After I passed by the location used be Joe's Ice Cream, bitchin' about the new jiveass milk tea place, I came here. I was thinking like "Why milk tea? Why not donuts and coffee? That's simple. Very simple. Fxxx that jiveass milk tea. What's going on these days? Am I getting an old asshole-sonofbitch?" So, I got 3, 1 glazed, 1 chocolate grazed and 1 apple fritter. And a cup of coffee. Made my day. And Yes, I am an old Asian-asshole-sonofbitch. WTF? read more

In the words of Homer Simpson..."Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?" I completely agree. So you can only imagine how happy I was when we stumbled upon The Golden Donut over the weekend. Highlights - *Awesome selection of donuts and coffee drinks *Delicious flavors...such goodness! *Great service *Super prices Note - cash only, but they do have an ATM inside, if needed. Overall...donuts are yummy. Go get yourself one...here! read more

The donuts were so good and so fluffy! There were so many options and she always had pastries and muffins. The apple juice I got was perfect too! She was very sweet but only accepts cash! read more

When waking up the first thing i think of is hmm...salty or sweet? If it is an early morning and i need to get my donut on (after 8am usually go to Le Cafe--apple fritter heaven baby!) iam here. The woman that works the register is the russian version of the small, paranormalist, squeaky-voiced woman from poltergeist. The tru measure of any donut house is how much pride they take in their plain glazed. It is tasty here...but believe it or not sometimes kinda stale..crazy huh?! My usual pickup are a maple cruller and an apple fritter, or an old fashioned and chocolate cream bar. Again the measuring stick of the glaze is why this place only gets a 3. Toodles. read more

Great tasting donuts at a good price! Unfortunately they need to work on their late night service. Numerous times I have walked in past 9PM and there is no one behind the counter. After calling out several times to whomever is working in the back still no one comes to help me. This has happened several times and I normally just leave to go get a late night snack from somewhere else. The fact that they are a small business with good prices that is open late are all positives to help overcome the annoyance of it being a cash only place, but those positives only go so far. They really need a bell on the door or something similar to alert staff to when customers enter later at night. read more

If you want a straightforward, pink-box-type donut, this is the place to go if you're in the area. I like this place as much as Bob's on Polk to be honest, but huge plus for this spot being open at least until midnight. I was drinking with some buddies across the street at Nag's Head, and ended up here because I was hungry. I wound up buying more donuts than I had planned for, and brought them back to the bar, which the bartenders were totally cool with. Moments later, we all walked back to the donut shop before it closed and they sold us some more even though they were in the middle of closing. Bonus points for these people. Ever since, I keep calling this place "Epic Donuts" because the donuts hit the spot that night. Giggity. I came back here a few days ago because I took my parents to dinner nearby at Hong Kong Lounge. When I realized where we were, I told my parents I had to come here buy some after dinner. I mean, there goes the diet for today, right? Heck, I even got my parents to buy a couple for themselves. Glazed, maple, twist, old fashioned, etc. They have it all, man. The Asian folks that run this place are nice, and they make some damn good donuts here. read more

Good people here. Great donuts also! When asked to help with a project to feed the homeless, they gave generously. Friends of San Francisco is what they are. Thank you, ladies..Stay Golden! read more

ML Donuts - Thank you Golden Donut for your generosity helping myself and friends feed the homeless! Don't sleep on the maple bars, folks! - Donuts Near Me - San Francisco, California

An absolutely no frills, straight up mouth watering local donut place. Everyone is coming up with all these fancy donuts with dinglehoppers and sprinkles hanging/draped everywhere. So folks if you looking for a blueberry bourbon infused donut, go somewhere else. If you appreciate the simplicity in mastering fewer ingredients to produce the absolute best, then GO TO THIS PLACE. I didn't know it was possible but I straight up dream of this place. Try the glazed cruller - it actually melts in your mouth. The regular glazed? Amazing. The Apple Fritter? I buy that bad boy, bring it home and put it in the oven for 5 minutes and then little tiny angels sing as I open the oven and savor every last bite. Still skeptical about the deliciousness? Go outside the place and take a whiff at the fan they have pointing out from the kitchen. That smell is the closest thing to olfactory bliss, to the point that that is all you ever want to smell in your life. read more

I'll keep this short and sweet. Golden Donut is hands down the best donut shop in SF. Feel adventurous? Get the mocha donut. Want a classic? Go for a dozen holes. read more

Apple fritters are natures way of providing the human body the exact proportion of fat, sugar, white flour, and of course healthy hints of apple that it needs for a happy sedentary lifestyle. This place delivers large sugar-glazed apple fritters in the exact manner that nature intended; for $1.50 each and just ready to head to that very special part of your body that craves comfort along with a self-inflicted food coma. Ahh...I can...feel....beginning...paralyze...my........ read more

