Will Dunkin' Donuts Finally Grace L.A.?

I wish they would open a Dunkin Donuts coffee stand, no donuts. Like a DD Express. Or Dunkin Coffee. Who do I call?

in the early 80s, we had dunkin donuts. then they went kinda broke. would like to have them back.

When someone goes to the east coast, what they miss is In-N-Out or (until recently) Trader Joe's. That is legitimate.

 When easterners come to California, they want a Five Guys and Dunkin Donuts. It really makes you question their taste.

I would do anything for a large, iced french vanilla coffee, light and sweet, YUM!

Argh. You know something guys? YOU. ARE. LUCKY. East, West. NY, LA. Who CARES? At least YOU have DONUTS! We DON'T! Parisians can't even say the effin WORD for Blog's sake! It's embarrassing.

Don't cry about cardboard tasting donuts, because once upon a time our 'donuts' tasted like Big Macs and fries. That's right. We only had the McDonald's ones. Talk about disgusting.

So stop bickering and... bring DD to Paris, France! Thank you.

As a native Bostonian (but long-time Angelino) I applaud DD coming here if they do, but I also agree with people that realize that part of the appeal of DD is simply that it's part of a Boston (and, apparently, NYC) blue-collar ritual - coffee and doughnuts at DD.  (I don't drink coffee, so there's no pull there for me.)

In a weird way, this is like the reverse of what I witnessed in the mid-70's - namely, back then Coors beer was never distributed to Boston.  So it gained this mythic quality back East, only to be shattered when some cases finally leaked through at some point, and we all realized that it was basically piss water.

I think a lot of people are scratching their heads over this. To me, this is like getting excited over Burger King coming to town. DD is not exactly the donut version of In-N-Out.

DD was all over southern California in the 80s. I think it failed for the reason that LA is simply oversaturated with better donut places.

It's no Tim Horton's but it will do.

Honestly, it has a cult-like presence in the northeast because it's based in Boston. There's a lot of things out here that took longer to take hold in the east (say, Starbucks). 

There was a DD on Beach in Buena Park. Now, it's a MooDoo Dounts. I went to the DD in Vegas and the donuts are tasty. I don't drink coffee but they have lots of other drinks.

I grew up in Torrance and we had Dunkin Donuts back then. They closed in the 80s.

Not until they start offering vegan donuts. 

ehhh, not crazy about donuts but I like their coffee.  I don't really care what happens as long as we can agree that Starbucks blows donkeys for quarters.

LOL!!!

DD's actual doughnuts are terrible, but their bagel breakfast sandwiches and chai lattes were an obsession of mine all through college in the northeast!

I'd LOVE to have one here!  Mmm I can taste it now....

I crave DD coffee, preferably from DD itself. I've purchased bags of ground DD coffee to brew at home, but it clearly isn't the same.

Yes! Yes! For the love of God, yes! I'm a transplant from the Northeast and I'd buy a franchise myself if it was available out here.

The mom-and-poppers don't suffice for me.  Their donuts tend to have the aftertaste of pork fried rice.  I always get scared that I'll bite into a jelly donut and find crab rangoon in the middle.  

I want Dunkins to come because of their coffee.  I'll take the blue collar brown water over the uber burn of the others.

NO, L.A.!  FIGHT IT!!  I live in NYC and every second block has one of these godforsaken dumps.  The quality/taste of the donuts has become so corporate-manufactured, every single flavor tastes  EXACTLY THE SAME!  Greasy, bland, bad-for-your-heart/hips....this is not something you need!  They only act as a venue of last-resort, when there is absolutely NOWHERE else to go and you're so hungry you'd eat cardboard....and that's about whatchergonnagit.....

Thees donuts look like so yummy. I am hungry now~

NO! Half of the reason I loved LA so much when I came this month is that I didn't see ONE DD. I hail from Long Island and they are a plague of frozen, barely fresh baked crusty circles of hell. The raspberry filling from any grungy mom and pop shop is an elixir of the gods compared to a jelly from a DD. And the coffee is basically for tweens.

There USED to be a Kosher DD on Pico and La Peer approximately 20 years ago.  Across the street there's now a Kosher SUBWAY.

I lived three doors down from a DD in Mass, just a few miles from the original one. And I avoided it. Don't like their coffee or their donuts. Give the devotees their DD, though. I don't care, as long as it doesn't hurt Stan's or Bob's or any of the LA staples that make a better product.

I love me some Dunkies.  I'd go for the coffee and breakfast sandwiches, not for the doughnuts.  

Dunkin' Donuts coffee SUCKS, really badly! Appreciate the fact that they don't have Coffee Bean stores in New York!

Um, check Gothamist.... the Big Apple will have their first Bean (in Grand Central Station, I think) opening at 6:30 this morning, east coast time.
Go Bean!!!!

Erm, my mistake - it's actually going to open this coming MONDAY the 29th.

BRING DD TO LA!!!! Goodness I miss them. I haven't had a decent donut at these "mom and pop stands" in the years since I left Chicago.

Don't get me started on that cowtown Chicago. The midwest is irrelevant, kind of like the south and anything outside of California and New York.

Cowtown Chicago? You pretentious douche. Everything between NY and LA is irrelevant, huh? Fly-over land? Such a tired, old cliche'. Have you ever even been to Chicago? It's got some of the best restaurants, museums, architecture, music in the country. Believe it or not, there are trends that start in Chicago. 

Are you joking?

