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Home Sweet Home
The décor doesn’t really grab you at first. The curtains are blue and white place, the floor is linoleum, the tables are veneer, there is a counter lined with blue plastic stools. It is a diner, plain and simple, no frills.
But décor is not what I’m after here. In fact, my momentary interest in the color scheme was cut short by the glass case by the register. That’s where the magic happens at the Home Sweet Home Doughnut Shoppe which recently opened next to Catherine’s Chocolates in Great Barrington.
I know what you’re thinking, and I thought the same thing. I can count on less than one hand how many doughnuts I’ve had this year. But in that glass case is much more than doughnuts. Light glistens off of the maple glaze covering some of the doughnuts, the fat fritters are laden with cinnamon and apples, and the muffins sit picture perfect and ready to eat.
But I’m not after any of that. It is 10 a.m. on a Wednesday morning and I want only one thing.
“What can I get you?” the polite young grandson of the Shoppe’s co-owners, John and Debbie Scalia asks me.
“A small coffee,” I say as he punches the buttons on the register. “And a cannoli.”
Did I mention that it is only 10 a.m.?
The young man, slightly shocked, gently lifts the empty pastry cylinder out of the case and with a deft squeeze of a plastic bag, fills it with homemade creamy goodness. Then he dips each end in chocolate chips.
I think he asked me if I wanted anything else but I was too distracted to lift my eyes from the gorgeous pastry in front of me. As I devoured it with my coffee and listened to the busy voices of other patrons enjoying their sweet treats, I knew that Home Sweet Home had become just that for me.
Stop in to the Shoppe this Saturday for their grand opening. Rumor has it that the cannolis are buy one get one free. Oh, and the coffee is delicious!
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