Icdc Beverly

Came here tonight because I’m in town for work & was having a donut craving, so I searched here on the Unilocal app for something close & ICDC came up within less than a mile from where I was at.
To Summarize:
The donuts here are good/​OK, but NOT worth $ 3 – 4 per donut, & I don’t care if they’re sustainable/​eco friendly/​organic anything! There’s a place local in Huntington Beach where I live that does the same types of donuts that people (me included!) RAVE about, & their organic/​gluten free are about HALF what I paid for the PB cookie donut & a bag of little sugar cinnamon donut holes here.
I understand that location & pricing are almost parallel to eachother, but come on! My local haunt in HB so kills this place!

Sooooo gooooood. I wish they opened earlier. Everyone that works there are super friendly.

It took a lot of contemplating before I came to my star rating…
I wanted to give 5 starts just for having fried gluten-​free donuts that have multiple precautions put into place in order to avoid cross-​contamination. This is the *only* place I have found so far that doesn’t bake their gluten-​free donuts. And the one thing I miss the most about my pre-​celiac life is donuts. I do wish they had a few more traditional flavors, like maple or chocolate frosted, for their gluten free choices.
However, this place needs to get a few things together in order to have a successful business.
1. The employees need some food handling training, pronto!
2. When you open the store should already be fully stocked with available donuts in all flavors, including gluten free donuts. We arrived early (because what donut place opens at 11:00am on a Saturday??) and ended up having to wait 30 minutes for gluten free donuts. She sent us on our way with a first batch that was still raw dough in the middle. I will give her credit for rectifying the situation, but had donuts already been ready to be sold right at 11:00am this wouldn’t have been an issue.
3. This brings me to my next issue; store hours. It seems bizarre to me that the store doesn’t open until 11:00 on Saturday & Sunday. Who doesn’t love an early morning coffee & donut on the weekend?!
4. Price; its steep. For the price Im paying for a plain glazed buttermilk donut, I’d expect it to be organic, sustainably sourced ingredients, local, eco-​conscious, and all those other «green» things…
5.Not the biggest issue, but an added mark against the ease of our experience. Website needs some work. You can’t even see what the gluten free donuts are and how much they cost on the website because it won’t let you scroll on that page, it just makes you go to the next one.
So after 2 visits I can say I’m slightly disappointed and wouldn’t drive all the way from the Southbay again just to get fried gluten-​free donuts, but if I happened to be in the area, I would probably stop by and grab a few donuts.

Got a doughnut here. It was alright. These particular doughtnuts here though look incredible to the point where I don’t know where to start and I don’t want to ruin them. I tend to go for the simple and classic ones first because I feel if you can’t do those well, specialty ones don’t really matter.
What I really needed to try was the ICDC. It’s essentially an Ice Cream and Salted Caramel doughnut Affogato. However, I was in a rush and needed to do other things because I am an adult. Will be back to tackle this ICDC challenge though.
They also have coffee here, but it’s also just fine. Also, parking is a Too $hort beeyotch so minus points for that.

FYI: ICDC stands for «Ice Cream, Donuts, and Coffee.»
Once that alluring mystery is out of the way, what’s left is a very average dessert shop.
Their products remind me of a certain type of person you date, the man or woman who looks gorgeous but there really isn’t much to them — buuuuuut you start to think they’re at least okay because aesthetics.
Their donuts are compact and elegant and their display of ice cream possesses a welcome measure of sophistication in its flavor variety. But boy oh boy, spend a night with them and you’ll, at best, forget it in a month.
I had the chocolate donut, which hooked me precisely because of its slick, dark sheen, but the flavor was very one-​note and not my cup of tea (or coffee, I guess). I sampled a handful of the ice cream they had on hand; again, some interesting choices there but I was left wanting in their actual execution.
I’m never one to dissuade someone from making up their own mind, but I won’t be coming back myself.

