Doughboys Bakery

I ordered onion soup, the monster sandwich, and the red velvet cake. Out of everything, only the onion soup and the red velvet cake were pretty good.

I had the blueberry pancakes with some raspberry syrup. While I applaud them for their variety of unique syrups, their pancakes aren’t soft enough. Great pancakes are soft, crunchy, and well done. They do cook them well done, but I’d like to see them make then a little softer. The portion size was great for the money and I would go back.

My sister made us walk here from The Grove on a hot day, but I regretted complaining once the food arrived. I don’t remember what I had but everything I tasted that day was heavenly. The quality of this review is indirectly proportional to the deliciousness of Doughboys.

A friend kept asking me to go. Had I known how good this fairly hidden café was I would’ve gone here long ago! The beefy mac & cheese almost put me to tears! Actually I think I did cry a little. Not to mention the fresh baguette was some of the best. Top 10 of all time… amazing!

One of our fave neighborhood restaurants. Their French Onion soup is one of my top 5 comfort foods.

I stumbled upon this café one day. To my great surprise I learned to find out that this café is the best in town when it comes to red velvet cupcakes and chicken tortilla soup. I would absolutely and have absolutely recommended doughboys to anyone in need of a great place for some amazing soup and a sweet treat like no other. I absolutely love love love this place.

Wow!
What a disappointment.
I used to go there quite a while back, and ever since then, would rave to everyone how the red velvet was the best on Earth!
Happened to go there a few weeks back, and bought 4 rv cupcakes, and couldn’t wait to get home to try one.
Well, they were no where as dense as I remembered them, nor was the richness there. Hmm tasted just like any other red velvet cupcake I have had.
Used to tell everyone it was worth the drive from the East side of town, but not anymore.

i used to love Doughboys and after a long hiatus from their yummy cupcakes and great food, I stopped in today for lunch. I WISH I HADN’T. THE SERVICE WAS SO BAD I RESENTED LEAVING ANY TIP AT ALL. After putting in a very simple sandwich order, I didnt’ see my waiter for almost 30 min. — I finally flagged down a busboy and asked for him. He then came with my food and said «Sorry, they thought it was a to-​go order so it was just sitting up there.» WELL THANKS FOR THE ATTENTION U F’ING DICK! I mean seriously. This restaurant is not that big and it wasn’t slammed. I have been a patron of this establishment for 10+ years and now I will never go back. There are just too many competitors with the same great food and desserts and WAY BETTER SERVICE.

One visit here and Im a fan. Great service and some very good food. We ordered a roast garlic and mushroom pizza, roasted potatoes with onions/​cheese and chives and a pancetta salad. Pizza is a nice powdery crust with loads of fresh mushrooms, mozarella and no sauce. Potatoes are a nacho-​like dish and savory. Ian was a very attentive waiter and we’ll be back for breakfast. Bravo!

When we’re in the area we always stop to pick up a carrot «cupcake» which is really a small cake that is perfect for 2. The ratio of moist, dense carrot cake to rich, cream cheese frosting is about 2 to 1, which makes it even more perfect! Their claim to fame is the red velvet, but we are in love with the carrot cake!
We’ve sat down to eat at the restaurant a few times & have enjoyed that too. They serve breakfast all day & the choices are fabulous. The pizza is also really great. It’s a small, charming café/​bakery.

Came here JUST to try the much raved about red velvet cake. The low review is because
1) cake was ok, nothing special.
2) i found a huge hair in the frosting (this wasn’t the bad part) and when I quickly pointed it out to the cashier, she looked at me with a frown, grabbed the box and handed me another one without so much as an apology. Basically, to her, asking for another cake was just an inconvenience.
Not interested in coming back just based on this service. I really wouldn’t have cared if the cake tasted like a thousand mouth-​gasms (well maybe, but it didn’t so…) Poor service is such a huge turn off.

CLOSED 6−24−12
If you want cake and coffee whilst you’re doing chores this WAS a good option for a quiet sit-​down. WAS because today it closes and the back-​room production moves out of this space. RIP

I was dying for a red velvet cupcake today and really wanted to love this place. Unfortunately (and this review is just for the cupcake), the cupcake is mostly like cake, too heavy and dense, not enough frosting and not enough tang in the frosting. And did I mention the price? $ 6. Never again.
Everything else on the display also looked too large for comfort…

On our way back from Thai Town to West LA, we decided to get some baked goods. We searched Unilocal and found this place. (Also, a former colleague of mine, who also happens to be a drug addict, once told me this place has the best red velvet. Wrong.)
We got a brownie and the red velvet cupcake and both were complete and utter fail.
The brownie had no texture whatsoever and was more like a mousse. The sad thing is, the flavor was good. But it was so mushy that it wasn’t really a brownie. It was more like hot fudge at room temperature or something. Maybe they need more flour or baking soda or something.
Then, for $ 6, you can get their monstrous red velvet «cupcake». More like a mini-​cake or something. Certainly not cup-​sized. God, what a ripoff and what utter fail.
The frosting is nothing but gritty powdered sugar. There was no detectable cream cheese. The cake was really damp, well beyond ‘moist’, and had no character whatsoever. Just sugar. And then the proportion. The ratio of frosting to cake is just stupid. Many cupcakes have too much frosting, but this one literally, (and pardon the pun), «takes the cake». My wife and I basically removed the entire top of frosting and used it as a dipping condiment for the cake.
You know, Sprinkles gets a bad rap with some. But for $ 3.50, they give you a damn good cupcake in the Hollywood/​BH/​West LA region. There are lines out their door for a reason. (But then again, somehow Pink’s has garnered such lines. A mystery.)
Now, you might say $ 3.50 is too much for a cupcake and you might be right. But there, at least it’s good. Here, you pay $ 6 and it’s really quite disgusting. Who on earth is giving this place 4 or 5 stars?
Doughboys is complete and utter fail. I’d sooner get red velvet from Starbucks or Coffee Bean than from these people and I don’t even drink coffee.

