Voodoo Doughnut — Restaurant in West Hollywood

very friendly staff..highly recommended .. Suger hit.. love them all..

Two of their doughnuts, the NyQuil Glazed doughnut and the Vanilla Pepto Crushed Tums doughnut, are no longer available due to order of local health officials. According to one of the co-owners, "the NyQuil one was kind of a lark, but that’s the one that got the most famous. With the Pepto doughnut, I honestly thought if you had that shot of tequila you shouldn’t have at 2:00 a.m., and then you got sugar, bread, Pepto, and Tums, you’d either feel better or puke your ass off and then feel better because you got it out of your system. So it was a win-win either way."17] On December 24, 2008, Voodoo's "Portland Creme" was designated as Portland's "Official City Doughnut" by a resolution introduced by Portland Mayor Tom Potter and passed by city commissioners the same night. The resolution also expressed Portlanders' "deepest gratitude to Voodoo Doughnut management for its dedication in the face of these stringent economic times in providing employment opportunities... and above all, creating and naming a doughnut after our beloved city that leaves a lasting taste and fond memories on its customers near and far away."[18] Later, mayor Tom Potter and mayoral candidate Sam Adams attended a regular midnight doughnut-eating contest.[7]

Locations To celebrate their fifth anniversary, Voodoo Doughnut opened a second location at 1501 NE Davis Street in the Kerns neighborhood.[3] The store began a "soft opening" on May 30, 2008 with limited hours. The official opening occurred in June 2008 and was rung in with a parade that led from the original location to the new one.[1 In their first foray outside of Portland, Voodoo Doughnut opened a third location in Eugene, Oregon, at the corner of Broadway and Willamette in downtown Eugene. The store began a "soft opening" May 7, 2010 with limited hours. The official opening occurred on June 5, 2010. This location also contains the chain's traditionally whimsical decor, in addition to a piano in the seating area and a velvet painting of a crying Conan O'Brien with animated tear drops. For the 2010 edition of "Best Of Eugene Weekly", Voodoo Tres won "Best New Addition To Eugene" and "Best Downtown Business."[20] A fourth location has opened in Denver, Colorado, and a fifth in Austin, Texas. A seventh location has opened in Universal City, California at Universal CityWalk [21], and an eighth in Orlando,...

This place was perfect. We got here and it was so packed that there was a 25 minutes line to get in. We got handed a menu to browse during our wait, so we went through the agonizing task of deciding what we wanted. They all look so good. It almost makes you want to order one of their dozen. But the terms of what donuts you get in those dozens weren't clearly outlined, which scared us away.

So my girlfriend and I ordered three donuts, the Dirt (Raised yeast doughnut with vanilla frosting and Oreo cookies), the Maple Bacon Bar (Raised yeast doughnut with maple frosting and bacon on top), and the Mango Tango (Raised yeast shell filled with mango jelly and topped with vanilla frosting and Tang). We only got this combination because they were out of the ODB and the Voodoo Doll at the time.

The donuts were great. They were so soft and chewey. Like, if the donuts were just plain, I would still like them, and I can't say that about anywhere else except Krispy Kreme. -The Dirt was good. The Oreos were really sweet, so the vanilla frosting was dialed down on the sweetness; a good balance. -The Maple Bacon Bar was perfect. The maple frosting was very syrup-y and the bacon was easily bite-through-able, so you didn't end up with the whole piece in your mouth. And the bacon was slightly charred, which added a really nice almost smokiness to the donut. -The Mango Tango was the big surprise for us. It tasted more lemony than anything, but that was mostly on the outside. The mango within was subtle, but nice. Solid donut.

I also got to sample a bite of the Voodoo Doll and the vegan version of the OBD. The doll was very good, but nothing out of this world. It's just a fun novelty. The OBD was actually very good. There are some vegan things in this world that I sometimes actually prefer over the normal thing. I'll let you know if this is one of those things when I try the real one, but I really like this.

Overall, this is a really fun spot that can produce a really good quality donut even when there's a 25 minute line outside their door. There's actually a little glass window that lets you see the employees decorating the donuts in a frantic hurry. And, believe it or not, the price was actually not too bad. Other gourmet donut places would charge way more than this place.

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I really liked the place. It was nice and cozy, but the cashier, Maria, who handled my order came off as rude to me. I dont know if she was tired or whatever but I told her it was my first time here and didnt know how it worked. She just looked at me and said okay, and when I asked about prices she just pointed to the board and said ,"Prices are up there" I told her I wanted the dozen and asked specifically if the doughnuts I wanted were for sure included in that specific dozen. She said yes and thank God I checked before leaving because only one of the doughnuts I wanted was in there and it wasnt even for myself I was getting it as a gift for a friend. I had to get my brother to go back and wait in that long line to just get the other doughnut I wanted. Disappointed that my first experience with this place went like this. Also went back to another cashier and SHE explained to me as to why specific doughnuts were not included in specific dozen.Wish I had her as my cashier maybe my experience could have been better. As for the doughnuts itself even though I love sweet things this was way overly sweet, and when I got the doughnuts especially the little voodoo doughnut it's as if they could care less about how it looked as long as they sold it. No effort compared to the other pictures I've seen. Pretty bummed about the quality (payed $31 bucks for a box of specialty mind you for a box that contained some doughnuts looking like they just slapped it together) and of service of "some" staff members who couldn't be bothered. Will definitely never be...