1, 2, 3, 4… I DECLARE AN… ICE CREAM CRAWL!!!
Day 1, Stop 4
BACKSTORY: (Repeated on all ice cream crawl reviews. If you’ve read it once, no need to read it 20+ times :-p)
Thanks to social media and their ways to entice peeps, like me, to get out and about town, I recently succumbed to their power of suggestion and checked out ice cream parlors in the LA area. The goal? The goal was not to find the best ice cream parlor, nor the worst, and to see what was out there, instead the goal was to have a frame of reference when peeps or fellow Unilocalers ask, suggest, or check into places.
And so it continues…
PARKING:
Metered street parking. Read posted signs for restrictions.
INTERIOR:
Empty, this place was empty from the time I walked in, to the time I left. It was a nice change from the crowds at the previous ice cream parlors on this ice cream crawl. This little store was filled with Ice Cream, Donuts, Coffee, and they Deliver (ICDC). Not very many ice cream selections, and the ice cream choices were rich in color. I suspected rich in flavor, as well.
CUSTOMER SERVICE:
I saw and interacted with only one staff member who seemed to wish she was somewhere else.
ORDERED:
Woo hoo!!! Salted Caramel!!! Oh yeah, gimme a taste of dat! After trying it, my eyes welled and I merely wanted my mom. It was really, really not to my liking. Boo!!! I also took half a taste of a chocolate ganache of some sort. Oy!!! The flavor was so overwhelming. I settled for strawberry basil. It was the best tasting out of all the others. Alas, by the time I walked back to my car, just round the corner, I was done. It was simply too strong, the basil overpowered the strawberry.
IN A SCOOP:
Street parking wasn’t too bad for a Saturday afternoon. I parked just around the corner from the front door and thank you to the previous occupant of the spot who left time on the meter. Very much appreciated!!! I typically don’t go into establishments when there are no other customers, I take it as a sign, but I was on a mission, and went inside anyway. I didn’t finish my scoop, I was only able to eat about a quarter of the serving. So sad, I’ve never thrown ice cream away, it’s just oh so wrong. I most definitely will not be coming back, regarding if I’m in the area or not.
#LAICECREAMCRAWL

I wanted to try their donut since I love BLD and also cause they had unique donut flavors! I tried the salted caramel and pepper, a very interesting flavor. It mixes a little bit of salty and sweet, but mainly a salty taste to it. I was lucky I got the last one! Each donut is about 2.50−4.00. They also offer ice cream and coffee too!

At six pm on a weeknight, I had very low expectations for how good a doughnut could be. But to my surprise, in the small but high-​quality confines of ICDC, there was doughnut magic. The lovely woman behind the counter pointed out which doughnuts were freshest (they came out around 2 pm) and we got two. My friend Megan thought we should only get one, as we were on a major pastry crawl of Beverly and Fairfax, but I’m super glad we sprung for two.
Brown Butter Glazed — soft, airy, not greasy and packed with flavor. Simple yet delicious.
Maple Pecan — just like the other but with a different flavor profile.
I want to return in the morning some time when I can try more of their varieties. We sampled some of the ice creams, which seemed fine, but this is truly a place for doughnut perfection.

The spawn of BLD had high expectations to live up to, and it certainly did not disappoint! It is well noted that I am a HUGE ice cream lover, so of course I got some ice cream during my visit to icdc. I got their signature coffee doughnuts ice cream, and IMO it was really really good! I got a single scoop and there was huge chunks of doughnut in just that one scoop, so with each bite I could definitely taste the doughnut, coffee, and creamy ice cream bringing all the flavors together. Anyways, I’ll try to make it back to try other things!

Had the ICDC. The vanilla ice cream was ok. Nothing special. The donuts were subpar and a bit too sweet. The espresso was good. I wouldn’t make the journey back here as there are other choices for dessert. Probably in the future I would rather have Shaky Alibi if given the choice.
There arent any seating areas so its mainly grab and go. Mainly all street parking.

I Cannot Donut-​Cease.
A Yoda-​esque starter for you… for my birthday donuts from a dahling!
** GET — Simple = Because simple is always a good base to compare to.
** GET — Vanilla Cream Cheese = Ermahgerd, oh so good. Sweeeet.
** GET — Mayan Chocolate = I loved the not-​too-​sweet chocolate glaze on this
* UHM — Peanut Cream = Didn’t try, because see above three — friends loved it
* UHM — Rocky Road = Didn’t try, had the first three — friends loved it
* UHM — Cereal Milk = Didn’t try, had the first three — friends loved it
* YES — Free donuts! kidding (though it was free since b/​c my friend brought them in~)
* YES — Fresh & delicious
* YES — Interiors were lit, sunny and open (friend’s review), few tables for seating
* WOA (words of advice):
— Hope you’re not reading/​eating this if you’re diabetic. Other than that, you have my blessing to indulge~
— That’s it, folks!

