Colonial Do-Nut Shop

Best donuts I’ve ever had. But you better get there before 11 am or they will be gone or slim pickins’. Great service with a smile. Love you guys

As you can tell from the reviews this place is a classic donut shop that does it right.
Things to know–
Cash only
Open 4am-​noon
Get there early or you’ll miss out
I went in and told the wonderful woman at the counter I had never been before but wanted a dozen to bring into the office I was visiting in Taunton. She set me up with six flavors, two of each and all were amazing. The donuts are fresh with flavorful fillings and just enough sugar to be sweet but not overwhelming.
Highly recommend this place for donut lovers as it is a true find.
I can wait to spot back in and try some of their other options.

I just received the E-​mail from Unilocal and immediately sent my daughter in to get us ½ a dozen. Delicious!!! And Unilocal,please stop sending these E-​mails, I’m going to get fat!!! :)

These donuts are classics, they don’t have a zillion fraudulent donuts, they have all the flavours you love done to perfection. Light and fluffy honey dipped. chocolate, coconut, and buttercrunch moist on the inside and sweet and crunchy on the outside. Prices are great, I grab a dozen for only 8 bucks even though it’s just me and the girl eating them. 2 days later they are still better than a Dinkins. Cash only.

Donuts are my absolute most favorite thing in the world and this donut shop has THE BEST donuts by far. The sugar raised and the honey dipped are my personal favorites — and they go fast! The staff is amazingly friendly. They seem to know everyone that walks through the door. Great atmosphere, great donuts!!!

I stopped in for a jelly doughnut and coffee roll. Both were really good. It seems like the kinda place where the locals hang out, diner type of feel. The staff was very friendly. I didn’t know it was cash only so that was a pain. I would stop in again if I were in the area.

This place is a Taunton institution which explains the great reviews from the locals, who probably have built up a resistance to its grotesqueness. But if you are from out of town and end up in this place prepare your body for a deep fried hot mess of a donut which for «wicked» sure will leave you shivering and bent over a toilet in shear pain.

Great place for yummy donuts and piping hot coffee! Blueberry cake donut rules! Today I decided to try the coffee roll. Perfection! It is not overly huge where you feel sick after eating it. Light yet satisfying. Tastes great with a upping hot of coffee. The ladies that work here are so sweet just like the donuts! Old fashioned interior and great gathering place. Parking is a bit tricky but a space always opens up!

I’ve lived about 5 mins away from this place for over a decade and I’ve never been in until yesterday… what the hell was I thinking for all those years!!! This place is amazing, a nice throwback to 50s style dough nut shops, super colorful and wicked nice staff. THE DONUTS ARE AMAZING… trust me, a chocolate donut and a large coffee is all you need.

Best donuts and coffee around! You better get there early though. Because their donuts are in high demand they run out often times by 9:30/10:00am. My personal faves are the glazed and butternut donuts. Their coffee is always fresh and their prices are always right!

Attention donut connoisseurs: this is the place to be. Seriously, from the AMAZING donuts to the old-​fashioned décor, there’s nothing I would change about this place. The orange and teal décor on the (spinny!) seats and walls makes you feel like it’s 1970 and that’s more than okay. I tried the flavored iced coffee today and it was such a good decision. This place is timeless, please go if you get the chance!

Fantastic service at 5:30 in the morning ordering 3 ½ dozen of their delicious donuts. Got some for myself, work, and the family. Everybody loved them. A must visit.

Hands down, the best donuts ever.
No matter what type of donut is to be had, these are as good as it gets. The chocolate donut is crisp on the outside and soft on the inside. And the jelly donut… are you kidding me! After the initial bite (you have to do it slowly so you can feel the nuance) the sugar and jelly are like a fruit filled party.
The coffee is good, but not as good as I make, but it’s certainly better than the chain coffee maker that is on every street corner. You know, that one that America allegedly runs on.
The Colonial crew is friendly, and the place is always a-​bustle.
Colonial Do-​Nut Shop is a jewel, but make sure you bring your cash because they do not accept cards. This is the only knock I can come up with, if it’s a knock at all.

If my son and I have time on Saturday mornings, this is where we go to grab some breakfast. Everyone there is nice. Patrons, Staff, etc. The staff really makes an effort to learn about the people who frequent the place.
It’s honestly the type of place you think of when you think of small towns and the places that make them special.
Now the donuts are great. The coffee rolls superbly done. Crisp, but not over done. Coffee is fresh and you’ll never see them microwaving an the remainders of a pot.

