Mary Lou Donuts — Restaurant in Lafayette

Drive thru service only right now - or order ahead and i believe they'll run your order out to you, although they may have stopped since they are subject to the same staffing shortages as everywhere else right now. Their donuts are simply GREAT, homemade and delicious! Apple fritters and persians as big as your head! (or "mini" fritters, which are sized for normal people haha) All different kinds of filled donuts! (overfilled occasionally, but I'm not complaining🤗) All different kinds of cake donut! I'm partial to the white iced with coconut, myself. Their menu is available online as a pdf document, definitely check it out before you go - otherwise you'll be stuck in the drive-thru going UHHHHHHHH because there's no menu posted on the building itself. 😜 Located at the bottom of 4th St., and definitely worth the trip! Go very early if possible, otherwise you may get stuck in a line for awhile, LOLOL. Also, WATCH THE CONES, their parking lot is now mostly a one-way path for drive-thru traffic, not parking as such anymore. There are a few spaces at the front...

I had my first Mary Lou's doughnut in 1967. I would brag about their doughnuts all across the country . . . until shortly after the change in ownership. In the first weeks everything stayed the same but over time, I noticed a change in the taste. I was assured by ownership that everything was the same . . . same recipe, ingredients and even some of the same bakers. Despite that, the doughnuts do not taste the same. After 50 years of consuming their product, suddenly, they don't taste the same (as good) and it seems to coincide with the ownership change. All I can figure is that while the ingredients may be "the same", maybe the brand or the supplier of the ingredients has changed. I have talked to other locals and they all have agreed that something is not right and the doughnut is not worth going out of your way for (or not at all) anymore. Sadly, Mary Lou's has been reduced to 'slightly above average in my mind. They need to figure this out and return to their previous superlative taste that was worth...

The donuts we purchased this morning were less than what I expect from a place that has always had such delicious donuts. The cinnamon rolls were very sloppily iced with barely any icing on them and were very dry. They long Johns tastes stale and were hard like they were from yesterday. I understand making donuts ahead of time but if you are going to do that then your quality needs to be on point. We wasted $16 on donuts that tasted like they came from Walmart. Please do better Mary Lou’s…….

I might add when the owner responds to criticism they seem to like to try to embarrass customers when they critique the food they have paid for. Part of being a business owner is taking criticism. You aren’t the one paying for your product so if a customer wants to leave reviews of some they THEY paid for maybe show some grace and be a decent human being and fix the problem instead of trying to blame to customer. I added a photo of the cinnamon roll so you can see how sloppy your products...