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Categories: Coffee & Tea, Desserts
Neighborhoods: Theater District, Hell's Kitchen8th Ave-42nd St (A, C, E, 1, 2, 3, S, 7, N, Q, R, W)
Mon-Sun. 8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
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This cafe looks funky and is a nice refuge from the business of the Port Authority area. It has its quirks: figurines, random framed photo graphs, mismatched tables and chairs. It looked like the type of place I'd been looking for.
However, this place didn't do it for me. First, my latte was bitter and flavorless - probably one of the worst lattes I've ever had. Then, around the room is this ledge where framed paintings lean, but it's just at the level where if I leaned back, my head would be gouged by this unnecessary ledge. The chairs are uncomfortable, and there are three separate counters, which I thought was strange. (Who uses the back counter?)
I can't vouch for the cupcakes or anything else being sold in glass jars, but I would not necessarily recommend this place. I hate to say it, but I probably would have preferred a bland, loud Starbucks to this.
Their cupcakes are beautifully decorated, but the cakes are dry, hard & tasteless. The icing tastes like pure unsalted butter... and not in a good way. I've had these more than once (as they've been gifted to people in my office on numerous occasions) & I swear they're always COLD too. You shouldn't refrigerate cupcakes!
Pass.
No. Just say no.
Oh cupcake cafe, while your cupcakes are all very delicately decorated, I buy cupcakes for the yummy, not the pretty. Your cupcake is so very dry. Perhaps it is to balance out the liquidity of the frosting? Well unfortunately, that was clearly a FAIL. It just makes for one severely undelicious cupcake. I felt like i was drinking buttercream, it was so oily and liquidy. The cake itself had no flavor. The icing tasted like cream of oil. So overall? Blech.
And you have the nerve to charge $2.50 per cupcake? They're tiny! Plus, you have no real flavors! Endless combinations of chocolate and vanilla do not make for interesting cupcakes.
Egads, I want my money back. My stomach wants to give you back the cupcakes you served me.
Okay so I been coming here for years! Everytime I am in town I have to get some... BUT this time WTF???? I know in the past I would hit up the 18th street location but this time I didn't get the chance to go down there so I opted for the 9th ave location....well NEVER again. although the cakes are always beautifully iced and the place is funky ... the cakes are dry and hard with lack of flavor... Do yourself a favor and go down to the 18th st location, it's so worth it. OOH and the service definitely needs some work.
A friend and I decided to drop by after reading an article in New York Magazine. We work nearby and had been looking for a new place to take a coffee break. Before we set out I consulted my trusty reviewers on yelp, as I do before I go anywhere these days and almost backed out because of all the bad reviews. Alas my co-worker insisted we go because the cupcakes looked so darn cute in the magazine pictures.
The decor is very quaint and pretty. Indeed I think it would be a very nice location for writing a paper or chatting over a cup of coffee. The cupcakes are decorated with intricate icing flowers. Struck by the cuteness of the place and the beauty of the cupcake, I foolishly accepted the half my lovely, generous coworker offered me. Bad Choice!!!!!!!! First of all the frosting tasted stale and gross. You know how if you leave ice cream in the freezer for too long and it absorbs all the other smells. That's what the frosting tasted like. The cake itself was incredible dry almost inedible. I didn't want to hurt my friend's feelings so I had to lie and say that I was saving the rest for later and then discreetly throw it in the trash after work.
Also besides the terrible taste another thing totally put me off this place. The workers here are not very sanitary. The guy who gave us our cupcake held open a trash can lid for another customer and then proceeded to remove our cupcake from the glass fridge with the same hand. GROSS!!!! Bottom line, stay away from this place!
Frankly I don't know what I was thinking giving this place four stars. I guess I was a young, naive little yelper back in 2006, desperate to give my neighborhood some love. But now I join the chorus of people who recommend you give this place a miss. I really wish it could overcome it's location like HK or Empire do, but unfortunately it doesn't.
Add to that this unfortunate incident:
"Hi, could i have an iced coffee?"
"Um, we don't have any ice."
"Oh, you don't have iced coffee? Well, I don't mind if you pour hot coffee over ice."
"No, no, we don't have any ice."
"At all?"
"Nope."
Now, it seems to me that ice would be a necessary and not too difficult thing to find in any food service establishment, but apparently i stand corrected. And to top it all off, even the hot coffee was bland and weak.
