Donut Station

Staying at friends house a block away. After the nearby three restaurants were packed due to the holiday weekend, we bounced back to this shop a block away.
Donuts all are fresh, very clean, a few locals relaxing and dining.
I had a egg jalapeño bagel with cheese and added cream cheese. Delicious! I think for about $ 3.
Life is good.

Great donuts! Highly recommend the chocolate twist… very light and fluffy.
I don’t want to write a paragraph, but Unilocal keeps stopping my post

OMG! I just found our new Chanukkah donut shop.
One word: Sufganiyot! (Their jelly donuts are awesome!)
Two more: Apple Fritter! (So crispy and delicious — they make them wide and low so they aren’t all soggy like an awful fritter at other not-​so-​tasty locations around town!)

This place is legit! They serve Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting Co. which is amazing! There breakfast sandwiches and donuts are great! I order the bacon, egg, and cream cheese with avocado on an onion bagel and it’s perfect! The owners are great too, they have great customer service! I highly recommend this place!

Donut Station has some of the best tasting donuts around. I consider myself a donut connoisseur so I am quite hip to the donut game. Today is actually «National Donut Day» so I was super stoked to go in and buy a dozen for my family. The donuts were almost sold out by 11am and this is not just because of the Donut Holiday… Capitola locals and beyond have made this shop very busy and most days they are almost sold out by 11.
The owners are friendly and really appreciate the business. And a quick heads up they only take CASH and CHECK.
Quick taste thought: The donuts have a very fresh taste, a slight crisp crunch on the outside and a very soft center. To me that is the perfect donut. I have tried every donut from every shop in Santa Cruz County – as I have lived here my entire life and Donut Station has «the Goods».
Thanks!

Noon, Tina and Cindy are some of the nicest people I have ever met! Plus the doughnuts are great. This is the kind of place a Presidential candidate might visit, it really draws the in-​the-​know locals.

Tastes better than the ordinary donut. Went around 12 and there wasn’t much of a selection left. They had A lot of cake donuts tho which I don’t prefer. If I were in the area again, I would pop in

This place is delightful. It gets lost in the mania that is Gayle’s across the street, but the donuts and breakfast sandwiches are tasty and the employees are delightful. They only accept cash, but they have an atm inside for convenience.

The food is delicious. Best breakfast sandwich in town. The bacon os crispy amd yummy. Be sure to get here early because if they sell out they close early. The apple fritters always sell out early; (
Highly recommended for families! Clean, good parking, very nice family owners and friendly customers.

Visited a few weeks ago while visiting up North. Great little Donut shop. They unfortunately don’t sell lotto tickets but the donuts are awesome. So helpless to delicious donuts.

Great place to go get donuts. I come here whenever I have a donut craving. The donuts here taste fresh and they’re so delicious. The owners are really nice & the donuts are well priced. I love this place!

We’re so lucky to live close to Donut Station! It was the first place we went to the day we moved to Capitola, and we didn’t need to search further. I’m a donut lover (my grandma made them fresh) and know a good cruller or old fashioned when I taste one. These are PERFECT! The owners bake them fresh on site every night. I’ve often walked by in the evening and just stopped outside to smell them cooking…
Lots of flavors to choose – from raised glazed (heavenly light) to apple fritters (dense and chewy) and everything in between. Come early for best selection, but we often stop in after 1 pm and still find a reasonable selection. They make good coffee and have a good variety of juices, iced teas,

Let me preface by saying I come from an inner circle of bakeries. I stopped here based on the unsuspecting Unilocal review and must say I don’t not agree with the buzz.
I’ve tried doughnuts from all around the country (from Voodoo all the way to Doughnut Plant). I may be wasting me time going in to depth but my craving was met with dire disappoint. Blame it in my blood sugar crash if you will. The owner and staff were very friendly and the bakery carried a nostalgic feel. As far as doughnuts are concerned, the dough was very heavy and greasy, even for a simple raised plain glaze. Hours later I still cannot get the filmy feeling from the roof of my mouth. Guess I expected a level above day old grocery store baked goods. I was wrong.

My favorite place for a jelly donut and they go quick! The staff is friendly and this family owned little shop is a calm place for awesome donuts.

