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7 reviews for Tiny Tom Donuts
7 reviews in English
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Review from Rosie S.
12/10/2011
YUMYUMYUMYUMYUM!!!
The classic. The unforgettable. The everlasting. The addictive. My fave of the four (toasty, warm, fabulous) flavours is the traditional icing sugar. I make a total disaster of myself. It's awesome.
Did you know you can get Tiny Tom's to come to you for an event??? Dangerous knowledge. This was just revealed to me at a company Holiday Party. I cannot plan any parties, ever, EVER again.
Food trucks are cool now, whatever! The Tiny Tom "Donutmobile" has been cool since 1960!
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Review from Melissa S.
Toronto, ON
8/24/2011
I am drooling as I write this just thinking about my last Tiny Tom Donuts encounter. I went here (to the store on Denison) a couple of weeks ago, on a weekday, around 2pm and there was no one there! It's a good thing because it was during my work, so I couldn't be standing around waiting in a line for too long.
The guy who took my order and made my donuts was very nice and put the order through quickly. It is interesting to watch the donuts being made right in front of you, but I've seen it so many times as a kid and try not to look at it anymore as you start thinking about HOW BAD IT IS FOR YOU! :P
After it's coated in apple cinnamon sugar, you forget about the large vat of oil it was just soaked into and just enter into a giant sugar coma. OMG I'm so glad my office is not TOO close to this place, it would be dangerous. I will definitely be going back, maybe once a month or every other month.
It's fantastic! -
Review from Jennifer K.
Markham, ON
Finally Finally I am at Tiny Tom Donuts! This nice fellow greet with and ask what I like? 8 Tiny Tom please...
Making them fresh and seeing it coming out of the machine is just awesome... (I do wish I did not see the oil that they were deep fried in! OK.. just a few of those won't kill me.. I can go do 5 more yoga classes to get rid of that!)
For the flavours I just want to keep it nice and simple with just icing sugar. I have to agreed with Neil T.. the smell of Tiny Tom Donuts reminds me of funnel cake from Wonderland.. but I like funnel cake way better than Tiny Tom.......
The nice fellow gave me oh 11 donuts for the price of eight!.. hey that is so nice of him. Tiny Tom are great for sharing. When I took them to the office and let my coworkers have one or 2 of these little babies.. they all went on sugar high and so happy rest of the evening!Listed in: Dessert! Dessert! I want…
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Review from sarah l.
From: Sarah Lindsay [slindsay@company.com]
To: "tinytom@rogers.com" [tinytom@rogers.com]
Sent: Wed, October 7, 2009 9:33:03 AM
Subject: public events
Hello,
I missed you at nuit blanche and I almost cried. I maybe cried a little.
Are there are public events in Toronto I can catch you at this month or in November?
Sarah Lindsay
From: tinytom@rogers.com [mailto:tinytom@rogers.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 5:12 PM
To: Sarah Lindsay
Subject: Re: public events
Hi Lindsay,
We will be opening a permanent retail store at the south east corner of Woodbine and Denison (3 blocks north of Steeles east off Woodbine) around the second week of November. Please watch our website, http://tinytomdonuts.com as the time draws nearer.
Tom
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The email exchange above is not a joke. It has been formatted to fit your screen, but I have been looking forward to today since October 7th 2009. Not only is it my 100th review, but it's about mini donuts.
My love affair with the hot, cinnamon sugar mistress known as the mini-donut started in Winnipeg in the early 1990s. "The Forks" is a shopping centre and skating rink located at the confluence of the Red and Assinibione Rivers just outside of downtown. There is a mini-donut factory inside that we never left without visiting (appropriately called 'mini-donut factory').
The best thing about mini-donuts is that they are often the output of a Goldberg Machine. A Goldberg machine is a series of overly complex convoluted steps to accomplish a seemingly simple task. The donuts are precisely and automatically squirted out of a nozzle into the oil then start their journey through the oil spiral, onto the conveyor belt, into the bag where they're seasoned with cinnamon and sugar and into my tummy. http://www.twitvid.com...
The mini donuts at Tiny Tom's retail location left nothing to be desired. They were everything I hoped and expected them to be. It's way out in Markham/Unionville but it was SO worth the drive this morning to close day 365 of 2009 with these fried doughy delights and my 100th review.
[fireworks]. -
Review from Roma M.
5/4/2010
I tried my first Tiny Tom donut today after sarah l's solid recommendation, and I'm so thrilled to share it. This donut is like no other. Trust, as these are the words of a self-proclaimed donut fiend.
Judge not the size, for each donut at Tiny Tom's could easily be about a fourth of a Tim Hortons' donut, but the freshness is incomparable.
I'm sitting here, savouring the cinnamon goodness that was sprinkled on freshly dished bite sizes nom noms. You have a choice of four flavours; cinnamon, icing sugar, something I can't recall (yeah, that's right. They had me at 'cinnamon') and chocolate.
The store itself has the tricky-est hours. Pokaroo? I tried to make it before closing for the last two days (not in a row, though. They're not open on Sundays) and finally scored today.
Cash only.Listed in: Seventh Heaven
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Review from Neil T.
Toronto, ON
8/12/2010
I drove by this place a few weeks ago nestled up in a quasi-dodgy industrial area. I glanced at the sign and made a U-turn to see what all the hype (thanks Sarah L.) was about.
I opted for the classic -- icing sugar donuts. Just a dozen. It was interesting to see them being made fresh from this dough dispensing vat. The aroma reminded me of fresh funnel cake from Canada's Wonderland that I used to love so much.
On with the verdict: it was ok. Just ok. It didn't deliver on texture (the dough didn't seem cooked fully, and it stuck to the insides of my mouth) or value. For $3.50, you get 12 bite sized donuts. In comparison, I could take this $3.50 and invest it in three egg tarts, a Jamaican beef patty, and a mini empanada...and still have change to give to a crazy homeless person. -
Review from Flouny S.
Toronto, ON
9/1/2011
I would give zero if I could.
The guy working there is surly and arrogant. When I asked if I could get a few donuts without any sugar he scoffed at me and then told me they don't split flavours. What's the big difference? Bottom line, I told him it was my first time at their location outside of the CNE. Whenever I've gone to the cne I have never had any problems getting a few plain ones in my dozen. If it was a cost reduce measure fine I can see why they would want to save a bag. But it wasn't even that because he was going to give me a bag. Fine I ask if he can put sugar into the extra bag, starts getting grouchy. Says "I've already told you this, I don't know what it will take for you to understand, one flavour for a bag. That's why we give you a bag to split it up whatever you like". So I take two donuts out plain and then ask him to put sugar on them. Does it and gives me attitude "you just made me do what I told you we don't do"? Is it just me or am I missing something here? I simply asked if I could have a few plain. I'm not wasting an extra bag or extra toppings on their part so what's the big deal?
I think this place has gotten the mentality that they are so good that people have to adhere to their rules. The Customer is not always right even though the customer is the one that is paying them and keeping them in business.
Oh and they don't bother labeling your flavours. I got apple and cinnamon and they are very similar in appearence, needless to say the person it was intended for didn't get their whole dozen because we had to taste to figure out which it was.
They are cheaper here than the CNE but you get attitude with it. Definitely won't returning to this hell hole. Their reduced hours indicates that it's a matter of time before they shut down because of a lack of business.
Not worth the drive. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
