Owner Barbara Fazio and pastry chef-partner pastry Erica Coffee are thrilled to debut their lineup of classic, contemporary and custom creations. These are fresh-made, from-scratch donuts that use quality ingredients, toppings and fillings.
“I’ve been a donut-crazed person my whole life,” Fazio confesses. “I remember walking home from elementary school and using my lunch money to buy that perfect maple cream Long John. I travel and eat donuts in cities like Chicago and Seattle and I always wonder why isn’t anybody doing it here. It’s crazy!”
Customers can look forward to classic donuts glazed with strawberry, chocolate, lemon poppy and more. Cake donuts come in flavors such as chocolate with mint chocolate glaze, caramel apple spice and German chocolate. Custom creations run the gamut from “everything bagel” to mixed berry. Buttercream-topped Long Johns will be filled with maple, chocolate and vanilla. Donut holes will be sold by the dozen and half-dozen.
All of the above donuts are of the yeast and cake varieties; the trickier brioche-style confections will debut in the coming weeks, says Fazio.
The shop is mainly designed for grab-and-go transactions, but there are coffee and espresso beverages and seating for about 15.
“I’m very excited and happy to be working with Erica because not only is she so talented, but she is so great to work with,” Fazio says.
The hours are Tuesday-Friday 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. (or until sold out) and Saturday-Sunday 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. (or until sold out).
This article appears in Sep 13-19, 2017.
Good luck Barb. I’ll try and get over there but it’s a long ride from Shaker.
Barbara, your friends in Tennessee wish you and your partner great success! We’re sure Cleveland will love having your delicious pastries to look forward to in the mornings!
They were sold out the three times I tried to get in there last week. Finally yesterday I was able to taste a donut. After waiting 10 minutes in line, with 10 more people behind me, when it was my turn, , they only had 5 donuts left. I asked why they don’t have any inventory and they said we are a new business. The glazed donut I tried was heavy, not very tasty and overpriced for $2.50. Business 101: You need inventory to sell if you want to make money. You had a week to know how wildly popular your overpriced donuts are and the novelty has not worn off so make enough donuts before people no longer patronize your business. They should try some decent donuts like Bills in Centerville which has been around for 3 decades and has hundreds of people in line every day, enough inventory and enough people working there, Also, their donuts are $1.00. Once the novelty wears off, you will need to try harder to stay open. I am not a hater and want them to succeed but they won’t be around long based on my experience with them.