Location: Red Velvet Cupcakery 501 7th Street NW (Chinatown)
Flavors: Coconut, Lemon Coconut & Vanilla
Cost: $3.50
Score: 1.5
After an awesome happy hour at Zola’s, my buddy and I walked around
Walking into the tiny shop we were greeted by the person at the register and, I assume, the manager. Their customer service was great and the cupcakes are a decent size. I noticed that there were alot of exotic flavors but I ordered a variation of my usual: lemon-coconut, coconut (redundant, I know) and vanilla. All placed in a cutie-pie bag (that now doubles as my lunch bag), I was eager to tear into the much talked about cupcakes.
Sadly the cupcakes sucked! My vanilla and lemon-coconut cupcakes were decent but not crave- worthy. The plain coconut cupcake tasted like lard infested frosting playing host to huge sugar granules. Ironically, I didn’t try their namesake red velvet cupcake but if my chosen cupcakes were any indication- I wasn't wrong in my decision.
*Originally Published June 2011
Cost: $3.50
Score: 1.5
After an awesome happy hour at Zola’s, my buddy and I walked around
Walking into the tiny shop we were greeted by the person at the register and, I assume, the manager. Their customer service was great and the cupcakes are a decent size. I noticed that there were alot of exotic flavors but I ordered a variation of my usual: lemon-coconut, coconut (redundant, I know) and vanilla. All placed in a cutie-pie bag (that now doubles as my lunch bag), I was eager to tear into the much talked about cupcakes.Sadly the cupcakes sucked! My vanilla and lemon-coconut cupcakes were decent but not crave- worthy. The plain coconut cupcake tasted like lard infested frosting playing host to huge sugar granules. Ironically, I didn’t try their namesake red velvet cupcake but if my chosen cupcakes were any indication- I wasn't wrong in my decision.
*Originally Published June 2011
2 comments:
I'm so sad to read that you didn't like Red Velvet Cupcakery! :[ They are my absolute favorite cupcake shop around. I love the "B-day" cupcake, which says a lot for a chocolate addict like me!
I definitely have to say that Red Velvet Cupcakery's cupcakes are a bit... dense? moist? not light and fluffy, basically -- which may not be up everyone's alley.
I recently had their Black Velvet Cupcake, which is gluten free, and it was great! Also, they had a special flavor: chocolate with sea salted caramel. So yummy. ^_^
Hi Kitty!
Sadly, The Critic didn't like it :0( (although we think that they are good people- just bad cuppies). Some of my friends disagreed with me and convinced me to a do-over! So, I will be revisiting some of the low-scoring shops soon to see if things have changed or if it was a bad batch that day.
Thank you so much for letting me know your thoughts Kitty! I love to get feedback and hear what my readers are feeling. On the re-do, I'll be sure to get a salted caramel and give you a S/O :0)
Stephanie,
The Critic
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