River City Doughnut & Coffee

River City Doughnut & Coffee

Reviews Summary

River City Donuts receives mixed reviews, with many praising their fresh, delicious donuts, excellent coffee, and friendly service. Positive highlights include fluffy donuts, great variety, and a cozy diner atmosphere. However, several customers report inconsistent quality, with complaints about stale or undercooked items, poor service, and long wait times. Some mention issues with limited stock and unprofessional staff behavior. While loyal fans love the nostalgic vibe and tasty treats, others find the experience disappointing due to inconsistent product quality and service.

About This Listing

Who Can Visit?

Most donut shops welcome all ages—perfect for families and kids
Some locations offer sit-down areas, while others are grab-and-go
No prior ordering knowledge needed—staff can help you choose flavors
Casual dress is welcome—some shops may have outdoor seating
Allergy-friendly options may be available (ask in advance)
Group orders and celebrations welcome—pre-orders may be required

*Note: Seating, menu, and accessibility may vary by shop. Contact your local spot for details.*

First-Time Visitors

First-time guests can simply walk in and browse the display or menu. Staff are happy to offer recommendations and explain specialty flavors. Some shops even offer sample bites or combo deals for newcomers.

Common Considerations:

Allergens Some donuts may contain nuts, dairy, or gluten—always ask if unsure
Availability Popular flavors can sell out early, especially on weekends

*Note: Menus and specials may vary. Ask staff or check online for daily options.*

What to Bring

Cash or card—most donut shops accept both, but some are cashless
Phone or camera—perfect for snapping and sharing your sweet finds
Appetite! Fresh donuts are best enjoyed warm and on the spot

*Note: Payment methods and policies vary by location. Check signage or ask staff.*

Preparing for Your Visit

Check store hours and peak times—early visits offer the best selection
Call ahead for large orders or special boxes
Bring friends or coworkers—sharing a dozen is half the fun
Dress casually—many shops are walk-up counters or offer outdoor seating
Leave pets at home unless it’s a pet-friendly location
Check for limited-time flavors, holidays specials, or preorder events
Set a treat budget if you’re shopping with kids
Bring a reusable bag or box if buying in bulk

*Note: Each shop may offer different experiences—check social media for updates.*

How to Get Started

Most shops accept walk-ins! For custom orders, pre-ordering is best. Ask about gift boxes or subscription options.

Other Helpful Info

Visits usually take 10–30 minutes, unless you're sitting down to enjoy
Weekends can be busier—plan ahead for quicker service
Seasonal or limited-edition donuts often rotate monthly
Some locations offer donut decorating kits or workshops
Gift cards, boxes, and party platters are often available

*Note: Features, pricing, and offerings vary by donut shop. Always check ahead.*

Contact Information

Address

500 Veterans Blvd

Del Rio, Texas 78840

Hours

Monday Open 24 hours
Tuesday Open 24 hours
Wednesday Open 24 hours
Thursday Open 24 hours
Friday Open 24 hours
Saturday Open 24 hours
Sunday Open 24 hours

Customer Reviews

Great doughnuts and quick service. Place to sit inside or outside. Great old time cafe atmosphere.

Haven't been here in over a year. Normally stop during hunting season Still have the best apple fritters around. Stop in an have one. Get it heated. Yum

Where do I begin....donuts look like they have been sitting out all day. All I ordered was a dozen glazed donuts, and there was NO glaze. Looks like they overlooked the donuts with glazing. Donuts NEED more glaze! Krispy Kreme, Dunkin Donuts, etc...all have more glaze on them. Yet, those establishments are not here in Del Rio. This is the only reason why River City is in business. One of the worst donut shops I have ever been to. You know it's bad when Walmart has better glazed donuts.

I love going there for the croissants bless their donuts are so delicious customer service is great they're very kind people bless their bilingual

Wonderful fresh donuts and tasty ice cream. Service was excellent

Whether going through the drive thru or inside and sitting at the counter this place is top notch on homemade doughnuts: gotta recommend the chocolate cake doughnut with chocolate frosting and the apple spice doughnut with apple filling :-) enjoy!!!