This is absolutely the best cafe in the neighborhood. Golden Donuts still preserves the authentic cafe feel. People actually sit to drink coffee and eat. The view from the cafe window is beautiful and fun to look through. Chairs are comfortable and the smell of fresh pastries that are baked in the back fills the cafe. Yes, they have a real bakery in the back and make the donuts right there. The donuts here are also most affordable because they're made right there. The donuts are actually very delicious. I've never gotten a donut here I didn't like. Of course they also make delicious sandwiches. Additionally, as someone who drinks a lot of coffee daily, I love how Golden Donuts always has at least three varieties of coffee. It is always strong and tastes great. I don't know how to describe it but the coffee tastes like the coffee I make at home sometimes. The big chain cafes nearby have coffee that always tastes burned. Finally I want to add a very important detail. know that other cafes provide wifi. This cafe does not and I am very very happy it doesn't. Thank you! I am very sick and tired of cafes where all the seating is taken up by young hipsters playing on their laptops. They take up 2 or 3 seats and stay at the cafe for hours. For example Starbucks or royal grounds which are closest two cafes pretty much never have any seats because someone takes up the tables for many hours. The ladies who work here are also very nice and always smile at customers. It's always a pleasure to buy something. It also feels like a local small business "mom and pop" cafe. I am pretty sure the man who makes the donuts in the back is the "pop". . read more

NEVER AGAIN. I love donuts and I tend to visit any shop in sight. I order a dozen donut holes for $1.29 and my favourite French cruller. The donuts are no good. The French cruller was hollow and it just tasted bad. It didn't taste like dough at all, I can't even describe what that was but it wasn't good. And the donut holes were the same. Weird texture.. Almost rubbery and chewy. My stomach didn't feel good after so I'll definitely NEVER come back here. I'll stick to All Star Donuts. I'd rather have no donuts than these donuts. Maybe the bread is better? read more

I am an East Coast girl and daughter of a donut maker so I have some pretty serious expectations of donuts. That said I understand that West Coast shops make donuts differently and their cake donuts (aka old fashioned) will be less dense and not contain nutmeg. Here's my rundown: Apple Fritter: knocks it out of the park with a solid 5 stars! Giant and well glazed with a perfectly fried exterior and soft doughy interior complete with some apple compote. Divine! Chocolate croissant: a little stale, not enough chocolate. 3 stars Apple Crumb cake donut: solid 4 stars, generous amount of crumb coating and soft inside, dough could benefit from a little spice (like nutmeg) Coffee Roll: quite fresh and tasty and covered with glaze, solid 4 stars--could use more cinnamon between the rolls to differentiate itself taste-wise from a glazed (raised) donut. read more

Passed by this donut shop on the corner and thought to pick up a couple donuts. The chocolate donut was served fresh and warm!

At Golden Donut, go for what's Golden and stay away from the Brown. What I mean is: get something glazed and avoid the chocolate items. I got a chocolate french cruller and chocolate old fashioned and didn't finish either. I THREW THEM AWAY! They were that bad. However, the donut holes and apple fritter rank among the best I've ever had. Anything glazed and "golden" is good, so order those and stay away from everything else. read more

My personal opinion is that donuts, by and large, are donuts. Donut shops are distinguished by their coffee, their staff, and their clientele. The clientele is scary, the staff - I've only been in the morning - is a nice, gnomish ukranian woman that I have a very hard time understanding and so I make her repeat EVERYTHING, which probably makes her hate me (and not unreasonably so), and the coffee affirmatively sucks. Still, it's on the way to drop the bobbleheads off at school, and once a week on donut day I'm a hero and I get 30 uninterrupted minutes with my kids and their eclair (him) and chocolate frosted (her) with a half-dozen donut holes to share. So three stars. read more

If you want delicious greasy donuts then this is the place to go. Also their ham and cheese croissants are made with two different types of bread at different times of the week I have no idea why but one of them is pretty good and the other is absolutely amazing either way 20 seconds in the microwave makes for super tasty treat. Addicted to this place, love it read more

Really can't complain about this place. The workers are nice, the donuts are fresh, and the service is quick. Your clientele is generally the local Chinese people in the neighborhood looking to just hang out for a day. The variety of donuts and pastries is pretty pedestrian, but every time I go here to get donuts for my summer program, they give me extra ones for free. Who can complain about that? read more

