The owner Vicki is one of the kindest people you’ll ever meet! Our business is in the same mini mall as Daylight and on days when we know we are slammed our boss brings a box of donuts over to start the day off right! Amazing taste for a good price! Nothing beats the classic glazed donut but there is variety beyond that for those more adventurous. When in a rush the drive through makes for prompt service! Cannot recommend enough!

Delicious donuts that are dangerously convenient. I love their donuts. The staff is great. I had a particularly great experience in the drive-through today. Brenna was wicked helpful & enthusiastic about their donuts. She answered my questions. The enthusiasm is contagious so I just had to leave a review w/ a shoutout to Brenna!

Great donuts. I recommend the sour cream cake, its wonderful. They serve Java House coffee which is great too.

Donuts to big price out of site for 6 donuts no place to eat inside will not go back

The best classic doughnut shop! I looooooove their coffee as well. Perfect for this cold weather. I love to come when they open cause everything is warm and fresh.

Our family LOVES Daylight Donuts. It is very reasonably priced and they are so soft and delicious!

Locally family owned. Partnered with The Java House. Super fresh. A great treat! Theres also a drive thru.

The most delicious donuts in town with a super friendly staff. I love that they have a drive through!

Today, was my first day having daylight donuts! I have had locally own business donuts in Cedar Rapids before where I went to school and the quality wasn’t that great, but since moving to Iowa city I had been craving donuts and, “Daylight Donuts”, was right around the corner from my apartment and 10/10 recommend! The staff was friendly, service was great, not too pricey, and the donuts were fresh !!

Absolutely ridiculous good!! Apple Fritters are amazing and the apple pie and blueberry pie donuts are crazy awesome. Super nice people, too!

Best donuts in town! The apple fritter is crispy and delicious. Our kids crave the donut holes. The old fashioned/sour cream donuts remind me of my childhood. More often than not some donuts are still warm. The review stating their donuts were stale is not accurate at all. We live within blocks of DD and Hs donuts in Coralville and do not hesitate to drive all of the way across town. Their proximity to Java is another benefit.

One of the best donut shops in Iowa! I am glad that I found this place! If you are tired of TOO sweet donuts, try this place!

Love Daylight Donuts! Best donuts in town, plus they have a drive thru!

Not fussy or pretentious. Just amazingly good at baking doughnuts! Try their blueberry cake doughnut. So amazing!!

We pick up donuts every Friday. Its our weekly treat. Our favorites are the pinecone and bacon maple donut.

Daylight Donuts have the best donut I have ever had in my life. The selection is wide. The Donuts are smaller in size compared to the other donut places. They have a couple of glazed donuts and I should say they are delicious.

Whats better than glazed donut holes and chocolate raised donuts?? Yums. Reminds me of home in Georgia

Yikes.. Pricy, poor variety, and meh taste. Fixed a sweet tooth but I wont be back again.

Daylight donuts is the place to be! The staff are amazing and care about what they do. Plus the donuts are the best!

Tried this place during the pandemic, super good service, amazing donuts and cute atmosphere! Would recommend coming here

Good classic donuts.

Good doughnuts

Chocolate covered strawberry.... Blueberry.... Old fashioned buttermilk..... And dozens of others including traditional glazed and chocolate covered. Iowa City had been without excellent home-made donuts for a long time.... Thats why the line is out the door most days. Saturday or Sunday? Get there early. This is good stuff! Im personally addicted to the apple fritters.... ask for crispy. Trust me. Did I mention you should get there early?

Yum. Best donuts around.

The donuts are excellent. Need to get there early because they do sell out of the more popular ones. Coffee is really good and very decently priced. Nice that they have a sitdown area to enjoy a breakfast.

I had the raspberry filled donut which has always been my go-to bakery item, and it was wonderful! This trip I tried a lemon filled donut which may now be my new favorite. Simply heavenly!

When I lived nearby my girls absolutely loved to take their scooters over to Daylight Donuts rain or shine or sleet or snow. Once they were even on TV when they ran into cops being filmed by a news crew eating donuts with locals. If thats not authentic I dont know what is.

Best place in Iowa City for Donuts - and Im a Dunkin Donuts fan. Really fresh, especially early in the morning, and always sweet and satisfying. I once had a chocolate cherry fritter there and it was a religious experience.

Daylight Donuts is only 2 blocks from my house. Very polite and responsive staff. Great selection.

Best donuts in town!

I love the cake donuts here! Cherry is my personal favorite but I have tried most of the varieties and have no complaints. Happy customer here!