Great Donuts & Great People!

I LOVE donuts. I have my whole life, and when it came time to get married, my fiancé (now husband) and I knew that we wouldn’t be happy with a tiered wedding cake when FRIED, GLAZED, SPRINKLED cakes existed in this world. Of course planning a wedding from 3K miles away is hard… unfortunately, I didn’t have the time or means to do cake tastings or scour the bay area for gourmet donut makers. Thank goodness I didn’t!
Based on the great reviews from Unilocal,I blindly called the Donut Station and asked to order 13 dozen donuts, which they said would be no problem. The afternoon before my wedding, I walked into the Capitola location, ticked off all the flavors that I wanted (there are 26 flavors), paid with a credit card, and arranged for a friend to pick them up and drop them at our wedding site on the day of the wedding. They even invited us taste every single donut in the store (dream come true) just to make sure we were ordering the right ones.
Even at 4pm on a Friday, they were fresh, crispy, sweet and perfectly crumby. The raised glazed is my favorite, and they were so light and airy! The old fashioned is hard to beat outside of California, and again, they were perfection — crispy, dense and rich inside, cinnamon & sugared evenly. The 26 flavors are so simple and fantastic, too — every combination of raised, chocolate raised, cake, chocolate cake, old fashioned, chocolate old fashioned, blueberry (cake & old fashioned) and the toppings.
To say that it went over well at the reception would be an understatement. They were visually delicious, and lived up to every expectation. Guests were so excited, and the anticipation of choosing which flavor I wanted was probably the hardest thing I had to deal with all day! Plus there were just a few squirreled away for a late-​night snack, thanks to my wedding coordinator ;)
My one regret is that I didn’t order more! (If you’re thinking of serving donuts at an event or party, plan for 1.5−2 donuts per person… no one can eat just one.)
Thanks to the entire Donut Station Crew — wish we had donuts like these in Brooklyn!

When you read the other reviews that say the Donut Station in Capitola has the BEST DONUTS, it is true! And when you read that the owners/​staff are SUPER FRIENDLY AND NICE, that is true too! This is true whether you go in at 5:30 in the morning, or 3:00 in the afternoon – This shop is consistently wonderful.
The donuts are light and airy. Sometimes I dream about them! My favorite donut is the raised glazed and the maple bar. The prices are very reasonable and the Santa Cruz Roasting Company coffee is delicious. If you like muffins, the ones at the Donut Station are fantastic! The Apricot! The Blueberry! The Bran! My all time favorite afternoon treat is the Chocolate Muffin. It just makes me smile!

Donut Station is the BEST in the area. Just go, you will not be disappointed. It has been there for years. Note: they use beet sugar, I was told, in their donuts which has to be better for you!

DROOLicious donuts
(4 stars)
Out in buttcrack nowhere we find a drool-​icious donut shop. We arrived in this town really early for our Sky Diving jump and were starving. The town was quiet (maybe because we come from a metropolitan city full of life) and i swore i saw a tumble weed roaming the streets. We had no idea where to grab a bite to eat because everything looked closed but we saw the donut shot from a distance and as we got in… I SWEAR the entire town population was up in that joint getting some donuts. This place had the most delicate donuts i’ve ever tasted in the bay area.
* ambiance — felt like an alien walking in there. everyone was looking at us if we had a booger hanging out. did everyone know each other?
* prices — cheap
* taste — delicious
* service — fastly served, i was pleased

Small little mom and pop shop near Gayle’s, a produce shop and where my bf gets his hair did…
I had been meaning to try this joint for a while and finally got a chance to after my hair cut, getting some stuff at the super market and arriving early to the plaza barber shop.
Hole in the wall with little selection but they have all the classics. I went for the cake doughnut with sprinkle since the bf hearts sprinkles. Apple fritter was also on the menu. Both were thoroughly enjoyed. The cake doughnut was fresh and not at all heavy. it was quite light which was surprising. Fritter… you and I have a date with destiny.
They offer a large selection of Santa Cruz Roasting Co coffee…
Yeahy mom and pop shops supporting other local businesses!
Friendly staff. definitely a place to check out.