Comments on: Washingtonian Magazine Reports on DC’s First Cupcake Truck

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:23:31 +0000

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.

By: New2CH

New2CH — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:11:36 +0000

I guess if I were to accept that the horrific item that Cakelove calls a “cupcake” was remotely edible, then I might have to concede your point … but generally speaking, anything that is very popular in NYC (except, alas, bagels / true delis, for reasons I can’t fathom) becomes trendy in DC, almost inevitably, a few years later — not saying that NY necessarily has to START the trend …

By: Nichole

Nichole — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:10:22 +0000

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

By: Neener

Neener — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:41:35 +0000

New2CH, Cakelove’s cupcake bakeries predate Magnolia bakery, just so you accept that we lead that trend and NYC picked up on it.

but food trucks? Funky food trucks were a Philadelphia staple 35 years ago. An LA staple 25 years ago. that’s not a NY thing at all- NY was about push-carts.

By: New2CH

New2CH — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:57:09 +0000

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.

By: Neener

Neener — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:57:06 +0000

I’m sorry, I love the idea, but the flavors they’re talking about are not worth getting out of bed for. 5 flavors? When I go to Georgetown I don’t spent $3 on “classic vanilla.” F THAT. Classic equals boring. I’m spending $3 on some hardcore fruit flavor or a weird peanut butter concoction. You know THAT was what Warren Brown got right, you know, he’d wouldn’t have ANYTHING classic, it was all an eclair filled with mango filling.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:15:51 +0000

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.

By: inmtpl

inmtpl — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:05:19 +0000

ah yes, the hipsters version of irony? wtf?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:39:00 +0000

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

By: Matvey

Matvey — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:24:41 +0000

Boooooooooougie.