Cafe Donuts

Huge selection of ice cream and doughnuts with friendly staff. Plus free wifi and outlet at every table.

BEST in the area!!! They even had my childhood favorite, which I haven’t been able to find anywhere else! Bavarian Cream – with powdered sugar!

I love this place! Love to get their ice cream and donuts. I have tried coffee and croissant sandwiches — great too.

Fresh and tasty! Almost has a Dunkin Donuts feel to it. Plus they hire COMPETENT kids with good customer service skills to run the day to day. I just wish they’d have a larger selection. Their coffee is good… not too strong nor bitter… even when picking up a dozen I get a cup for the drive home. Friendly young staff also.

Champlain location: The sign on the door reads ‘OPEN EVERYDAY!’ — this is a lie. When it was on Highway 65, it was indeed open EVERY day, including holidays, but apparently after they moved to Champlain, they decided to keep the tag line but be closed on holidays, or random Sundays, or pretty much every time we make it up to Champlain specifically to go there. There’ll be a printed out sign on the door reading ‘Closed’ right above the sign painted on the door that says ‘Open Everyday!’
Either fix your sign or fix your hours, Café Donuts. Until you do, I’m done wasting gas money on you. I’d rather drive an hour and a half down to Rochester and hit Dunks because at least they’re open when they say they are.

I am here to update you guys on the current state of Café Donuts. I would like to congratulate them on fixing the lack of filling problem in their filled donuts. I have been there a few times since my last review, and the amount seems consistently more. The donuts are no longer just 4/​5ths cake and 1 Tbs of filling! This makes things so much better. I absolutely recommend this place for a wide variety of donuts. And if you’re like me and remember the good ol’ days of Dunkin’ Donuts when they had the white and chocolate angels (filled powdered donuts with white or chocolate frosting inside)…you’ll love it. PS-​Their version of angels are very popular – and called KREME donuts – so you might want to call and order ahead for the next day. They did that for me today, and I love them for it.

great, only minor complaint was got a coupon in email from them reg. free donut on my birthday, clerk was not really sure how to enter/​handle coupon.

Closest chain to a dunkin’ donuts if you like that style. It’s half donuts half ice cream shop tucked in a small strip mall off a small road near my house. Stumbled upon it one day two years ago when my husband stopped by Fantastic Sam’s for a haircut. Don’t expect fancy gourmet donuts like some of the newer more hip shops but you get a good donut and variety for the price. Check in through Unilocal!and get 10% off a dozen.
Favorites are the French crullers and apple cinnamon filled donuts. 7.99 for a dozen is decent priced and the size and taste of the donut is pretty good. They cater and offer coffee drinks as well.
We have tried the ice cream as well and my son loves the mint chocolate chip and cookies and cream flavors. Not gourmet or unique but good ice cream and kids really don’t care for fancy things just good tasting flavors!

Café Donuts is in a small strip mall that’s inaccessible and barely visible from 169. We’ve been here dozens of times and have always had a positive experience. Everyone in the family has their favorite — red velvet for my son, lemon filled for my wife, double chocolate for my daughter and boston cream for me. I grew up on the east coast with dunkin donuts, and these beat DD without a doubt. They’re fresh and lack that distinctive DD preservative taste. The staff is friendly, despite a constant stream of customers on Sunday mornings.

KaleidoScoops is okay…
This review is primarily for the KALEIDOSCOOPS ICE CREAM half of this business.
This is my third attempt to find a good ice-​creamy-​type of place in the NW burbs. We already tried Cherry Berry and Cold Stone Creamery. In my humble opinion, this is the best of the three we’ve tried so far.
It isn’t worth a special trip, but I recommend it if you’re driving by on Highway 169.
It reminds me a lot of some of the shops in California that combine an ice cream shop with some other sort of food – like hoagies.
The design is a little too corporate and slick for my taste. But the ice cream is good.
As a side note, can any of the these places hire at least one mature adult to work with the public, especially during the busy season – like it is NOW?! I’m getting a little tired of being served by pimple faced kids, with no one else around, that seem super bored and that are pretty unprofessional. There should be at least one person around who’s over the age of 30 to keep a lid on things.
–Daddy Maxx Retro

