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. read more