The Sugar-coated Fat-filled Krispy Kreme Thread!

Seve OB

troyzer wrote: »

Fair enough, they've had the sign outside for a while. Hmm.

I'll check it out for you when I go for my doughnuts

LorelaiG

Wasn't open on Saturday anyway and didn't actually notice anything walking past.

ongarboy

Patww79 wrote: »

I'll chance it some time in March.

Ah but you won't get the same number of Facebook and instagram likes if you wait until then and you may very well die of FOMO because of it!! :-)

Seve OB

troyzer wrote: »

Fair enough, they've had the sign outside for a while. Hmm.

Went past this evening.
Didn't see any subway there.
Didn't see any sign of a Japanese.
Xtra vision is all boarded up, maybe going in there? No signs or anything from what I seen but it was dark and I didn't look to close.

Might drop in to get some doughnuts for the work gang in the morning

OldMrBrennan83

ongarboy wrote: »

Ah but you won't get the same number of Facebook and instagram likes if you wait until then and you may very well die of FOMO because of it!! :-)

It's ok, I bought a couple of avocados this morning to tide me over.

L1011

Cienciano wrote: »

It's not out of my way. And at least there's a traffic free option, Blanch is a disaster no matter what way you head in. And getting out too.

From the N4, where the majority of traffic is coming from, there is no traffic-free option. Fonthill Road to go around the back of the centre to get in the way you go could take 15 minutes depending how bad the drivers are at the Power City roundabout. This is every Saturday all year, Christmas just adds insanity. They have planning in to further reduce parking for another extension also!

Blanchardstown has working access to the outer carparks in all but the worst traffic; Krispy Kreme is developing that worst traffic on one side all the time though.

cython

L1011 wrote: »

From the N4, where the majority of traffic is coming from, there is no traffic-free option. Fonthill Road to go around the back of the centre to get in the way you go could take 15 minutes depending how bad the drivers are at the Power City roundabout. This is every Saturday all year, Christmas just adds insanity. They have planning in to further reduce parking for another extension also!

Blanchardstown has working access to the outer carparks in all but the worst traffic; Krispy Kreme is developing that worst traffic on one side all the time though.

Access to Blanchardstown centre from all bar the N3 slip road by the Crowne Plaza and maybe from Mulhuddart (I don't know, I'd have to go through the worst of it to even test this, and f*ck that!) is frankly chronic at busy times. Egress is even worse at those times, in no small part due to the traffic "management" personnel they deploy, whose main goal seems to be get cars into their car parks with no consideration for flow around the area.

Liffey Valley is orders of magnitude better with a minimum of 2 lanes in each direction on the main arterial road in and out, logically laid out car parks, and ordered access to the exits from same. Contrast this against the Lifestyle/Smyths/Elverys car park in Blanch, where it's a free for all at probably 30+ junctions, and no measures to ensure flow of exiting vehicles.

I lived in Maynooth for a number of years, and used Liffey Valley as the local "major" shopping centre (before even the Tesco extra opened). I live in Dublin 15 now, and still sometimes go to Liffey Valley instead despite the centre being much closer, as the latter just doesn't work. There's frankly no comparison in the design of the two, and while Liffey Valley is not without faults, traversing the equivalent of the Snugborough Road or the road along the front of Millennium Park there is vastly simpler. This junction alone demonstrates a level of thought in the design that is nowhere to be seen in Blanchardstown.

Seve OB

Is this thread about doughnuts that you eat in Blanch

Or the lack of being able to donut your car because there is to much traffic around liffey valley?

Gaspode

Lads, discussion about traffic in Liffey Valley is off-topic. Doughnuts are the topic, moar doughnuts please

RasTa

55p each, did the job.

TheChrisD

re: Oreo doughnuts - you can actually get some just like that in the Lidl bakery

miamee

Seve OB wrote: »

I was in esquire coffee last week which is next door. don't know how long that's open, never spotted it with all the krispi building work going on so I've no idea how long they are open.
was very nice

It only opened a few weeks before Krispy Kreme but was quickly overshadowed. Glad to hear it was nice, it's on my radar to pay a visit. KK will also get a visit at some stage when the hype has died down and I'm not in the midst of trying to eat healthily

Nijmegen

miamee wrote: »

It only opened a few weeks before Krispy Kreme but was quickly overshadowed. Glad to hear it was nice, it's on my radar to pay a visit. KK will also get a visit at some stage when the hype has died down and I'm not in the midst of trying to eat healthily

I'd say they're really screwed. I've seen the centre promoting them in their social media lately, owners must be in their ear. For the centre to lease a coffee shop knowing KK was going in there was just money grabbing at its private equity finest.

blanch152

Queues were mad at the weekend again.

Sunday evening at 7 and there was a queue of about 40-50 people outside and the car park queue was full as well.

Madness.

aaabbbb

blanch152 wrote:

Sunday evening at 7 and there was a queue of about 40-50 people outside and the car park queue was full as well.

