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Tantrum Doughnuts

Handmade doughnuts and coffee on Old Dumbarton Road, where Tantrum opened its first shop in 2015, a short walk from Kelvingrove.

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Tantrum Doughnuts opened its first shop in 2015 on Old Dumbarton Road in Yorkhill, a short walk from Kelvingrove, after doing well at pop-up markets.

Visited and photographed by Simon Hird

It was started by the husband and wife Iain and Annika Baillie, and it now has shops in the city centre and on the south side too.

Every doughnut is made by hand each morning in the company's own Glasgow bakery, with glazes, custards, jams and fillings made in house. There are three kinds: light yeast-raised brioche, which took more than a year to perfect, dense 'old fashioned' cake doughnuts made with buttermilk and sour cream, and vegan doughnuts in small batches. Flavours run from Madagascan vanilla glaze and crème brûlée with a torched sugar top to forest fruits jam and a chocolate millionaire, and when one sells out it has gone for the day. The coffee comes from Papercup. The shop opens every day from nine until half past five, or until the doughnuts run out.

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Before you go

Tantrum on Old Dumbarton Road opens every day from 9am to 5.30pm, or until the doughnuts sell out.

Seating is first come, first served. For more than a few doughnuts, pre-order by 3pm the day before.

Hours
Daily, 09:00 to 17:30, or until sold out.
Where
27 Old Dumbarton Road, Yorkhill, G3 8RD.
Also
28 Gordon Street; 20 Minard Road, Shawlands.

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
9am–5.30pm
Tuesday
9am–5.30pm
Wednesday
9am–5.30pm
Thursday
9am–5.30pm
Friday
9am–5.30pm
Saturday
9am–5.30pm
Sunday
9am–5.30pm

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A young woman in an apron stands smiling beside a sign reading 'Hand-Crafted Doughnuts & Coffee' outside a shopfront.
Did you know

It began at pop-up markets.

Tantrum opened its first shop, on Old Dumbarton Road, in 2015, after its success at pop-up markets in the West End.

A tray of glazed doughnuts sits in a bakery display case, purple-iced rings dusted with crumbs beside plain glazed ones and sugared rings on the shelf below.
Did you know

The brioche took a year.

Tantrum spent more than a year experimenting before it settled on the brioche dough for its doughnuts.

A bakery display case holds trays of iced doughnuts and pastries, with a handwritten label for vanilla bean glaze doughnuts propped in front of a row topped with sprinkles.
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There are three kinds.

Tantrum makes yeast-raised brioche doughnuts, cakey 'old fashioned' ones with buttermilk and sour cream, and vegan ones made with chia seeds and coconut oil.

Sugared doughnuts topped with piped chocolate, chopped nuts and gold-flecked sprinkles are arranged in a bakery display case beside a handwritten flavour label.
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When it's gone, it's gone.

The doughnuts are made from scratch every morning, and when a flavour runs out it has run out for the day.

Two glazed doughnuts and a latte with leaf-pattern foam sit on small plates on a wooden table beside black-tiled walls.
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The coffee is from Papercup.

Tantrum works with Scottish suppliers where it can, among them Papercup Coffee, Blackthorn Sea Salt and Mossgiel Organic Farm.

A narrow café corner with black-tiled walls and hanging flower baskets has wooden bar tables and black stools beneath a pendant light, framed pictures on the wall.
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Dogs get treats.

Every Tantrum shop is dog friendly, with treats and water for four-legged visitors.

A chocolate-dusted glazed doughnut sits on a plate beside a cup of coffee on a wooden table, another doughnut visible behind.
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27 Old Dumbarton Road, Yorkhill, between Finnieston and Partick.

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