3.5 stars. The place is miniscule, right beside BLD, so plan on taking your order to-​go. There aren’t many selections to choose from but I guess they wanted to keep things simple.
I ordered the coffee with doughnuts ice cream. The ice cream was good but not at the top of my LA list. The donuts were not that good, since they were pieces of donut that were already mixed into the ice cream when the batch was made so the donuts seemed a bit stale.
Maybe I just ordered the wrong flavor so I’m willing to come back and try something else (maybe their fresh donuts) next time.

To be honest, the place is highly overrated in my opinion. I truly miss the glazed donuts + chai at BLD.
I got one of the specialty donuts here and thought the price was slightly outrageous. The only thing that made it ‘special’ was everything on top of the donut. But really, the donut itself was not that tasty. I’m not sure if I would come back here… but the restaurant BLD has always been great!
Take your party elsewhere for desserts, there’s plenty of places around the area!

It’s a small shop, you order your dessert and you’re on your way. There’s no seating inside. I got the pistachio vanilla and the rocky road. It’s pretty steep for a small donut, around $ 4 for one.
They ran out of the ones I ordered, so they fried me up a fresh batch, score! The donuts here are definitely smaller than your usual. They’re extra crispy outside and very doughy on the inside. They don’t really seem like a donut, almost like a funnel cake. Both were pretty good, esp cause it came out fresh!

We were craving donuts one night and had recently heard about this place and decided to stop by.
We are fat asses so the two of us ordered a total of 4 Donuts: Butterscotch, Crème filled, Rocky Road and Mayan Chocolate as well as espresso to wash it down.
We didn’t eat all of them in one sitting (by the way this place offers no seating at all! what’s with that?). The girlfriend said that the Rocky Road donut was too thick for her liking but it tasted alright. The Mayan Chocolate had good flavor but the texture of the donut was too cake-​like for my tastes. Some people prefer that texture and if you’re one of those people then you’ll thoroughly enjoy that donut. The Butterscotch donut was actually pretty good but to be completely honest it was too rich for me and my fat ways. So while it was good, I can’t see myself eating another one of those things. I gave the crème filled donut to my brother and he reported that it was about a 6 on his donut scale. He’s not a donut aficionado or anything, but he has been known to favor fattening foods and exhibit some gluttonous ways. Take that how you will.
If you’re in the area and looking for donuts and are open to some interesting takes on an old classic, you might enjoy this place. For myself however, I think once was enough.
Oh…the espresso was very good though.

This little shop is amazing! Ice cream, donuts and coffee, all superb and top-​notch. What more do you want?!
BLD has been making waves with their donuts and I am happy that they expanded with ICDC, taking space right next door to their restaurant.
Prices range from $ 2.50 to $ 4.00, depending if you want regular or their premium donuts. I noticed that they have GF options and will be going back to try them soon.
What better day to be introduced to them but on National Donut Day!
— Salted Pepper Caramel– Okay, i admit, i was a bit intimidated by it. I don’t like it when it is an overkill of sugar and the caramel looked super glossy and some places overkill with the salt. Well, this was not the case! The caramel was light, the salt was just a hint and the pepper added that extra spark. It was subtle and only punched up when I took a sip of coffee
— Butterscotch — sugar dusted and butterscotch cream filling. you have the crunch and the cream.
— iced coffee was pretty good! often times, you go to a dessert spot and the coffee doesn’t match the level of the desserts. glad they found coffee that would pair up nicely! All the milks are available, noting that almond is one of them.
During National Donut Day, they gave away donuts with each purchase. A coworker gifted me her free donut and I walked in solely just to get an ice coffee out of work and they still gave me a free donut. Truly thankful for the good customer service!

