You have to be here as earliest as possible to get them as fresh as possible but they're still good at any time! Love the maple bacon donuts and the apple fritters read more

Rainbow Donuts - Get them all! - Donuts Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

It took me a while to bring myself to stop by this place. From the outside it looks questionable. I finally went for a splurge on my bday this year and dove into their huge apple fritter. I go into a sugar coma afterwards but I don't care, it's way too good - so soft and crunchy and appley all at the same time. I stop by every once in a while when I'm feeling naughty. The only other thing I've tried was the croissant ham & egg bfast sandwich... it makes a great hangover bfast. I'd recommend bringing cash though, they charge for using cc. About $10 bucks covers everything the hubs and I want including drinks. read more

Rainbow Donuts - Donuts Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

Donuts are the source of more smiles than both rainbows and unicorns. Combined. I read that somewhere on the ol' interweb... and dangit, I believe it. Especially if those donuts are from Rainbow. Maple bacon, whipped cream filled, toasted coconut, chocolate cake with coconut shavings. Those are just a few of the magical flavors that the wizards at Rainbow have concocted with their wizardry. Everyone, put your hands up in the air and say it with me now... RAINBOW DONUTS, WOO HOO! read more

Bomb donuts not that commercial stuff that's all hype but this is a original donut shop and it's so good. read more

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I don't think I've ever come across a donut I didn't like ... Rainbow Donut is conveniently located near Banner Good Sam and is on the main road so it's easy to get to. Walked in at 5 AM to an empty shop and a solo diner having his coffee and donut. After looking through the case, the Maple Bacon donut caught my eye as well as the Raspberry filled donut. They both came out to be less than $3. Maple Bacon donut was so fluffy and airy- love. The maple flavor was there, not too sweet and more like a semi-solid glaze. It came topped with cut pieces of bacon which I found to be a bit too tough and salty, but was okay since there was more donut than bacon to balance it out. Raspberry Filled donut was also similar in texture as the donut was fluffy and soft, however I wasn't a fan of the Raspberry filling. Too much thickening agent to it, very gelatinous and artificially Raspberry. Service was fast since I was the only customer there at the time. I'lll probably try out their classic/raised donuts instead next time! read more

Rainbow Donuts - Maple Bacon Donut - Donuts Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

Personal ranking of the donut shops around downtown Phoenix: 1) Rainbow, 2) Shortleash 3) Bosa, 4) Dunkin. What do I look for? Freshness, friendliness, flavour. At Rainbow, I found everything I could ever look for. Their flavours are simple, and didn't leave me feeling weighed down. My husband and I shared the Maple Bacon donut. PSA: if you're not a vegetarian, get this donut. These are a little more expensive than the average donut, but so worth the cost. It comes to $2.50+ after tax. Also PSA: bring cash. The lady was super gracious and gave us the donut for $2 because we hadn't realized there was an extra charge for transactions under $5. We ordered the donut and the donut lady went into the back to make us a donut with freshly cooked bacon. The sweet, the savoury, the sheer delight. It was so good. Parking: easy enough, the parking lot was empty on Thanksgiving morning. I would highly recommend picking up a dozen donuts to become the new favourite person at work. read more

Every time that I travel to a new city, no matter the reason that I go there (business or vacation), I always have a side goal: to find the best donut place in town. I'm a travel nurse and will be in Phoenix for at least 13 weeks, and I somehow got lucky enough to live literally a block from Rainbow Donut. It is going to be a true challenge to not visit this establishment every single day for the next 13 weeks. All of their donuts look amazing, but the buttermilk donut is out of this world. It's everything that you love about an old fashioned donut, but the buttermilk makes the dough so much more moist and rich. If they have maple bacon donuts don't miss out on that one either! Real bacon crumbled on top of the perfectly delicate maple icing; it can't be beat I am also a sucker for iced Thai tea, and when I saw that they sold it there I knew I was done for. You can get boba added to the tea if you prefer that, and they have smoothies/shakes that I am just looking for an excuse to go back and try them. They're open every day at 4am, just ready to get you started for the day. Do not miss Rainbow Donut on your trip to Phoenix!!! read more