Very professional and they meet you with a smile their donuts are fresh and delicious. Try the powdered sugar vanilla cream filled one

OMG I've lived Dunkin Donuts for years... But River City is Fresher, Fluffier, and Tastier!! Happy for my 1st visit. All the other times my Mother In Law & Sister In Law brought them to me...so they were secession his old, and still Fresher than Fresh!! Love the old style Coffee Bar too! But these were to go back to DFW.

Love this place. Ever time we go to Del Rio we make sure to stop and get a coffee and donuts

Not-so great donuts, but they have a good selection.

Waited in line for over 15 mins. Asked for a plain iced coffee with no whipped cream or sweetener and they gave me what looked and tasted like a milkshake. Donuts had spots that looked like mold. I?ll just got to Starbucks next time...

Great Restaurant or Coffee Place. I really enjoy buying the Ham and Egg cheese croissant. The donuts have a different but delicious flavor. Well recommended for all of you. It has nothing to envy the expensive places.

Doughnuts are good. Breakfast croissants suck.

Great service, and the foods and drinks were delicious. I'm definitely gonna come back and try the cappuccinos

Great donuts open 24/7. Love the Chocoate filled donuts

Was one of the he worst apple fritters I've ever tried. It was too hick and uncooked in the middle. The red velvet donut holes were good , yet, none of my items had the amount of icing I would have expected. Probably won't go back.

It's so often that they don't have the doughnuts we want. I went at 11am and nothing. You would expect that they would be prepared at that time but no. The girl there was on her phone had me standing for about 5 min just waiting on her to finish. Make more doughnuts y'all been in business long enough to know that they run out. Get better workers.

This is the ONLY place in town that inexplicably tried to force customers to wear a masks at the drive thru. Them turning us down at the drive thru made our first visit, the last. When I left this same review on another review site, instead of perhaps trying to explain, they had the review site remove our review, I guess because it made them ashamed or angry or both. Either way, this is a terrible local business, I wish Dunkin Doughnuts had never left or that Krispy Kream some day finds its way to our town

Some might remember it as the old Dunkin Donuts. Great coffee and good donuts.

in town for work, craving a Doughnut at midnight, well they had em, and they were fresh and delicious....would definatly recomend.

We come here weekly, if not more often. Very friendly staff - almost like a family. They have our order ready to go before we even sit down. Great with kids. Affordable prices, welcoming atmosphere. It's places like River City Donuts that make Del Rio a great place to live.

Del Rio texas, never been to the city, and always like to try different donuts on different areas. Thought were pretty good, wide selection. Got there at 1 pm, not a lot to choose from but what I got were good. I like donuts more in afternoon and evening. Wish they would stay open later. If ever back there I'll go again. Great customer services and clean. Oh ice cream too.

I began with ? I am going to get at least six maybe more donuts? and the counter lady grabbed a small white bag. Those bags seem OK for two, maybe three but certainly not six donuts! And not with frosting & filling. But I thought... take this through to its logical conclusion. Sure enough, she loaded in 6 plus I added a brownie and eclair. She could not get the top of the bag to even come together - let alone close - but she looked at me and begin to pass the bag across the counter! I said ?there?s no wa

Its a good place, but don't let the open 24 hours fool you. Never come after it gets dark because they won't come out to the window unless you're hanging on the front door to let them know that you're there. We tried calling and knocking on the drive thru window but no avail. I even honked but nothing. After all that 20 minutes of waiting, because we wanted the benefit of the doubt, whoever the lady is, was rude. So we basically waited for a rude worker to come out. Again, don't come after 10pm because they

I am visiting from Albuquerque. This place is delicious, conveniently located, and the staff is very friendly. I was able to pay with credit card. Also, I caught the morning regulars get along well with other customers and with the staff. I ordered a coffee, on old fashioned, a strawberry sprinkles, and a buttermilk cake. All were amazing.

The donuts are so delicious. The serve Blue Bell Ice cream! It?s the best. Coffee is always fresh and never disappoints. The lady?s are super nice and courteous. The owner is a very nice man.

