Beyond Glaze

This location is closed. Overly sugary donuts — worth having once…

Average-​to-​poor glazed donuts with different flavored frostings on top. And expensive at that. I don’t get it. How is this place still in business?

Downtown location closed. I called and they said they are looking for a new location. SAD FACE!
Their bacon donuts are AMAZEBALLS!

I went to Beyond Glaze after an appointment in a neighboring building and treated myself to a Raspberry Mango, and got my boyfriend a Pumpkin Chocolate Chip. It was my first time in, and the girl behind the counter was nice enough, I told her it was my first time in, she didn’t offer any favorites or popular choices, and was a bit stand-​ofish, but whatever.
The doughnut itself (Mango Raspberry) was insanely sweet, and I LOVE sweets, so it was a crap load of sugar to have in one doughnut. It’s a regular glaze with different toppings… so nothing special, the doughnuts are doughnuts, and the toppings are flavored sugar.
Though on a positive note, there were raspberry seeds in the topping, so I assume its a purée of sorts and that makes me happy, but I took a bite of the pumpkin and it was also hella sweet. I’ll stick to Banbury Cross for my fried dough covered in sugar.

I was brought back a sweet treat from BG.
–Red Velvet: I didn’t like the texture of the RV, unfortunately, and was super sweet. Gave me an upset stomach…
–S’mores: On the other hand, I really liked the S’mores! After tossing it in the microwave for a few seconds and melting the glaze, it was perfect!
Ahhh, if only I was there to see the other choices…
Perhaps that was a good thing…

My only experience with these donuts is a massive taste test of a dozen. The Happenings books have a buy a half dozen, get the other half free. This would be the only good way to buy them as they are quite expensive for a donut. On to the taste test: 4 people, 12 donuts, 12 slivers for each plus some leftovers. I can see how these would be super sweet if you were to just sit and mow a whole donut down but the tasting worked out great — so maybe, share one? I really like the peanut butter and rasberry flavor, the pumpkin chocolate, and the cookies and cream (complete with an oreo on top). I didn’t like the cherry flavored one, yuck, like bad bubblegum. The nutmeg flavor tasted like «Christmas». The caramel apple was too sweet and a little dissapointing. The strawberry chocolate was good. I would go back with another happenings coupon.

When I first saw Beyond Glaze while riding to work on Trax I vowed to go there next time I drove to work. The following week I was at
Beyond Glaze waiting for them to open at 6:30. They didn’t have many donuts on the shelves, but they brought out a few. That day I got one of the best donuts I’ve ever had: The rasberry mango glazed donut. Yes, this donut is amazing. Light, fluffy donut and the frosting/​glaze has a ton of fruity flavor.
The other donuts I’ve had are kind of mediocre. The maple bacon donut would be awesome IF they crisped up the bacon (I’m usually not a crispy bacon kind of person, but for this combo to work it really needs to be crispy). The other donuts haven’t been memorable at all I’m sorry to say. They look pretty, but there’s just not enough substance to set them apart. Will I be back? Yep. that raspberry mango donut is as good as any other donut in town and it’s kind of on my go to work route on those rare occasions when I drive to work.
One other complaint is they don’t really have an industrial machine for hot cocoa and coffee drinks. They had some sort of pod machine with mediocre results… but I think they were shopping around for something better.

These donuts were pretty small, medium soft, and just not AS GOOD as others. Although, they’re still tasty and sweet, and donutty. Way too expensive for what you get.

This place is a little hard to find, but the donuts are very tasty. They have unique types of donuts including a bacon donut. I had the bacon donut and the maple donut. I recommend trying it and especially the bacon donut. I am not a fan of sweets, but I would try it if you are in the area.

Whoa to those still carrying an old school phone… and can’t check Unilocal reviews while driving. I saw an ad for Beyond Glaze and stopped by for four of their pricey little sweets.
This ain’t your San Francisco edgy donut joint. What is it is a cupcake place using glazed dodos rather than cylindrical cake.
The icing is nice enough but not gourmet donuts. Too bad, looked like such a nice place. Perhaps they should fly out to California to see the real deal and then import the goodness.

The donuts look good and taste good (it’s a little bit too sweet for me). The store looks neat, however, It’s somewhat hot inside. I was having donut there and the glaze/​decoration on the one donut I was going to togo for my friend actually melt before I left the store. I didn’t order the coffee since I saw the k-​kup machine there and I have have one at home (I guess that’s how they make coffee there; I’m not 100% sure though… maybe someone can tell us whether the coffee taste good or not)

the donuts are all over the place, however, they taste good. my only gripe is the texture of the donuts. they are just… not banbury good. dock a star.
but my favorites include, maple madness, grasshopper, s’more and blueberry. the pb&j had a bit too much going on for my taste. but to its credit, it tasted like pb&j.

Unilocal is awesome. I was really glad to see this place adequately nailed before I arrived.
And I say «nailed» as in «summed up» rather than «punished.» These are not bad donuts. They are, however, insanely sweet. This isn’t really a surprise, since every donut they serve is a plain raised glazed donut topped with an additional layer of frosting, glaze, or decoration. The result is sickeningly sweet in a way that not even the most inveterate dessert lover could enjoy.
The bacon reviews here are also right on the money: it has all the nuance of a splutter of Log Cabin syrup over a grocery store yeast donut. They’ve used the absolute lowest quality bacon you can imagine and barely browned it at all. I had so many pieces of flaccid, rubbery bacon on my donut that wished I hadn’t bothered. It did remind me of the apple maple bacon donut at Dynamo Donuts in San Francisco and how amazing their donuts are in general, though. That comparison is rarely going to come out on the side of the non-​Dynamo pastry purveyor, but comes out particularly bad for this one.
Again, not bad donuts. Just boring, sugar-​blasted, and absolutely undeserving of the prices.

