Tim Horton’s a Canadian doughnut place that, I’m told, is awesome. The chain opened 12 locations in NYC today, prompting excited people to email us about it. Example: “Tim Hortons is in NYC! Tim Horton’s takes Manhattan! Exciting! Let’s tell the world!” The world has now been told, but help us out here — what should New Yorkers order on their first trip to Tim Horton’s? [Tim Horton's] (Thanks, Dave!)
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Tim bits & an ice cap!
Double Double FTW
Tim Horton’s in the USA? What’s next, ice hockey catching on in America?
[Kidding. I love hockey! (No sarcasm!)]
I haven’t found any donuts anywhere that I’ve cared for, whether it be Krispy Kreme, Tim Horton’s or Dunkin Donuts. I’d just go for one of their BLT subs. They tend to have pretty nice sandwiches, and their other, non-donut pastries are pretty good too. It depends on if you’re looking at one of the smaller or larger Tim Horton’s shops. The larger ones are going to, of course, be better in general.
Sour Cream Timbits. YUMMMM
I’m not a coffee drinker so I avoid the DoubleDouble.
@CapitalC: I prefer dark no sugar and couldn’t drink a Double Double (double cream, double sugar). I shake my head in disbelief when I hear someone order a 4×4.
Here in Lansing, MI Dunkin Doughnuts went out of business a while ago and haven’t come back. KK went out too. A couple of years ago Tim Horton’s come in and built 12 stores all over town. They are never very busy and I wonder how they stay in business, but they do. They pride themselves on never having a pot of coffee more than 20 minutes old, though I find that greatly depends on the location. Some places it’s always good and others it always crap. The doughnuts are the mass produced variety described before. The food is decent and their places are always in a welcome, clean state. They aren’t all ghettoized like Mikey D’s and BK.
Quality Dariy has the best doughnuts to me. Sorry, if you don’t live around here you won’t know what that means…
The donuts are ok. Most of the food is a little overpriced for what you get. The inside of the store isn’t anything special, so I just use the drive through. But the coffee is what keeps you coming back. Get me a xl triple triple, and we’ll be good friends until I run out.
We have several Timmy Hohos here in Maine. Dunkin makes better donuts, though.
Thank god – we need more competition in the coffee/snack chain market. DD’s and Starbucks have a stranglehold on New England.
It will be interesting to see how well they do… Foods like coffee and donuts are a very regional taste and have vicious loyalties.
I am not much of a coffee drinker, but I have discovered Timy’s “iced cap” and French vanilla… both are great for the price. From a food standpoint the donuts are good and thankfully they have returned to a sane portion size (they got huge when KK tried to break into the Ontario market a few years back). Their lunch offerings are a great change from the burger joints.
Good luck NY and give Timy’s a try.
A large butter caramel iced cappuchino…..So good on a summer day! Nom Nom Nom
Oh Man. The closest Tim’s is 25 miles from my house. I was in their area today doing a training, and they folks at my class brought Tim’s muffins. The blueberry was very good. I love their pumpkin donut, but it’s a seasonal thing. The key lime could have been lime-ier for my tastes. Love that they serve on real plates. They have a better selection than Krispy Kremes, and do not remind me of Fat Elvis, so Tim’s wins.
For some reason, I just find TH to be cleaner, simpler and (when it comes to non-donut food) quite a bit healthier than the typical fast food franchise. I wonder what the prices are in the US compared to Canada.
“what should New Yorkers order on their first trip to Tim Horton’s?”
uh, to head due north?
oh.
off the menu…?
no clue.
Awesome? I don’t think I agree. It’s a place which sells dirt cheap mini donuts (a crappy kind of food no matter how good they taste) and terrible coffee.
Just a heads up: if their coffee is the same down there as it is up here… it’s like crack.
I’m not a coffee person (I like my chai tea and such) but I’ve groaned out loud after a sip of Timmy’s coffee. It plays across the tongue like a good smooth dark chocolate.
Chocolate Milk Iced Cappuccino, with a Honey Cruller
And the breakfast sandwich.
Now, I have had American Tim Horton’s before, no where near as good as in Canada; where there’s one for every 16,500 people.
We have 17 in my city, with 100,000 people.
a Double Double and some timbits, for sure.
I like their ice coffee more than Dunkin Donuts’ ice coffee. Their Butter Caramel is particular good.
I am a canadian, and tim horton’s is bullshit (you can picture me looking like penn jillette with a mountie hat clubbing a seal if it suits.) they don’t make their stuff freshly in the store any more and the breakfast sandwiches taste like chemicals. they are cheap, though. i am gobsmacked when i go to small towns and have to shop at one at how cheap their bagels are. they still barely qualify as food, though. also, the coffee is bad. hospital vending machine bad.
The website says that freshness is their passion, but most of the stuff is frozen, including the doughnuts.
The coffee’s good and cheap, that’s what it’s all about.
In fact everything is pretty cheap, the chain appeals to people who want a cheap lunch, but who don’t want burgers. Amazingly, it’s rare to see someone buy doughnuts anymore.
I noticed a lot of the comments on here are about the doughnuts… which i agree suck….
I am a Canadian who has traveled through the eastern U.S. And have NEVER found a decent coffee except at some obscure truck stops in the middle of nowhere…
Every Starbucks coffee i’ve had has been burnt and rotts your gut and the only time i have had dunkin coffee it was so awful i couldn’t even finish it.
If you want to experience Timmy’s order a double double, the coffee is what it’s all about for us Canadians, It’s cold up here eh?
Just what Americans (the majority are malnourished) need: more coffee and junk-food.