Krispy Kreme

Although this KK has NOTHING on our Glasgow branch, how can you not love it? It’s Krispy Kreme, after all!
Carolyn E. came here with me when she was keeping me company on my drive to Edinburgh Airport, and as a small pre-​flight pick-​me-​up, we grabbed some doughnuts. When she picked me up again, a day later (because she is an awesome friend) we came back here as a post-​Germany-​visit pick-​me-​up. 3 of their standard donuts for 4.40, that’s a deal that makes me happy.
Staff is friendly, the car park can be a little tough to navigate because KK share it with KFC next door and so it can be rather busy (especially during lunch hour and with the car park entrance being the drive-​thru entrance).

while my kids love it I am no big fan of Krispy Crème. It’s often (too) busy, I find the place soul-​less and most importantly the doughnuts are really not my thing (way too plasticy and sweet). The coffee is reasonable but nothing special. Shakes and coolers (mango/​berry) available too. Drive through helps if you don’t want to depress yourself in the shop itself.

5 star’s. Because Donuts… also Coffee!
I’ve eaten three already! Great combo box they all taste amazing, everyone needs a fat day! #eatresponsibly

Who doesn’t like donuts? Krispy Kreme are superior to all donuts in the UK. This location is close to many of the 9 – 5 offices which makes it handy for birthdays, leaving dos and general «treat your pals Friday». I’m a fan of the regular plain donut but they also have other good flavours like lemon meringue and raspberry. Staff are friendly and if there is line it generally moves quickly!

Honestly, what’s not to LOVE about this place? Very little, that’s what!
In Edinburgh for business, my colleagues and I decided after dinner to take a drive to Krispy Kreme for some doughnuts! There was really no way we weren’t going as none of us live or work in Edinburgh, so it was a basic must.
The staff were super friendly, singing in the back while making the doughnuts. The counter staff gave us a heads up when we were trying to decide which doughnuts to get. My friend and I both wanted to take a dozen back to Glasgow, and realised the 2 boxes (one dozen plain glazed, one dozen mixed) for £16.95 was the best deal. They let us know that if we wanted to go for that deal, they would split the plain glazed and the mixed in to two separate boxes depending on our individual wants. Um, sold!
While we were waiting, we all received a free hot off the presses doughnut, which totally put us over the edge as far as how stuffed we were from dinner. It was such a great experience.
Edinburgh really isn’t so far away, and there are plenty of people who would road trip it there just for some Krispy Kreme. B line it there, ASAP!

Well, well, well, we meet at last! I’ve heard so much, so show me a good time. Oh yeah!
I’ve had Krispy Kreme doughnuts previously down in Bath and Bristol. So, I knew I would treated to the max and the choices would be good but how good is Edinburgh?!
I have heard about the 24 hour drive-​thru and all about the queues. Angela B. and I decided to go here for part of my birthday day out in Edinburgh. She did also have special orders from her Mr to get many doughnuts-​to-​go, or else. No argument there!
It has been opened for a quite a while now, so it was a pleasant, non-​busy, non-​queuing experience. We enjoyed watching the Doughnut Theatre in full action and taking lots of photos in the process.
We made our way up to the counter and I needed sugar fast as I was flagging, lots of birthday excitement, and I was still to drive back to Glasgow. I ordered a strawberries and cream, I like doughnut with a filling best, along with a mocha and cream. Sugar rush!!! Yas! I ordered separately 3 doughnuts to take away, an original glazed, another strawberries and cream and a glazed raspberry filled doughnut. Delicious!
As we had came into a Hotlight store, Angela had good knowledge here, it meant it had a Hotlight Happy Hour and it at the exact time we arrived, between 7.00pm — 8.00pm. Ya dancer! This meant we were treated to a free original glazed doughnut, hot off the line. Oh man, it was like biting into fluffy sugary clouds. It was amazing! I think I may have boarded on delirious. Please note they don’t automatically do this, we had to ask and then double check with another staff member we were getting the doughnuts. So ask!
Edinburgh you have proved to be worthy and I would more than happily go back. So with our Krispy Kreme hats, balloons, doughnuts-​to-​go and a faces so high on sugar, we skipped merrily on our way.

