Great donuts! We got salted caramel, double chocolate, chocolate sprinkle, strawberry and the maple bacon. Strawberry is my personal fave. I didn't care for the maple back , but I think that's just an aquifer taste type of thing. Great stop while in the OBX! read more

These donuts are so delicious..... hot and fresh- made right in front you! They also have options to customize the donuts!

Still making delicious donuts, with all the proper precautions a virus can demand on you. So mice to warm back a small cinnamon donut this am. read more

What a find! Warm donuts served to order with a crazy variety of toppings it don't get better than that!

Duck Donuts is an absolute institution. I may have them back at home in Columbus, but to have them on vacation in OBX, it's the same reliably amazing experience. Get at least one maple bacon and try not to let it ruin all other donuts for you in the future, read more

Only three stars because we just don't get what people go crazy over. It's fun to watch the donuts being made, and being able to custom make your donut. But the donut itself is no big deal. The store itself is clean and the staff friendly. read more

Excellent!! On each our many visits over the last several and challenging months every employee was masked and gloved. They're also pleasant and make the experience a good one. They have one employee stationed outside during peak times to control the amount of people inside. No business in any part of the country can be perfect, especially now. The negative and one star reviews from one particular person are obviously a disgruntled customer doing the best they can to harm the owner and the business. read more

SO GOOD!! I wish my hometown had a place like this! The donuts were still warm and the toppings were so good. The staff was great too!

We got a dozen donuts, all were fine. We had to order inside and wait outside which was fine due to COVID-19. I wish we could have made custom orders online but it was fine, because they were dealing with the virus like everyone else (less staff). Wait was a little longer probably 15 minutes or so. read more

Tried them once and once was enough. If I could give them less than one star I would. All the donuts are the same, the topping is what makes them unique. Toooooo sweet! read more

I live in Chicago and the donut craze here is huge. So my expectations were pretty high walking in to Ducks. I have to say that Ducks Donuts is by far my favorite donut place in the WORLD. The donuts are fresh and warm, and the 3 step ordering process was a great change of pace. You pick a glaze, You pick your own toppings on the donut then end it with a drizzle. The combinations of toppings is endless. I had a smores donut and a Oreo donut, both amazing. Service was fast and friendly even though the place was full of screaming kids. My boyfriend and I will be coming back next year. read more

Partner and I came here while vacationing in Kill Devil Hill. The donuts are hot, fresh, and delicious. Service is quick. Issue: no seating. It is 97 degrees outside and after I get our donuts and iced coffee, I noticed they don't have any seating for guests. We have to walk to our car, crank on the a/c, and awkwardly eat our donuts in the car. These things are messy and I'm trying not to smear icing on my dash. We just wanted a sweet cheat treat, but it makes you start questioning what you're doing with your life when you are sitting in a running car, watching traffic go by, eating a messy donut. It ruined the experience and just made me feel bad about my life choices. Now off the eat a salad...at a proper table. read more

The donuts as always are amazing but to wait almost 30 mins for a 6 dozen donuts and to stand there and watch them slowly make them with no sense of urgency is a little disturbing. I appreciate small businesses and enjoy their food but sense of urgency to the customers would be greatly appreciated. read more

Jummy with unique flavors and toppings. Service good and place is clean. Hey, can I suggest a sour cream doughnut and maybe a cream cheese topping. read more

Yum! Loved the warm, richness and poet gooey-ness! We had maple bacon, peanut butter Oreo, lemon nut, and just Plain chocolate icing. We loved them all! Great atmosphere- lines moves relatively quickly for the length. read more

Awesome warm sweet, salty bacon maple donuts.... That would be enough to draw me in everyday if I lived in the area. Love the cake donuts iced to perfection and sprinkles or nuts and yes bacon added as well. Wonderful concept with an equally wonderful execution. They have the market cornered for sure. read more

My 4 star probably does not reflect truly of the place's virtues. I'm not a donuts lover, and has never been. But nevertheless we grabbed a pack 30 minutes before they closed, and the boys still made our donuts fresh. I was looking forward to more exotic flavors like salted caramel, but I find their flavor mix was more attuned to those who have affinity for colorful syrups with artificial flavoring. But for the sake of its concept, it was well-executed. And the boys were excellent! read more

First time trying Duck Donuts. Not bad but they're too sweet for us. Friendly staff and quick service, though.

Fast service. Great donuts. Nice staff. No picture of donuts, but they were delicious!

