Happy Donuts

Nothing better then a late night donut place!!!
An easy stop on my cab ride home, its just like all the other locations, looks kind of sketch, not too clean, server can be super awful or surprisingly friendly. Either way its a great late night stop.

It is what it says it is, DONUTS!!! if you like donuts, you’ll like this place. And I don’t mean donut connoisseur, or donut freaks, or donut gurus, I mean I just had 3 double makers and cokes at the Mucky Duck, its 2 am, I am hungry, stuck in the inner sunset, not motivated enough to waste money at the Lucky Penny, never mind the cab fare, nothing is open and I WANT A DONUT, type people. Then you will love this place. I have had the opportunity to jump in right when the donuts come out of the oven, and its near sugary bready heaven to get this experience. Did I hear someone say «drunken foodgasm.» Ask the proprietors when the next batch is due to be pulled out and it will be worth the five minute wait. If it is not coming for a while, who cares, its a donut, its good, tasty and the ‘regulars’ in there are hilarious, at least for your viewing pleasure. This is perfect SF inner sunset establishment and if you don’t like donuts, go eat an apple.

Thank goodness for 24 hours donut joint!
Since it was a Wednesday night, many dessert place close early but, thank goodness this place was open! Not only that it’s 24 hours but their donuts are the bombbb! :)
«Chocolate with rainbow sprinkles» Yumm :) Basically what they have out are all good! I believe it was .80 something cent and up for a donut.
The only downside about this place is that it’s kinda dirty. But hey! to go it and you’re good to go! :)

I love the donuts here… and every time I am in SF I stop by and get some. They are so much better than any corporate donut shop… which is all they I have near where I live. The place looks alittle run down… it has been here for quite some time. However, the quality of the donuts is top notch!

I was 15 minutes early for yoga so I dropped in and before I could stop myself, I said out loud:
«Chocolate w/​chocolate sprinkles please.»
And then there I stood with a donut. A chocolate donut. One I wanted to consume but could not lest I wanted to barf brown in the middle of Bikram class.
So I tucked it into my bag to have later, safely, after an hour and a half of compress and release.
I just licked my fingers before I placed my hands on my less then pristine «white» macbook keyboard. That donut was not only happy, it was delicious.
Look, you know what you’re getting into when you walk into a donut joint that looks like this one. The dingy brown interior should give it away. You know the coffee is going to be weak and that the service may be surly. You should also know it’s not going to be a Krispy Kreme, so you can’t complain when you bite into a Happy Donut and it doesn’t taste like baby Jesus dipped in heaven.
It’s a Happy Donut and it’s a tiny slice of awesome in it’s own right.

How can you not love 24 hours of donuts? It’s not fine cuisine, it’s donuts! And they’re happy! HAPPY DONUTS 24 HOURS A DAY!
Or maybe it’s me that’s happy. 24 hours! Of donuts!

Oddly, this Happy Donuts also offers $ 2.50 vietnamese sandwiches, which is what drew me, a steadfast non-​donut eater, to venture forth across 19^th Avenue for lunch.
The good news is that your sandwiches are made on the spot, by the sole woman behind the counter. The bad news is that she is slooow and can, apparently, only do one thing at a time (i.e., making sandwich == no one else in the store is getting donuts). The exclusivity of her attention does not, however, ensure the quality of your sandwich, as she still managed to burn the bread on mine (although she was extremely apologetic about it). They’re not bad, especially for $ 2.50, but they’re definitely not worth the wait (and potentially burnination). Next time, I’m going to Irving Café, down the street, for faster, better sandwiches.

Here you’ll find the hardest working beggar I’ve ever seen!!!
The freaks come out at 6 am… at Happy Donuts 24 hour donut bar.
This older Asian guy beggar with a blank stare is there EVERY GAT-​DAM MORNING!!!
He’s not dirty and he doesn’t smell, although he definitely gives the vibe that he’s a few bricks short of a load.
And it’s always money for coffee… no shit… and I’ve seen him inside later drinking the coffee he said he was looking for money for…
I guess at least that’s honest.
But, if I had had the gumption to get up at the crack-​of-​ass every morning, put on clean clothes and beg for coffee money in the same spot every day, why not go one step farther and use the energy I get from my free coffee and sell newspapers or something to the other caffeine freaks in the AM? Make some real mullah?
At least he’s thrifty.
I have seen bums from the park DRINKING $ 4 Tall Lattes AT STARBUCKS down the street!!! What the F***!
That doesn’t beat the female bum I saw begging who had to stop because her CELL PHONE was ringing!!!
Oh well… maybe I’m being hard on Donut-​Coffee-​guy…
He creeps me out just enough so I stay away from the sugar that can decimate my girlish figure.
I save my sugar fix for alcohol…
Maybe I should learn from him and stand outside the same cocktail lounge every night at 6pm and beg…
Spare any change for a cosmopolitan?

i had a donut craving today and pick some up from here on the way home. service was brusque, and the donuts are less than memorable. there’s a weird «lard» like flavor to them and their just not fluffy enough. i want krispy kreme :(.
update, ¹⁰⁄₂₈: i tried the donuts i bought yesterday again, and they make me gag on reflex. they taste like chicken fat. i’m not kidding. they’re really really disgusting.

You can’t go wrong, 24hrs of donuts!

Like hubby (and fellow donut reviewer) Tim Tracy, I too enjoy Happy Donuts. The lady who works there is really nice too. After a night on the town, I tend to prefer a turkey melt from Mel’s… but I guess that’s just how we’re different.
*selection’s good, but no blueberry as I was disappointed to discover last weekend
*the coffee works good in a pinch
*don’t think that guys is all that rad

24 hour donuts, what more could you want after a long night out on the town? They’ve got a pretty killer selection, although the coffee isn’t always that great. There’s also a rad guy that’s always outside.