Krispy Kreme. Get this. 1 regular glazed donut and 2 lattes. £5.75 that’s about $ 8+ USD. The donut alone was £1.60 that’s $ 2.20 for 1 donut. Place was filthy. Crap all over the place and this place was half full. Worst Krispy Kreme I have seen. Whoever owns this franchise is making a shit load of money and doesn’t care about its cleanliness.

Woooo hooo! This time i visited it wasn’t buzzing with cars, there wasn’t a queue to get into the queue to the drive through. I was able to park the car in a regular space and walk into the store. oh my it smelt so good! Fresh donuts! oh my! lovely smell! It has a nice fresh, clean interior and lots of seating arrangements to choose from. The guy serving me was nice and friendly too. Really patient with me whilst I was umming and ahhing at what ones to choose from. I took 2 to take away and one to sit in with. all were very delicious and i share the T/​A ones with the hubby later on — YUM!

I don’t normally have a car (or an endless supply of money) so I’ve only made it along to Krispy Kreme about 3 times since it opened. The first time was on the 2^nd day it was open, who doesn’t remember all the stories about the hours long queues backing up onto the bypass? Well, not being a driver, I hopped on a train to Edinburgh Park and was there in 5 minutes.
The queue was out the door admittedly, but only if you wanted to choose your own doughnuts — if, like me, you were happy to take a pre-​selected box or a box of original glazed then you were served very quickly. There was a slight mishap when they ran out of ‘mixed’ boxes just as I got to the front of the queue, but when it was suggested that I join the other queue I pointed out to the server that I’d arrived before a lot of the people in the longer queue, she offered to go and make me up a box herself. I’m pretty sure I spent longer on the train than I did in KK!
Most recently I took the car, though didn’t use the drive-​through as thanks to my sister’s awful directions it had taken us a ridiculous length of time to actually get there (so many wrong turnings!) and I needed to stretch my legs. The queue was quite long again but it moved quickly. I was keen to sit in and try one of their coffees, but alas time was pressing. Next time maybe.
Now, don’t get me wrong, Krispy Kreme is expensive. A single doughnut will set you back about £1.40, a box of 12 original glazed is £8.99, mixed is £9.99 and choose-​your-​own is £10.99. A double dozen (original and mixed) is £14.99 and £15.99 if you replace mixed with c-​y-​o. But the doughnuts are delicious. There’s the occasional fancy one that doesn’t work quite so well (see the current cookie one and the red velvet one that was around at Valentine’s, these are more cakey than doughnutty), but the original glazed are so good that it’s difficult not to demolish a dozen in one sitting.
I certainly can’t afford to come to Krispy Kreme more often, but for an occasional treat it’s great. I only wish that there were in-​store cabinets in Tescos in Edinburgh!

Not much to say about Krispy Kreme really — it is what it is… and what is it? Well, they’re the doughnut equivalent of crack dealers, and I *love* that!
My first visit was within the first two weeks of them opening, and the queue on the approach road (never mind in the shop) was HUGE! When I eventually managed to get parked, I had to join a 2^nd queue, which was out the door and round the side of the shop. They say that with drug dealers, the first hit is free to hook you in, and Krispy Kreme did exactly that. While we were waiting in the queue to get into the shop, they had someone coming round with a tray of freshly-​made doughnuts for us to try for free. That did it — hooked!
I’ve been back a few times in recent months, and I have to be VERY careful about posting on Facebook if I’m planning on making a visit, because the orders quickly start flowing in!