The South is essentially the fastest growing part of this country (there's a reason that Texas and Florida gained 6 congressional seats between them in the last census, while New York lost 2 and California stayed flat) and for you to dismiss Chicago and the rest of the Midwest is parochial, to say the least.

No shit.

You should see all the Yankees moving into North Carolina ...especially New Yorkers.

The Raleigh Triangle area consistently ranks as one of the most desirable areas to live and work.

Dunkin Donuts fucking sucks.  Give me a maple bar from any mom and pop joint in LA, and I'm happy.  I had to put up with shitty Donuts for almost 5 years while in New York.  All of my New York friends pounce on the local donut scene when they come visit me, and every single one of them trashes DD even more so than I do. What the fuck is wrong with this site?  They're constantly acting like pubic hairs all on the East Coast nutsac.

You must be joking. I don't know one single East Coast transplant who would not kill for a DD to open here in L.A., myself included.

PLEASE BRING DD TO L.A.

 Hi, I'm from the East Coast and I DO NOT WANT CARDBOARD-TASTING-DD's in LA. I'm happy with my mom and pops and Winchell's, don't ruin it for the the West Coast!

I left NYC for a reason, I don't need all this East Coat "hype" to come to LA either....LA ppl don't need it either.

Right here. I am a born and bred NYer who moved West and I couldn't care less. I missed DD when I first got out here, but there are so many places that are better, like Randy's in Inglewood. Or the random little mom and pop stores around Santa Monica. I'd rather support them.

Plus...I moved out here to have a DIFFERENT experience and life; not a carbon copy of what I had back in NYC. That's just me, though.

Here's the thing jessaicapualine, they're not East Coast transplants.  They're real New Yorkers, they only come to visit, in my book they hold more weight on this matter than you.  If they want to bring DD down here, I hope they keep it on the Westside and other transplant neighborhoods, like half of Echo Park, Silverlake, Los Feliz, and further down west until you get to the beach.

"real New Yorkers" are also holier-than-thou douche-bags.

Better they be that than transplants.

isnt there enough donut shops here in los angeles?

I used to stop there for coffee on my way to work when I lived back East. My only question: out here, will they magically add just the right amount of cream and sugar like they did back there?

I wouldn't go to DD for doughnuts mostly because I don't really like doughnuts in the first place, but when I was living in DC I really liked their coffee. If I was driving or walking somewhere and passed a DD (and wanted a cup of coffee) I would definitely stop.

In California, there is a bit of an anti-corporate streak.

Yeah, I suppose that's why cars were lined up nearly 24/7 around the block when Krispy Kreme first opened a store in Van Nuys.

Or why Chick-fil-A is going gangbusters.

Give the anti-corporate snobs the high hard one and let regular folks have their cheap, gooey donuts 'n coffee.

First of all, there is a Dunkin' Doughnuts at the intersection of Santa Monica Blvd. and Sepulveda. Secondly, they aren't very good.

I wish there was DD at that corner.  Even tho they are complete opposites...it'd be hard to decide between Zankou and DD after a visit to the nearby pot shop there.

no, there isn't

That donut shop is an old Winchell's. Also, Dunkin Donuts suck. Hard. They taste like cardboard because they are made at a large commissary and shipped to stores daily. What makes L.A. donut shops so great is that most, if not all, make their donuts in house.

there is not a dunkin' donuts at Santa Monica and Sepulveda. trust us: there is no DD in the City of LA.

Who writes these things?  Do your research...Dunkin' Donuts was in Redondo Beach for many years.  Man I could write better that these so-called 'professionals'.

Eesh, Marc F, lay off the writers! It's harder than you might think.

But to back up your point, I'd swear that there was a Dunkin Donuts in Tustin off of Irvine Blvd and Newport in the late 80s, early 90s.  But a Google map search would indicate that there is no more. Why were they here and then why did they leave?

Many, many years ago there were DDs in the beach communities, but Redondo, Manhattan--those Beach cities are not the City of L.A. The point of the article is that currently, in the greater L.A. area this is no DD, and that's been the case for some time.

There's a lot of "urban legend" kind of discussion on the issue about why DD doesn't like to franchise out here, and has to do primarily with our glut of mom & pop doughnut shops run by Cambodian immigrants.

Yeeeeeeesssssss! It's the first place I go when I visit family back East. The breakfast sandwiches are the best! 

East coast transplant here. And there are some days when I really miss this place. But I wouldn't go for the donuts. The quality and taste of the delicious orbs found at the independent stores FAR outweigh DD's fare.

However, for a solid, cheap, and delicious cup of coffee (hot or iced), you cannot beat DD. It will be interesting to see how Angelenos dig the chain, but I think with so many people from the east out here, they would be able to keep at least 1-2 store in business.

Chocolate covered, Big & Toasty + Strawberry Coolatta = Breakfast of Champions

hmm...I lived in NY for over 20 years, always hated Dunkin' Donuts and their cardboard tasting donuts. I thought I would never taste a good one until I moved to LA.

PS: Those donuts in this picture are NOT from DD's!!! I never saw their donuts looking this delicious, but that's their box alright. 

YES those doughnuts in the picture ARE from dunkins. are you serious? they look just like very doughnut i've and there are i'm from Boston.

I guess Boston got the better quality and better aesthetics bc the NYC donuts are not only disgusting looking but crappy tasting  too. The only donuts I ever had were DD's in NYC, once I moved to LA I got my first taste of what a donut should taste like. THOSE are not donuts from DD's---they bought them from some mom and pop place and just placed them in their box.  

theyre breakfast sammies are pretty damn good though

breakfast of fatties.