Federal Donuts
21 S 12th St, Philadelphia, PA
Crema's Take
“This Center City gem excels at the art of the donut, with fresh-made pastries featuring both beloved classics like hot cinnamon brown sugar and creative rotating flavors that keep regulars coming back. The vibe is unpretentious and efficient—perfect for grabbing an exceptional pastry and coffee on the go, or settling in with a full breakfast sandwich, and the staff genuinely seems to care about what they're serving. It's the kind of neighborhood spot that's earned its reputation as some of the best donuts in Philadelphia through consistency, quality ingredients, and attention to detail.”
What to expect
Google Reviews
Federal Donuts & Chicken location in Center City has very high quality donuts with professional staff members that love their job. This store even does catering orders on EZ Cater. Keep up the good work ethic 👍
Definitely go for the fresh doughnuts. They are freshly made and taste much better than the ones sitting there. The strawberry lavender was good, not much lavender flavour. Cookies and cream was good too. Can’t really go wrong with any one of them. Coffee was descent too. Washroom was nice and clean.
Good for quick donuts and coffee. Some interesting donuts flavors. They also have breakfast sandwiches Hash browns etc.
Best donuts in Philly and in my top 3 overall- my usual go-to is the hot cinnamon brown sugar donut, it’s amazing and a must try. They have revolving “fancy” flavors, this time I had tres leches which tasted so yum. We also had the fried chicken sandwich, it’s definitely crispy. It had a unique flavor similar to an onion ring which was interesting- however, it was a bit too salty and needed more sauce. The fries were good, nothing special although they were not the zatar fries. The interior is nice & modern with a colorful splash.
Donuts were awesome! Freshly cooked and delicious! We ordered classic sugar cinnamon and strawberry lavender donuts. The sugar cinnamon donut is pretty delicious. But, strawberry lavender donut was so so.. I couldn’t taste the lavender at all. I am not big cake base donut. The staffs were super friendly and nice. The service was pretty fast and the place is pretty clean.
Crema Reviews
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