Happy Donut

Delicious bagels with locks, and service with a smile. Very affordable, especially compared to other such places in the Sunset. I love this place!

This place is really nice. I enjoy coming here occasionally on a nice early morning to enjoy breakfast. They have all the donuts you can imagine, and the donuts are all of good size, and quality. Service here has always, in my experience, been superb –friendly too!
Nice relaxing place to enjoy a donut, the paper … and of course, chocolate milk :) If you don’t think this place has good donuts, go get a Safeway donut, and you’ll see why this place rocks.

OKAY. I think I was in denial for a little while– but this place really is good. They recently changed things up around the counter… there is a clean nice looking coffee area that offers around 6 different types of coffees, and they made new menus that are easy to read and make it easier to order.
Also, it isn’t always empty! We usually come here Saturday mornings and there are so many people sometimes we have to wait a little to get a place to sit.
They have good donuts — there are a list of several types to choose from… their glazed is my favorite, and they’re good… they also have jelly filled, cake, twists, cinnamon buns, etc. They’re all cheap ranging from 65 cents to 1.25 or so.
They also have donut holes — my only wish is that they had different types of donut holes. They only seem to have glazed — they’re good, too!
If you’re there and you want something other than donuts they have egg sandwhiches (listed as Eggls on the menu??); they also have bagels… though when I was there last, it didn’t look like they had too many to choose from… not too sure about their bagels. But they had a variety of ways you could have your bagel… i.e. crème cheese, salmon schmear, avocado, etc
Also, much appreciated they have 3 or 4 refrigerators full of any drink you could want! They even have different brands of milks. My boyfriend’s weird, and he drinks apple juice with his 5 donuts. I try to be healthy (which is a joke) and get reduced fat milk with my one donut. ha! Though, I normally get a bite of one of his donuts and/​or a donut hole.
I also realized, that I really like the seating set-​up. They have a bunch of booths sitting in three rows. Kind of gives you comfort and a little privacy.
We also tried to reduce our guilt by walking to and from the donut spot from his place and then stopping by a nearby produce market and buying a ton of fruit! Getting off topic… anyway, this place is good. Feels like a real place to go eat donuts.

The donut holes here are okay, but judging from the rest of the Unilocal reviews, they are over-​rated. However, the glazed old fashioned was quite good. I’d like to try the chocolate old fashioned next time.
I walked in yesterday an hour before closing and they were almost out of donuts. Chocolate old fashioned were sold out. My friend suggested that I dock them a point for that, but actually, I’m giving them an extra star because that means to me that they make them fresh every day. That’s important.
One thing that makes a Happy Donut is a fresh donut.

Just eat the bear claw, crumb cake, glazed, maple bar, chocolate bar, old fashion, sprinkles, hell just eat it all.

This place is always empty and dead. But they have the BEST donut holes!
Donut holes are my favorite. These are light and fluffy, not hard and solid. Even though Krispy Kreame has the BEST donuts, their donut holes suck!
Get a dozen from Happy Donut and one of those coffee mixing sticks to eat while you shop with your mom on irving!

more like «CRANKY NO DONUT“S» My husband was gruffly dismissed after asking for a donut, and when he pointed out a tray of them behind the counter, the woman barked «NO» at him. We have no idea if the product here is good or not, but the counter service is awful.

This shop is THE spot for donuts in the sunset. Good ol American style donuts… not the Asian pastries which are a whole different world! I like donut spots like these since Im anti Krispy Kreme for the most part. (Reg mom and pop donut shops have different texture and size to their donuts and KK’s are too sweet IMO.)
I like how they sell all the donuts and coffee staples, sell lotto tickets which my friend appreciates (I buy em once every couple of months just for the heck of it), I like their Viet sandwiches and overall service.
I remember I was sitting down having a delicious croissant sandwich once with my buddy and this older Asian dude walks by to scan his FAT STACK of lotto tickets in the barcode scanning machine. He coulda used the back as post-​it-​notes man!!! We were just awed by it. He was there FOREVER scanning his stuff. Man…
And yeah, like everyone else says, they have a big following of older peeps chilling there FOREVER! But don’t let that discourage ygr folk (like me) from going inside.