For coffee around here, go to Empire. For Cupcakes, go to Billy's. Sorry Cupcake Cafe, but i just can't get behind what you're putting out there.
Certainly some of the most beautiful cupcakes in the city, if not the best. Don't get me wrong… Read more »
Awful, gross even.
Super dense, heavy cake with no flavor. Consistancy of cornbread. The "icing" is just colored melty butter.
The beauty is just on the outside...
The cupcakes are cute and I realize they require a lot of handiwork. You don't want that shit to melt. But, Cupcake Cafe, you do know that when you refrigerate cupcakes, that pretty much renders them AWFUL.
So I ask you, Cupcake Cafe, and I will spell it out:
WHAT
THE
FUCK
IS
WRONG
WITH
YOU?
If you like hanging out in a quirky place, drinking coffee made by a crabby barista, and eating beautiful but dry, brick-like cupcakes served by equally crabby purveyors who would spit on you if they could, this is the place for you!
Here's an actual conversation I witnessed between a slovenly bearded barista and a woman.
Woman: "Hi, I'm wondering if you do children's parties here?"
Crusty dude: (silence, while he looks at her like she's nuts). "Uh....no."
Woman: "Oh, I saw a sign out front with kids on it for this place, so I thought you did."
Crusty: "Huh." (crazy bitch) "Where did you see that sign?" (i can't believe you're asking me stupid questions like this)
Woman: "Um...right out front, in the window."
Crusty: SIGH "well...we don't do that."
Me, seeing a way to stir up trouble: "you know who DOES do children's parties? Buttercup bakery!"
Woman (excited): "oh really??"
Me: "oh yeah! the kids get to frost their own cupcakes and everything!"
Crusty: "Oh, but OUR cupcakes have REAL BUTTECREAM in the frosting, not crisco."
Me: "oh, too bad the frosting is on top of cupcake-shaped bricks though."
Ok so I didn't really say that last sentence. But everything up until that point was true.
I only gave it two stars because the coffee was pretty good, and I like the decor.
Meh.
First of all, people should understand that there are many different types of "buttercream". As far as proper French buttercream, this place gets it right. French buttercream is made mostly with egg yolks, butter and sugar syrup and is extremely rich and light without being too sweet. Other places will mix powdered sugar with some butter and call it buttercream and that's the stuff that is tooth-rotting sweet (like Magnolia). Apples and oranges.
I prefer proper French buttercream, so Cupcake Cafe gets points for that. The actual cake part, however? AWFUL! It is dense, dry, flavorless and heavy. In other words: inedible. All the delicious French buttercream in the world is not enough to disguise the abysmal, sad little cake underneath.
If I could marry Magnolia's cake with Cupcake Cafe's buttercream, it would be perfection. Until then, I guess I'll have to keep making my own at home.
I love this place! The zucchini muffins in the AM are amazing...but very big and I need to share them! I love a small cupcake as a special treat. But my favorite is the espresso!!! I love their Americanos! The drip coffee can be left behind, but the espresso is as good as it gets!
very pretty looking cupcakes and that's about it. My husband says that my cupcakes I make at home taste better and I am not professional baker!
I love cupcakes just not theirs.
Cupcake Café is the only place around this part of midtown where you can sit and think about all the things you've done wrong in your life. The espresso is nostalgic. Not fantastic, but damnit it could put a clean sheen on your dirty past. The cupcakes ARE dry. This is no au-natural Duncan Hines remix, it's more a European style cake and it needs all that buttery frosting to create the moisture. I like 'em better than most because they're not all sugary. These are Pilgrim cupcakes, not Beverly Hills cupcakes. Cupcakes for people who've sailed through hell.
But the service, oh the service there has been god's way of telling me "get yr ass on yelp and write, mutha f***a." I'd love to pour some espresso on the crab-faced red-head who typically works the espresso bar. Jeese! What happened to her? Has she been evicted? Did a cab run over her pedicure? She's got a helluva a face--she's a gorgeous, well-put-together human being--with nothing but needles in her eyes. You smile, or you say please, or you say thank you and she just ignores you. All she wants is to know what you're having to drink and to let you know how annoyed she is that she's gotta get up and make it for you. Usually I get in there she grunts at me "cupcakes are in the back." F-you, I don't want a cupcake, I come in here at least once a week--pay attention!
