Crosstown Doughnuts

Solid doughnuts with a good selection of unique flavors. I tried the chocolate doughnut filled with banana cream and it definitely contained real bananas which is a major plus. Coffee and chai drinks are also great. Service is friendly. Overall would come back again!

Bloody love sour dough dougnuts!
These are no exception
The Seven Berry Glazed ring was tasty, but the star of the show for me was the Caramel and Banana Cream-​filled.
Stuffed full of chunky banana with a tasty choc-​soil-​type-​thing on top.
A lot of doughnuts about the place have a mass-​produced, synthetic taste to them.
Not these.

I have been looking for an excuse to go to crosstown doughnuts for quite a while now and on Saturday I had a friend visiting and thought it would be the perfect opportunity! Very sadly I arrived at Piccadilly stn only to find that their pop up was no longer there *sob* where would I get my doughnut now?
Thankfully after some careful google mapping we realised that the Piccadilly picture house sold a selection of Crosstown Doughnuts and we made our way there! The selection wasn’t huge but they had some great flavours on offer and I opted for a salted caramel and banana concoction that looked divine! I was slightly worried that they had been sitting out for a while and might be stale but boy was I wrong! The doughnut was INCREDIBLE! I cant even describe it except that I advise you to drop everything now and get one. It was a chocolate sponge filled with banana cream and topped with chocolate soil and salted caramel. Boy was it good. My friend had the chocolate truffle one which he said was equally tasty!
Despite there not being an actual shop at Piccadilly anymore we sat in the picture house café to eat our doughnuts and it was just as nice, so if you are in the area and fancy a doughnut head straight here for one. I guarantee you will leave with a satisfied belly.

My best friend and i stumbled across this cute looking doughnut shop while traveling around London from the US. I was EXTREMELY excited to try it out because i work at a gourmet doughnut/​coffee shop in California. Being a huge fan of sweets and knowing almost all doughnuts taste simply amazing, my hopes were high in this places being fabulous. Unfortunately my best friend and i ended up throwing ¾ of ours in the trash. we honestly did not like it at all. the dough was heavy and hard (bread like).
I very sadly have to say this place was not good. I’d much rather eat a doughnut from a random donut shop.
The young girls working in there were very friendly, playing great music, and gladly gave us tips on which ones were the best/​their personal favorites.

I didn’t like the heavy, bready texture of the dough at all. For me a donut should either be a light and fluffy yeast dough, or a cake style one. Not enjoyable. Felt ripped off for £3.50 too. Toppings and filling were nice.

MOVE ASIDE KRISPY KREME. A NEW DOUGHNUT EMPEROR IS IN TOWN. I ADORE the vanilla and chocolate truffle flavours. Also their little passionfruit doughnut holes which are a new and welcome addition! I have to give a shout out as well to their packaging. The simplistic black box for their 6 pack with white text and white logo is SO pretty! I feel like I’m eating designer doughnuts whenever I get a box for my roommate and I!

The BEST in town!!! I bought a box of 6 all different flavours and I was in utter sheeer heaven. Too good to share and you just want one after the other. Be warned, they are pretty filling. And you will need plenty of water to replenish yourself. But wow, the vanilla, Rocky road, crème brûlée, gingerbread, cinnamon swirl and qunioa were amazing. Simply the best. Look out for their seasonal flavours! Amazing job they’ve done!

As a donut connoisseur, I enjoy these donuts immensely and would still eat one daily as it’s located along my daily commute.
The Peanut Butter and Jelly, is pretty special with a gooey tart jammy filling. Although the flavours just aren’t punchy enough for it to be my favourite donut establishment, they still do a pretty swell job.

I chose the apple and pear crumble and I can only explain the taste as joy itself. Also the guy working there had the best customer service, so lovely and also helpful with choosing

Im new to London and the first place I check out is Crosstown Doughnuts! Tucked quietly in the Piccadilly Circus tube Station, a sweet treat and quick bite for your morning rush or afternoon pickup — doughnuts and coffee.
Crosstown doughnuts offer a hybrid doughnut using a sourdough starter combined with your normal bakers yeast. This is great as the doughnut absorbs less fat then the average doughnut. What really attracted me were the creative toppings with surprise fillings. We actually went later in the afternoon and most of the flavours were sold out — due to some greedy customer buying 60! Because I wanted options we actually came back the next day — earlier in the morn and were spoilt for choice.
The rocky road doughnut was amazing, chocolate topped with marshmallows and freeze-​dried raspberries, filled with heaps of jam! This was good if you don’t want anything to rich. The chocolate truffle had the most delicious chocolate filling. Surprisingly not as rich as I thought considering it was chocolate coated and filled with mounts of runny choc. The staff we really helpful with offering the popular choices, also were kind enough to recommend other eateries to check out in London after my request. It’s great having a community of kiwis here and know we can all rely on one another for advice. Will def be returning!
Rating
Food: 8.5÷10
Service: ⁹⁄₁₀
Value for Money: Very Good
Shop 7, Piccadilly Circus Station, London W1J 9HS
Opening Hours:
Mon-​Fri 7am-​7pm
Sat-​Sun 11am-​7pm