These donuts are MIRACULOUS. If you’ve only had chain restaurant donuts, you’ve never had a real donut. The bland insubstantial pasteries you’ll find at Dunkin Donuts or Krispy Kreme pale in comparison to the lightly crunchy on the outside, tender and substantial on the inside treats you will find here. These are AMAZING, the breakfast sandwiches as well are delicious, and so cheap I actually feel a little guilty.
Combine with the charming atmosphere (colourful walls, friendly and companionable staff, and if you come in early enough, members of the local PD sitting there hanging out with other locals, essentially a Norman Rockwell painting come to life) this place (which you have to get up early to see) is a MUST SEE.

This place is incomparably rad.
In fact, should I get pancaked by a dump truck on my way into work tomorrow, my final wish is to be interred at Colonial Do-​Nuts.
I spend a dangerously high percentage of my life in donut shops anyway, but only because that’s where the donuts are. I certainly don’t frequent them for the ambience. Probably because they invariably provide the most depressing retail experience this side of «undertaker» or «discount plastic surgeon.»
Long before you mosey into any independent New England donut joint, you know what you’re going to get: Dirty beige walls and a thick crust of grease and leftover cigarette smoke on everything, up to and including the 87-​year-​old VFW rejects who are the only other customers.
Colonial Do-​Nuts is the one, glorious exception. It’s like Willy Wonka’s Donut Factory, only way less creepy. The brightly colored wall panels are awesome, the logo’s some sort of hipster antique, and the gleaming, inviting counterspace is loaded with people who actually look stoked to be here.
Standing behind huge piles of (stupendous) donuts, the staff are more than happy to shoot the breeze about rainfall and Red Sox while you spend waay too long deciding just to screw it and get one of each. And while you’re hemming and hawing, dudes are bustling around in back, bringing out huge trays of fresh donuts and otherwise giving the general impression that you’ve stumbled into the world’s only dough-​based theme park.
About thirteen seconds into my first stop at Colonial, I just wanted to stop everything, throw my arms in the air and spontaneously start raising the roof. Simply put, it’s the first donut shop in the universe that’s totally reflected the joy I feel when I’m eating a transcendant donut. And I’ve eaten a lot of those here.
Their cake donuts don’t quite have a perfect fry — it’s a little too much like a hard bake, with not quite enough grease to juice it up – but they’re fried so deep and thoroughly that it’s impossible to complain. There’s no wasted cake. Every square centimeter is pure, unadulterated donut.
Start with the chocolate honey dip or the butternut, depending on how much of a sugar depth charge you’re looking for that particular morning (butternut is lethal) and follow your heart from there. And, by «follow your heart,» I mean «the sooner you give up and just get one of everything, the better.»

What a great place! I love local supporting a local business! The pastries were great and the bagels were nummy!!! Nom Nom Nom! The owner is very nice gentleman! Don’t waste your time with a big chain!

Phenomenal place! Easily one of the best places on the south shore. Old fashioned, excellent quality food and service. The donuts are fresh and delicious (and I don’t even like donuts!), the bagels are the best I’ve ever had, and the coffee is yummy too. I will definitely be taking a break from Starbucks, and stopping here for a good ol’ coffee without all the fanciness. Staff is kind and helpful. Places like this just don’t exist anymore… love it here!
Oh and this place is super cheap!!! You could bring your entire family in and pay under $ 10 for everything!

Great donuts, coffee rolls, coffee and service. All the people that work at Colonial are super friendly. The donut selection is great, I love the vanilla crème and even the plain docunts.
Colonial closes early in afternoon and is closed on Sundays. Stop by and grab a seat at the counter.

So good! I have drove by the Colonial Donut Shop about 100 times, but finally got to try it this past weekend.
The donuts were so soft and flavorful even at 11:30am, near closing time, which I think is noon. I got the honey dipped, my boyfriend got the jelly, and we both shared a coffee roll. They even warmed the coffee roll for us! I wanted to eat all the donuts. We both also got bagels and cream cheese (blueberry and onion). They were toasted, cream cheesed, and cut into four pieces; the best. We got regular coffees, but there were a couple different flavors, if you want. Service was friendly and welcoming. The prices were gosh darn cheap (about $ 10 for all that).
They only criticism was the menu was hard to find and sometimes we had to wait a tad too long to get service, like another cup of coffee or the bill. But, hey, if I could only take a ¼ of a star off for that, I would.
I definitely recommend Colonial Donut Shop to everyone, and I will be back — frequently!

You would never know from looking at the unassuming mansard roofed shop, but the Colonial Donut Shop in downtown Taunton Mass is a Retro Roadmap gem, serving up donuts and camaraderie since 1954. The interior of Colonial Donuts (or Do-​Nuts as the sign says) is a riot of striped walls, scalloped edging and colorful swivel counter stools.