Global Donuts & Deli

Before most of Sarnia is awake, the fryer is already going on London Line and the case is filling with the day's first donuts. Global Donuts & Deli is a donut shop first — assorted made-fresh rings, a Mega Apple Fritter, Orbit donut holes by the bag — but the counter behind it turns the same address into a lunch stop, with ham and turkey sandwiches built thick enough to earn the word mega, homestyle soup, and chili. The result is less a cafe than a working bakery that also feeds Sarnia lunch, open from six in the morning to ten at night, seven days a week.

The bakery case is where the shop shows its range. Beyond the assorted donuts and the apple fritter there are butter tarts and muffins that have been in the rotation for decades, cinnamon rolls, and a donut-of-the-day that changes with what the bakers feel like frying that morning. The fritter alone comes in more than one form, and the lineup rarely looks the same two mornings running. Once a year the case gives itself over to Poonchkis — the Polish paczki, filled and fried — which Global has grown from a single pre-Lenten tradition into a week-long event and a standing Tuesday every month.