The best! Consistency wonderful since moving to the neighborhood 2+ years ago. The orange glaze and the maple bacon are my personal favorites. read more

Rainbow donuts makes the absolute freshest and tastiest donuts in the state of Arizona. Personally the best I've ever had anywhere and they've remained my favorite for over 15 years. A small locally owned company that's been serving Phoenix bright and early every day for decades and the owner is so kind and truly cares about quality of their product. read more

Cute little store with a lot of different donut flavors, sandwiches, smoothies and Thai tea and Thai coffee. We got 1/2 dozen donuts : Bavarian cream filled, raspberry filled, blueberry cake, maple buttermilk, chocolate cake and apple fritter. All were good. We also got ham and cheese croissant which was my favorite. Donuts were definitely good. But nothing out of this world. read more

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The donuts are good, but they could be better. Seems their penny pinchers with their customers a little frugal with the icing a little cheap with the frosting and a lot of the donuts you can see through the icing and frosting seems they do it on purpose. This is my second time ever seen this in a donut shop, but but they do like to charge you almost 4 dollars for two donuts when other places don't go over $3 read more

I really enjoyed my first visit here & I'm looking forward to many more. Doughnuts are super great but the cute lady who runs this place is even more great! Excellent menu selection: Bagel & croissant sandwiches Boba tea (had the honeydew) Thai Tea YUM Lots of different doughnuts Per Yelp! reviews I tried the buttermilk doughnut & yup- it's delicious! Also mentioned in Yelp! reviews- apple fritter is dry, unfortunately it's confirmed; regardless I can't wait to go back! read more

First time here! Loved it. Owner was so sweet and so nice. Food was great. Hot and fresh! We got breakfast sandwiches, Thai tea, and a couple donuts. We would definitely come back. read more

Best in town! Nothing else even close. Sincerely nice people. Apple Fritters will make your day.

Super fresh donuts! Great size, not small like Dunkin's. The dough is delicious! Highly recommend

We enjoyed these donuts although we could only get the basic kinds because we went later in the day on a Saturday. So, I gotta get up early in the mornin' to find me another donut. Anyway, one thing I did not appreciate was that they threw my half dozen donuts in a small paper bag and all the glazes were half gone since they stuck to each other and all over the inside of the bag. Boo. Would request a box next time. read more

MAPLE BACON DONUTS!!!!!!!!!! I have been hearing about Rainbow donuts and how they have maple bacon donuts, so I was in the area and I made a stop for them. It was about 11:30 on a Sat morning, and I knew that my odds of finding them where pretty slim because I have already been forewarned that they sell out pretty fast. I walked in and saw the display case of donuts, the normal kinds you find at a shop, and I was going to give up on my search for them, but the lady behind the counter asked me what I had wanted and I told her it doesn't look like you have what I came for and told her what I was seeking, she asked me how many did I want, told her 4, she said give me 3 minutes and I'll have them for you! OMG she was going to make me some right then and there! This lady rocks in my book! She came back out with 4 maple bacon donuts, they looked sooo good, I thanked her for making them just for me and took my donuts home. 3 out of 4 loved them! The picky one (my oldest daughter) said I know that's not bacon on my donut. She couldn't get her mind wrapped around it! The donut was perfect! The maple and bacon melted and blended beautifully!! I am a fan! read more

Rainbow Donuts - Donuts Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

Rainbow Donut is your legit neighborhood donut spot. It's nothing over the top but they have an awesome assortment of freshly made donuts! We went with a dozen and it was $10 bucks and change for the dozen which included a $.75 up charge because an apple fritter was selected amongst the chosen 12... The donuts were good, but not great.... The maple bacon didn't look appetizing enough to order ($.99 up charge when ordering a dozen) I wouldn't make any special trips or journeys to Rainbow, but if you're in the hood and craving donuts, you won't be let down. read more

