Heavenly Donuts

Just ok…
I had driven by this place 1000 times and finally decided to stop in. I wasn’t greeted when I entered and had to wait around while 4 employees sat there talking. I then asked about cream filled and they seemed pretty clueless. I ended up getting a dozen random doughnuts, which all turned out to be just ok. Not sure if they fried them to long or to much oil or what.
Long story short you can get much better doughnuts elsewhere and not have to deal with the rude staff!

I tried a apple fritter, pineapple fritter, maple bar, and maple old-​fashioned. Neither of the fritters had any fruit flavor. However, all four donuts had a good texture: fluffy and moist (even though I was eating them a day old). They also had the right amount of glazing.

Fluffiest & freshest donuts ever!
It’s pretty tough to make a distinguishable donut — but these guys have done it. None of the novelty flavors or lines of Voodoo — this spot is for real people who enjoy the standards done right.
And the breakfast sandwiches are slammin too. Had the croissant w/​ham & cheese, which was delicious.
If you’re a hipster foodie like some of the 2-​star reviewers, this is NOT the place for you.

North Portland is assisted by having Heavenly Donuts. It is a typical shop which wouldn’t be too difficult to pinpoint in the Midwest. Prices are small, both for their large variety of donuts and their large variety of beverages. They have plenty of donuts. There is also lots to sit at.
I walked in having read about it. The line was short and quick. I had the original glaze. It was good, but not too much better than the chains, but a little better. Other local places such as Donut Queen well exceed Heavenly Donuts, but Heavenly Donuts is good. Their donuts did have the little white tear which chains have.
Heavenly Donuts is donut purgatory.

I was driving down Lombard, coming in from the St. John’s area toward the ramps on I-​5. (Damn, Lombard feels like it goes on for a long time west of I-​5). I saw this Heavenly Donuts location to my left I had never noticed before. It was 3 p.m. I hadn’t eaten lunch. I decided lunch would consist of 2 donuts … that is, if my 2 flavors, cherry with coconut and double chocolate, were available. They were. However, it went downhill from there.
The donuts were sort of stale. The color of the frosting on the cherry one was different from how it is at other Heavenly Donuts locations and it also tasted a little different, as in «not as good.»
Of the 3 locations I’ve been to in the metro area, the lobby and seating area is the smallest and least inviting. None of them are inviting, actually, but this one is such that you’d prefer to eat your donuts in your car. The parking lot is sort of strange, with parking on both sides of the store and with an alley or driveway behind it whereas, at the others, it’s right in front of the entrance.
Lastly, the service was really perfunctory. I’m sure all sorts of theatrics might be encountered at this particular store such that the people working there might have developed a harder shell, or maybe had one to begin with.
5 — 1 — 1 — 1 = 2.
Things could be worse.

This place is amazing, especially their chocolate bars! Way better than voodoo… Just sayin

The doughnuts are old school, basic doughnuts. The doughnuts of my youth — glazed is fluffy and satisfying sweet. Some bar/​filled style. Many with technicolor sprinkles that delighted my daughters. Fritters, filled and not filled. Most of the basic doughnuts are less than $ 1.
Once in a while the fancy «toasted organic coconut» or «bacon maple» doughnut may be appealing but the high prices and long lines are not acceptable to either my wallet or my patience.
Efficient, friendly service. The lady at the counter recognized us on our 2^nd day visit.
This is a bare bones, formica table, styrofoam coffee kinda place but as my kids will attest, old school works just fine for us. (I would give it 5 stars though, for better coffee.)

Only a fool would settle for a lesser donut. And they’re all lesser donuts. Especially the confusingly popular Doodoo Donuts.
Open 24 hours and the lines never stretch down the block.
And the Heavenly dozen has 14 donuts.

The doughnuts are good, and the service is… not going to seem enthusiastic but they’re friendly. I would recommend going earlier in the day when they’re fresh. they have the heavenly dozen, it’s like less than a dollar more for an extra 1 – 2. I can’t remember. I really shouldn’t eat that many. haha oh and apparently, they don’t like it when you call the heavenly dozen,“the dirty dozen”.

Very friendly staff and the donuts are always fresh, even at midnight. I came with some kids who were disrespectful and the staff handled the situation well.

This place used to be awesome until they started hiring local cholos or gang bangers to make their doughnuts, the quality went way down and the service too, do-​not go in the early mornings and if you ask for a dozen donuts the little gangster gets pissed and charges what he wants instead of what’s on the price board!
I just went in for a dozen of Boston Cream and got charged $ 12 for it, I asked him why and he replied «because now I need to make more», WTF???
It’s the only donut shop that’s open ²⁴⁄₇ and that’s the only thing it has going for them, this is the last time I come to this shit hole!

