Donut shops, EVERYWHERE!

5rtytry56 · 20-10-2017 02:37PM

elefant wrote: »

Connoiseur Fancy versions of blue-collar food is so hot right now.

Fyp.

sheroman01 · 20-10-2017 02:48PM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I f*cking love doughnuts.

Thought you preferred baps?

Are Am Eye · 20-10-2017 02:58PM

5rtytry56 wrote: »

Guess these people are going to take all this thread lying down so.

They're scared to debate because there's a big hole in their argument.

_Dara_ · 20-10-2017 03:18PM

5rtytry56 wrote: »

Eight pages in and still no sign of an angry reaction from a fan of these doughnut shops or an "entrepreneur" who runs such establishment.
No real 'bun fight' in their bellies;

5rtytry56 wrote: »

Guess these people are going to take all this thread lying down so.

Are you trying to goad imagined readers into coming on here to defend the fad?

super_furry · 20-10-2017 03:20PM

I know of one that I'd be fairly sure is being used for money laundering. The rest are just weird.

5rtytry56 · 20-10-2017 03:35PM

sheroman01 wrote: »

Thought you preferred baps?

Good point, his handle isn't
"Detonating Donut" is it?

imme · 20-10-2017 08:47PM

Or stupidity if you prefer!

Stupid people can't stop opening donut shops

and even stupider people can't stop buying donuts.

McCrack · 20-10-2017 08:55PM

I get the impression there are certain posters on this terribly bitter at other people running businesses and making bread

dr.fuzzenstein · 21-10-2017 05:47AM

This is Ireland. You're supposed to wear a checked shirt with jeans, drink tae and eat hang sangers.
When out you're allowed Guinness, Budweiser and Heineken. There's Carlsberg but nobody drinks that because it tastes of beer.
Afterwards the approved snack is curry chips and maybe a shnack box.
There's one sort of bread, cheese and sausages, anything else is foreign muck. Garlic is something you give to horses.
Anything else ("ethnic " food) is viewed with suspicion. Sauce comes strictly and exclusively from a bottle. It's called ketchup in the rest of the world.
There are of courses some people who have broadened their horizon beyond the above and they eat strange and wonderful stuff, but you guys wouldn't understand...

James 007 · 21-10-2017 06:20AM

laugh wrote: »

It takes 45 minutes just to get inside this place in Portland, Oregon at busy times.

Why dont they remove the 3 steps from outside the premises and everyone could get in, in less than a minute.

_Dara_ · 21-10-2017 09:51AM

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

This is Ireland. You're supposed to wear a checked shirt with jeans, drink tae and eat hang sangers.
When out you're allowed Guinness, Budweiser and Heineken. There's Carlsberg but nobody drinks that because it tastes of beer.
Afterwards the approved snack is curry chips and maybe a shnack box.
There's one sort of bread, cheese and sausages, anything else is foreign muck. Garlic is something you give to horses.
Anything else ("ethnic " food) is viewed with suspicion. Sauce comes strictly and exclusively from a bottle. It's called ketchup in the rest of the world.
There are of courses some people who have broadened their horizon beyond the above and they eat strange and wonderful stuff, but you guys wouldn't understand...

What Ireland do you live in? People have long since moved outside that template. “Gourmet” donuts are just gussied up things that look a lot better than they taste. And having a discerning palette is what would help someone realise that.

MarkY91 · 21-10-2017 11:20AM

joe stodge wrote: »

A cat café is either opening or opened in Smithfield.

poxy cats everywhere while I'm trying to eat, nice...

I was at a dog cafe in Vietnam. It was cool to try out. I always said that they should open one in Dublin. A cat cafe is close enough.

Billy86 · 21-10-2017 11:28AM

laugh wrote: »

(Stumptown Coffee)

It takes 45 minutes just to get inside this place in Portland, Oregon at busy times.

Surely I can't be the only one who thought that was The Grand Social by the Ha'penny Bridge? I even had to Google to be sure because I missed the line beneath about it being in the US!