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After 2 years in Phoenix, I finally found a donut place which churns out consistently high-quality simple donuts. Located in an unpretentious building with super-friendly and efficient staff, my average wait time was less than 3 minutes over the past 6 (yes, 6) visits. The Good: Great variety of donuts. The simpler ones are the best (Chocolate & Mapel Glazed, Old Fashioned & Cruller). Inexpensive (paid $3.xx for a bagel w/ cream cheese + 2 long johns). Staff is friendly yet efficient. The Not-so-good: The more complex donuts tend to be sweeter (understandably so). Overall: Great place, excellent donuts, superb service. Stay away from the jelly-filled, super crazy donuts and go for the simple, fluffy and fresh glazed donuts. Your taste buds (and to some extent, your waistline) will thank you for it. :). read more

Rainbow Donuts - Light, fluffy and fresh donuts - stick to simple(er) donuts - Choco Glazed and Maple Glazed are the best. - Donuts Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

Solid donut spot, best I've had in Phoenix so far. The fritter was tasty with great apple goodness but it was missing the rich cinnamon taste I'd expect and was super greasy. I would say the grease didn't take away from the taste. The other donuts were good too. Still on the hunt for a five star donut shop in Phoenix. read more

Rainbow Donuts - Don't miss the sign - Donuts Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

Yum yum yum! Friendly and clean local donut shop offering a traditional donut selection. read more

Rainbow Donuts - Donuts Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

There's a few trendy doughnut shops opening up around the city. Those are great, but I prefer Rainbow! The doughnuts really remind me of a doughnut shop from my childhood. We'd wake up early on Sundays for church and as a reward, we'd get to eat sugary doughnuts after. But that's besides the matter. THIS PLACE IS AMAZING! They've got tons of yummy options. Doughnuts if you want something sweet and croissant-wiches if you are partial to more savory options. So far, I've only had the doughnuts. Dough is perfect, icing is just sweet enough. My go to is a chocolate glaze, but I've ventured out to try other flavors. Recently, I tried the milk and cereal doughnut (which I loved) and the orange glaze (surprising, refreshing, but not really my preference). The prices are really great too. Cheap but not like they're just giving away food, like a local doughnut shop should be. I don't leave with three or four doughnuts and coffee wondering what I just spend my $20 on like I've done at some of the trendy doughnut shops in town ( I'm definitely not ragging on them. They're good and their designs are awesome, I just like Rainbow better). My best advice is to go here early, or on a weekday, but still morning. They tend to run out of the more popular doughnuts towards midday. read more

Rainbow Donuts - Cereal and milk doughnut. Orange glaze doughnut. - Donuts Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

These are really good donuts! Fast service and lots of choices. Bought a couple of dozen donuts for my co-workers and they loved them as well. My favorite was the plain glazed donut. It was so fluffy! They were all fresh. My only complaint was the bacon donut, I noticed in the pictures that some have bacon "sprinkles" were the bacon looks real and crispy but in little tiny pieces and then some just have 4 pieces of bacon placed on top. Yeah, I didn't care for the one topped with 4 pieces of bacon and that is all they had. I will continue to come here and see if I get lucky! read more

Rainbow Donuts - Donuts Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

Rainbows! AND donuts!!! What else do I need to say!! I used my coupon that came in the mail and I only wish I had room to eat all that I bought!!! I will go there again and agaIn!!!! LOVE that they are here in my neighborhood!!! read more

LOVE this place! I came here once looking for Thai tea, as a friend of mine said this is his favorite place to grab some authentic Thai tea so I figured why not. The owner was this sweet Cambodian lady who doesn't look past 40yo, stayed open a little bit later for me since it was near closing time. And she was so friendly, chatting about her family and the donut shop and how she got here... very cute. Definitely gotta try Thai tea here. It's made fresh daily, from a real Asian person so obviously it's on parrrrr especially if you like your Thai tea on the sweeter side. A large truly is a large- I didn't finish it in one sitting. And I unfortunately didn't get to try the donuts, but the owner offered me some free donuts because the shop was closing for the day anyway. Good experience! I'll definitely be back to say hi and grab another Thai tea soon :) read more

