K's Donut Emporium - Sherman Oaks

Came here this morning. Ordered a chocolate twist bar. Half dozen glazed donut holes. A small coffee and an apple juice. I've never in my life rated a place so poorly. For starters this place is spotless. Very sterile and clean. That's the only reason I didn't score them a one star. I take an establishment's cleanliness into consideration as a first impression. The lady's are super hospitable and friendly. Let's start with the chocolate twist. Zero flavor. It tasted like grease. No chocolate flavor and the dough was not appealing at all. I figured the glazed donut holes couldn't be that bad. Same, zero flavor. And I don't have COViD. So my sense of taste is solid. The coffee, absolutely terrible. It's obvious they're reusing old Coffee multiple times in the same filter. It should not taste like tap water. I can't recommend this place and I'll never come back. I'm sorry.

Just driving down Ventura looking for a donut spot, found this one and it was opened late. Greeted by a nice gentleman with a smile when we walked in, and every donut looked so good and fresh and it was after 8 pm. I wanted to buy one of everything but I hadn't eaten dinner yet, so I bought a half croissant half donut, he said I was fancy lol, and a cinnamon raisin roll for myself and I purchased my son some mixed donut holes. I loved how the front of the shop was lit up with neon colors which made it noticeable from the street at night and it was super clean and had a nice size parking lot. I will definitely come back.

I was packing to go on a road trip with my girlfriends, and my hubby was going out to get donuts. I asked him to bring me home one. He asked what I wanted, and I said, Something fun. Fifteen minutes later, he was back from K 's Donut Emporium with a huge donut glazed with icing and covered with Fruit Loops. All the fun I could want rolled into a psychedelic donut delight! The fun of going to K 's is not only the eating of the donuts, but also the entire donut shoppe experience. The warm, heady scent of fresh donuts is redolent in the air. Racks and racks of danish, croissants, fritters, muffins, round donuts, donut bars, fruit donuts, chocolate donuts, crullers, cream and custard filled donuts.....they sing a Siren 's song and lure you. Listening to conversations between the owners and customers can be highly entertaining at K 's. The owners are fun and filled with cheeky humor. I love them. It 's donuts and a show. When the donut craving hits, K 's is the place to go.

So happy we found this place this morning! If you're looking for a classic, delicious donut spot in the valley this is it! It's PERFECT! Our order: classic glazed, old fashioned, maple bar, cinnamon swirl, vanilla sprinkle, and an apple fritter a good old plain coffee from the pot! The donuts were all moist, not at all oily, each had great flavor! Overall SO YUMMY! The coffee is as you would expect any coffee to be from a pot we can't wait to be back!

I wrote my initial rave many years ago. So, time to update but it's the same story K's is simply the best donuts in town. You can keep all that designer junk these are real donuts, actual donuts, and they don't get any better. As I said before, the chocolate peanut butter thing is my favorite I know it, they know it, and now you know it. My second favorite thing is the chocolate donut with whipped cream in the middle. In fact, both are sitting next to me on a plate, about to be eaten. But their apple fritters are superb, their cinnamon rolls are great, their buttermilk bars put all other buttermilk bars to shame. Are you listening to me, you Yelp people? Stop being trendy, younger Yelpers, and listen, learn, and then go try. Don't be in a trendy little box eating trendy little donuts or whatever it is that the idiots who eat in cars tell you to do. You need to pay attention to the Elite Yelpers. We know whereof we speak. K's. Now and forever. Open from four in the morning until ten at night 365 days a year. Get off your bums and go there now and then come back and thank me.