They call it the Canadian Maple donut here in Canada.
For me it remains the coffee which defines Tim’s identity (of course). It’s so very, very different from Starbucks. It’s not so much Coke and Pepsi as it is Venus and Mars.
Get an extra-large double-double, morning rocket fuel for literally millions of Canadians. Tim Horton’s in NYC? Wow. If it takes off, what a coup.
Iced capps on a hot day. Crack cocaine-levels of addiction.
Their hot chocolate is amazing on cold days.
Their BLT sandwiches are delicious.
As for doughnuts, their maple ones are delicious, the seasonal ones are usually very tasty, the Boston Creme ones are very tasty, and the old-fashioned ones are delicious. If you’d like to make friends, get Timbits and share.
Most of my friends run on large double-doubles. There are four on my school’s campus, and you can’t get near them for the lines. In the mornings they’re stacked fifteen or twenty deep. There’s two Starbucks, but the number of people drinking Tim’s around is easily five or ten times the number drinking Starbucks. Triple-triples are like candy, though. Tim’s is the coffee that I almost couldn’t quit drinking when I kicked caffeine.
Tim Horton’s does not have coffee. It has Coffee. No other coffee is acceptable.
My wife will be ecstatic. She’s a homesick exile from Newfoundland. Tim Horton’s arrival in New York will make her day.
Ontario “large” and Michigan “large” are different sizes, too. That may go for New York as well.
Oh, and there’s no comparing Starbucks burnt, overcooked black coffee with Tim’s. But most people go to Starbucks for the froo-froo coffees anyway.
Get an Ice Capp and a box of Timbits. Eat/Drink outside on a hot day.
This is heaven.
Does this mean there is now some place in the United States that actually brews the fucking tea instead of handing you a teabag and a cup of hot water? I love tea and hate coffee, but a teabag and hot water is as if Starbucks decided to supply a cup of hot water and a spoonful of Sanka to their coffee customers.
I came here just to mention that item.
This afternoon I wanted a cup of coffee, and decided to walk an extra block to their outlet next to Grand Central to give Tim’s a try. I’m afraid I wasn’t all that impressed.
First of all, and this is a major problem, they are being franchised by Reise restaurants, and put into their multi-fast food stores. The one I went to was a small Tim Horton’s counter with a KFC counter next to it (it was formerly a Dunkin Donuts counter). Worse, Riese has the consistently worst customer service in the whole of the restaurant industry. Even though this was their highly touted new addition, and there was a manger standing right there, the clerk could barely handle the two people in front of her buying coffees. I doubt that Tim Horton’s reputation will be burnished by the customer service disasters they universally have working at Reise outlets.
The coffee I got seemed a little bit burned (though the Dunkin Donuts coffee that I prevously got in the same location was sometimes burned a bit as well–I think it was a problem of them not rotating the pots quickly enough). The flavor was OK but it didn’t knock my socks off. The donuts in the case looked tasty, but I wasn’t in the mood for an afternoon snack.
Overall, I think I prefere Dunkin coffee, even Reise-ized. I’ll have to wait to see how the donuts are, though.
Or, as they are known in Quebec, “Bits de Tim”.
Their coffee does have narcotics in it and I don’t care. It is legal and the only coffee out there that I actually like and it doesn’t rape my wallet.
Yeah, I gotta agree with that. Every time I’ve been in one of those combo Dunkin Donuts/KFC-some other chain places, the customer service has been awful. The one in Penn Station, the one on 34th St, etc… I always have to repeat myself several times before they understand what I’m saying, I can barely understand what *they *are saying, and this morning when I went to one of the new Tim Horton’s, they got my order wrong. :rolleyes:
I once had Tim Horton’s in Ohio when I drove to Michigan a few months ago, and I loved the coffee I got there, so I probably will go to another one at some point, see if they are any better staffed.
Do you mean when it started outside of the Maritimes? I was trying to say that it is outside of the Maritimes? Saskatchewan’s had it for…I dunno, I’m not a tea drinker, but at least a year or two.
I have to agree. On my many trips to Niagara Falls, I always headed straight to a Tim Horton’s for a cup of coffee (usually the one on Dorchester near Morrison if anyone’s local to the area). There’s nothing else like it.
I’ve gotten the big cans of coffee and taken them home and they never taste quite the same when I brew it here.
I’m gonna have to make another trip up there soon…it’s been about 5 years since I had a cup of Tim Horton’s. 
Re: cans of Timmies’ coffee not tasting the same at home. My dad once asked a staffer about that. Apparently in the store, they can get the water a lot hotter than we can at home, and that gives the coffee that little extra zip.
I don’t know if that’s the truth, but that’s just what I’ve heard.
TIM BITS! Yay! I told my fiancee (we’re going to honeymoon in NYC) and he insisted we find one and go. Good coffee, good donuts… great TIMBITS!
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It’s Tim Horntons, without the apostrophe. Dual language Canada gone berserk.
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Get a large, black coffee. Their coffee rivals Dunkin Donuts, though I am not sure it’s better.
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NYC didn’t have Tim Horntons before? Weird. I keep forgetting they are not a national chain here in America.
Well, they use the 18% cream.
The machine spits out the exact amount of cream and sugar for the coffee, and has buttons for small through the x-large so each cup has the perfect amount. (I HATED when we ran out of sugar, emptying packets into the machines because it wasn’t the right ratio otherwise… and I am SO glad I didn’t work there when they ran out of coffee!)
My favourites at Tim’s are the dutchies, sour cream glazed and apple fritters. Crullers are best fresh, walnut crunch are best a day or so stale (though they only sell them fresh so you have to buy them and wait…).
Cream soup (broccoli or mushroom, though the hearty vegetable and beef barley are also delicious) and an x-large double double earl grey tea is the best on a cool rainy day. It’s been that way most of this week, maybe tomorrow I’ll indulge…
Actually, it’s Tim Hortons. Not “Horntons”.
I long for apple fritter Timbits and a gooooood cup of coffee. God I miss home. They need to open one in Maryland for me. Or DC - I’d take either.