The donuts here are awesome. Just classic, good tasting donuts.

When my 3 daughters ask «can we go to the good donut place?» I know exactly where they are talking about. They love the glazed twist donuts. The staff is always very friendly and the donuts are always fresh. We pass many donut shops and stores with donuts just to come here.

A co-​worker brought two huge boxes of Heavenly Donuts to a staff meeting and, well, that became both my mid-​morning snack and my lunch! I had a blueberry-​glazed raised donut that tasted like actual blueberries were involved and was not sickenly sweet like some other fruit flavored donuts. I also had a cinnamon-​sugar cake donut that was perfectly done with a crunchy sugar crust with plenty of cinnamon in the donut itself. Heavenly is right. Just like everyone says, these are not fancy but they are quality, delicious donuts that remind you why you crave donuts in the first place.

For the name of this shop, …the donuts are not that heavenly. At all!
I suppose I shouldn’t have come into the doughnut shop with the expectation of discovering the goodies are made from a secret family recipe or the donuts are differentiated because they are prepared a certain way and that’s what gives them a better and improved taste, etc.
Instead I came into a not so greatly decorated space and found the donuts rather, ordinary. They didn’t look especially appetizing and the cream on some of them was misshapen. What can I say, I like my food to be good looking. ‘Ok,’ I said to myself, I’ll give the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they secretly taste phenomenal. After all, they are «heavenly.» Nope. No such luck. Maybe it’s partly due to my dashed hopes but I’m convinced these might be the worst donuts I have ever had.
*Disclosure: the worst donuts I’ve ever had (before here) are the donuts from Safeway. So in all, my experience with donuts has not been that bad at all.

This is the first in my newest list… You guessed it, donuts! back in Boston, there is a Dunkin’ Donuts on every friggin corner. I kid you not. When I worked on Newbury Street, there were 8 DD within a mile of work (about 14 star*ucks). They are not the best or the brightest, but they are reliable, they are not too pricy and they are ever near. Plus you really get used to that big ugly orange and pink symbol. I’ve also seen celebritues at DD!
So along with my 10-​year old friend (who swears by the donuts at 7 – 11) I am embarking on this new adventure. I had been to Heavenly before — but oh so long ago. They look like a donut shop — not fancy, but donuty. Are there even tables here? I’m not sure, although the place is big enough for them and parking is no problem in one of the 2 lots just off Lombard.
The place is bright and clean enough, they have a lot of choices — very traditional in nature. Nothing with toasted coconut, but I was pleased that there were three different fried fruit fritter things. Blueberry, pineaple and apple — I chose apple. That and a regular glazed — which has always been my fave, and will be the one I always get as a source for comparison. For instance — love DD glazed, HATE Kripsy Kremes!
The glazed was good, I thouroughly enjoyed it. The fritter was pretty good — a bit heavy for me, seemed underdone. And there is too much of that globby, icky aftertaste on that one. My young friend was pleased to find a Boston Cream… decent amount of cream inside and something else fairly basic. I didnt try his, since I had my own fish to fry. Oooh donuts and fish sounds horrible!
I got out of there for less than $ 5 for the 4 donuts — the fritter a slightly higher price. Tune in next time for more donut talk…

This place isn’t bad, certainly better than your grocery store doughnut. But it doesn’t quite satisfy me either, especially when Tulip’s bakery isn’t too far down in St. Johns, who has AMAZING doughnuts! Nonetheless, they are open 24 hours and have a pretty good selection! Ok and one more thing, this place is a franchise… I would much rather support a small local business.

We have the fortune (?) of living just blocks from this great donut shop. Probably get a dozen once a month at least.
Really friendly, hard working people. Someone is always in the back making donuts around the clock which makes for fresh donuts ²⁴⁄₇.
I’m a maple bar kind of girl and apparently I’m not alone as they do run out of these quite a bit! But there is enough other good stuff I’d barely consider this a complaint.
I don’t get Voodoo donuts, I don’t see the appeal and consider it just another «keep Portland weird» institution; which I avoid at all costs.
Heavenly is family friendly, cheap, fresh and always open. This «normal» establishment trumps «weird» any day in my book!

Normally I don’t like it when I ask somebody at the restaurant for a recommendation and the response is «They’re all good,» or something similar. But upon asking again, the guy said the cinnamon bun. Now this isn’t a normal donut order for me, but I figured I’d go for it.
Glad I did.
It was big, sticky, extremely light, and delicious. The maple glazed was dense and dipped well. I’m getting hungry just thinking about them.

Really good. But my jelly donut was missing the jelly… sad. But still yummy!!! I know it was the one that slipped through with getting the good stuff added.
Be sure stop by and get some. So fresh and yummy. Great service.