I always love when a donut place in cities like San Francisco, Vegas, Santa Cruz stay open super late to accommodate the drunk masses. While I didn't find the donuts and pastries to be exceptionally good, we went in at about 11 o'clock and they were good for what we needed them for. Little bit on the costly side but hey, we are talking about San Francisco after all. I think we ended up only eating the glazed donuts, half of a maple bar, apple fritter was no good and the chocolate donut was overkill but really because we had already eaten so much sugar as it was. We tend to like this location, we have a couple of favorite dive bars and restaurants that we hit both at happy hour prices as well as the usual menus. There's a great sushi place on the strip of businesses as well as one of the best dive bars we have found so far. We also got dollar happy hour oysters not too far, a little bit further up in the Palisades area that were awesome. Worth the drive from Sacramento for the oysters alone at a buck apiece. Check out the donut Spot sure, but take a peek around at some of the restaurants and venues in the area, not far from the beach or from anything else of value really. Got a love San Francisco read more

I work down the block from this place so i'll come here from time to time to get donuts for breakfast. They're made fresh daily and the staffs are very nice and friendly. they also have sandwiches and bagels on their menu which are made to order. The price here is cheap, I spend $1.80 for 2 donuts. yummmmmmm read more

What a gem in the Richmond neighborhood of SF! Anytime my fiancée and I are craving a hot glazed or sugar donut, we try and drop by this little-known spot between 8-9pm--that's when these donuts are fresh out of the oven, the deep fryer, or whatever magical place they come from! Call us obsessed, but if we are ever too early for these piping hot, soft-to-the-touch, golden rings of fluffy dough, we will wait for them. The donuts are even good a day or two later. Easily the best donut in SF without trying too hard! read more

I LOVE crullers! I've tried 2 different types here and they both sucked. Like greasy film on the top of your mouth, not at all satifying sucked. The other donuts here were kinda meh. And it's definitely an Asian senior center here. Which if that's your scene, you probably aren't reading my reviews anyway! read more

If you go to a donut shop more times in a month than you have seen your doctor in your entire life, you're going to love this place. Golden donut is awesome! Friendly, hands off people working there. Super cheap and has good coffee. read more

It was late at night and I was craving a donut. $1.25 a pop. While the lady behind the counter was nice, the donut she served didn't seem to be the freshest. One bite into the fried dough and I sensed it had been sitting around for sometime like a next day donut. It was edible, a tad dry inside, and a total let down to my dessert after dinner. The pluses? There is ample seating inside the store and it's open till midnight. read more

Got a butter croissant this morning, it smells weird, had a small bite, its sour... went back to the shop and tried to pull the lady/owner aside and talked to her, she said i can tell its fresh baked from the texture of the croissant, never apologize. She then asked (rudely) if i wanted to get something else, i ended up getting a donut, but i dont think a donut costs the same as a croissant and i didnt get a refund... i mean, the croissant maybe fresh baked but how do i know if you used fresh ingrediants to make it??? I had so many croissant in my life (coz i LOVE croissant) and i never had a type of croissant is SOUR!!! read more

Don't go to this donut shop expecting gourmet pastry enlightenment. I'm not complaining, but offering up a dose of reality. They're not using organic anything or non-GMO this or preservative-free that. They're not Whole Foods. It's cheaply made fried and baked goods, made the way they're made. Take a look at this place, where it is, and let the reality check begin! The hood, aka Little Russia is not a trendy hipster spot like the Valencia-Mission or a boutique, shoppy villa like Union from Franklin to Divisadero. This area is old SF, holding out on the changes currently transforming much of the city. If you want that other stuff, go to those places! lol But when you need that donut fix, they're your man. Why 4 stars for an average donut shop? Because it's there and it's not an Apple Store yet, and it represents a sugary vein in the heart of the city, which is a prerequisite to any major urban city worthy of having an early morning to late at night donut shop. Period! : ) I like it that way. I was born and raised in SF, and like anyone who gets bitter at wasted youth when they reach a certain age, I am resistant to the tech industry takeover making my hometown more like "their" hometown with its mall mentality and cold, 70's condo reinventions. You kids and your electronic music!! Anyway... back to the donuts. The reality is: Golden Donut is your average donut shop. They do some things well and most others, run of the mill. But when you require a donut or other sugary piece of dough, they're open while most people are still conscious or recently were not. That doesn't mean you'll ever get a sense raised consciousness from GD. Let it serve its intended purpose! read more

I routinely avoided Golden Donut because I felt their donuts were stale and the one time I got a sandwich, it was really skimpy. Like a couple slices of lunch meat, and there you go. But, today, I got a choco french, a choco-glazed chocolate cake, and a choco-glazed custard-filled, and they were fresh! It was awesome. read more

