Patty’s Donuts

I was looking forward to a delicious donut, based on the other reviews here. So I told my brother, who was in town for the day, to meet me there. As of 10am, she was totally sold out of donuts. Not a single one was left. The case only had one croissant, one muffin, and one other thing I can’t remember now. She said they’ve sold out of donuts early a couple other times this week, and she can’t figure out why or when there are spikes of traffic.
Anyhow, this left me an opportunity to peruse the rest of Patty’s offerings. For lunch, she offers hot dogs and hamburgers. As far as drinks go, there is a cooler (in keeping with the gas station motif) full of canned and bottled soft drinks and milk and water. She also has one of those gas station push-​button cappuccino/​coffee makers. And there are a variety of small bags of chips, like the kind you buy in bulk at Costco and put in your kid’s lunch.
Last but not least, the store has pre-​made breakfast burritos, and that’s what I settled on. After nuking, it was hot and filled with potatoes, eggs, unidentifiable meat, and a lot of salt. You know how Altoids advertises being «curiously strong mints»? Well, this burrito was a «curiously salty breakfast». It made me wonder if this is really what the cook intended, or if there was some accident in preparation about about 4x as much salt was added as expected. Maybe someone misread «add 3 teaspoons of salt» as «add 3 tablespoons of salt».
Anyhow, I was hoping for two delicious donuts and a coffee to enjoy there with my brother. Instead, I got one hot, very salty burrito to eat in the car on the drive home.

Keeping it simple. Place was an old gas station. Donuts were delicious and straight forward. There was this one flat square looking one that was amazing!
Not sure what else Unilocal wants me to put down about a donut shop… What else do you need to know? Go!

This is a strange little place. We’d driven by it for a while kind of assuming it was a front for a drug business or something, because why would there be a little tiny donut place attached to a garage or whatever this is, with no real signs or anything to make this look like a place someone might walk into for donuts instead of, say, heroin.
Well, we finally walked on over and went inside, and I can report for sure that this is actually a donut shop. They do have some other things on the menu, but I’m not sure I want a hot dog from here. I’m sure they’re fine, but… I’ll cook my own. The donuts, though, were quite good! It’s not a huge shop, so there’s not a hugely wide variety of donuts, but all your standards are here. We had a couple, and both were surprisingly tasty. Better than Dunkin, but not the best donuts I’ve ever had. The fritter was a little burnt around the edges but had nice apple flavor. The chocolate glazed was tasty.
I would like to give this place 3.5 stars. Nothing mindblowing going on here, but we have so little in the way of businesses in North City Park that I’m happy to have another place to spend some money locally. If you’re driving through a relatively desolate part of York and you see a random Donuts sign, go ahead and stop in. The donuts are good, the owner is friendly, and you may or may not be able to get tires or car repairs while you’re here.

I needed a dozen donuts for a work function and asked Patty to pick out a nice mix. She got it right – glazed, sprinkles, cinnamon, etc – and thus I scored points with the boss. All for 10 bucks. Plus, on the donut box it says, «You deserve a donut»…which isn’t technically true in my case, but certainly made that second donut go down with a lot less guilt. Well played, Patty!