If you’ve had a taste bud-​ectomy and enjoy the flavor of mediocrity, then this is the bakery for you!
In all fairness, I only tried three things. But in all fairness, I didn’t want a second bite of any of them. Which is to say I literally threw away $ 15 worth of baked goods at a trash bin down the street. (Okay, I drank my latte; it wasn’t a total wash.)
Now, to frame my dismay, please understand that I make pastries for a living so I have fairly particular standards and a zero tolerance policy for powdered sugar frostings. So, that being the case, Doughboys didn’t stand a chance with me: the unrelenting powdered sugar grit of their cream cheese frosting was an instant deal breaker. But, even assuming you like that sort of thing, the cake itself was literally devoid of flavor. No whisper of cocoa, no hint of vanilla, no flavor whatsoever. Just a giant pile of red dampness. The cake also had a really open crumb, which I hate; red velvet should have a velvet crumb, no?
The cupcakes are huge and I really appreciate that they’re making such enormous baby cakes complete with acetate wrapper to help the frosting stay put, way classier and way bigger than a cupcake paper. If only they were worth eating! Sadly, I have never eaten a red velvet cupcake so universally abysmal, and that’s saying something because red velvet is generally executed quite poorly from coast to coast.
I also had a black and white cookie, which was delightfully enormous, however totally weird and off putting. It wasn’t really a white cookie/​cake inside, but rather strangely tannish brown and had lots of huge tunnels and air pockets. It also had a weird flavor; I threw it away after my first bite.
The «lacy» oatmeal cookie was no such thing, but a ridiculously thick oatmeal cookie (which really makes me wonder, why do they insist on calling it lacy?). Don’t get me wrong, I like ridiculously thick cookies, but why make one and call it lacy? Sorry. I digress. It had a really flat flavor; I honestly think the recipe is just a little salt shy of being quite nice. As it was, it was just generically sweet, not particularly buttery or oaty.
So, all of my complaints aside, their croissants looked really fabulous and flaky and the breads looked really nice too. I should come back and try those things out and rereview; perhaps I just sampled their worst items.
The girl behind the counter was super nice and informative and made a great latte. She was the best part of my trip.

There was so much on the menu I wanted to try. Even considered getting the French Toast at 4 pm in the afternoon. The menu reads deliciously.
Yummy Steak Soup. Thought it was going to be like a beef stew, instead it was more like a pot pie in a bowl. Really hearty and good.
No wifi — leave the computer at home. Bring a friend instead.
Breakfast and brunch time this place is super packed. Parking can be a bit difficult in the area too. Give yourself time.
I’m glad Doughboys is back from it’s unfortunate hiatus.

2 words:
. Wow. pumpkin bar met crème brûlée crispy-​sugar-​torched-​top goodness and then had the smashing idea of adding a chocolate cakey bottom … and i ate the whole thing.
I was choosing between this and the monstrously huge red velvet cupcake (is it really a cupcake? i forget, they may call it a mini cake, which is more appropriate), but i didn’t let the «oprah’s favourite» sway me from the pumpkin delight. As a result, I’m obligated to run 5 miles tomorrow morning.
A tiny little place, probably room for 2 people to stand while selecting the temptations in the bakery case. Meters right outside on Beverly Blvd., very convenient. But perhaps park a mile away as you’ll feel better having had some exercise before/​after ingesting/​devouring a delicious treat.
Try it, Doughboys won’t disappoint.

While I would much rather spend $ 5 on a draft beer during happy hour, I now know that the Hummingbird (banana with cream cheese frosting) is a fine substitue if I ever need to give the HH thing a rest! It is massive, like softball size in comparison to a ping pong sized cupcake. I thought the texture was quality and the cream cheese frosting was brilliant! It’s a wee little boulangerie type of venue, so just pop in and pop out with a lovely treat.

Teeny, tiny little store front selling HUGE and I mean HUGE cupcakes at $ 5 a pop. I tried their famous red velvet, which is one of Oprah’s «favorite things.» I have to say that $ 5 is definitely a little steep for a cupcake but it is gigantic and according to the people behind the counter will last for 5 days. They also sell cookies, other cupcakes and breads. I was so focused on the cupcakes I didn’t really take notice as to what kind of breads. I also tried the hummingbird cupcake. Both cupcakes were good, but rather dense. They are super filling, but have a good flavor. I also tried the shortbread cookie (awesome) and the chocolate chip cookie, which was a little cakey.
They have two little tables outside where you can soak up the sun as you eat your sweets.

Yay!
Doughboys Bakery & Café on 3^rd Street now has a Doughboys Bakery on Beverly Blvd! There are only two tables outside where you can sit to eat but mostly, people can come here to get the red velvet cakes, their muffins that are advertised as 92−94% fat free, their baguettes, croissants, bagels, etc. but not sandwiches. I got an asiago bagel with cream cheese and a croissant and a coffee and spent only around $ 5. Amazing!
The best part is that it’s right across the street from a really boring laundromat so it’s a great break in between cycles.