Johnny Doughnuts — Restaurant in San Rafael

06/11/2024 @10:53A.M. This is my first time visiting this place! Your first impression to your customers always matters. The tall lady at the ordering booth with the doughnuts was kind. She then hands the order off to the female cashier (shorter lady). I told her that I'd like a HOT vanilla latte. I inquired about other flavors. She asked me 3 times if I wanted my latte HOT or COLD before I paid for my order. Every time, I told her HOT. Instead, she put on the receipt a cold latte, and that's what she made. She gave me the opposite of what I asked her for, and she did that intentionally. This is my first and last time at this doughnut shop. Also, $3.95 for a doughnut is too much. I ordered two. The amount given for the latte is $5.50 for less drink than you'd receive at Starbucks. On top of that, I tipped, and she still got my order wrong. That's just rude. I bless this business, but I will never eat here again. I will stick with STARBUCKS. There are too many doughnut shops in town to be careless, rude, and overpriced! Personally, I will always choose quality over quantity. God bless, but I do not recommend this business to anyone. By the way, the doughnuts were delicious, but I didn't like the latte. It did not taste like vanilla. Go elsewhere. I beseech this company to do better; IN JESUS name, amen. I rate this business 2 out of 10 based on my experience today, alone. (JESUS CHRIST IS...

The doughnuts are capital F … fancy. Gorgeous looking works of art. With that comes along a premium price. A doughnut will set you back $3-4 each. They have no discount per the dozen. They also sell coffee drinks. There is some indoor seating but it’s limited. They have an outdoor patio which is actually a barricaded parking space on 4th street, it’s functional.

Back to the doughnuts… they have glazed, raised, crodoughnuts, bar, twists, fritters, cinnamon rolls, and bismarks in a bunch of flavors. The raised doughnut tasted a bit different than what I am used to, not in a bad way, just different. The raised doughnuts contain wheat and a bit of potato. I bought a couple of old fashions (chocolate salted caramel, vanilla) and raised (classic, strawberry glaze). The doughnuts and glazes were not overly sweet. My fave was the chocolate salted caramel, great flavor combo. Moist interior, with a classic crunchy exterior.

The staff at the doughnut ordering counter didn’t know the exact prices beyond the range of $3-4. And oddly there was no pricing listed anywhere. There was no menu … no price board, no printed menu. I found that totally odd to not have prices listed. I still don’t know if I was overcharged or not. There seems to be room on the doughnut sign label to write...

These are some heftyyyy doughnuts! It was bigger than the size of my palm and were 2 freakin' inches thick!

BLUEBERRY RAISED ...just tasted like sweet glaze. I didn't get any blueberry flavors from it, so disappointed. And not sure how fresh it was but the doughnut itself was quiiite good.

CRO-DOUGH Finally. My first time trying this hybrid and lemme just say... AHHH, why. Whose idea was this!? At first bite, I was not digging it. It tasted like a bready doughnut and well, gimme a doughnut or gimme a toasty croissant, just not this confused thing. And to make it heavier, Johnny Doughnuts have this cream filling in their cro-doughs and ahh, can't. eat. this. any. more. please. stahp.

PASSION FRUIT RAISED 10 hours later, we decide to indulge on this doughnut. It takes maybe 4 bites to start tasting passion fruit but once you get there, it's yummy. Subtly tart. I regret not having this first since the doughnut wasn't as fresh now... Such sadness.

3.5 overall, thanks to the passion fruit flavor and texture of a fresher doughnut. Rounded up for my hopes of getting a lime mascarpone filled one next time...