw nowhere to seat and enjoy the food.

Service was abysmal. The Asian cashier was so unfriendly and no one is manning the front of the store. I have to wait for a while coz the staff were missing in action. After helping me, she took off again to God knows where. Another customer walks in and has to wait just like me before the cashier came in front to get her order.

Way overpriced for a low quality donut.

They take cash but don't accept $50 bill which is disappointing coz there's no sign anywhere in the store that says they don't accept large bills.

This further cemented the fact that you should never trust influencers and be cautious of their recommendations solely because of their biased opinions.

There's so many donut places to try in Toronto and I'm not giving this place a second chance after having a less than...

i wish these donuts tasted as good as they looked ! i was so excited to try these interesting, unique flavours, but i’m not sure if the donuts really CAPTURED the essence of these things. i will give credit to the quality and freshness of the donuts — every single one was super soft and pillowy (although they were quite oily as well) — as well as the generous amount of filling in all of these, because WOW THEY WERE ALL OOZING OUT.

the matcha banana pudding didn’t have a super distinct matcha or banana pudding flavour, i think it was more biscoff tbh. however, i’ll admit even the FAINT sweetness of the banana made a LETHAL combination with the biscoff. the filling was superrrr creamy too.

the dubai chocolate brownie one was a bit sweeter, but i think i would’ve liked a bit more pistachio cream and spreaded out the kunafa more, to balance out the flavours. the crumble of the sweet yet slightly bitter chocolate, the nutty, light, mellowness of the pistachio cream, and the veritable CRUNCHINESS of the slightly salty, earthy kunafa were all great together, but there was SOMETHING missing — it was missing a PUNCH (and maybe more kunafa spread out in the donut would’ve helped?)

the ube cream brûlée was also a bit disappointing? the top had a nicely torched burnt sugar aroma and was slightly crackling, but the ube filling was underwhelming. it wasn’t very sweet or flavourful, and i wouldn’t say it was the most...

I'm a Fritter nut and they have amazing fritters. The apple fritters are fantastic, and they also do a blueberry fritter that is Amazing It's actually kind of hard to describe. It's blueberry, but it's got a little bit of sourness to it and It cuts through this sweetness, really nicely. Another favorite is the chocolate banana fritter, which I just discovered yesterday. I would say their regular Donuts. Look fantastic but, flavor is mostly similar In my mind. The service is perfunctory they do their job with a smile but there's not really much personalization. The space is tiny so no hanging around to eat which is a bit of a drag because they which is a bit of a drag because they also serve coffee/espresso and then you have to go find somewhere to sit and vacuum up your treasures.

The product is definitely the star here. My only criticism is really a compliment. They were making these Pecan Sticky buns for a while, which were to die for. And now they don't because apparently they had difficulties getting them consistent. Well, I would say bring on inconsistent because I never had a bad one. A bit turned off by the tip screen that pops up suggesting you tip for service when you didn't really get any. Should I tip everyone for doing their basic job like the guys at 7/11, the local convenience store, the grocery store? Enough. Pay your employees fair wages...