Gyro Plus, owned and operated by the Elzaataris in Gainesville for more than 30 years, closed at its University Avenue location at the end of January after its lease ran out after about 21 years. “We don’t like to stay home,” Omar Elzaatari said. Omar Elzaatari and his brother, Ozzy, have been awaiting the reopening of Gyro Plus at 2409 SW 13th St. Gyro Plus reopens on Southwest 13th Street or sellout and Saturday and Sunday from 7 a.m. The shop’s hours will be Tuesday through Friday from 6:30 a.m. Other options include an original glazed, vegan vanilla and cookies and creme.Ĭold bottled Brio coffee, cold brew iced coffee from Wyatt’s Coffee and hot coffee from Sweetwater Organics are also sold at the shop. Top-selling flavors include maple bacon, which feature a candied slice of bacon atop a maple syrup glaze, and lemon blueberry, which is speckled with Maine blueberries and has a lemon glaze. The food truck will be back in business once again, in addition to the permanent space, once all hiring is finalized. “The one thing you can’t control is the weather,” Stuerman said. The ideal potato doughnut day, Stuerman said, is hot and humid.īack when Halo Potato Donuts made its doughnuts in a shared kitchen space and sold exclusively from the food truck, the operation sometimes had to close on days when cold spells ruined batches. This makes for light, fluffy doughnuts that maintain a nice heft of density.Īnother quirk of potato doughnuts, Stuerman said, is that they are temperamental when it comes to the weather. Stuerman said people shouldn’t be alarmed by the idea of a potato doughnut - they are essentially the same as a cake doughnut, but with Idaho potato flour in the recipe. He said the new store will make about 700-800 to sell per day. Within hours, he would sell out of the approximately 300-400 doughnuts made overnight. Halo Potato Donuts opened as a food truck in Gainesville last year and quickly gained a following. The food truck concept made sense, he said, because it was a less expensive investment than a storefront. While he studied business administration and entrepreneurship at the University of Florida, he developed a business plan to start his own shop. “When I came down here, there wasn’t that kind of comfort here,” he said. Owner Drew Stuerman grew up in Ohio, where mom-and-pop doughnut shops were a staple. Halo Potato Donuts, whose signature pastries are made using potato flour, will open Friday at a bright blue-and-yellow building at 1323 S. Halo Potato Donuts opens brick-and-mortar shopĪ popular food truck destination for coffee and doughnuts is opening a permanent location downtown this week. Here is this week’s roundup of restaurant news. Two lunch locations in the city also closed recently, but one plans a comeback early next year with a new franchise concept. Some favorite spots for breakfast and lunch in Gainesville have made their returns at new locations after temporary closures.
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