Donut Palace

Closed!!!

Really big donuts, not the greatest Boston Cream, super small shop in need of décor.
I’m a mom-​n-​pop super-​trooper as often as I can be — I like heralding the virtues of shopping local and shopping small. Things are done better, taste better, and feel better when it’s a smaller outfit, usually.
But Donut Palace needs some help before I can send out the Mission Accomplished carrier. It’s small inside, but really lacking in any kind of ambience. It’s like walking into a hospital pharmacy: white tiles and off-​blue neon lighting. Doesn’t help the display of donuts any, which is too bad, cuz one of the first things you notice here is that the donuts are kind of huge! I like that! Krispy Kreme and Tim Hortons have done a lot to shrink our expectations regarding donut size, but here they’re built large and meant to occupy SPACE!
Regrettably, the only donut I tried, the Boston Cream, wasn’t all that good. The chocolate icing was fine, the donut itself just a tad bit stale (which doesn’t mean too much — i mean, we can’t ALWAYS get there just as the donuts are leaving the oven), but the CREAM! omg, what the hell was that? tasted like shoe glue, felt like muddy boot water (a little gritty), the color was extraordinarily pale, and it was so liquidy that it was kind of pouring out of the donut with each successive bite. NO GOOD!
Donut Palace, please fix your Boston Bream filling, and how! You’ve got a cute corner shop with a cute name that is in desperate need of a face-​lift and a donut-​recipe-​defibrillator… I’m happy to anthem for your team as soon as you produce a palatable donut.