I'm curious to know if they make their donuts fresh daily in the morning. Mine didn't taste as if they were. The sausage kolache are not recommended. I should have known when they second guessed me when I asked for the kolache. The service was fast but I really hope this isn't the only donut shop.

Wonderful!! My son, graduating from UPT, took his grandparents, sister, mom and myself to try the place out. First was the customer service, talk about warm, inviting and genuine, they really made our night!! Now the food, donuts, you can't go wrong, delicious and were bringing out fresh when we got there. My daughter had a strawberry smoothie, she loved it!! And of course, you must have coffee with your donuts!! Another winner, and saw them keeping it fresh yet again!! This is a local buisness that

Never have donuts at night ... why have open sign rude at night everytime me and coworkers call or other people I know this whole week even at 11pm no donuts til 7am supposely.. would be good to have at least some type of donut available. I understand maybe some run out but always no of any kind

I went at 9 p.m. and ordered and asked if they hadbanana nut muffins...the lady said yes but put 4 plain Muffins in the bag. Since it was in the drive through, we didn't find out until we got home. We got screwed.

Zero respect for customers. DO NOT GO HERE!! FIND SOMEWHERE ELSE!! I pick up breakfast here when I?m in town and tried to do the same today. I patiently waited in the drive through line for 15 minutes and when I reached the window they wouldn?t even open the glass. The two women working inside motioned to their masks saying that I was required to have one on. One on in my own vehicle, alone, and in the drive though lane. But sure it was ok for my dirty credit card or cash to pass through and for them to han

??Love the doughnut holes but unfortunately the service wasn't exactly great. Was looking to purchase a gift card and was told the bakery does not carry any to sale. So left unhappy but happy with my box of donut holes. ??

Convenient location and friendly people. Donuts are delicious and the coffee is fresh. Would like to see staff use plastic gloves when handling croissants and/or wash hands after using cash register. Thanks.

I?m not the type to leave negative reviews, but this bothered me a great deal. They didn?t have any croissants no big deal, so while my bf is deciding what else to get the drive through worker says to him, a paying customer, ?You?re holding up the line? very rude and unprofessional

They run out of stuff a lot, don't have iced coffees. Sometimes they'll block off the drive thru and sometimes they'll close they didning room and open drive thru.. my croissant sandwich had a half a piece of bacon, a tiny egg and a pea sized serving of melted cheese and the croissant was more of a flaky bread.

It's good only problem is that they never seem to have doughnuts. Its open 24/7 but yet only seem to have good doughnuts for about 3hrs! UPDATE: sep/30/2019 I went this morning and i saw the girl just grab a munch from the tray with her hands and eat it then she was making a croissant w/o glaves. She didn't even wash her hands or put germ-x. That's disgusting. On top of that she was always going to the back to talk never asked if we needed anything else.

Awesome donuts n the service was excellent. I'm glad to have stopped here for some delicious donuts. It feels like going back in time, where the people would go for coffee and donuts. I would love to go there for some quality moment to enjoy itn

Donuts and the doughnut holes are really good. Those red velvet doughnut holes are good. The french vanilla cappuccino is a little on the sweeter side but I like it that way. The young man at the window is very friendly and service inside the lobby is good too.

The pastries are good but the workers are normally in a bad mood for whatever reason

Thank you River City Donuts for ruining my craving for hot chocolate on this cool night. No other drive thru requires their customers to wear a mask IN THEIR OWN VEHICLE. We were distant from your window! Last time we go there! Pero bien que agarran el dinero y las tarjetas, verdad?!

Worst place ever. The croissant was literally dry bread. The donuts were: what can I say nasty, looks horrible, can even swallow the first bite type of nasty. Customer service has a long way to go in providing any actual service. Bad experience.

Great local coffee shop with awesome staff.

I got a very tasty croissant sandwich and blended coffee here! Also really appreciated that the restaurant asks patrons to wear masks in the drive through :)

We had decaffeinated coffee, fresh and delicious; we enjoyed it...!

I don?t eat sugar usually but it was my twins 28th birthday? was what I went there for.