Reviewer Jonathan E. is right on - the simpler donuts are the best. My chocolate cake glazed donut was perfect. The cinnamon roll was fine, fresh but pretty generic in taste. The maple bacon glazed was fine but too sweet and didn't have that strong bacon flavor you need to balance the maple and sugar. Easy to locate but not a very large parking lot. Service was super friendly and fast. Got the two donuts and the large cinnamon roll for under $5, so a good bargain. If you're looking for donuts near the airport on Mondays when the Welcome place is closed, this is a solid alternative. read more

This is a quick in and out donut shop. The donuts are okay, but very easy to park, but donuts and leave.

While en route to the grocery store with doughnuts lingering in my mind....I just happened to pass Rainbow Doughnut and flipped a quick u-turn. The Bacon Doughnut tackled my craving with ease. It's a quick in and out friendly service. Now just have to bring a dozen into the office. read more

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The food and donuts are delicious. They close earlier than 6pm though. The prices are also reasonable as well.

Such a fresh doughnut! I really do enjoy these, every time I go I feel like they are fresh but honestly I think they would be good as a day old. Really can't go wrong here! read more

No frills storefront and delicious raised doughnuts. The orange frosted was our fave. I wished they had vanilla long johns, so we had to settle on sprinkles. read more

This it the best place to get donuts there fresh and omg to die for there sandwiches are the bomb but only the owner knows how to make it the wing are delisouse and the burritos oh my what can I say there the bomb with that salsa she makes is very tasty there is so much more to select from hands up best sandwich donut making place for me read more

The best and freshest donuts. Perfect glaze and texture. Also delicious Thai iced tea!

Again, the best apple fritter in the country. Don't miss this if you're in the Phoenix area. I can't say anything else but awesome!

I cannot belive I have just found myself coming into this place. I have passed it many times through out the years. I cannot remember if it was always call Rainbow or not. But, I remember it being there. Anyway, it is colorfully painted ,so you will not miss it as you drive by. I was in charge of picking up some doughnuts for work. I almost forgot, so I was on my way to the job and saw the sign. Wow, I was surprised how nice it was. Smelled like fresh baked goods inside. They say they bake fresh doughnuts every day. I say they are better than Duncan! Apple Fritter was fantastic. I got a dozen to go in a lovely pink box. As well as a couple of coffees. I was a popular guy that day. By the way they even have breakfast and lunch food , not just baked goods. Look for the brightly colored building. read more

Having zoomed past numerous times and even thinking of stopping in a few times before, my craving for Boba finally made me stop. The service is 5 star the lady working the counter was friendly and offered some great suggestions based on the flavors they had for Boba. What they had were tubs or powdered mix. Some of my favorite Boba places in the Valley have more fresh fruit and real taro. I was slightly put off but was needing my "fix". Deciding on a Mango Smoothie with Boba, I decided on a small and decided to try one of their donuts as well (glazed twist). The boba was just ok and the donut was very good, light fluffy inside tender yet slightly crisp exterior with a light glaze. Their crosissants looked amazing and they had an average variety of raised and cake donuts. I had my donut fix for a few months at least. If I had to pick up some for work I would come here. For boba...I'd go back if in the area and not willing to drive to my other favorite spots for a fix. read more

Sewer gas smell is horrific, call a plumber for petes sake I have been a customer of this location for years. the buttermilk bars and apple fritters are like I remember from Smittys grocery. BUT the sometimes sewer gas smell was horrendous this morning. No place that serves food should have that smell and not fix it especially as bad as it was this morning. i am not overly particular but there was NO way i was going to eat something that had sat in that smell. I did try to email the store about this problem but it bounced back to me. So here I am on yelp telling you what shouldn't have to be said at all. read more