A few weeks ago, having spent the entire day running errands, The Man and I took a walk along the reservoirs in the Pentlands. All was lovely until it started to rain, and rain and rain. We hurried back to the Flotterstone for a damp pint and discussed dinner options.
We hummed and hawed until he suddenly said «how about KFC?» The idea was too deliciously ridiculous.
Much to my delight (and exactly like SF’s «heart attack corner»), the KFC was located just meters away from the Kirspy Kreme I’d been wanting to visit since it opened.
He got the chicken, I went to get the doughnuts.
The chicken was ordered, paid for and cooked in the time it took me to get halfway to the registers. Not entirely Krispy Kreme’s fault, but I couldn’t help but think that a board with what’s currently being sold would be handy, as it’s impossible to know what you want until you actually get up to the case and a worker is waiting to take your order.
We finally ordered, but then had to wait quite a long time until we were able to pay.
After far too long, we finally made it back to the car agreeing that, no matter how good the doughnuts were, it hardly seemed worth the excessive wait.
Unfortunately, the doughnuts didn’t even make much of an attempt at making the experience worth it.
So, a pretty meh experience overall. For how often I eat doughnuts as it is, I never see myself returning to Krispy Kreme.

Delicious but overhyped. However, not their fault their overhyped so I’m not holding it against them.
I’m not in Edinburgh often but when I am I do tend to pop in here to pick up a double dozen. It is overpriced, although buying in bulk saves you money I generally don’t spend 15 on doughnuts and if a supermarket did a deal like that I’d laugh in their face.
However, as oxymoronical as it may seem I don’t grudge paying for them as it’s not a regular occurrence. The only one I would avoid is the apple pie flavour as it just tastes the same as a 20p apple doughnut from Asda, Morissons or your local supermarcado.
The variety of doughnuts and flavours is great and I imagine taking a child here may lead to them exploding with excitement. They have a very cool window that lets you see the doughnuts being made, which when on is a cool thing to see.
You should never leave without getting some originals doughnuts as they are just as good as any of the other fancy concoctions. Incredible light and with just the right amount of icing.
All in all worthwhile going to but if the lines out the door, and you don’t have a maniacle other half who would kill you for not popping in, it may be worth waiting for a more quiet time to get you sugar rush.

I have been back twice now to Krispy Kreme, whenever I am coming from Glasgow direction, as it is convenient just stopping by and buy a 12 pack of doughnuts.
Shame that the location is so far out of town that it takes a while to get there, if you do not have a car.
The 12 doughnuts cost £8.45 what I believe is a good price considering that the individual doughnut is about £1.20. They also do a coffee and doughnut deal for about a fiver. There is not really much else they offer. Oh hold on. Chocolate. Special KK chocolates and other accessories.
The premises present a typical fast food chain «design» layout. All modern. You feel like stepping into a Mac Donald’s with a bit of «class». Having said this, there is a Mac Donald coffee chain on the continent called McCafe.
I like the doughnuts and will certainly be back, but wish they could be more central!

Ah Krispy Kreme. The flavour of the week. I love all baked goods, and I really love my donuts. Krispy Kreme donuts are the newest fad in my opinion.
If you join the drive through queue, you can expect to lose at very least half an hour of your life. And that’s at opening time first thing in the morning, not the rush hour marathon wait. You can go inside and order but most folks ant be bothered getting out the car.
The donuts themselves are beautiful, but they’re blatant American donuts and are totally saturated with sugar. The original glaze are the best — all the other fancy ones are nice but I can’t get excited about them.
You can get better donuts quicker and cheaper in my opinion. If you want a good burger would you wait an hour for McDonald’s? If yes then Krispy Kreme may be for you. I’d rather have a proper burger and a proper donut.

Never seen so many desperate people queuing on a busy roundabout — so dangerous. We’re only talking doughnuts but I guess you are speaking to a nation that eat fried mars bars. Surely doughnuts are not the latest Scottish craze?!

