Le Donut

I had a morning sweet tooth so I stopped by right near opening. The owner was very friendly. I got the raspberry filled donut and it was delicious. Soft, and not overly sweet. Forget Krispy kremes diabetes overly sugar donuts. At Le’s it tasted like homemade and how it’s supposed to be. Will come again soon

We used to love this place! Today I got a glazed twist donut, got about ¾ of the way through it and bit into a metal piece! So scary! Not only could I have swallowed it or chipped my tooth, but my child could have swallowed it! I don’t think we will be eating donuts here again. Not worth the health risk!

Oh man.
First off, the English translation of Le Donut is Le Frickin’ Delicious.
Not gonna lie, I was a smidge hesitant to stop in, but I was a fool for waiting as long as I did! These donuts put any other donut I’ve tried to shame. The maple bacon is perfect. Apple fritter? Pfffft. Try and find a better one.
My second trip in the kind gentleman fellow asked if I wanted to try an egg roll. My head said no, but my mouth said yes and it was a delicious decision.
The lady that works behind the counter can come across as crude from time to time but I believe as Donut Queen that’s her right. It only takes about a dozen trips in for her to warm up. Last weekend, I think she smiled at me! Almost anyway.

Prices have increased now it’s about $ 10 for a variety dozen. I got 3 dozen for my team today and it was $ 30 total. Great deal still in this day and age!

Plain sugar donuts are my fav here.
I can’t find a sugar donut like it anywhere else.
This place is in Hilltop, North of Safeway.
It’s been here for as long as I can think back.
Nothing fancy — which is what I like about it.
The business is family owned and operated.
We utilize this place to surprise co-​workers or friends with sugary morning treats or to brighten up a Downtown Tacoma Monday Morning lull.
Donuts are always FRESH.
For more selection, come before 9am!
Another unusual thing for a small donut shop is,
They have fun donuts like :
Maple Bacon Bars
Cereal topped donuts, etc.
As I said, you can know how good a donut shop is by ordering their plain sugar donuts. Here at Le Donut, they are perfectly doughy and soft with a unique delicate chewiness to it, that I can’t find annnyyywhere else.
They also have coffee, milk, etc.
Small parking lot to the East of the building.

My goodness– I wish this place was closer to Seattle and I wish I had discovered it sooner. The donuts are truly delicious– from the maple bar topped with bacon to the plain glazed donut. It’s the perfect balance of fluffy and chewy. The donuts really do melt in your mouth.
Seriously, this place puts Top Pot to shame. Plus, the pricing is WAY better.
But the secret isn’t just getting the donuts, but you need to also try the EGG ROLLS. It sounds so random I know… I thought the same thing, but my oh my, they are delicious! Hey– if you can perfectly fry a donut, then why not an egg roll?
Can’t wait to go back!

Unbelievable value for the money! I’m a Type 2 diabetic and I shouldn’t be eating donuts at all but every once in a while… c’mon, we all have to die sometime, right?! LOL.
I went here the other day, right before a dentist appointment at SeaMar Dental (awesome dentists, by the way!) to get a broken tooth removed. I was not happy that I as soon going to have oral surgery, so I consoled myself with an iced caramel latte (so good!) and a $ 2 cinnamon twist donut. OMG!!! Unbelievably great! Some donuts (Krispy Kreme!) are waaay too sweet for me and I was expecting the cinnamon twist donut at Le Donut to be the same. Nope, nope, nope! Yes, it was sweet. But not cloyingly sweet. There’s a difference. After I ate my donut, I didn’t have the strong desire to run into the bathroom and rinse all the sweet stuff out of my mouth. I didn’t have that woozy «I’ve been dragged behind a pickup truck for miles» feeling that I get when I eat something overly sugary. No, the donut successfully curbed my craving for a sweet and the iced sugar-​free caramel latte steadied my nerves for the dental appointment. Mmmmm, those were both so good!
The young Asian lady and the older white lady were so friendly and treated every customer (I couldn’t believe the foot traffic! This place must do a triple ton of business!) with the same friendliness. My wife and I have several more dental appointments at SeaMar, so we’ll definitely be stopping by to get some goodies. The staff at SeaMar Dental loves Le Donut! Dental problems=donut consumption? Probably! But, as I said before, life is too short not to have some donuts!

I have had a lot of donuts in my lifetime and these donuts are the BEST! Fluffy, soft, perfectly raised and delicious. The egg rolls are equally delicious. When you take a bite it looks like a plain egg roll but the taste… Wow! I would say please try this hidden gem.

The donuts are FANTASTIC!!! Like many people, I was trying to find a place where my favorite donut can be found, cooked to perfection, at a reasonable price… Well that was me, I had been looking for a place that had Apple Fritters with the apple pieces in it and perfectly cooked. THIS IS THAT PLACE. However I needed to get donuts for other people, so I ordered some of their other pieces. Well, no joke those also are my NEW FAVORITES! The Old Fashioned donuts taste like «The Fair» Fry Bread, seriously, try it without the frosting and you’ll agree. Also the White Cake ones are also amazing! Seasonally they have different donuts, currently it’s fall and they have Pumpkin donuts which are great, also the applesauce in the fall/​summer, are just amazing. I try to get the donuts without frosting because the taste of the cake is so delicious. Which you could never do any where else.
I get it, the place is in hilltop, I go there once a week and have yet to encounter any issues weekend or otherwise. Trust me you’ll LOVE it!

