Thu Jun 14, 2012
Food and Drink

The Beast is selling back-alley donuts

Look out, Tim Hortons. With three local restaurants preparing their finest fried dough creations, the donut is set to become Toronto’s new food craze.

BY: Karon Liu

According to the rules of far-reaching journalism, if something happens in threes, it’s officially a trend. We present to you the city’s latest food craze: donuts!

As pastry chef Ashley Jacot De Boinod raises money to open her Glory Hole Doughnuts shop in Parkdale and construction continues at Leslieville’s soon-to-open Paulette’s fried chicken and donut store, The Beast‘s co-owner Rachelle Cadwell has been selling her own donuts from the restaurant’s back door every Thursday morning (as well as recent Toronto Underground Market events).

Dough By Rachelle starts serving promptly at 8 a.m. and usually sells out before noon. Cadwell says she’s only been selling them from the restaurant for the past three weeks, so she’s still working on how many to make each day (she made 120 this morning). Among the flavours today: an eclair-ish strawberry and cream, a spicy cinnamon that will perk anyone up, and more common flavours, like chocolate-hazelnut and maple bacon ($3 each).

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SMH

Can’t believe you guys are fighting about doughnuts.
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11:41 pm on June 14, 2012

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commenter

Didn’t we just have this?

Oh wait, sorry, that was cupcakes. Completely different.

Carry on.
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6:00 pm on June 14, 2012

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Benedict

1. Click link from twitter
2. Search and find the word “bacon”
3. Close window.

NO MORE BACON IN DOUGHNUTS. YOU ARE KILLING YOURSELF PALATE-FIRST!
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3:51 pm on June 14, 2012

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Colleen

LOVE Glory Hole Doughnuts…especially the lemon meringue, and the PB&J, and the bacon/Maple, and the apple pie…you know what? ALL of Ashley’s flavours are amazing. Can’t wait until her shop is open.
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2:25 pm on June 14, 2012

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hjli

There is nothing special about Glory Hole doughnuts. The actual doughnut is just like eating fried bread. Krispy Kreme doughnuts are even more special than Glory Hole.

Has anyone at The Grid tried doughnuts by Sweet Escapes in Distillery District?
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1:57 pm on June 14, 2012

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S.D

Considering doughnuts ARE friend dough, then they should taste at least a little bit like fried bread. To compare a gourmet, hand made doughnut to something made from chemicals shows exactly what hjli’s palate is like. Garbage. I have yet to try a Glory Hole doughnut, but I will not be trusting the opinion of someone who even put Krispy Kreme in the same sentence as doughnut. If you want to eat pastry shortening and high fructose corn syrup toppings, be my guest. I’m going to stick to delicious fried dough and real ingredients. Seriously, can Hji even make a doughnut?
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5:44 pm on June 14, 2012

David

You would think a Canadian publication would adhere to CP style, right? It’s spelled ‘doughnuts.’
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1:47 pm on June 14, 2012

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