Donut Star

Best donuts I Auburn. Always fresh. Great selection even late into the morning. The employees are beyond nice. Love their bacon maple bar.

The staff is helpful and nice. The donuts are decently priced and good varieties. They don’t skimp on the size of the donuts.

Not necessarily 5-​star donuts (definitely a solid 4 though!), but certainly 5-​star service and friendliness. The staff is quick, super friendly, has a good supply of items in the mornings, and everything tastes fresh. Best donuts in Auburn.

I only have one check-​in here but I’ve been coming here for years. Nothing fancy, just really good donuts. Absolutely hands down the best donuts in the South Sound (IMHO).

I dropped by this morning (I go about once every 2 months), and the owner is very nice. She chatted with me for a little while and she said they had been there for 22 years. Wow!
As far as the product goes, the doughnuts are very light and fresh (much better than Voodoo doughnuts in Portland) and relatively cheap. They also don’t skimp on the maple frosting, which some doughnut places do (e.g. Safeway doughnuts).
Suggestion: If they have the bacon-​crusted maple bar, GET IT. It’s incredible.

This is the song I made up to sing when I get Donut Star:
It’s the best day everrrr, when I get Donut Star!
That’s how good they are. They inspire my heart to sing.

I actually really love this place. It’s small but very cozy and very old school. But I kinda like it that way. Any ways, the donuts here are very delicious! Why? Well I was on my way to work one day around 5 in the morning and I noticed that the lights were on so it must of been open. My work was only a few blocks away so I dropped off my things and came back with a donut order from my work building.
First off. The min I walked in all I could smell was freshly baked maple bars. (I had to grab at least 4 of those since they were fresh) but I must say my all time fave is the pink crowns they make.
second… i I heard the younger man called out dad to the older man. Thats when I noticed this is def a family owned and I like that! Family owned is always a plus in my book because you feel a sense of care in the quality when you know the business is what’s paying for their bills.
Third I chatted with the father son duo and found out that they make freshly baked donuts EVERY MORNING from sometimes 2 – 3 am just to get these donuts out!
Fourth and finally. What ever they don’t sell for the day they donate it! I don’t know if its to homeless shelter or animal shelters but I like knowing that the left overs aren’t going to waste.
If I could I’d give them more stars i would. I believe the only downfall is if you were to go at any other time other then the morning they would have a much smaller selection because they do make limited amounts a day.

Have been driving by this place for years but it is usually closed for the day when I drive by. Was driving home from Nana’s early in the morning and decided we needed donuts for breakfast.
I got my usual crueller (really good — not to wet but to much icing). Then I got everybody else (including myself) a bacon maple bar. The bar itself was very good — the frosting was good but to thick however the bacon was disgusting it was like soy bacon bits…
So I won’t run out of my way to come back but if I happen to be driving by early in the morning and they are open and I’m craving a donut — I’ll stop again…

This is a fantastic diamond in the rough! Every time I have gone in the service has been warm and friendly. Everything has been fresh and delicious!
I think I confuse sometimes when I ask for an assortment and do not follow up with directions on what the assortment should include. My co-​workers and Special Olympic athletes rave about them when I share.
This is hands down my favorite local donut shop!

I’m not sure what has happened to the doughnut. They used to be so tasty and simple. These days a doughnut store is so hard to find and when you do find them, they are either closed, or out of the doughnut you came for.
I stopped here one Sunday as I passed by, it was close to noon as I recall. 75% of the doughnuts, if not more were gone and only a few remained to choose from. That said, I had a maple bar that tasted pretty much how I expected.
The service was friendly and this place appeared to have been family run. The only way to truly rate them would be to get there early enough to choose a better assortment.
Not my neighborhood, but if it was, I would surely try them again.

Great donuts and a friendly owner. This is a family run old school style donut and coffee shop that are so rare now. I take them to my office for my team and they love these over the Top Pot donuts.

I love this donut shop! The donuts are priced very cheaply but are delicious. I have never gotten a stale donut here and I go frequently. I find their donuts to be far superior to any grocery store or Krispy Kreme. The owner is the sweetest lady and has a great relationship with her customers.

I suspect this place has gone downhill since ’07. I’ve been driving past it for years, but it’s always been on the other side of the road. This Sunday, the thought of another box of Safeway donuts just didn’t float my boat and I made a u-​turn, fighting traffic (and the godawful traffic cameras!) to get to this place.
Nice, mid-​seventies ambiance. Couple of people hanging out drinking coffee (the drip kind), a little boy from the neighborhood buying his kid sister a donut. Real old-​school cases.
The donuts all looked great and the woman was putting out apple fritters. Big, juicy looking fritters as big as my head (1.50)
I bought 3 cake, 1 sprinkle, 2 chocolate covered custard filled, a maple bar, and two apple fritters, and they were all stale. Beautiful, heavy (like a good donut should be) and they made my car smell great. And I loved the old fashioned pink bakery box with the stamp on top.
I suspect they only make fresh donuts for display and during the week for people bringing it in for their office donut-​buddies (everybody has friends when there are free donuts).
The lady behind the counter was really nice. Just wish I’d gotten the fresh stuff.

Tasty donuts and great service. Needed to jump on a my laptop so I came and got a donut. After getting my donuts the lady came out and wiped down my already clean table and closed the blinds to keep the glare down. Ask if my spot was good. As I have waited she has done this to all customers. Great service and inexpensive food. Love the locally owned spots!

This is a great little family-​owned donut shop. This type of independent donut shop is hard to find, but it’s worth the trip to Auburn to find Donut Star. Great selection of raised, cake and filled donuts. Maple bars are excellent, as well as apple fritters and raised glaze. Real nice people there!
When in Auburn, I make a point of going to Donut Star!

Great little donut shop South of Seattle — best to get them to go.
At my place of work, the maple bars are the most popular donuts in the greater Seattle area.