The Donut Mill — Restaurant in Woodland Park

I really wanted to love this place, but visit #2 and #3 were awful.

Background: We are new to the area and our local family brought us here in the spring as they said they had great donuts and biscuits and gravy. Visit #1 was awesome. Great donuts, great B&G. Overall a really nice experience.

Visit #2: We had friends visiting from out of town so we thought we'd drive up to Woodland Park and let them enjoy the views and the donuts. The views were great, the donuts were not great. There were seven of us in all and everyone who tried a fritter had the same reaction: "this tastes burnt." It seriously tasted like the oil it was fried in was burnt oil and that taste permeated the entire donut. I asked the young lady behind the counter if there was anything she could do and she said there was nothing wrong with the oil. Okay... we chalked that one up as a singular bad experience.

Visit #3: We had family visiting for Thanksgiving. Again, they had never been here so thought we'd offer them the Woodland Park views and the donuts. Unfortunately, our donuts were again really bad. There were nine of us in total and the two of us who ordered the bacon, maple fritters had literal uncooked dough on the inside of our fritters. Not even close to slightly undercooked, it was complete dough. Doughy enough that when I pulled the fritter apart, the dough stretched a good 12-inches, similar to when you pull a mozzarella stick apart. Again, I asked the young lady at the counter if there were any cooked a little more thoroughly and she said that was how they are always cooked and I shouldn't worry about salmonella ...which I thought was strange because I never mentioned getting sick, I just didn't want to eat uncooked dough because it tasted like uncooked dough.

So we've tried the Donut Mill three times and have had a really bad experience on 2 out of 3 visits. We will not be going back, which is sad because we loved driving to the town and stopping in for...

Where to begin. I went to The Donut Mill with three others this morning. It was the worst breakfast experience at a restaurant I've ever had. The supposed "best" biscuits and gravy were not good at all. The biscuits were not made fresh at the store and appeared to have come in a large plastic bag from somewhere off site. The gravy tasted like it was canned. It was at least warm? Coupled with a nearly ice cold biscuit it was totally unpalatable. I ate a few bites then threw the rest away. The donuts were nothing short of disgusting. Between the four of us we tried chocolate and cinnamon. They had to have been at least a day old. They were very, very dry. The chocolate was crusty and obviously old. The "cinnamon" donut contained little actual cinnamon and was drier than the Atacama desert. I am shocked this restaurant has such high reviews. I have to wonder if there was a recent ownership change or something. Totally disappointed as I took my parents here on their vacation and there are several good breakfast spots in town and I chose this place as I'd never been there. I suggest avoiding this place if you're looking for decent B&G's...

We were taking a group family trip and decided to stop and treat our kids and cousins to a donut. Love supporting small businesses, and we were excited to try it out. We went in to see HUGE delicious looking donuts. On the board it said a dozen for $12.95. We discussed it in front of the three workers, one which I assume was the owner. We secided to go ahead and get a dozen since it would have been nearly the same cost as each of us getting one, since there were 10 of us. The kids excitedly picked out their donuts. We went to ring up and they told us the cost was $36.05. ?!?! So naturally we questioned it! That's when they finally decided to tell us the donuts for $12.95 were only on the left side of the case. Really would have been nice for them to tell us that in the first place considering we were talking about it right in front of them, and even asking if we had gotten to the dozen yet. I suppose at that point we should have told them to put the donuts back, but we felt a little obligated considering the excitement from all of the kids. The donuts were good, but we won't be going back on principle. Definitely...