On that note, one 'hipster' food trend that is outrageously tasty is bacon in donuts/pastries with caramel or chocolate (which I thought would be rank before I tried it). Picked it up in Canada where I'm not even sure it is a hipster thing, those lads will lash bacon into quite literally just about anything they can get their hands on.

dirtyden · 21-10-2017 11:32AM

The shack in cork do some really tasty donuts.

Three for 8 Euros and worth it. I am all for this new fad if that is what it is being called now. Their red velvet is delicious.

Someone in Ireland will always moan about something different. I am pretty sure there was most likely some miserable sod whining about fish and chips 60 odd years ago.

LuckyLloyd · 21-10-2017 11:36AM

Arghus wrote: »

Doughnuts are great. I fail to see the problem.

€4 for a large coffee and doughnut in the morning at Off Beat in Pearse Station. Really makes the morning commute a lot more delicious

Billy86 · 21-10-2017 11:38AM

dirtyden wrote: »

The shack in cork do some really tasty donuts.

Three for 8 Euros and worth it. I am all for this new fad if that is what it is being called now. Their red velvet is delicious.

Someone in Ireland will always moan about something different. I am pretty sure there was most likely some miserable sod whining about fish and chips 60 odd years ago.

You'd need to go back further than that I'd imagine (and I agree, there surely was!), I could be wrong but think those chippers came with a big slew of Italian immigrants to Wales in particular all the way back in the 19th century, with them and their descendants moving out from there to the rest of the UK and Ireland over the following years. I could be wrong on that but have a vague memory of reading it in a random chipper thread here or somewhere along those lines. I found it kind of interesting because I was always mystified about how chippers are seen as 'Italian' before then.

Not mad on paying that much for a donut myself, only went to Aungier Danger of all of them and once at that at the end of a long, long day in miserable weather where I was waiting on the bus and just wanted to throw on a movie and have some comfort junk food. I really don't get why it gets some peoples' backs up so much though.

_Dara_ · 21-10-2017 11:41AM

dirtyden wrote: »

The shack in cork do some really tasty donuts.

Three for 8 Euros and worth it. I am all for this new fad if that is what it is being called now. Their red velvet is delicious.

Someone in Ireland will always moan about something different. I am pretty sure there was most likely some miserable sod whining about fish and chips 60 odd years ago.

I’d say someone in any country in the world will moan about something different. Wouldn’t you think?

dirtyden · 21-10-2017 11:45AM

_Dara_ wrote: »

I’d say someone in any country in the world will moan about something different. Wouldn’t you think?

Your most likely right.

dirtyden · 21-10-2017 11:47AM

Billy86 wrote: »

You'd need to go back further than that I'd imagine (and I agree, there surely was!), I could be wrong but think those chippers came with a big slew of Italian immigrants to Wales in particular all the way back in the 19th century, with them and their descendants moving out from there to the rest of the UK and Ireland over the following years. I could be wrong on that but have a vague memory of reading it in a random chipper thread here or somewhere along those lines. I found it kind of interesting because I was always mystified about how chippers are seen as 'Italian' before then.

Not mad on paying that much for a donut myself, only went to Aungier Danger of all of them and once at that at the end of a long, long day in miserable weather where I was waiting on the bus and just wanted to throw on a movie and have some comfort junk food. I really don't get why it gets some peoples' backs up so much though.

I was having a stab in the dark at timing on the chipper intro to Ireland.

_Dara_ · 21-10-2017 11:48AM

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

€4 for a large coffee and doughnut in the morning at Off Beat in Pearse Station. Really makes the morning commute a lot more delicious

I think there is a market for a handful of shops to sell fancy donuts at that price point. Aungier Danger, Offbeat, The Rolling Donut. But there is such a glut of them now that I think we will see some of them disappear quite soon, especially the ones with inferior products for overinflated price tags. I think that has started happening in Cork already.

For me personally, €3 is way too much for a non-essential baked good. Like said, I think there is a small cohort who will happily pay that and I think that we’ll see a settling of donut shop numbers to cater to that cohort.

