Parlor Doughnuts
23870 Aliso Creek Rd, Laguna Niguel, CA
Crema's Take
“Parlor Doughnuts crafts donuts with an unexpectedly delicate, pastry-like texture that sets them apart from traditional donut shops, with creative flavors like carnival and s'mores that feel special enough for celebrations. The team here genuinely cares about the experience, with staff who take time to help you navigate their signature creations and make each visit feel personal and welcoming.”
What to expect
Google Reviews
The donuts here are incredible. The texture is quite unique—it’s more like a pastry than a typical donut, which really sets them apart from other places. Since I visited right before closing, I missed out on a lot of flavors. I’m definitely coming back earlier next time to grab all the different layered dough varieties!
This is not my first review, but this place deserves another. I came in the morning and the employee Dakota went above and beyond with her customer service and helped me take the almost 2 dozens of donuts and iced coffee to my car. Made sure everything was in place and wished me a great day. I've never experienced this level of customer service before, I'm very grateful for her. The donuts are absolutely DEVINE,and this is my favorite sweet spot in whole OC.
If I could leave a higher rating than 5 stars, I absolutely would!! The staff was so friendly and helpful when deciding what doughnuts to get! I ended up getting the carnival and s’mores doughnuts and they were phenomenal- lightweight, airy, flaky and sweet! The cold brew coffee capped off the whole experience with a very rich and smooth taste. 10/10 would recommend to anyone!!
I'm not even exaggerating, these are the BEST donuts I have EVER tried!!!! These are so fancy and delicious, they would be the perfect thing for any occasion, superbowl, birthdays, valentine's day!!! I have a dozen but they're so big (definitely shareable) that so far I have only tried the French Toast and it's 🤌 GO TRY THEM OUT!
Hugely disappointing. Donuts are seriously yucky and gross. My coffee was given to me Luke warm almost cold and stale. I threw it in the trash. We took a couple bites of each of the 4 kinds of donuts we got (French toast/ maple bacon/ bourbon/ blueberry) and those went into the trash. I spent $24 for 4 donuts and a very small cup of disgusting coffee.. I had been wanting to try this place but we have a place nearby that we have gone to for years that is special to us and has the absolute yummiest best donuts ever! I talked my kids into at least trying this place once. Then when they reluctantly gave in and we experienced this obviously disappointing. So, we left and went straight to Aliso Viejo Donuts to get real food! 🤣 Literally straight there instead. I got our usual 2 ham/cheese croissants, chocolate bar, apple fritter, a glaze, an Acaii smoothie and a large very hot and delicious cup of coffee all for $30. So Parlor Donuts if you’re going to come into our neighborhood with a cute place, try to hype up your food to the status you claim at least try to meet the bar because you have completely missed the opportunity truly… even mediocre would be a step up from just yuck and never wanting to come back. What a shame for such a great location and cute cafe ambience to waste on such terrible food and horrible coffee.
Crema Reviews
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