Scotland seems to have gone nuts over the opening of the first Krispy Kreme doughnut store in Scotland. It has been over a month since this place opened its doors to the public and it has only just experienced its first time without a queue. (In the first few weeks the store was serving over 10,000 people a day… A DAY! No wonder there is an obesity crisis in this country.)
I’ve had some experience of eating these and also of queuing for them too. I decided to pop in on a Friday after work to buy a couple of boxes to feed guests coming to my birthday party the next day. Over an hour later, and a good few chapters in to the book I had with me in my bag, I arrive at the till to make my selections. The double dozen options work out good value if you want to choose some of your favourite glazed doughnuts whilst also trying the original glazed. (I’m partial to the maple glazed doughnut myself, I’m now looking for maple extract so I can make maple icing at home… you know… for science.)
One small problem. They’ve ran out of original glazed, the doughnut they’re most famous for. I actually thought the server was kidding when she told me that I would have to wait another 30 minutes or so before they would have more ready. (Small tip Krispy Kreme, I’ve been waiting for over an hour already do you honestly think I’m willing to wait even longer?)
The staff were lovely and very upbeat despite being under a constant pressure to get people in and out the door as quickly as possible. The doughnuts themselves are nice tasting, very light compared to the kind of doughnut you’d get in any other bakery but not really worth the hype, price or effort expended to acquire one.

I have to admit I first came across the Krispy Kreme fuss about a decade ago in Canada and was kind-​of put off in principle by the assertiveness of the guarantees that I would LOVE these doughnuts.
A generous colleague arrived in this week with an enormous amount of doughnuts from Edinburgh’s latest purveyor and, yes, they were very nice. The team was quite taken with the gesture and resultant greasy joy. The Krispy Kreme fuss had truly arrived in multifarious, sweet and doughy form. Everyone was entranced.
I have to say though that despite the generosity of the free donuts, etc, and the pleasantness, I just don’t see a hole big enough to require filling with so much sugar and grease.
I also can’t help wondering if we’re back in the early 90s!
So, 3 stars for good taste. But that’s it.

Dangerous in many ways (besides the calories and sugar intake). The queues were still going round the corner. Amazing and worrying to see that people with small children and buggies were crossing the industrial roundabout bypass — dodging cars and buses — to get to a doughnut place. Is it really worth to take those risks to get an sugary snack? Really?! We were a little more careful but still the only way to get there was either by car (and queue in the same line as the KFC drive tru) or walk from the railway side (safest) so many people decided to take the risk and cross the busy roads where ever possible. Were was the police? Who is controlling this unbelievable disregard of traffic laws? As it seems no-​one.
I guess it won’t be long before we’ll see casualties.
Once we arrived we got the massive sweet sugary smell of the KK donuts — nice! This brought a spring in my step. The white, red and green was so inviting we couldn’t wait to get one. But wait we had to as there was so much demand for it that the 40 min queue time mentioned in other reviews before looked tame in comparison. So we decided to not to join the patiently growing crowd. Instead we spotted the Free Doughnut Girl handing out KK doughnuts to people in the queue and cars so we more or less cornered her and took the donuts we felt we deserved after all this palava. The doughnut was nice, light and very sweet. Sugar rush full-​filled I didn’t feel this would have been worth the wait or associated dangerous behaviour. Thus 3 stars from me.

THEY GAVE ME 12 FREE DONUTS.
12.
SERIOUSLY!
Two weeks ago I was in Haymarket waiting for the Airbus and a woman came over and handed me a box with a dozen full sized donuts in it. FULL SIZE. I was getting a plane in 90 minutes but that didn’t stop me from taking them, fitting them in my suitcase and bringing them home.
They were enjoyed by my very hungover family the next day and were AMAZING.
Free stuff + Deliciousness = 5 stars.

Halleluiah the Krispy Kreme shop opened in Edinburgh today!
My devoted colleague queued at 7am this morning for the opening and waited 40 minutes to get served! They have a drive through… for doughnuts! It was worth the wait. 2 dozen doughnuts were brought in for my team at work today and you should have seen our wee smiling faces as we diverted the phones to voicemail for 15 minutes and enjoyed the sugar rush.
I can see this being a treat in the future, maybe not too often as my colleague who is on weight watchers was tutting when she found that the point ranged from 7 –10 weight watchers points. That aside, they were super tasty!