Dora’s Donuts

More like Dora’s D’oh-nots. Hey hey, hole hole. Oakland-​style beignets are over-​priced donuts. I’ve been had!!!
We ordered the Summer Fruit Beignets ($ 5) from Dora’s Donuts food truck at Oakland’s Eat Real Fest 2014 in Jack London Square. The beignets came in a small, flat white paper sleeve and were piping hot, fluffy, sweet and cakey. They were dusted with a little powdered sugar and topped with blackberries and strawberries. If you’re a fan of freshly fried donuts, you might like this. Or not. Whatever. I’ve never had beignets in New Orleans before because I’ve never been to New Orleans, but these are cake donut holes masquerading as beignets, so I was hole-​y disappointed. D’oh!

I saw the truck near the White Elephant Sale for the Oakland Museum. $ 5 for homemade artisan Doughnut holes? Sounded too good to be true… well it was!
I ordered the sweet potato ones after being sweat talked by the girl «Grandmothers recipe» she said… best on the menu…
Well I hate to say it but her grandmother can’t cook!
These were greasy balls of dough. I ate 3 – 4 before chucking the box. Disgusting. Whats worse was the price. I mean $ 5 for some fried dough… mini donuts would have cost me $ 2.50 and tasted far better. This place is all about hipster fancy sounding names but don’t be fooled. I regret not checking Unilocal before placing the order.

Time: 2:23pm/49°F light drizzles
Purpose: Was here for the JOAT event.
Set-​up: Food truck main features donut holes.
Staff: Stocky sandy brown hair girl working solo meaning she drives, makes, and do everything no one else was there. Friendly but can tell she wasn’t up to par at CS level today.
Eats/​Drinks: Meyer lemon $ 5 basically a small box of fried buttermilk donut dough dollops with meyer lemon flavoring. Depending in what you get different flavors are dusted before handed out. Since I don’t eat fried food today I was given a piece by a friend and I ate ¼ of it other half I just couldn’t take it. My month was oozing with oil taste and got me nauseated that fried smell is what I’m allergic to. Please people for my gift basket or in care of packages no fried products of any!
Products: Donut holes in a mini size Chinese take out box fill to top can’t close it til you munch away 3−4pcs worth. A couple of cold drinks chuck in shave ice tuck underneath panels.
Punch Line: Great for people who likes donut and fried foods, different flavors depending on what being offer there will always be old fashion around.
Final Thoughts: Truck bills itself with (Milk Money LLC) of oakland ca. To me it seems like an post war era truck from the 70’s taken in for some TLC projected idea was to have mobile donut truck. Now there are not much donut trucks around but donut holes can be had for $ 0.05¢ a piece and wider variety elsewhere.

Dora’s Donuts is a big hulking food truck with a dry erase board on the side. People will soon line up after they eat their «real food». You can easily look inside the truck and note that all the donuts are cooked on the spot, made to order.
I tried this place twice. Good thing is the second time was much better. The first time I ordered the malasadas (Portuguese cinnamon and sugar sweet breads). I liked them but I would have liked some dipping sauce or a drizzle of some kind to break up the monotony.
The second time I had the pumpkin donuts. Man these are killer! It’s like eating a pumpkin churro with a lot of sugar. The pumpkin wasn’t too pronounced to me but it didn’t matter when it’s steaming hot along with the spices and such.
All orders come in an overflowing chinese takeout box. The only problem with this is that the price point and amount of donuts might be too much of a good thing. It’s like giving a little kid two gallons of ice cream for a nickel. Yeah he’ll eat it all but he won’t feel good afterwards.
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It’s more like Dora’s «Donut Holes». But this makes it a lot easier to eat on the street and share with friends. If I see them again I’ll be munching dough.

No Maam, I had the opportunity to try this little place out during the Eat Real fest. Now what they were serving as Beignets were no such thing! It was merely funnel cake disguised as Beignets. Look folks in New Orleans would be upset and feel disrespected if they saw that someone was selling a poor imitation of their product, I am not really sure about the rest of the donuts they offer. But if you are looking for beignets this is not the spot to find them.

I Never write Unilocal reviews however I had to comment on these, the worst «donuts» I’ve ever had. We were the first ones this morning to buy a box and they tasted two days old. Ugh i can’t believe they have a food truck and were allowed into the ERF. I feel bad in saying this but my two year old can make better donuts.

I ordered the Meyer lemon buttermilk donuts. They were not fresh at all and the flavor was lacking. Those with me tried a bite and didn’t even want to finish that. When I went and asked about the freshness I was told that they were made in the morning (I ordered them at 3:00) and someone at the back of the truck snapped at me saying that it’s like an old fashion in a donut shop… Except those are good… :-(

Dora’s was at the JLS Real Eats festival 2013.
Early Saturday afternoon of the festival Hubs had a sweet tooth, the chocolate stout donut holes sounded like it would hit the spot. I love sweets so I didn’t complain. He paid $ 5.00 and was handed a small container overfilled with warm, chocolatey goodness dusted with powdered sugar.
I’m not going to lie I could have devoured the entire container after my first bite. The warm donut holes oozed chocolate sauce, it was soft and also had a little crunch. If all donut holes tasted like this I would be a ton of trouble.
Since they were rich just 2 pieces was enough. We shared with a few family members and they also enjoyed them.
I would recommend the vendor to give a plastic fork with the holes since it was messy and difficult to reach the last ones at the bottom of the container.
I’m surprised to see a few low star reviews. I guess we ordered a good item at the right time.

Dora’s Donuts makes fried clumps of dough, adds flavoring and calls ‘em ‘holes.
flavors listed:
–mazasah
–bourbon pecan pie
–cheez…
–meyer lemon buttermilk
–stout chocolate
locale: eat real fest (⁹⁄₂₇)
eats: meyer lemon buttermilk ‘holes (8/​$) not mixing, just one flavor per order.
–hole kind of chewy for a donut
–meyer lemon flavoring just faint
do-​holes:
–not flavoring these ‘hos from oakland.