Quite mediocre donuts at the Golden Donut. I don't eat donuts every day but something about this place beckoned me in. Maybe it was the old fashioned vibe that seemed to say, "I'm a hidden gem that has been making the best donuts in town for years, try me." Apparently that was just the crazy bum on Geary whispering in my ear as these donuts were blah. So disappointing. Salvaged the morning by getting a scone at John Campbell. read more

If by 'Golden' they mean 'Fried-the-hell-out-of', then it would be an apt description. Yes, I'm somewhat picky about my donuts. Ok, i'm a lot picky about my donuts, but that doesn't mean I judge any old donut unfairly. It's just that the apple fritter was really dry, very thinly glazed, and almost flavorless apart from the pungent oil flavor. It was like eating one of those fried oil sticks you get at a taiwanese restaurant to eat with your shao bing. Bleech. I also looked upon the old-fashioned donuts, and saw that the chocolate frosting didn't even cover the entire top side. That's real stingy on the chocolate frosting. The donut portion of it, though, was decent enough. Service was alright. read more

Ordered croissants here once. It was a little overpriced and not as fresh as I would have liked. Came back a second time to satisfy my donut craving with 1 dozen donut holes ($1.65). Again, they weren't fresh and were actually stale. Maybe because I got them at 4pm. It's surprising this place is open late. Most places I know of close by 2pm. The other pastries just don't look appetizing to me either. Maybe I'll have to visit this place again one morning during regular donut eating hours. read more

I got 2 donuts here. 1 French and one maple with sprinkles. The French had tasted like it had been sitting for awhile, not so fresh. The maple with sprinkles however possibly had the best maple frosting I've ever tasted. 3 stars. Had I only gotten the French donut it could have been 2. Had I only gotten the maple sprinkles, it could have been 4. read more

We are from out of state and happened to be driving in the area and I wanted coffee. We found this place on the same street as Starbucks. I'm not a big fan of donuts so I ordered their Porky English Muffin sandwich (I dont remember the exact name), my dad orders a BLT and my daughter and grandma ordered donuts. The owners seemed very nice. Instead of yelling out the order for their customers to come and grab it themselves, they came to us and put it on our table. I don't know if they do it all the time, but that's class. The breakfast sandwich was delish. The english muffin was toasted perfectly. I enjoyed every bite of it! The donuts were also really delish as well. No complaints. read more

The donuts here are really fresh. I'd have to say they have the best donuts in town. The owner is super nice!

Simple shop with freshly made donuts, muffins, pastries, and sandwiches. Inexpensive and never had a stale donut from it.

First time here. Next time I'm in the area I will be returning. Love it here and so does my 3 year old. Super friendly and tastes like heaven. Don't skip out on this place!!! Try their cruellers. read more

This place is great for donuts! We asked the owner how her raised donuts get so fluffy. The are raised hirer than other shops have. Great quality at very good prices. Also nice owner! read more

It's a bummer that it's cash only, but the staff is really nice in the sense that they'll tell you where Wells Fargo is and wait for you to go get cash. I should give it two stars but I work in the hospitality industry and tend to be nicer than I should be. My iced mocha was just a hot mocha out of a machine with ice in it, so it was kind of jacked up. The cinnamon roll is greasy on the bottom like it was fried at too low of a temperature and the batter absorbed a lot of oil. On the plus side, the donuts are beautiful and it's a family-owned shop. read more

Cheap, quick, good! I like getting doughnut holes after a strenuous workout at the Y. The biggest exercise of all is exercising a lil' denial after a big fat workout, right? My ass really should exercise caution with the doughnuts but my stomach is just too demanding. I'll stick with my doughnut workout plan until further notice. read more

Friendly service and wide selection of donuts. Cheapest were the classic donuts for $1.10. (I love!!) They have several selection of coffee and plenty of seating. Restroom located at the back but you'll need the key by the door. Nice little place to enjoy donut parties and coffee and chit chat with old buddies!!! read more

A new job brought me out to West Geary Avenue Avenue and I just randomly walked across the street to this place three weeks ago. What I found was a terrific selection of homemade donuts served by a couple very friendly and helpful ladies. Everything from custard-filled to maple bars to chocolate glazed and as mentioned in the previous review apple fritters and cinnamon rolls. What's truly amazing is that an Apple Fritter that probably weighs 25 ounces is only $2. The prices are very reasonable and they have a fair election of basic coffee. I guess the only drawback would be that the place hasn't really been remodeled in 20 years and is very old school if that happens to matter to you. For me it's really about the good service and the quality at a fair price read more