The doughnuts were HORRIBLE! I understand when you go late during the day you have a greater possibility to get crappie doughnuts but this was in the AM. They were dry, and no glaze what so ever! By far the WORST I've ever had! You can get better doughnuts from H.E.B.....

Love their ham & cheese croissant and their doughnuts I wished if they stayed open in the AM that they would serve croissant sandwiches. Sometimes I don't want burgers lol

This place has a nice old school diner feel to it. Good service, great Apple fritter and ok coffee. I honestly like the wrap around bar.

Quaint little donut shop. I do enjoy the bar style setup for adults, but it is not a very child friendly setup.

River City is a small, locally-owned doughnut shop on Del Rio's main drag. It's a small diner-type setup, with nothing but a row of stools situated on a long counter where you can choose to eat a few donuts and a cup of coffee. Prices are more than reasonable per doughnut and tasty to boot. Aside from a small Blue Bell ice cream selection, not much is additionally offered aside from the fried dough, but there doesn't need to be. If you want to grab some doughnuts, this is the place to go.

Their donuts are good if whenever they have any I've been there twice and they don't have Donuts

Who doesn't love donuts!? Good selection and really good coffee. The waitress was very friendly and joked around with me and my dad.

Good croissants good donuts good coffee at a reasonable price and they're open early nice to have in a small town

Awesome donuts, donut holes and fritters!!! If you like "Dunkin Donuts" this use to be one, they shut down years ago and owner keeps making the donuts the exact same way.

Service was quick and the donuts were delicious!

A local donut (nice variety) and ice cream bar. They also have a regular hot cup of coffee or ice cream if you want some.

Amazing coffee and best donuts I've had. So fresh and buttery. It's the real deal here

Best doughnuts in Del Rio. Really great value as well. Coffee is just ok however.

Great donuts. It's so much better when you can go in an get the full effect but the service was great.

The best, cleanliness is outstanding and some of the staff are the best, highly recommend.

Excellent service, great customer service & the best doughnut ?? ??

These donuts are so good and the lady who works there is so nice and answered all of my million questions!

Excellent service. Fantastic donuts & coffee. ????????

My breakfast sandwich was awesome. I've been getting one everyday for a week now. Can't get enough!!!!

Loved the Croissants they gave there best place to get donuts in town

Very delicious. The bill was appropriate for the quality. Kinda of like a restaurant in Los Angeles I liked to visit.

Love coming here for the quick Coffee and Croissant sandwiches. Not to mention great Donuts!

The ham cheese and egg croissants were ?? delicious! The donuts were great too!

Great place for coffee and the croissants are excellent! Sausage egg and cheese!

Donuts are absolutely amazing!

The ice blended coffees with caramel are the bomb and the best in town. Great place!

I love river city doughnuts they have the best coffe and doughnuts everyone should go crazy there

Donuts taste good. Half the time they don't have everything in stock.

Great donuts,never greasy like other places, great customer service

When they have what you are craving then it's awesome but this time around they didn't have what I wanted. I had to settle and I hate to settle.

Love their eclairs and cinnamon rolls ..really huge and so good.

I love bringing ?? to church. I love the cholate filled. Most of the time they fill them up properly

Got to love those sugar raised dounts every time. And how friendly they always make you feel.

We use the drive thru window. Service is good and donuts and eclairs are tasty.

Needs to step it up with them donuts.. the only reason it holds up is because it's the only donut shop in Del Rio..

This place has my favorite type of treat which of course is a donut, but not any common and random donut, the Boston Cream Donut.

Cutest Little Doughnut Shop. Always has Freshly Brewed Coffee & Amazing Sweets!

Cozy and friendly donut diner with terrific coffee!

Donuts are small the kolaches are as well they also do not taste very well do not recommend

This is a small donut shop but they are very friendly and have excellent donuts!

My granddaughter is real picky. But was given time to point out the 12 donuts she wanted.

Very disappointed. Donuts are not fresh what so ever. Seemed to be a couple days old.

Very good, they stack the ice cream very high, nice place.

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