New café popular spot
Sweet Side of the Moon cooking up treats in downtown Glace Bay
If the thought of a baked fresh doughnut doesn’t get your attention, then you might bypass the Sweet Side of the Moon Bakery and Café.
Although chances are this concept already has your attention and you might just become a regular at Glace Bay’s sweet new business.
The business offers a growing number of freshly made yeast doughnuts in some 30 varieties with plans to launch several more.
The McKeen Street eatery also has a large variety of breads, pies, cookies and pastries that, like those already popular doughnuts, are made fresh daily.
“In my business if people are getting fat, I’m doing my job,” joked Terry MacLeod, owner of the new bakery.
It’s just been three weeks since he launched the smell of his made fresh daily baked goods into the downtown air.
Already, the result has been
daily long lines of people in search of the source of those smells that include apple fritters as well as chocolate and maple dip doughnuts.
Some donuts he describes as “off the wall” including those with fruit loops, chocolate Cherrios and a pink icing and sprinkle-covered delight inspired by TV’s Homer
Simpson.
“They are popular and we have plans that we are going to be expanding with the focus on the doughnut. We’ll kick it up a notch and take it to another level with what we call a gourmet doughnut.”
For MacLeod, it’s his second go at a bakery business after an 18-year run as owner of Island Delight Bakery in Glace Bay until 2003.
Since then, his work path looked like others in Cape Breton and it took him across the country to places like Saskatchewan and Alberta.
“It was about two years ago I started thinking this is not what I want to do for the rest of my life,” the 57-year-old said.
“I started digging deep into my soul and trying to figure out what I am going to do.”
Because he loved his time with Island Delight, and not being in airports and away from his family every two to three weeks, he traded his workbooks and safety vests for that familiar baking apron once again.
“This is what I plan to do for whatever time I have left on this planet just so I can be home with the family.”
He credits those family members he wants to spend more time with for their support of the project, particularly his son Malcolm, who assisted with the business plan and many of the baking concepts that have already proven popular.
In the coming days an expansion of his menu is planned to include breakfast sandwiches and light lunch options.