Tom C.
Yelp
For years I've heard that Tim Horton's is Canada's version of Dunkin' Donuts. Dunkin' Donuts sucks, so I never had any interest in trying Tim Horton's. Not to mention that Houston is home to Shipley's Donuts - the greatest donuts in the whole world. Shipley's also serves beignets, kolaches, bear claws, cinnamon rolls, strudels... all kinds of sweet pastries that will eventually kill you, but sure make your short life more enjoyable. And if that's not enough, Houston has weirdo donut places like Voodoo Donuts where you can get a fruity pebble cheesecake donut. There's also super-fancy donut joints like River Oaks Donuts, where you can get the most gourmet donuts of all time, or piping hot kolaches with Prasek's sausage!
Houston is a donut town. Why would Tim Horton's enter this market that previously kicked the crap out of Krispy Kreme? There's a Dunkin two miles west that's been on life support since it opened six years ago. No idea. Doesn't make any sense.
I kept driving past this new Tim Horton's that has opened up on Westheimer, east of Fondren. One morning I thought to myself, "why the hell not?" I made a u-turn and pulled into their small parking lot. Full size trucks don't fit well in their spaces.
Clean store with friendly staff. I ordered a cup of their Original Blend coffee black and a chocolate dipped donut. The coffee tasted like pea soup. I hate pea soup. Awful. The donut was ok. Not good, not bad. Nothing to write home about.
Two days later, a friend insisted we try Tim Horton's. This time I tried the cold brew vanilla cream concoction. It was ok. I sampled her orange tangerine chiller, or whatever it was called. Too sweet. Unnecessary. We tried the waffle egg sandwich with sausage, plain cake donut, chocolate iced donut, apple fritter, honey cruller, and an assortment of donut holes with the peppermint bark donut hole. Everything wast just a whole bunch of ok. Do Canadians say, "meh"? It was all meh.
You're better off going to the Shipley's a half mile west of there. That is if you want to eat donuts (which are really bad for you). If you're going to eat junk - do it right and make it worth it.