Bobby Domenicone, The Santa Monica Dunkin Donuts at 12th and Wilshire. (Greg Katz / LAist) What the hell is Dunkin’ Donuts doing in Santa Monica? Massachusetts-based Dunkin’ Donuts is an east coast fast food institution—a place for cheap sugary coffee and “munchkins,” which is what they call donut holes for some reason. In New York City, there are more Dunkin’ Donuts than Starbuckses, we are told, and as of today, there is one in Santa Monica, more than a decade after the coffee chain shuttered its last California location. Of course, this made LAist curious. There are a lot of coffee shops in Southern California. Not only are we saturated with Starbees, but we are also the birthplace of Coffee Bean. Plus we got tons of Peet’s. So yesterday we went down to the Dunkin’ Donuts at Wilshire and 12th to check on the fuss. By fuss, we mean two-hour line. At least it wasnt as bad as the night before: If you’re from the east coast, like a lot of the first-day Dunkin line-dwellers were, your first (and maybe only) question was, “Is it the same as the east coast stores?” So we brought our friend Matt from Boston to Dunkin’ with us. We put a vanilla iced coffee and a chocolate donut into his face. Matt’s review? “Mm, oh yeah,” he said with his mouth full.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 04:02:10 +0000
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