Made from Scratch

We don’t make our dough from mixes.

We don’t use cheap ingredients, and while we do cut an awful lot of things into more or less circular shapes, we don’t cut corners where it counts.

The only time you’ll catch SuzyQ shopping off the rack is when we’re placing a well-loved commercial comfort food into a meticulously curated context, like a DJ blending your guilty top 40 pleasure into their vinyl-only set of rare breakbeats.

If we can make it in-house, we will, because that’s how we make it our own.

We’re thrilled to be serving unique treats that are unlike any others, anywhere.

But we’re also very humble, so it’s never too smug or obnoxious. Thank goodness!

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Our humble Origins

In February 2012, after some time turning heads at the Parkdale Farmers' Market with bright and buoyant riffs on the traditional Finnish munkki, SuzyQ Doughnuts made our first home in Hintonburg.

We built a kitchen in the back of a charmingly dilapidated shack toward the butt end of one of the up and coming neighbourhood’s most exclusive parking lots, and soon it was a common sight to see a steady stream of fixated snack-seekers wending its way from some vanishing point up Wellington Street West patiently awaiting their turn to enjoy a freshly fried hoop of happiness.

After the Shack

Whether our move up the street to the space formerly occupied by the West End Well Co-Op was motivated more by a need for more kitchen space, a desire to welcome our community inside to stay and sit a spell, or concern that the shack was truly on the verge of sinking into the Earth and disappearing with all of us inside, cannot be known for sure. But that long line of friends trailed cheerfully after us, and we are so grateful that their appetites have only grown, and word has only spread.

Image of three people laying on the grass surrounded by doughnuts

Three is the magic number

Plans were well underway to expand from our single location when a certain not-to-be-named global pandemic forced our hand in 2020. We closed one door, buckled down, regrouped, reimagined, and opened three.

At first just takeaway windows to keep mouths fed during the curbside era, the support of our communities saw us through the time it took our vision to blossom at last:

A state-of-the-art head kitchen in St Laurent, a spacious destination for families in Bells Corners, and a cozy, comfy little coffee shop on the very same block where the shack still stands in Hintonburg.

Tomorrow & Tomorrow

We’ve hosted movie nights and chicken dinners, watched children grow, cracked the code of a perfect vegan-friendly doughnut, and found our people over and over again.

We've put thousands of mini doughnuts into circulation at garden parties for Parliamentarians, raised funds with our flavours for vulnerable neighbours and worthy causes, and even flew a whole kitchen and crew up to Iqaluit in 2024 to take part in the 25th anniversary of Nunavut Day.

What’s next for SuzyQ?

More flavours, more friends, more locations, more laughs.