I have to admit that I was strongly imprinted by Dunkin’ Donuts when I lived in Boston, starting in 1969, as a young man (17). Since then, Dunkin’ Donuts has been my gold standard for donuts, especially the chocolate frosted yeast risen donuts, for which I have a particular weakness. For the past thirty years I have been living in the Twin Cities, continuously yearning for a tide of Dunkin’ Donuts to come surging through. Now that the Twin Cities is getting some decent rail transit with the Blue Line and now the Green Line, my Boston Dunkin’ Donuts addiction is reaching a forty year peak. So I’ve been signing petitions to get Dunkin’ Donuts to move on in. Then, I found out about Café’ Donuts and made a mad rush over to check it out in the skyway before it closed and I go home. Now, I have consumed many a yeast risen Non-​Dunkin’ Donuts chocolate frosted donut and they all fall short, but the chocolate frosted donut I had on that first visit to Café’ Donuts had Dunkin’ Donuts pedigree written all over it. I was hooked. Suddenly, I’m rooting for Café’ Donuts to expand rather than for Donkin’ Donuts to enter. I’m ok with the skyway store. I’m totally, non-​car urban, so I’ll never see the Champlin store, and (to tell the truth) they’ve got my business from now on, even if it stays at one store in the skyway, but I would be an ecstatic Café’ Donuts groupie if their stores started popping up at any, or all, of the light rail stations around the Twin Cities. Rail transit and Donkin’ Donuts go together in Boston. It was how my day started back then; pop into Dunkin’ Donuts then hop on the Green Line, Blue Line, Red Line or Orange LIne. What about here in the cities? Pop into a Café’ Donuts at the 46^th Street Blue Line Station, the East Lake Street Blue Line Station, The Raymond Avenue Green Line Station, The Stadium Village Green Line Station … then hop on a train … Now that’s a Minnesota Morning Sunrise … doncha know? … The Bard of Franklin Avenue …

I haven’t reviewed Café Donuts since they moved way out to Champlin.
Yes, it is toooo far to indulge every Saturday now.
Luckily, when we visit a friend in the area we always stop to bring some donuts home.
They really excel at the cake donut. Any cake donut.
The double chocolate is still my favorite though.
My daughter has tried boston cream’s from many places and they don’t come close to her favorite at Café Donuts.

I expected this to be more of a mom & pop donut shop.
Instead I walked into a corporate chain layout with enough bright colors to make a Pokemon blush. LED TV’s to display the menu? Seriously?
The donuts were ok — reminiscent of Mr Donut or Dunkin Donuts.
The staff were quick and friendly. They also serve ice cream here.
However, I grabbed my donuts and ran for the door before the colors overloaded my optic nerves.

The donuts here are amazing! I had a red velvet donut with white glaze frosting on top… light crisp outside with a nice, soft, dense, cakey, red, velvety inside. Maybe not the best donut I have ever had, but definitely top 3.
I eagerly await my next meeting with big red, I will devour you and more than likely 11 of your closest friends.

Fresh donuts. Every small town in America needs one of these shops to satisfy your guilty pleasures when you are trying to eat such a healthy diet all of the time. And this one combines two of those guilty pleasures into one — donuts and ice cream. The donuts are always fresh tasting and the staff is friendly. I have been waiting for one of these to open. I used to have to go to Anoka to get donuts (sorry Cub) but that shop was on the verge of closing for a long time and finally someone put the old smoke filled unpainted dingy place out of its misery. I took my grandson into get a donut with chocolate covered frosting and colored sprinkles on it. He ate the frosting and that was good enough for him. The rest of it was a waste of calories. If you are on your way up to the cabin on 169, stop by. It is not a Tobie’s, but it is clean, fresh and good tasting.