The only thing I have against this place is that they don’t have any kind of seating available, either inside or outside, and believe me, with ice cream and donuts this delicious, you’ll want to start chowing down, pronto!
Even that isn’t enough to lower the star rating, however, because nothing that they serve here disappoints.
The absolute ‘Must-​Haves’ are the Guinness Chip Ice Cream, The ICDC– which is a chewy salted caramel donut, topped with a scoop of ice cream, & a shot of espresso– The Salt & Pepper donut, & Mayan Milk Chocolate. I ate all that & more on my first trip here, so if I can pull it off, so can you. Or, you can take the rest home with you. Whatever works.
What I love about each donut is that they all taste and feel like they just came out of the oven/​fryer, with a soft, chewy texture, & distinct flavor in every bite.
The Salt & Pepper, (weird though it may sound), has only the slightest dusting of pepper to give it a unique savory note, while still being sticky, sweet, slightly crispy on the outside, & decadently chewy on the inside. The Mayan Milk Chocolate has strong notes of Cinnamon Chocolate to give it that distinct Latin hot chocolate flavor. The Rocky Road has marshmallows and drizzles of chocolate, the Peanut Butter Banana has a dusting of sugar and a dollop of peanut butter & banana cream cheese swirl. Honestly, every donut here has its own personality, and is sure to please the toughest donut snob.
The Guinness Chip ice cream lives up to all the hype. You really get the boozy notes of Guinness from the ice cream, without it being overpowering, & the crunch you get from those huge chunks of chocolate in every bite is downright satisfying! The Coffee & Donuts ice cream flavor is also a winner. Actually, they all are.
They even have a few Gluten-​Free options of their most popular donuts for those of you with certain health restrictions, which I think is quite lovely on their part. Nobody likes to miss out on delicious donuts.
Save those quarters & cross your fingers that you find parking nearby! And may the Donut Gods be with you!

OMG I have been drooling over Icdc’s Instagram feed. I consider myself a donut expert, they are my passion in life and my favorite dessert. Unfortunately they are not the healthiest so I limit my donut excursions to once or twice a month.
First off, it’s the cutest store absolutely adorable. They have a small selection of homemade and delicious ice creams and the best part is YOU CAN SAMPLE ALL OF THEM! The chocolate sorbet is heavenly and rich, shocking there’s no dairy. The dolce de leche is also pretty stellar. But I was there for donuts, sorry ice cream. I shall add that the donuts are pretty small in size, at least I told myself this so I could order 2 guilt free hehe. I ordered the rocky road which was topped with homemade marshmallows and the sugar dusted with vanilla cream filling. The vanilla cream filling was my favorite, it was truly perfect. The rocky road was scrumptious as well. Next time I will try the mayan chocolate and butterscotch filled donut.
I made a few donut flavor suggestions, so if you see the following in the coming month kudos to moi:
1. green tea matcha
2. rosewater
3. s’mores (they’re already working on this)
4. tiramisu
5. birthday cake
6. cookie dough with a baked cookie in the center and cookie dough bits on top
SO HEAVENLY WILL DEFINITELY RETURN FOR MORE YUM :)

Honestly, I gave an extra star for the amazing customer service! She was very knowledgeable and just had such a great personality… but the desserts weren’t all to rave about.
Strawberry Rhubarb Sorbet– Perhaps it was because it was a sorbet, but the flavors were light. I liked the strawberry flavor but it wasn’t OMG amazing. They make their own blend of some of the ice creams, I believe. For example, they blended their own strawberries for this sorbet.
Cinnamon glazed mini donuts holes– ehhhh, they are simply plain. The bread part wasn’t moist and didn’t pull apart like most donuts.
I hear the coffee is something to try and not to be missed. I want to give this place another chance and will definitely come back for the coffee.
*****The same pastry chef from BLD*****

Just went to this brand new restaurant. Officially opened at 12 today. Place offers coffee, ice cream, and doughnuts.
Since I had lunch I tried some samples of ice cream which were amazing. Then decided to get a little snack. The cinnamon doughnut holes caught my eye. The cinnamon sugar taste so good and the doughnuts are not greasy like other doughnut shops. Can’t wait to try more that they offer.