Okay. So I went back to try the famous bacon maple donut…
It was available this time. The result — good, not great.
This is part two of my review that was pending based on my experience of the bacon maple donut. It literally reminded me of the McGriddle at McDonald’s. I could have created this myself and got the same satisfaction.
If you want the best, «unique flavor» of a good donut in Salt Lake — go to Fresh Donut & Deli on State Street and 2700 S.

I admit it, I was a fan of the donut craze in the 90s that brought me potato donuts and blueberry donuts. I was sad to see some shops close down and fade away.
I guess this next donut craze is riding on the cupcake craze, both I wish would just go away since they’re over priced for what you get IMO. Did I mention a half dozen would set you back $ 10!!! At other places, that would get you a full dozen and a dozen donut holes. Or two dozen grocery store donuts.
I commend these folks on coming up with toppings that really taste just like grasshopper cookies, lime, smores, etc. but then they put in on the exact same bland, oh yeah we have to put it on something, donut. However, they are the only ones who make a bacon donut in the valley that I’m aware of. Yay. Unfortunately it’s good for about three bites.
In short, I could have melted some lollipops and put them on top of a grocery store donut and have gotten the same effect.
I only give it two stars because who am I kidding, if you put one in front of me I will eat it. But I won’t be spending my dough or effort to get one. I guess if you’re doing a party for a six year old, they would get a kick out of these donuts. It should say something that between two people, we pretty much threw away half of each donut after sampling.
When I think about this place, I think WTF!

Beyond my sugar tolerance limit is basically what Beyond Glazed is to me. Seriously, i should have literally had a spoon full of sugar and I would have had less sugar. Initially, I was very excited to try this doughnut store because good doughnuts are hard to find. The display case is a beautiful rainbow of doughnut color, cutely decorated with exciting flavors like S’mores, coconut cream, and bacon&maple. All this amazing flavor is only in the frosting, on top of a glazed doughnut. Half the time the sugar sweetness out weighed any taste flavor. I had the opportunity to taste six doughnuts and here is how I feel about the frosting topping combined with the glaze doughnut.
1. Orange & Lemon. light flavor and not overly sweet.*
2. Coconut Cream. No cream on the inside but vanilla frosting and toasted coconut on top. A hint more taste than sweetness.
3. Key Lime. Tart and tangy and sweet.
4. Peanut Butter and Chocolate. Rich and creamy frosting.
5. S’more. Just super sweet, no real flavor.
6. Maple and Bacon. works and taste like a pancake (I know that sounds funny, my friend gave me the same crazy look but the description works.)
Out of 6 doughnuts the only two I would ever consider getting again (if I ever happen to go again, which I probably won’t out of my own free will) would be the Orange & Lemon, and Maple & Bacon. Also, these doughnuts do not taste good second day so don’t get extra, just what you can eat at the moment.
So overall my suggestion to you: save yourself from a 75% mark-​up on a food product (that is basically decorated to be pretty with a secondary goal of adding flavor) you can get at a local super market for 25% of the price that will make your taste buds happier and your wallet.

The only semi good thing about these donuts is the frosting combinations (which they add far too much for my taste), but that’s all they bring to the table.
They claim to be «fresh» but in reality they are baked somewhere else, frozen, then reheated and passed off as fresh. You can get the same quality at any Utah grocery store and pay a fraction of the cost.
Save your money and go somewhere else.

This place is dangerously close to my office. The donuts themselves are soft and big and fresh but then you add the creative flavor combination with artfully decorated icings and whamo — you’ve got one awesome donut.
My fave is the maple icing with real bacon on top. It’s like all the goodness of breakfast in one happy donut.

Seeing a new doughnut shop got my hopes up. Why would a doughnut shop have such an effect on me? Well, Utah can be a little… insular. We don’t have a lot of things other places have and we’re slow to change, but generally we figure things out eventually. Over time we’ve gotten good pizza, good breweries, good sushi, good phillies, good coffee… but we can’t figure out the doughnut. So, this new shop got me all sorts of giggly as I thought we’d hit another culinary milestone.
Alas. The doughnut continues to evade us. Beyond Glaze doesn’t live up to its advertising even a little bit. The doughnuts are nothing special, they lack the semi-​crispy outer layer of East Coast doughnuts or even the outright yumminess of Krispy Kreme. It’s just… meh… I’m talking grocery-​store-​doughnut levels of «meh». AND, I determined this only after scraping off a good inch of frosting in order to even taste the doughnut.
Which brings us to the frosting. The frosting is better than average, good even, but I don’t eat doughnuts to get frosting. It is applied well enough, but I’ve seen better work on cupcakes for less money. (don’t even get me started on the cupcake thing going around) Ultimately, no amount of prettily applied frosting can make up for so-​so dough. Anyway, at $ 1.85 a pop, I won’t bother trying more flavors… I will just sit and sigh and wait for a good doughnut shop to come around.

These doughnuts are too pretty to eat. Truly.
On the pricey side but once you taste them you will understand why. These are quality doughnuts made with exquisite care and decorated with a lot of creativity and love.
Beyond Glaze has some really unique flavor combos from PB&J all the way to maple with bacon. For real. My favorites are the grasshopper, the coconut cream, and the one with ganache on top. Deeeeelicious.
From the adventurous to the not-​so, they have something for everyone. Who doesn’t love doughnuts?