点评:After all the hype on the socials recently, we decided to take a trip to see what all the fuss was about, after all the doughnuts did look amazing! After arriving around 11am on Saturday, we were told that they might sell out before we got to the front and we’d likely be waiting an hour or so. The kids seemed happy enough running around and playing so we took the chance and waited. We finally got into the actual building and were advised to read the choices on the board before ordering to speed up the queue. Which we did. But they had actually sold out of so many of the choices we’d picked out by the time we got to the front to order. We picked out 12 doughnuts from the limited selection left, happy to finally be able to try these “amazing” monuts and headed to the car. Sadly they did not live up to the hype at all, my husband had a filled doughnut, which he thoroughly enjoyed, however myself and the kids had the ringed doughnuts (two Halloween ones and a caramel) and none of us finished them. Despite looking amazing, they were actually so greasy and bland, covered in icing that was so heavily coloured it just tasted wrong. We tried a couple more once we got home (although the kids refused to) and even though we did like a couple of the filled doughnut (chocolate cherry and the caramel apple) the rest of the VERY expensive doughnuts we bought were either given away or thrown in the bin. So all in all, quite disappointing to be honest.
I’m sure it was simply down to trying to maximise on the hype meaning the quality between batches was not consistent, and although it is fantastic to see a small independent business do so well, I really hope that there is more quality control to maintain the reputation. But in all honesty, we probably won’t be coming back any time soon.
翻译:最近社交媒体上炒得沸沸扬扬,我们决定去看看到底是怎么回事,毕竟这些甜甜圈看起来确实棒极了!周六上午11点左右到店时,我们被告知甜甜圈可能还没到门口就卖光了,我们可能得等上一个小时左右。孩子们看起来玩得不亦乐乎,所以我们就趁机等了一会儿。最后我们终于进了店,店员建议我们点餐前先看看牌子上的选择,这样可以加快排队速度。我们照做了。但等我们到店点餐时,我们选的很多甜甜圈都卖光了。我们从剩下的12个甜甜圈里挑了个,终于可以尝尝这些“惊艳”的甜甜圈了,然后就去取车了。可惜的是,这些甜甜圈完全没有宣传的那么好。我老公点了一个夹心甜甜圈,他非常喜欢;我和孩子们点了圈圈甜甜圈(两个万圣节甜甜圈和一个焦糖甜甜圈),结果都没吃完。虽然看起来很棒,但它们实际上非常油腻和寡淡,外面裹着颜色太重的糖霜,味道完全不对。回家后我们又尝试了几个(虽然孩子们不肯吃),虽然我们确实喜欢几个夹心甜甜圈(巧克力樱桃和焦糖苹果),但其余我们买的非常昂贵的甜甜圈要么被送人了,要么被扔进了垃圾桶。总而言之,说实话,相当令人失望。
我敢肯定,这只是为了最大限度地炒作,这意味着不同批次之间的质量并不一致,虽然看到一家小型独立企业做得这么好是件好事,但我真的希望有更多的质量控制来维护声誉。但说实话,我们可能短期内不会再来了。