If I could give 4.5 stars for this place, I would! The only reason for not giving the 5 stars is the fact that they only serve white cake donuts. Now, I will say, having a fresh and HOT, white cake donut makes all the difference in the world. We sampled 6 different flavor combinations and my favorite was the lemon glaze with coconut. SO yummy!! What's also great here is that you can create your own topping combinations. Would visit here often if I could! read more

Duck Donuts - Donuts made fresh right in front of your eyes! - Donuts Near Me - Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina

A sweet donut shop, can't go wrong with it but do have some things to say... Made to order donuts is a cool idea, when you pick them up they are hot and melty and messy. You can try all the frosting and toppings you want, but the best will always be cinnamon sugar. Seriously, SO GOOD. The hours of this shop are confusing and inconvenient when it's a Tuesday morning and I want a donut to accompany me on walk on the boardwalk. Oh well, it's good you definitely have to try it and make your own review. read more

I've never had a doughnut this good before. Ever. Duck Donuts (another OBX local chain) bakes fresh every morning these delightful, light cake doughnuts. With a plethora of different icings and toppings (maple icing and peanut butter icing being two of my favorites), your doughnuts are topped-to-order and come to you warm and delicious. What's more, the prices are incredibly reasonable, especially for a "tourist town." For $3 you can get two hot doughnuts and a coffee (they use Kill Devil Coffee, another plus). You can't beat that! While they do not have too many tables on the inside or much in the way of decor, that's not why you come to Duck Donuts. You come for the food, and they definitely deliver in that respect. The staff is incredibly friendly and make your order with lightning speed. This is definitely being worked into my vacation tradition. read more

A local favorite and must stop for donut lovers! Not your typical donut, it tastes less fried and more on the cakey side. Can't wait for the one in Herndon to open! read more

Duck Donuts - Maple bacon, glazed, chocolate, sugar and powdered donuts! - Donuts Near Me - Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina

Heard a lot of hype about the Duck Donuts on our way to OBX. Tried them today but I have to say our local hometown place in WV is just as good but with more variety. It's the "thing to do" in OBX, but basically it's fried sugary dough with sugar on top. The staff were awesome and we enjoyed watching the Donutron Mark V spawning little donuts. read more

I was fortunate enough to not have to be the one to run out first thing in the morning for the doughnuts. This was my first Duck Doughnut experience and I found them to be delicious. I try to not eat doughnuts in general anymore but I was on vacation so I was like wtf. The kids thought the hot doughnuts were a kick in the pants...they were a tad greasy but I think that is due to the light texture. The batter was so light. I loved the maple and the plain and the sugar and the chocolate. Wait, I thought I only ate one doughnut.......is this why I gained 5 pounds on vacation? JK Why the one dropped star you might ask??? The second day they screwed up our order, they handed us the wrong boxes and did not notice until they got home. They were still good but... read more

At 8am on a Sunday, this place had a loooong line .... for a good reason! Duck donuts makes your donuts to order! You have your choice of glaze and your choice of toppings... if you choose. I got the peanut butter glaze with coconut flakes on top. Best donuts I have ever had -- and I don't even like donuts! My donuts were still warm and fluffy! In the words of Agnes, "it's so fluffffyyyyyy" read more

Yeah, I'm going to be that guy that says, "I don't get it." Seriously. I don't. There are many restaurants that I know of that have a cult following (like In-N-Out Burger!) and I get most of them. This one, I don't. The donuts were tasty, but not out-of-this world. The service was fast, but it's basically an assembly line, so not much to mess up. The line was out the door by the time we ordered and I honestly said after eating the donuts that I would be fine being 3rd or 4th in line, but there's no way I would wait in a line out the door, no matter how fast it was moving. Since you custom order the donuts, we decided to try some interesting combinations: Vanilla Donut + Peanut Butter Icing + Chocolate Sprinkles: We were going for the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup effect and it worked okay. The icing over-powered everything else, so it was more peanut butter than anything. Vanilla Donut + Cinnamon Sugar + Rainbow Sprinkles: Pretty much what you would expect from any establishment selling sprinkled and/or cinnamon sugar donuts. Nothing to rave about. Chocolate Donut + Maple Icing + Bacon: This was the "way out there" donut we tried and it was okay. Again, like the first one, the icing overpowered everything. And I was expecting crispy bacon (and a nice crunch to go with the soft donut), but theirs was more on the chewy side. One thing I don't get about everybody raving about this place is that the options really aren't that crazy. If you take sprinkles out of the equation, you essentially have some flavored donuts with flavored icing. Whoop-de-doo! The craziest things they have are maple icing and bacon. Everything else is pretty standard. Oh, and the donuts are hot. Okay, but I'm not standing in a ridiculously long line for hot donuts that essentially taste like something I can buy at a supermarket and warm in a microwave. While I wouldn't refuse Duck Donuts if someone bought them and brought them to the house, I wouldn't go out of my way to get them and I would take "Hot Now" over these any day. read more

Crowded, long lines but certainly worth the wait. Service was average but that's okay because the donuts are truly the best. Hot, fresh, and delicious! So glad they just franchised a store in Virginia beach. read more

All I can say is get here early ! Have your order forms filled out and ready to go the night before - I heard a rumor you can order online but haven't confirmed this - we like to stop on our way out of town to make our drive home more enjoyable - some personal favorite flavor combinations include maple icing with coconut, lemon icing with coconut, vanilla and rainbow sprinkles, maple with bacon, cinnamon sugar with caramel drizzle, anything with powdered sugar as a topping, peanut butter with peanuts or graham cracker crumbs, lemon with graham cracker crumbs - this place is a must stop while in the OBX - just be prepared to wait a bit because duck donuts is loved by all read more