The owner on the other hand is quirky, witty--I like his style: dry but caring. Lucille Ballbuster on the other hand is the worse thing to happen to this place. Lousy service loses the Cupcake Café three stars in my review. When I'm itemizing my life's regrets, I wanna feel like I'm in a safe haven, not like I'm stuck in bed with nothin but Kathy Bates and a dull axe. Get some staff that matches the sanctuary's, second-hand décor and healing espresso.
Okay.. so this place isn't in a great location (next to Port Authority) and it doesn't get the "buzz" that Magnolia, Buttercup, and Crumbs gets? But you know what, I think their cupcakes are pretty darn good. Just the right amount of icing and just the right amount of moist-ness. I didn't find them dry at all, nor tasteful. Wow, rough reviews... Anyways, try it out and decide for yourself!
This is a cute cozy little cafe. I have never tried their cupcakes, but I can tell you the waffle is quite tasty, which I ordered this morning and paired with a mug of soy latte. My friends tried two different donuts and a bread, but discovered that they were all way dense and heavy. So maybe pastries aren't the way to go.
If you come here, and want to order a waffle, expect a really long wait, because it's essentially a one-woman shop - she makes the waffles and coffees in the front while you wait and then you pay and tote your plate and mug to an open seat in the front or back. If you just order a ready-made pastry or cupcake and coffee, then you wait less. Prices average. I paid $9.50 for my waffle and soy latte plus a $1 tip.
The ambience inside is old...and old. I guess you could call it quaint. People seem to enjoy chilling out here and reading the Sunday paper.
The service was a little better than the 18th street location but the cupcakes were just meh. I didnt think that bland cupcakes existed in this planet earth but there they are at cupcake cafe.
Maybe I'm just weird preferring Cupcake Cafe's buttercream over the much touted Magnolia's, but I do! The people here are absolutely rude and the place looks like a mess, but I just simply love the vanilla cupcake with chocolate buttercream. The cake itself it sort of dense, the buttercream rich and buttery while not cloying you with its sweetness like some other places.
Cozy little shop to sit and read the paper or a book and have a coffee. Nice tables to sit at and stare out the window, lots of newspapers lying around and I like how you get the milk yourself out of a vintage ice box. All this equals 3 stars. Would've been 5+stars but for the cupcakes.
Take my word for it, unless you like gnawing on a stick of butter pass on the cupcakes. Yuck. As pretty as they are don't be tempted. Remember when you were five and you thought crayons were pretty so you ate them. And you learned a valuable lesson. Pretty does not equal tasty. Maybe that was just me.
Seriously people, yucky cupcakes.
Cardboard. Absolute cardboard. How can a place, with a name like "Cupcake Cafe" mess up on the simple little cupcake? But they did.. big time.
I have yet to visit Cupcake Cafe - I've passed it a million times and looked from the outside, but have never gone in. Last week, my lovely sister-in-law-to-be brought a box full of cupcakes from CC in two different flavors: chocolate with coffee buttercream, chocolate with chocolate buttercream. Small in size, not too much frosting, and of course, sweetly decorated. But as enticing as they were to the eye, they were a huge disappointment to the tongue. Dry, dry, dry with a cardboard like texture. A complete let down. Even the butter cream frosting was subpar. In fact, it tasted like a stick of sweetened, melted butter.
Cute cup/cakes are not a good enough reason to go here, especially since there are places that make equally beautiful cup/cakes (you may be surprised but Whole Foods has some fabulous looking cup/cakes, esp. the one on the Bowery; don't know about the taste though).
Given the abysmal texture/flavor of the regular cucpakes, my guess is that their red velvet will be no better. So I'm going to assume that it's not very good.
Not worth the trip. Only useful if you want to get ideas on how to decorate cakes (which is the only reason why it gets 2 stars).
Definitely the prettiest and most artistic cupcakes in the city - and certainly far from the best.
Even though they've moved from the earlier "dodgy" location, it's all of one block!
The cakes I've had are generally dry, dense, with a minimalist layer of frosting and topped with a flower made of buttercream - the flower is not only pretty, it also adds to the enjoyment of the cake. But, it's butter and so let's not raise our expectations too much!
My favorite is the chocolate cupcake with mocha frosting - I've tried many cupcakes here including walnut with maple frosting (verry dry cake) and vanilla with chocolate (quite blah).
If you must come here to weigh in on the cupcake wars, do so only once - try the chocolate with mocha, enjoy it with Cappuccino. Also, let your cupcake come to terms with room temperature for a few minutes before you sample it.
