Daddy O Doughnuts

Bakery: Daddy O Doughnuts & British Baked Goods
Address: 589 North Service Rd, Mississauga ON 
Website: http://www.daddyodoughnuts.com/
Style: Doughnuts, British 
Price: $$-$$$

There has to be nothing greater than having a new bakery to try (and subsequently review), especially when you thought you've exhausted most bakery options. Daddy O Doughnuts is a new doughnut shop on North Service Rd by Cawthra, in a thoroughly insignificant and forgettable plaza. With its old-fashioned, soda-shop feel it has charm and it has doughnuts, along with a few savoury more than sweet British classics -- though the omnipresent Eccles cake and empire tarts were there. At $2-something per doughnut, they're a bit expensive, but easily beat Toronto gourmet doughnuts in price as well as taste.

With everything made fresh, there are rotating flavours and all are the same price ($3), so while they have more traditional, basic flavours, it may be worth your while to go all out -- peaches and cream is probably the flavour I would have wanted to try. Ahem, anyways, this time the picks were, clockwise from the bottom: Ferrero Rocher, a jelly doughnut (the Homer?), deep-fried Mars bar, and peanut butter banana (the Elvis?). 

Unexpectedly, the deep-fried Mars bar was the best and different from the others. While the jelly doughnut and Ferrero Rocher, for instance, was made with a classic, fluffy dough, the mars bar was like a dough puff, a bit like a crueller, with good glaze on top. Rich and decadent in most cases, these were flavourful and -- above all -- fresh doughnuts, though some varieties are too small and expensive for what it is. A great addition to the (sometimes not so fresh) Mississauga bakery scene. 

Rating: ***1/2