I've been hearing people rave for several years now about Duck Donuts, so I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I guess the idea of ordering your own custom donut really appeals to people. You go to the cashier and order your donut customized with various toppings and drizzles. I got a cinnamon and sugar donut drizzled with salty caramel; my wife got dark chocolate topping and marshmallow. After paying, you move to the side, where your order is served in a cute little box. The doughnuts are fresh, sweet, cake donuts. Let me emphasize -- sweet. The sweet cake combined with sweet toppings was just a little much for us -- for me, the test of a great donut is how good the basic item is minus all the layers. Duck Donuts are fresh and warm and good, but I'm not a big fan of cake donuts. Better than Dunkin, which I think are incredibly overrated, and better than the obnoxiously sweet Krispy Kreme, but nowhere near as great as Sugar Shack -- which started in Richmond and are expanding elsewhere. read more

We asked friends of ours about "must sees and do's" in the OBX and they surely didn't disappoint. Having never been to the Outer Banks, we had never heard of Duck Donuts. Our lives were so incomplete and we had no idea. Tears. Thankfully, we are now whole and so much more the wiser. My bacon loving husband and I indulged in the maple glazed donuts with bacon topping. My Twinkies each had their share of cinnamon-sugar, glazed, strawberry glaze, and vanilla glazed and I also tasted the powdered and chocolate glazed with coconut flakes. True, true heaven. The crumb on this donut is delicate, yet substantial (how'd they do that?!?). It's a cake donut that's fried, topped and served Ford Model-T style. I can see how the store would be inundated and crowded as the assembly does take some time. We must have, inadvertently, timed it well because there was a minimal wait. I loved the attention to detail that the young man and two young women took in preparing our order as well. The store was very clean and the donuts were so hot I did the whole, "mouth-in-the-shape-of-a-hole-breathe-in-and-out-to-cool" thing. I love hot food that's actually hot. It makes me feel warm and safe inside. We also ordered a 1/2 gallon of orange juice. Very good quality orange juice, not that watered down mess. I believe the total for our entire breakfast (which everyone, save Hubby couldn't finish) was approx. $26. A bargain compared. We packed it up and headed back to our rental and ended up so satisfied. Of the two Duck Donuts we visited in the OBX (yes, two, don't judge), I preferred this location for its cleanliness, attention to detail and proximity. I truly can't thank my friends enough for putting us on to this gem of a place. I HIGHLY recommend. read more

Best Donuts EVER. Everytime we stay at the OBX we have to stop by for Duck Donuts at least once. The donuts are unlike any I've ever had before. They're cake donuts and you can customize your toppings to whatever you like. They make it fresh, right there in front of you. It's SO good! My personal favorite is the Strawberry Glaze with sprinkles. read more

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The donuts and coffee were incredible. The gal that checked us out was so kind and thoughtful. Picked my donuts up and received a huge smile from the nice guy that prepared them for us. Thanks so much Duck Donuts read more

Very busy this morning. Donuts were efficiently prepared and out quick. Only had to wait a short time for breakfast sandwiches. DD is our go-to spot when we are headed out of OBX. Delicious donuts and ice coffee is very good too! The iced coffee is is actual cold coffee that you pour over ice....it wasn't hot coffee that melted ice as one reviewer stated. Maybe they made a change? read more

Omg the best donuts I've ever had!!!! Wish they have locations in DMV area:( If you are ever in outer banks, you have to go here. Doesn't matter what flavor you try, they are all so awesome!! read more

Duck Donuts - Lemon, chocolate, orange and glazed donuts!! - Donuts Near Me - Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina

OMG!!! Sin in your mouth. The best donuts I've had. Rich cake like texture, YUMMY!!!! We had a slight wait but the line went pretty fast. I had the donut special of the day, vanilla and cinnamon sugar, my goodness it was delicious. The rest of the family loved their donuts also, even the ones that are not "sweet" eaters. read more

Always delicious- only took away 1 star because they shut off online ordering when it's busy and that's how the locals can still enjoy there donuts during the season... read more

It is worth waiting in the long lines for the Best Donuts on the OBX. Hot and Made to order........Most excellent! read more

This is a weird one, as I've never seen anywhere remotely like this place.... They only make one sort of cake donut. When you order it they dress it with a topping of your choice. It's both fresher, and better than most donut places, but also more limiting. I like things like apple fritters, and filled donuts; and they have none of those. If you like cake donuts, their toppings are fresh and awesome. read more

I don't like donuts, but I love Duck Donuts. The light, crispy, made to order goodness filled the empty void in my soul left by a seasonably cold adventure to the beach. The price is about a buck per donut, which, given the quality, is adequate. The staff is friendly, and despite a long line were chipper and ready to help. The store was clean, bright, and welcoming. read more