donuts!

[adularia]

Indulgent brandwhoring, with added Canada-envy: They replaced the Dunk's at 86th and Lexington with Tim Horton's!

I can has edible donuts nao. It's next to a bakery, which has inferior bread, but really, really good short pastries; H&H is a few blocks south. My neighborhood may be terrible for coffee and wifi, but it has its bread products figured

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[cow]

I got an e-mail with many capital letters from a Seattle friend when that happened; she is quite offended that NYC has a Tim's and Seattle still doesn't. Heh.

Between donuts and banks, Canada shall conquer all...or something. :3

[adularia]

teferi told me it's more about a franchising problem for the holding company that pays rent on a bunch of former Dunk's locations. They lost a DD contract and had to find a new franchise or let the locations stand empty.

Well, darn.

(for added lulz, supposedly it's about DD deciding that their rigorous quality standards were not being enforced.)

[cow]

DD has rigorous quality standards? The more you know, I guess. }:D

[feylike]

(1) hm, i didn't realize Tim Horton's did business in the U.S. at all.
(2) teferi sounded like an oddly familiar username, then i realized that i had seen that name before in one of my friends' journals (haven't met him personally, though). small world...

[phinnia]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

if i can't have one in seattle, i'm glad there's one near you. *kisses*

[gfish]

Heehee, I was meaning to point that out to you.

I'm curious if the one/one, double/double terminology catches on there.

[adularia]

I'll have to visit tomorrow and see if I hear it.

What's the approved way to express "milk, no sugar"? Does one/zero get understood? My usual doctoring is apparently VERY odd by the standards of everyone who makes me coffee.

[gfish]

Hrm, I'm not sure. I've never heard it attempted.

[digitalemur]

Mmmmmmm, Tim's.

[ilmarinen]

As far as I could tell, NYC generally fails at Coffee. Which shocked me.

[adularia]

It really does. There are a few dedicated coffee shops. Think Coffee is the only one in Manhattan that doesn't close at 8pm or earlier.

A few of the bagel delis have good coffee. Most are mediocre, but they mask it with lots of milk. Dunkin' Donuts coffee is horrible. Street cart coffee is mostly horrible. I've grown used to the sensation that I'm drinking some beverage similar to but not actually coffee, but every so often it still tastes like gym socks.

[stolen_tea]

A barista friend of mine has complained about the lack of decent coffee in NY, but grumbles that the local culture doesn't fit well with the relaxed coffee-shop atmosphere on the west coast. I can hit him up for some recommendations, though, if you'd like?

[adularia]

Well, I've found the good coffee. I just haven't found many places that support the lingering-with-wifi aspect of West Coast coffee culture. Joe, Fika, Telegraphe, and Gimme all close at 8 or earlier.

Also, people here suffer from the clearly wrong idea that "coffee shops" serve burgers and omelets and make espresso badly if at all. WRONG, I say.