Among Toronto's gut-bursting gourmet doughnut scene, rolls in The Rolling Pin. I don't know why people are so excited about this uptown bakery. Maybe it's the novelty of the syringe some of their doughnuts come with, so you can drizzle your donut with syrup/filling if you like.
Oh that was a fun idea, but gets messy quickly. Their maple bacon doughnut (seems like every donut shop in town has a version of this) is crispy and sweet, mostly bacon bits, but not really maple until you squeeze that dropper loose. Blueberry cheesecake certainly taste like you're eating a cheesecake.
But they're more than just doughnuts. They make many other stuff too. Like other pastry goods. Like macarons, which they don't make a lot of, but go on a regular rotation of flavours and are pretty decent. Mmm, blood orange...
There is quite a lot of space for a sit-down eat and coffee. It rolls me away happy.
{TTC: try the 97 bus. The 97A from York Mills station will plop you right at Yonge St and Yonge Blvd (don't ask me about that one), and you can walk south a bit from there. Aside from street parking, there's a Loblaws a block up if you want to push your lazy luck with parking. And yes I copy-and-pasted most of this line from the nearby Butter Avenue review.}