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Kate 09:19 on 2020-11-30 Permalink Reply  

• Ephraim 10:37 on 2020-11-30 Permalink

  About a week and a half early… Chanukah starts on the 10th… donuts are traditional (fried in OIL)

• Joey 11:33 on 2020-11-30 Permalink

  Highly suggest dogunut-lovers check out Salerno’s. Very cakey. No gimmicks.

• walkerp 12:21 on 2020-11-30 Permalink

  Imagine if we could just have decent, classic donuts in the east of North America. It leaped from garbage to fancy donuts and skipped actual good donuts.

• walkerp 12:27 on 2020-11-30 Permalink

  God that is depressing. I went through the entire list and not a single classic old-fashioned among them. None of them can actually make decent dough, so instead they overcompensate with excessive and “creative” toppings. This is like getting a frappucinno and thinking it is good coffee. Very similar to all the terrible “mixology” cocktails in Canada where they hide the lack of alcohol with lots of sugary flavours. No bueno!

• Su 12:31 on 2020-11-30 Permalink

  I had no idea we had so many donut options in town! Back in the day, there was a a Sugar and Spice location in Alexis Nihon Plaza which baked on premises a vast assortment of authentic donuts. I can still taste their scrumptious “Old Fashioned”.

• Michael Black 12:48 on 2020-11-30 Permalink

  There was also a donut shop in that block near Guy where Le Fauboug is. I forget the name, but I’m sure that’s the first place I ever had a donut. For some reason, we’d stop in there after medical appointments.

  Other than that, as a kid donuts were something bought in boxes at grocery stores.

  That’s not true. Most of our donuts came from a bakery.

  Maybe Dunkin’ Donuts were in Quebec in the sixties, but if they were, I don’t remember them being downtown.

• Kate 12:54 on 2020-11-30 Permalink

  The only donut I’ve had in years was a plainish Tim’s donut, I think they called it a buttermilk donut? There was a Tim’s briefly on St-Denis near Duluth, gone now. My landlord near there was not good, and things had happened so I had no toilet for four or five days. (I called the Régie and they said “use a bucket.” Seriously.)

  Tim’s, thankfully, was open 24 hours and had a clean bathroom, so I availed myself. I didn’t like to keep using it and not buying anything, so I stuck to the buttermilk donut. It was pretty good. But I haven’t had one since and am in general not a big fan of Tim’s.

• DeWolf 13:04 on 2020-11-30 Permalink

  I’m with walkerp – it mystifies me as to why it is so hard to find a classic yeast doughnut here. I’ve tried a number of popular places and hated almost all of them. That said, Léché is good, so if you’re a doughnut minimalist like me, they’re probably your best bet. The only problem is their hours are very inconvenient if you don’t live in Westmount or St-Henri (9am-3pm). San Gennaro also makes excellent bombolone. It’s close enough to a no-frills yeast doughnut that it hits the spot for me.

  49th Parallel, the coffee roaster from Vancouver, is opening a café on McGill Street in the spring. All their existing cafés in Vancouver include a doughnut bakery called Lucky’s which make some of the best doughnuts I’ve ever had. I really hope there’s a Lucky’s in their space when they open here.

• DeWolf 13:05 on 2020-11-30 Permalink

  Oh and how could I neglect Wavel. I really do enjoy their paczi and they’re light on the wallet, unlike most of the other ones on the Time Out list. (Not light on the waistline of course.)

• Kevin 14:12 on 2020-11-30 Permalink

  Anyone who’s spent time in Vancouver knows Those Little Donuts kick ass.
  They’re made fresh, covered in sugar, cost a couple bucks for a bag or box of a dozen.

  There’s one place that makes a near-perfect replica across from Papineau metro but she’s closed for the winter.

• Joey 15:37 on 2020-11-30 Permalink

  @walkerp and others – like these doughnuts: https://www.boulangeriesalerno.com/na-605/pains

• John B 15:46 on 2020-11-30 Permalink

  Nice list!

  As a fan of a great yeast doughnut, there isn’t a great place that I’ve found, but in the gourmet yeast doughnut category Leché is great! Protip, (for before or after times): The coffee & pizza place above the cafeteria at the Glen hospital sells Leché doughnuts.

  I hadn’t heard 49th parallel was opening a shop here. Fingers crossed for some of their doughnuts.

• Tim S. 16:06 on 2020-11-30 Permalink

  Not on the island, but there are great simple yeast doughnuts at La Prairie market (not during winter, alas).

• MarcG 17:03 on 2020-11-30 Permalink

  Y’all have some serious Donut Obsessive Disorder issues to resolve

• Kate 21:28 on 2020-11-30 Permalink

  It became a more fertile post than I was expecting.

• Meezly 10:43 on 2020-12-02 Permalink

  Rather late on this, but I’m surprised Samos made the list as the only “classic” donut joint on the list. I haven’t been there in years because I found the pastries were of average quality. Have they improved recently? I see on their site they’re now selling Poké Bowls??