Last Update: 07/29/07
Food Favorites - Restaurant Reviews
by Don Pattie
Donut Depot
Theme: Donuts plus a whole lot more
On the Menu: They don't just have great donuts but also croissants, muffins, Danish, baked cinnamon rolls, apple fritters, French crullers, eclairs, breakfast sandwiches, kolachies (also called sausage rolls or pig in a blanket) and, of course, donut holes. All are made fresh every day right there at the shop by Oakridge residents Young and Jamie Kim.
Check, please: Donuts are $4.25 per dozen; other items are similarly priced
Comments: If you haven't ever been in here you ought to check it out. It's owned and operated by 15-year Oakridge residents Young and Jamie Kim. He cooks. She runs the shop. They bought the shop 21 years ago, in August of 1984, and have been making donuts there ever since.
Customers claim that these are the best donuts in town and they just might be right. I know that from time to time I used to pick up a couple of dozen donuts there on my way to work (before I retired). I'd take them into the office, set the box down, go turn on my computer (about ten feet away) and hope there would still be a donut left when I got back.
Young Kim immigrated to Dallas from Korea in 1980. The company Jamie worked for sent her over here in 1982. Jamie met Young at the Korean First Baptist Church of North Dallas, they were married in 1983, and bought the donut shop in 1984. They have three children - Jeanie, 21, a junior at U.T.D., Connie, 19, a sophomore at A & M, and James, 16 a junior at North Hill Charter School in Irving.
Enjoy!