There was about 100 people qued outside on Sunday morning at 11:30am and the drive through was starting to build too.
I hear it's a very nutritious breakfast they serve 😂!

Caranica

Was in there at 9am to collect an order for the office. Fewer than 10 cars in the drive through and only 7 or 8 in the queue inside.

Verdict, the best of the fancy doughnuts, largely because they're not gigantic or extortionate. But not as good as the kiosk on O'Connell Street, best doughnuts ever.

Seve OB

Caranica wrote: »

Was in there at 9am to collect an order for the office. Fewer than 10 cars in the drive through and only 7 or 8 in the queue inside.

Verdict, the best of the fancy doughnuts, largely because they're not gigantic or extortionate. But not as good as the kiosk on O'Connell Street, best doughnuts ever.

I was there shortly after you, maybe half past. Queue went half way around inside of the shop. Within a couple of minutes of joining the queue was back to the door. I was probably 20-25 minutes waiting in queue.

Nice touch to be offered a fresh glazed ring straight from the fryer while queuing up. Well tasty, melt in the mouth. Had another a couple hours later and there really is a world of difference.

Got a mixed selection and a box of glazed rings. €26 for 24 (well 25 if you count the freebie) so it's is pretty good value.

miamee

Walked passed here last night about 7.15 or 7.30 and there was a queue in the pouring rain of about 20 people waiting to get in so we kept going. OH went back later and got us one each which was more than enough. Tasty but I still don't know what the big queues were for. More for the hype I suppose. Sure good luck to them, providing local jobs and a new business where there used to be an empty unit.

[CrimsonGhost]

Tried it a few days ago, got a selection of a dozen. There was an apple based one, was expecting great things, unfortunately my first bite was a mouthful of disappointment. Not even close to Offbeat. The dough is exceptionally soft, but beyond that they are greatly over-rated imo.

PaddyBomb

Got one of the mixed boxes last week and I have to agree with the majority of people that while they are nice, they're definitely overrated. The nicest ones were the plain glazed one and the jam one. All the others are no different to Off Beat or Anguier Danger.

It reminds me of the fascination with Nandos a few years ago, which isn't anything special either.

Nijmegen

PaddyBomb wrote: »

Got one of the mixed boxes last week and I have to agree with the majority of people that while they are nice, they're definitely overrated. The nicest ones were the plain glazed one and the jam one. All the others are no different to Off Beat or Anguier Danger.

It reminds me of the fascination with Nandos a few years ago, which isn't anything special either.

I think their strength lies in price:quality ratio, and the suburban location combined with brand and the novelty of a drive thru. It’s a combination of factors. But that’s always the way with big international chains, no? Rare I eat a Big Mac and think it’s on a par with a specialist one location burger joint.

ozmo

PaddyBomb wrote: »

It reminds me of the fascination with Nandos a few years ago, which isn't anything special either.

Never got the attraction to Nandos either- went once and never again...didn’t like it at all- I’d love another donut though.... just don’t want to queue...

jack presley

ozmo wrote: »

Never got Nandod either- went once and never again... I’d love another donut though.... just don’t want to queue...

Haven't been down in the centre in a while, has the novelty worn off yet or are their still long queues (both in store and drive-thru)?

ozmo

jack presley wrote: »

Haven't been down in the centre in a while, has the novelty worn off yet or are their still long queues (both in store and drive-thru)?

Still queues of at least 15 cars any time I passed last weekend...

Grayditch

I was in there looking for a box of six. It was €15 for six and it was €17.99 for twelve. Jaysus. That is some upselling in an age of sugar tax and obesity worries.

Phil.x

ozmo wrote: »

Still queues of at least 15 cars any time I passed last weekend...

A couple of people at the counter, maybe four, last week at 6pm and about six people sitting down eating. Lots of staff so service is quick.

miamee

It's still very busy at times - but not all of the time like it was in the first few weeks!

ongarboy

I'd say if you go outside weekend peak periods for the SC in general, it will be manageable. I wonder when the hype eventually dies down, will they re-instate the 24 hour drive thru like McDonalds as you won't have disgruntled customers queuing for an hour and honking their horns in frustration.

Cienciano

[CrimsonGhost] wrote: »

Tried it a few days ago, got a selection of a dozen. There was an apple based one, was expecting great things, unfortunately my first bite was a mouthful of disappointment. Not even close to Offbeat. The dough is exceptionally soft, but beyond that they are greatly over-rated imo.

Unfortunately, you probably got the worst donut they have. The apple one is fairly meh.

PaddyBomb wrote: »

The nicest ones were the plain glazed one and the jam one. .

I'd agree with you, these are the only 2 I'd bother with. Forget all the chocolate ones with nutella or peanut butter. Glazed and jam are the 2 best by a mile.

DoozerT6

So I've driven through the centre, past the KK roundabout twice over the weekend and there were no queues outside, nobody in the drive-thru queue and the shop itself looked to have few people inside it. Has the madness passed??

(Although in fairness, I hope they continue to make a few quid from that unit. Er'body likes doughnuts, right?)