Definitely coming here again.
Crosstown is the second specialist doughnut shop that I’ve been to in the last year (the other being Dum Dum Donuterie). I have to say, after the craziness of the Cronut™ explosion, I’m quite enjoying a simple, unassuming, regular doughnut.
Crosstown is based inside Piccadilly Tube station in one of the booths around the central ring. I hope it survives (the coffee Piccadilly Grind closed after not that long — although I’m unsure as to how the leasing of those units works). The doughnuts clock in at £2−3 each, and there’s also a deal on for a coffee and a doughnut at £3.50 (I think). Nay bad.
I tried the Belgian chocolate truffle doughnut. Noms. Crosstown’s doughnuts are made with sourdough which makes them ever so slightly chewy (in a good way!) They’re a bit denser than a lot of doughnuts too — not that it’s like biting into a bagel, but they aren’t exactly fluffy. I personally don’t mind although some people may be a little less keen. I was also surprised to learn that they’re deep fried, given the total lack of greasiness I assumed they were baked, as with Dum Dum. Apparently not. I really enjoyed my doughnut — it’s topped with chocolate and filled with a chocolate ganache. The filling is pretty firm (in a good way) and I really liked that it wasn’t too sweet — they’ve really balanced the flavours well! All in all, an excellent doughnut.
I also had an espresso — I wasn’t expecting much, but hey, the guy serving me was a nice Kiwi so why not? Anyway, it was pretty good! If that were my daily coffee I’d be pretty happy. It’s pretty good value for the coffee and doughnut, so I’ll be back — definitely tempted to buy a box and update this review… if you see anyone passed out in Piccadilly Circus covered in crumbs, that’s me!

Why is Crosstown not on here? What is going on?
Crosstown Doughnuts seems to be a London favorite, at least from what I can see. They are a doughnut van that sets up shop from Bishopsgate Market, South Bank Centre, Broadway Market, and Wapping Market (for more info go:
). They have a little shop set up in Piccadilly Circus Tube Stop and if you’re willing or able to spend about £3+ on doughnuts I highly suggest that you do. When you see their doughnuts laid out in front of you like some beautiful, calorific, mosaic you can’t help but want to empty your bank account to buy the entire lot. I had to employ my best self-​control to just purchase 3 doughnuts, which cost an astonishing £10. Ultimately, I still stand by my statements in life… you pay for what you get. I don’t really like Krispy Kreme, it’s very very sweet and has little variety between the doughnuts, they’re just overwhelmingly covered in sugar. At Crosstown, they boast a selection of «gourmet» doughnuts. I kind of loathe that word «gourmet»… it makes the doughnut sound pompous. To be fair, it is of higher quality.
I was urged by my best friend to track down where Crosstown Doughnuts would be the days that he was visiting. Friday, the day we went, they were at Bishopsgate Market which is conveniently located near Old Spitalfields Market and the Gherkin. The line (or queue for the Brits) was pretty lengthy as many of the office workers seemed to be eager to brighten their Friday with an amazing doughnut. I purchased the Sea Salt Caramel and Banana Doughnut (a popular choice), Autumn Fruit Crumble Doughnut, and the Mocha Doughnut. I, lovingly, gave the Autumn Fruit Crumble to my boyfriend but then decided to hoard the other two myself. The Sea Salt Caramel and Banana Doughnut was divine, the banana crème filling, the chocolate sourdough, I was (and still am) in love. A forewarning, the doughnuts are not light, the dough is a bit more like cake and heavier than what an American would call a doughnut. I don’t mean to say it was bad just different from what I had expected. I mean… how could I have the balls to say a doughnut is bad?
All in all, an amazing splurge but something that I could logistically only afford once in a while. It’s a nice indulgence and definitely worth the money for the quality but £3 for a single doughnut is a steep price to pay regularly, even for London.

Most of the shops down in the Piccadilly tube station are generally souvenir shops and places you wouldn’t take to much notice over. I was passing through recently and surprised to see a hotel chocolat and a few meters away a new doughnut up called Crosstown. After lunch we had to stop in and try it — definitely not your typical flavours — like rocky road and salted caramel chocolate. We picked the crème brûlée and the vanilla bean glazed doughnuts and brought it home to eat.
Comparing it to the established donut chains like Dunkin, Tim Horton, Krispy Kreme etc. These are definitely unique. Biting into the crème brûlée one, I was suprised how they replicated the crunchiness of crème brûlée and the filling was wholesome and not too overwhelmingly sweet. The vanilla glazed one was also very good — really liked that it wasn’t greasy and overly sweet.
They’re priced I think anywhere between 2 – 3 pounds. For both of ours came out to about 5.70. Definitely want to try some of the other flavours like rocky road and the raspberry jam!