Best donuts in Iowa City served by helpful staff. Always a huge hit at work when you show up with Daylight Donuts to start the day.

Poor Management doesnt make up for donuts.Yes, the donuts are made fresh, and they are good. Nothing life-changing. If you go to Hyvee first thing in the morning you can also get fresh out of the oven donuts. The worst part of this joint are the owners/managers. They are constantly sold-out of donuts, even at peak time in the morning. Instead of making MORE like a normal company, they think that putting a stupid piece of paper on the front door saying sorry, were sold out. You can find this stupid paper hanging on the front door as early as 10:30 a.m. I guess it would be pretty silly to make more donuts. This has happened to quite a few people I know. I cant appreciate a donut when they do something like that.

Best donut place in Iowa City. Sour Cream & Old Fashioned ones are the best in my opinion. Blueberry ones taste just like muffins, perfect for coffee dunking.

OK, but not that great. I suppose they are better than Dunkin, but that isnt a high bar for comparison. Hurts Donuts over in Coralville are better. Not worth going out of your way to try for sure.

Yummy and friendly place

Good friendly service and great breakfast pizza! I love the floor tile,it reminds me the moviethe one who flew over the cocos next rotfl.great service!!!!!

Best donuts on the east side! Always has great tasting options.

Best Donuts in town period.

The customer service made me cry tears of joy! Plus the donuts are amazing, definitely coming back for many more!

Awesome, especially if you loved glazed donuts!

I wear a mask for your safety, please wear one for mineI like to support local businesses, especially during this COVID19 time, because I care about you and our community. So please wear masks to show you care about me.If nothing else, think of it like an armband to show solidarity. We are in this together.

The donuts are incredible, and clearly some of the best in Iowa. That being said, the couple times I have been in there I have received service from some very rude individuals and felt like I was being a bother when asking about different kind of donuts. I personally would rather go to Hurts in Coralville or any Hy-Vee where the service doesnt make me feel so uncomfortable.

Best sour cream donut

Great doughnuts! The help sort of rushes people out near closing time, hence only 4 stars

Good donuts, good price.

Best place for donuts on the east side.

I do think these might be the best doughnuts in Iowa City, but there isnt a whole lot of competition. I went in the afternoon, and obviously they would be better in the morning when the doughnuts are fresh. The cake doughnuts (which are usually my favorite) where pretty bland, but the glazed sour cream was exceptional. They seem pretty hit or miss to me. I didnt try any of the fancy doughnuts, but based on their non cake doughnuts, I would be willing to go back and give them another try. If you have a doughnut craving, this is definitely a place to try, but dont get your expectations too high.

Loved the donuts, loved the service. Ill be coming back

Great little donut shop, lots of good options, never too busy.

Love the donuts friendly staff nice location

Good variety of donuts. Helpful, friendly staff.

My mom likes this place more than me. The doughnuts are pretty classic cake doughnuts, so theyre thicker and denser than the ones that I prefer with the big puffy holes in them.They glaze them with all sorts of stuff, like orange, or maple, or maple bacon. But the problem is under the glaze its all the same doughnut. Its not like other places where you can get a doughnut with blueberries mixed into the dough. Its a plain doughnut, or a chocolate doughnut.They have a lot of fillings though, like lemon creme, or boston creme, or napolian creme. If you dont get a filled doughnut, though, its going to be slightly dry. Thats not a big deal to most people (my mom loves them), but for me, dryness is a problem. It hurts my throat. So if youre like my mom, youll love it, but if youre like me... its tolerable. The prices are good!

Great donuts! Just wish they had more of a selection, but that could be because by the time I arrive most people on their morning commute have already stopped.

They are a doughnut supplier for lots of cafes and gas stations in Iowa City! So yeah they are good.

Never had a thin apple fritter before without apples. Coffee was good

Phenomenal doughnuts! I think this is the only actual doughnut shop in town. The doughnuts are classically-made (think Dunkin rather than Krispy Kreme), and very tasty. Yes, they run out sometimes during the day, theyre only open from 8-1, and theres always a line. Thems the breaks. Its a local shop doing what they love, not a multinational corporation.

Good for a chain

Wonderful ❣️ fresh!

Their glazed strawberry are good.

Best donuts in Iowa City and great service.

My kids love this donuts

Good donuts, few times Ive been there service is hit or miss.

Donuts are average, selection is average and they only make donuts once a day so they close at noon.

The best donuts in Iowa City!

Great taste

Great donuts

Miss this place!!

Best donuts in Iowa city

Love this bakery!!!

Good donuts

Double d

Fantastic