Happy Donut started offering banh mi a few years ago, but I wasn’t tempted to stray from my old banh mi standbys on Irving Street, Sweetie Café and Irving Café. Sweetie Café closed and Irving Café keeps raising its prices, so I found myself at Happy Donut ordering a grilled pork banh mi ($ 3.25).
The sandwich was better than I expected — it had the right elements. The roll was toasted nicely though the bread was softer than I like but it wasn’t too crusty like some of the other cheap rolls I’ve encountered. The pickled carrots were nice and crunchy. The grilled marinated pork had good flavor though a bit too salty. The sandwich also had cilantro and sliced jalapenos. There wasn’t much meat in the sandwich.
They have six types of banh mi, all (except the grilled pork) priced at $ 3, including BBQ chicken, meatball and steamed pork. And yes, they have donuts (75 cents each for regular donuts, $ 7.50 a dozen) as well as muffins, croissants, and coffee. The donuts seem very popular with the senior crowd. You can buy lottery tickets here too.
Seating is plentiful and you get the feeling that you could sit there a long time without anyone bothering you.

Yay for donuts. I mean, a donut is a donut, no complaints. Get good coffee, a Vietnamese sandwich, lotto tickets, a paper, or sit down and watch the old people mingle.

I’ve never been too thrilled with their donuts, my standard is the choc or maple glazed with nuts. Their donuts always taste cakey and dense to me. Their donut holes are better but they sell out of those early in the day. It’s a convenient place to drop by for a lotto ticket but I don’t think anyone has ever won big with a ticket purchased from here. The little old men with their Chinese newspapers congregate here for their morning coffee ritual. There’s ample seating, reminds me of a high school cafeteria.

Ok I’m not going to lie, I loved getting donuts from here. I would still love them if my husband didn’t find a large roach crawling up the wall while we were sitting there eating with some friends. Oh well. At least I didn’t see it.
However, I secretly love walking by this place and looking in the windows. Not at the roaches and the donuts, but the elderly people who are there at 6am eating breakfast and scratching their lotto tickets. I was so mesmerized, I have bought a couple of lotto scratchers from here in hopes of winning, well one dollar.

Damn you, Happy Donut!
Before I met you, I was content with cereal and milk. Donuts didn’t do much for me. I could take them or leave them. No big deal.
Now, I fantasize about fried dough. I crave your sugar-​coated goodness at odd hours of the day. I find myself buying a dozen or more for the office, just so I won’t have to eat Happy Donuts alone.
Yes, my tummy is Happy. My waistline, however… not so much.

You can get donuts here, and hard boiled eggs and lottery tickets and really bad coffee. You can also get breakfast sandwiches on exceptional looking croissants, with egg, cheese and bacon or ham. They heat them up. They look very good but I have not had one yet.
By the looks of the groups of older men that congregate at Happy Donut for lively discussion, some of the worlds problems are being tackled and perhaps even solved, right here at the corner of 22^nd and Irving.

It’s not healthy, but you didn’t come here for healthy. You came here for a doughnut, maybe some coffee, possibly even a Vietnamese sammie. But nobody goes to a donut joint for something healthy…
The doughtnuts are delicious! They are consistently fresh and tasty, serving all the purposes a doughtnut should serve at a very reasonable price. The coffee is pretty decent, and the shop is well-​lit. What’s not to like?!
The one drawback? This place isn’t open late. Ahhh, well, you can’t have everything in life!

I miss this place. I use to pick up the occasional lotto ticket and 3 dozen donut holes for my peeps at work. They’d be devoured within the hour. Yummy.

I come here for the Vietnamese sandwiches.
I like the #2 most and it is about $ 2.75. It tastes good, but it won’t keep you filled up for a while.
My girlfriend does not like the toasted bread that much because it hurts the roof of her mouth.
Lately, the grandmother is the only one there during the afternoon, so you may have to wait.
I tried the donut holes here once and I did not like them because they were not sweet enough.

Just to clear things up, there ain’t no vegan donuts here! We walked in and asked the woman behind the counter, do you have any vegan donuts? donuts without dairy or eggs? donuts for vegans? She looked at us like we were nuts and said, «jelly donut?» Stick to people’s donuts veg heads!

You’d never know that this corner donut/​coffee shop makes good vietnamese sandwiches. I always get the steam pork sandwich (#1) and it tastes pretty good. Whatever she adds to her homemade mayo tastes really good. I admire the fact that she uses gloves to make the sandwiches compared to other vietnamese sandwich places. I used to get my sandwich from the place across the block, but when I noticed that they handle the money and sandwiches at the same time, it sort of grossed me out. Very unsanitary. So, I decided to stop going there and found this little place… great tasting and clean!

One word. YUM!!!
They have some great maple bars here. Really sweet good dough and not too greasy. Friendly service too. It is really dangerous for me to live so close to this place.