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rfmcdonaldVisiting Summerside on my vacation felt odd. The last time I was in Summerside, Prince Edward Island's second and smaller city in the western portion of the Island, I was 17 and being trained to work for PEI Tourism. Before that, I had scarcely seen Summerside at all.
But, it was the end of the Summerside Lobster Festival, and the Summerside Bakin' Donuts at 48 Water Street was one of the places advertised as offering a lobster roll for sale, so why not? I went with my parents.
The food and coffee were decent. The lobster rolls, with their sides of potato salad and coleslaw, were tasty, and the coffee good. It was pretty much what you'd expect from a decent small-town Maritimes coffee shop.
I found the place most enjoyable for its social environment. The Water Street Bakin' Donuts is part of a chain covering western Prince Edward Island, from Tignish to Kensington. It's a small-town Maritimes coffee shop, and the locals who were in the shop with me and my parents were small-town Maritimes, too. I missed that kind of environment.
But, it was the end of the Summerside Lobster Festival, and the Summerside Bakin' Donuts at 48 Water Street was one of the places advertised as offering a lobster roll for sale, so why not? I went with my parents.
The food and coffee were decent. The lobster rolls, with their sides of potato salad and coleslaw, were tasty, and the coffee good. It was pretty much what you'd expect from a decent small-town Maritimes coffee shop.
I found the place most enjoyable for its social environment. The Water Street Bakin' Donuts is part of a chain covering western Prince Edward Island, from Tignish to Kensington. It's a small-town Maritimes coffee shop, and the locals who were in the shop with me and my parents were small-town Maritimes, too. I missed that kind of environment.