I love this place. Their donuts are delicious and their case is always full. They also have the best veggie egg rolls. a favorite of mine. You have to get them early… they sell out quickly. They also have a ham and cheese croissant/​donut. Hard to explain but they are good. SEE YOU ALL THERE!

Bacon on the bacon maple bar was exceptional. And the glazed old fashion donut was perfect, not too dry. Pumpkin donut was mild in flavor and light, very delicious.

I’ll start off simple — Le Donut has the highest finesse maple bars around, the ones from HoD and Pao are good, but these ones have the perfect size, texture, and amount of maple topping that is crisp to the bite and soft as your teeth sink in and melt when your tongue glides on it. If that isn’t perfection, I don’t know what is.
I’ve frequented quite a few other donut shops around the 253 area, endless times especially on Seahawks game days, I call around and places are out of glazed donuts and maple bars, but have 100 of a useless flavor that’s still there minutes before they close… oh the anger. But Le Donut will have what you need!

I was recommended Le Donut by a friend. On the way back from an appointment, I stopped here. I never really deviate when it comes to donuts, their Apple fritter and Glazed Old Fashioned donuts are amazing. Bits of real Apple and cinnamon goodness in every bite. The prices are decent. Donuts are placed in individual baggies, no boxes.

By far, the best donuts I’ve had.
I made a last minute donut run for the folks helping me move. I lived very close to this place but never gone in. After 5 years I finally did. Wow.
Can a donut be tender? Yes, indeed it can. Every one we tried was soft, delicious and *fresh*. And seriously inexpensive. The people running the shop are really great, too.
I’ve moved quite a distance away, but I keep coming back to treat my Seattle friends to great donuts.

A hidden gem in Tacoma. Don’t be scared of visiting Hilltop Unilocal friends. There are some very legit small businesses here with amazing food. Take for example, the basic maple bar here at Le Donut. So fresh, so sweet, & so soft. If you’re feeling adventurous try the bacon maple. A full slice of deep fried bacon lays on top of your perfect maple bar, screaming, «eat me, eat ME!!»
They’ve recently added a few small tables to sit at.
Love the man that works here. He says, only one donut? Ahh. the diet maple bar. that’ll be 95 dollars. (only 95 cents to spoil your tummy happy!)
If you don’t require fruity sugary cereal or 5 lbs of frosting on your donut this is the place to visit.

I am not one for donuts at all– or sweets for that matter first off… and I originally went there for an apple fritter because if in the rare occasion we ever stop at a donut shop that’s all I get well thanks to Le Donut I am a donut fanatic! OMG fresh and good presentation got me so distracted I forgot about the apple fritter! But now I will definitely come back! We ended up getting a dozen– one of everything since we never tried this place. I got the cake chocolate donut with nuts! Numm THEN… at checkout she magically sensed my weakness and asked if we wanted eggrolls! WHAT? uhhhhh yea I want eggrolls if I don’t like the donuts that could save me! well she does a wonderful job all the combinations of food and coffee/​drinks It’s a good business I would love to do something like what she does someday! 5 STARS
P.S I am not really a big review writer so it has to be really really bad or REALLY REALLY GOOD and this place changed my view on donuts now my health is in trouble lol!

My family stopped by Pao’s on Tuesday for breakfast before a day trip. It was closed! I mentioned a place called Le Donut on the hilltop. Loved the soft consistency off all the donuts we tried. The bacon maple bar was about the best I’ve ever had.
I hate to say it but Le Donut may have just stolen some business away from Pao’s.

It is kind of a new phenomenon for me but it seems like donut shops ran by Asian families make some of the most astounding donuts ever!
Forget the chain stores. The best ones are the mom and pop stores.
Le Donut is good but not as good as some of the small donut businesses. I don’t specifically have any complaints about them but the flow of the snack in texture and taste is not quite enough for me to say «wow».
I have had several of their donut varieties like the chocolate frosted, Apple turnovers and what not.
Le Donut makes decent, quality pastries but if you start comparing their pastries to other donut shops in the area you may reach the same consensus as I had.

I don’t think that these donuts are worth $ 1.50 each. I didn’t like mine at all, it tasted funny, I think that it was an old doughnut.
The lady also tried to charge us $ 3.82 for 2 donuts. I questioned her, she then said $ 3. I think that I may have liked them on different circumstances, it may have just been an off day, but I felt ripped off.

The owners of Le Donut are the best kind of local, small business folks. Quality products, great selection, friendly. They actively support Bryant Montessori, a public school a couple blocks away, and often donate to local causes. They don’t do it with a dead sense of obligation either… they are enthusiastic to help.
The fact that their donuts are bomb — sugar bomb — is just the icing on the… cruller.
Speaking of crullers, theirs are darn good (
). Cruller fanatics know to look for those strands inside the donut, which is a cousin of the French choux. While these are not the best I’ve ever had, they are very good.
If you are fat and fluffy… in your donut preference, that is… Le Donut is a great place for a fix. These things are puffed up like an inner tube for Fat Albert. This photo doesn’t really do it justice:
. At only $ 9 for a dozen regular (not turnovers or fritters), this is a treat one may indulge in as much as one can afford the calories!
As Marimo — a great Tacoma Unilocaler — notes, the veggie spring rolls are worth checking out as well. Get 4 for $ 3.50: crispy and tasty if you need something savoury.
While I am slavish in my devotion to Pao’s, I do love Le Donut too… polyamorous, fried dough hussy that I be!
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