LuckyLloyd · 21-10-2017 11:58AM

_Dara_ wrote: »

I think there is a market for a handful of shops to sell fancy donuts at that price point. Aungier Danger, Offbeat, The Rolling Donut. But there is such a glut of them now that I think we will see some of them disappear quite soon, especially the ones with inferior products for overinflated price tags. I think that has started happening in Cork already.

For me personally, €3 is way too much for a non-essential baked good. Like said, I think there is a small cohort who will happily pay that and I think that we’ll see a settling of donut shop numbers to cater to that cohort.

They *are* expensive, and the mark up is pretty incredible. That said, you can get 3 in a box for €8 and it’s an easy winner if you’re dropping in to someone or fancy a treat with your tea. We eat with our eyes after all, and they look great (I prefer the simpler variations myself).

The coffee “craze” wasn’t a passing fad after all. And with that very bedded in across Ireland now, I think gourmet doughnuts was almost an inevitable fad. As you say, it will pare itself down and bed in as a staple.

_Dara_ · 21-10-2017 12:05PM

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

They *are* expensive, and the mark up is pretty incredible. That said, you can get 3 in a box for €8 and it’s an easy winner if you’re dropping in to someone or fancy a treat with your tea. We eat with our eyes after all, and they look great (I prefer the simpler variations myself.

That’s my problem with them, they look great and the taste tends not to match, I find. They’re grand.

Gimme the 80c freshly-made sugared donut from the Rolling Donut stand on O’Connell Street any day. €4 for 6 and that includes the chocolate ones too. WINNER!

spurious · 21-10-2017 12:13PM

Wasn't there a Dunkin' Donuts died a death in the 80s (or maybe 90s) on O'Connell Street?

We must not have been ready for the culinary delights.

Skerries · 21-10-2017 12:14PM

suicide_circus wrote: »

Shout out for the Nine One One Donut place under the UCD library back in the day.

I used to work there when they were Dunkin Donuts but later went out on their own as Nine One One

Agent Coulson · 21-10-2017 12:19PM

Avoca's donuts are where it's at.

DaveyDave · 21-10-2017 12:29PM

There was a nice one in Arnotts that to be fair was the freshest I've had but it's gone, because we don't need donuts on every corner. The one on Liffey St tastes like crap as does Off Beat.

People think they're great. I hate them. Why do they have signs up 2 for €5, 4 for €10 and 6 for €15...not going to try do a deal there?

Don't get me started on the ones with an inch of Nutella slabbed on top, that's not even nice but people are "omg Nutella!" Until it tastes like you're eating cement and need a jug of water with it.

I'm a fan of Dunkin Donuts. 99c donuts, 6 for $4 between 2pm and 6pm and a box of 12 for $8 all day long. A $2.20, medium iced coffee with a donut is also $2 between 2-6pm. Someone should franchise Dunkin Donuts here and just sell some good ol' 99c donuts. But this is Ireland, they will be at least €2...

There's a market for a proper donut shop. Sick of these poxy hipster donuts. €2 for a fcking Boston Creme? That's a classic, basic donut...

_Dara_ · 21-10-2017 12:38PM

Ha, hell yea on the Nutella comment. Concoctions that sound great but are really just sickly or bland or just generally poorly executed.

Quality rant, sir. I agree, simplicity is best when it comes to donuts.

RasTa · 21-10-2017 01:30PM

Muffins are far nicer

_Dara_ · 21-10-2017 02:10PM

RasTa wrote: »

Muffins are far nicer

+1, if they are well-made, give me a muffin any day over a donut. A much nicer away to waste calories.

Muffins have more staying power too since they became popular in Ireland in the '90s.

21-10-2017 03:29PM

spurious wrote: »

Wasn't there a Dunkin' Donuts died a death in the 80s (or maybe 90s) on O'Connell Street?

We must not have been ready for the culinary delights.

There was one at the bottom of Grafton st also. I never understood why they closed. Ireland's love for real coffee hadn't really taken off at that point so maybe that was part of it.

Donut shops, EVERYWHERE!

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