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| - Oh, I just giiive 5 stars to every place that's vegan, right? Wrong! I give 5 stars to places that are vegan, awesome, AND have *#%$ing donuts.
If you know me well, you'll know that whenever the discussion of what Toronto lacks comes up, I talk about two things: bike lanes and vegan donuts.
Other than the par excellence vegan and gf Homer Simpson-style cake donuts produced by Tori's Bakeshop in the Beaches, there was no one place you could go to any day of the week and buy a vegan donut in this city. Nadda one!
Toronto being the unhip brother to NYC, SF, Austin, and Portland, means that when someone opens a hipster donut shop here, not only does it pale to it's southern neighbours but it never has any vegan offerings. Just tired old bacon, which has been played out so many times I'm starting to wonder how much the pork industry is paying people to make their Twitter bio about it.
The problem with Tori's is that if you live anywhere other than the Beach, you're unlikely to get one of those donuts before they sell out (roughly 2pm people). Bunner's decided to only make donuts on Saturdays (which makes me sad), Snakes & Lattes let go their best vegan donut girl and espresso guy, so they're dead to me, Urban Herbivore discontinued their vegan donut after a month, and Sadie's gets a very bready tasting donut delivered from, get this, St. Catherine's every Thursday at like 2pm, which is way too late for donut-coffee-newspaper (digital, of course) business like I was taught by Lady & the Tramp.
Toronto is so hard up for vegan donuts that we have to import them from St. Catherine's of all places? Hot Beans got rid of their boston creams and I actually haven't set foot inside the place since. The owner even messaged me to have me remove my photo of them, like they never existed!
Well, this is where my griping and donut dearth ends forever, hopefully! In comes Through Being Cool (named for Save's the Day, not Devo) and in Bloordale no less, an accessible neighbourhood to people that are not millionaires, where the rent is still low, but things are looking up.
They're selling frozen pierogies stuffed with potato and cheddar, or mushroom and sauerkraut, pot pies, enchiladas, and ravioli with tvp or ricotta. Gluten-free mac 'n cheese in the fridge, and fresh baked pizza buns, pretzels, (if you're lucky) pretzel dogs (if you're luckier), cupcakes, brownies, scones, cookies, preserves, pickles, dog treats, coffee and did I $%^ing mention the donuts? God. damn. vegan. donuts. And they're fried, not baked.
I didn't become a vegan, because I have an allergy or I'm a health nut. Finally, there's an amazing vegan bakery that practically oozes sugar and wheat! Thank you donut gawds for smiling upon me!
Update: I was the very first to debit machine. There is one now, but it's more important that you know that I won that race.
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