King Pin Donuts

King Pin Donuts is located in the Durant Square food court area. The parking is pretty bad in this area, especially on weeknights and weekends, as everyone is doubled parked along this street or trying to snag street parking nearby, and oncoming traffic usually gets pretty backed up here. Not much service - you just tell the employee what you want and they pack it up for you, then you pay and go. I have always pass by this donut shop when getting boba from one of the many spots in this vicinity over the past few years. I am not big on donuts, especially with all the different flavor glazes and fillings, but I finally tried a regular glazed donut from here recently and it was pretty good - it was warm and fluffy / soft. It was a decent sized donut for a little over $3.

The perfect donut....you know when you're craving a fresh fluffy sweet donut, nothing too fancy or "fru fru", just a great no fuss donut. This is your place, period. They cook their donuts to perfection, the raised donuts are fluffy, their old fashioned are crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside. They put the perfect amount of icing on their donuts, they do not skimp. I always find myself comparing other donut places to King Pin. A great Berkeley institution

On a recent visit to Berkeley, this place brought back some nostalgic memories of when I used to come as a college student. This place has a lot of varieties of donuts to choose from. The donuts are made fresh on site with a deep fryer visible at the storefront window. They also sell muffins and madeleines but it looks like they got those from Costco to resell. There are lots of different donut flavors but the ones I got tasted average. I was also surprised by how expensive they were. Glazed sprinkle ones I got were $2.75 each and the chocolate buttermilk was $3.75. The service was prompt and friendly. The guy working gave us a few free donuts holes.

I saw donuts and my brain turned off. I got a half dozen. They have all the donuts you'd expect but they also had cheesecake which was cool. The service was good and quick. The ambiance is as you'd expect, a cute little shop with only enough room to choose your donuts and pay. There is seating outside with a little food court vibe however, which is nice. The donuts were mediocre but they scratched my itch for sure. The appalling thing was when I looked at the receipt and saw how expensive it was.... $20!!! For a half dozen donuts!!!! Definitely not worth it.

Brief Summary:- Different doughnuts to choose from- Lightly sweet batterThere are times in my life, when I gained a massive craving for doughnuts, and that was the time. In my memory, I recall walking past this doughnut shop and seeing display cases of different doughnut types. I chose this one because going to a doughnut specialized shop has lots to choose from than going to a coffee shop.We got the original glazed, the coconut, and the maple doughnut in the old-fashioned style. Generally, all the doughnuts were lightly sweet, the sweetest being the old-fashioned maple syrup doughnut. Regardless of flavors, the glazed is the best and then my next favorite was the coconut. I did like the maple syrup old-fashioned doughnut, but it is the heavier one and sweeter. In the next craving season, I'll try the regular old-fashioned styled doughnut to compare the differences

We were in the area and stop by. It's open late I loved that. They were fully stocked and we went at 10pm on a Saturday. Prices were reasonable and the doughnuts are really good. There's two small tables inside we sat there. We had a pretty good experience.

Oh Lord, this place takes me back. When I was a baby-faced UC freshman feeling smug that I didn't have to take the remedial Subject A class for English, it only followed that my swelled head would make me invulnerable to the girth of unnecessary calories that came with the donuts served here. As far as I knew, I was the King Pin. Top of the world, Ma!But alas, the extra inches around my waist merely attest to the fact that I was just King Pinhead. All these years later, no one is gonna take that crown away from me. I happened to walk by with a nostalgic hankering and pointed to two lip-smacking $2.75 cake donuts with little redeeming value. It really didn't matter what they were as long as I keep the crown.DONUTS - 4 stars...still the same college-age calorific satisfaction with their chocolate coconut and glazed donuts (photo: https://yelp.to/o1vNgCyCkj)AMBIANCE - 3 stars...you expected white tablecloths?SERVICE - 4 stars...zippier than most donut servers TOTAL - 4 stars...I am the King of PinheadsRELATED - Exploring Berkeley? Here's a collection of places I've visited and reviewed: https://bit.ly/2CbVh8u

I got the chocolate old fashioned donut and the chocolate cake donut with chocolate chips. Both were delicious & satisfied that donut craving. Service wise, King Pin is great! I ordered pickup and they threw in a couple free glazed donut holes in with my order. Will return!

They have a deal where you can get a whole box filled with an assortment of day-old donuts for $5. And for just being a day old they were still good and it was a tad more dry but that's the texture we loveee.

I found a dead roach after biting into my donut hole just threw me all the way off, waste of $6!