I love me some cupcakes, especially Hello Cupcakes, Something Sweet near Cactus Cantina and Georgetown Cupcakes, despite the lines. I may give these new people a try.

Yeii! More street vendors in DC… this is hardly an original concept though… they’ve had this stuff in NYC for years…
Now, if more people could leave their day jobs and open other yummy food trucks around DC…

victoria, been hanging out with “voice of reason” ? maybe his rightousness is catching. what do you think? your coming across very holier than thou here.

hmmm. thats a lotta cupcakes gotta be baked and sold and divided by 3 no less…do the math aint easy. i wish em luck though, but i give it a year, tops. unless they expand to catering or specail events or something.

In a way I think this makes more money sense than a physical store- I would assume that the overhead is much lower and with a truck you can move and possibly get a space you would never be able to afford if it was a physical store.

“Nothing is more bourgeois than being afraid to be bourgeois.” — A. Warhol

I think in DC this would be sort of ideal.

We have twittering food carts in Manhattan, including @CupCakeStop. DC like NY can be really spread out and not worth the trouble of going to another neighborhood just to get what you can find locally, plus time consuming for those without cars. (When I lived in Petworth I did think getting to Georgetown was a schlepp, maybe not feeding-the-third-word’s-hungry in terms of difficulty, but still almost never went. Especially for a cupcake.) So twittering food carts is ideal, as long as they make an effort to get out and about.

Also, I can’t believe no one has mentioned the awesomeness that is Baked and Wired cupcakes. Truly DC’s best.

Further proof that what is trendy in NYC, will appear in DC approximately 2-4 years later (wine bars? check. upscale yogurt? check. beer bars? check. “hidden” speakeasies? check. cupcakeries? check. food trucks? check). Not that I’m complaining, better late then never, and we’ve got a LONG way to go in terms of street food … would love to see the likes of the amazing Indian food and ice cream trucks they have in NYC, e.g.

@Neener, not so much. Magnolia opened in ’96; Cake Love didn’t open until ’02.

I’m sorry you guys, but the NYC vs DC debate is lame. NYC has a population of 8.3 million, DC has about 600K…of course there’s going to be more innovation there, there are more people which equals more entrepreneurs and more customers!

Let it go, it’s a false comparison and it doesn’t do either city any favors. Let them have the first twittering cupcake cart, I’ll happily wait 2 years until it makes it’s way down I-95 for half the price. In the meantime we can brag about having apartments that are at least large enough you can’t quite touch all four walls simultaneously.