A dive donut shop? Sweet! Too bad this place is so meh. I was so excited about Raibow Donut but the donuts are kind of sucky. I was also excited about the BOBA tea (yes they have it here) but it was also kind of not good. And the bubble tea was made kind of like a frappachino with whip cream and shit. What's up with that? So I guess it's still kind of cool due to diveyness and whatnot, but not really awesome or anything. read more

One of my roommates was extolling the beauty of Bosa. I asked if they were as good as Rainbow, but she had never tried Rainbow. So - we decided to do a taste test. Three of us in the house - so we would get 3 different (but like) donuts from each. The plan was to bring them back home, cut to sample size, and note flavor, texture and overall preference. The guy roommate's favorite is glazed raised. The gal leans to sugar raised and I figured glazed old fashioned is a safe baseline for taste testing. We went to Rainbow first. No problem getting the donuts we wanted. I also picked up a half dozen donut holes. Was not thrilled to be charged $0.50 for the box, but c'est la vie. Girl roommate also got a watermelon frappe type of drink. A bit sweet for my tastes, but very, very watermelony. Next stop Bosa. They didn't have regular sugar raised - used powdered sugar instead. (I have a hard time trusting that the regular sugar didn't stick - somehow they managed to make it work at Rainbow!) So the granulated vs. powdered sugar raised would not be as scientific a comparison, but we'd make do. No problem with the glzed and old fashioned. We also picked up ham and swiss croissants. One can never have too much pastry, right? :) Results - Glazed raised - Bosa was slightly denser and chewier - more mouth satisfaction. Rainbow was cloudlike fluffy and light. Great texture, but we didn't feel satisfied from chewing. Rainbow was slightly sweeter. ~Votes - 3 for Bosa.~ Old Fashioned - textures were identical. Rainbow had a slight lemon (or maybe aspatrame?) flavor in the back end of the tasting. ~Votes - 1 slight lean to Bosa, 2 Draw~ Sugar raised - texture of donut was identical to glazed raised above. (duh - same donut, different topping.) The gal roomie likes granulated. The guy roomie preferred the powdered. I liked both. ~Votes - 1 Bosa, 1 Rainbow, 1 Draw. So, Bosa comes out with a slight edge. And we came out with a slight sugar rush. I can't help but wonder what our next scientific food research challenge will be! read more

Yeah, I got on the Rainbow Donut train a few months and I've gotta say that I did not get off on the first stop. First, this place feels like a conversion of some sort -- you know, like when an old Circle K becomes a dentist office or something, and you know things just ain't right when you're getting drilled in a beer fridge. On the way out you have a hankering for a Thirstbuster and a Payday. This is the vibe of Rainbow Donuts. I get the feeling this place had a reincarnation and they're disguising the catacombs with those unnecessarily GIANT glass displays. I've never seen them completely filled ... uh, ever ... and it makes their selection of glazed pastry seem paltry. I was so disoriented by this whole encounter that i actually ordered an ORANGE CAKE donut. I'm puking on myself right now remembering it. What a shite state of affairs when you think that ordering such a conception is a wise decision. To be honest, their selection WAS pretty sparse, and I was just kinda wanting to bounce because some customer was arguing about a mistake the owner had made by inserting the wrong donut into his half-dozen LAST WEEK and wanted compensation for it THIS WEEK in the form of a free donut. Meanwhile, my eyes are molesting my stomach by flickering between donut choices maple or orange. My brain intervenes with a WTF? So, i chose the lesser of the evils -- even going against my cake-donut discriminatory practices and made a panicked decision. End result: there are MUCH better choices for hangover donuts in the central area and for slightly cheaper. Also, that 24 hour sign practically had me thrown in the clink one night as i foolishly left the bar drunk and early in search of hot, glazed donuts. Because Rainbow was in fact closed, a kick in the gut to be sure, I ended up driving around central on this quest for donuts at 3-? am, until i eventually forgot I was even driving or why I was out in the first place. What I remember is being enshrouded in Whataburger's Honey Butter Chicken Biscuit wrappers the next morning and a vicious hangover. Moral of the story: go vegan read more