The Cappuccino was fabulous - but what else can one expect from La Colombe coffee!
If I were to summarize my experience of the visually appealing cupcakes, it would be: "presentation over substance".
Positives: Good cappuccino and I like the rustic feel inside.
Negatives: The maple walnut cupcake I had (chosen on their recommendation), adorned with a little flower, was pretty.....pretty stale! Not awful if a colleague baked them and brought them in the office but you expect more from a place that calls itself Cupcake Cafe.
Confession: I tell people that I'd put Cupcake Cafe as one of my favorite spots in the city... but not because of the cupcake. *insert serious face here* I've go here for the coffee-- I've learned after the first two times that the cupcakes are rather awful.
Cupcake: They'd make great gifts for that anorexic bitch you don't really like but for some reason is obliged to get her something. It's perfect for that occasion, really. It's beautiful! I mean, the first time I got there, I was staring at the selection for 5 minutes, just taking it all in. Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.
And she's not going to taste it right? And if she does, hey, it's not like you like her. Because the cake on the cupcake tastes like paper mache with less glue, and the icing tastes strangely like if it was made of Crisco, corn syrup, and lots of sugar.
I've had the mocha and the chocolate so far. The mocha is bearable, but the chocolate is such a let-down.
So what do I come her for? They have amazing coffee. I'd place Cupcake cafe as contenders for the top 5 spots on my list of best coffee somewhere after 9th Street Espresso and Cafe Grumpy. It's strong, but not bitter. The crema holds beautifully. And for such rude people that look like they don't really care about your drink, they foam really well. Not sudsy, but gorgeous creamy foam.
It's also the mood. It has that run down "Little House on the Prairie " feel to it. It's cute, it's quiet and it's charming in the rustic way. The area right outside the cafe is really dirty and grungy, and not dirty and grungy in the hip sort of way.
Bring a book and sip some coffee. And look at the cupcakes, because that's all they're really good for.
Don't let the Martha Stewart-esque food styled confections fool you...these cupcakes are awful.
Poorly made buttercream is a scourge on New York similar to that awful smell that permeates the city streets in the early summer mornings before garbage is collected.
A former friend of mine once ordered a cake from here for her family's Thanksgiving and the cake was raw inside.
It doesn't get much grosser than that.
Aren't bakery employees supposed to be happy, carefree people who like flowers and sunshine and just want to share their cupcakes with the world? The woman behind the counter basically growled "whaddaya want" at me like a grumpy bartender.
More importantly, the cupcake I had was as hard as if it had been baked last week and then refrigerated until some sucker like me finally bought it.
Never judge a cupcake by the beauty of its frosting.
The floral decorations on these cupcakes are unsurpassed! Food stylists wouldn't need to shellac or plasticize the frosting on these cupcakes to take perfect images of seemingly mouthwateringly delectable cupcakes. They looked SO good that I had to buy two: a chocolate-frosted vanilla cupcake, and a vanilla frosted vanilla cupcake. I really shouldn't have.
However, from a taste/flavor/moistness perspective, these cupcakes are MEGA-disappointing. These are possibly the driest least flavorful cupcakes I have ever had in my life. At $2.50 a pop, I would have been much better off buying some Duncan Hines mix and making my own cupcakes.
I live so close to this place I could see it from my window, and yet Id never walk in. The fact that its right across from the Port Authority and next to a homeless center doesnt make it that appealing. Than I heard that this place is kind of a big deal in Manhatan.
Well, they look pretty and thats about it. No flavor, at all and it wasnt cheap. Next!
The cupcake craze started in New York years ago.
I remember back in the early 90's, the Cupcake Cafe was a hidden location for those in the know. On an dismal corner in Hell's Kitchen, with an unassuming black hand-painted sign was this simple bakery and restaurant that turned out some of the most beautifully decorated cakes and cupcakes in the city. You'd see the product in Dean and Deluca and think, this came from that little dingy place by Port Authority?
I've heard that it moved from the original location, so I will have to check it out. The cupcakes are old-school - heavy buttercream frosting, slightly dry cake - but they are still beautiful. When I have brought them to friends, especially those with kids, everyone always has smiles on their frosting-covered faces.
okay first things first: i have never ordered a cupcake here
after reading several reviews on yelp, i decided to check this place out for myself. the interior is very sweet but in a homely, worn sort of way...not in a cutsie cupcake sort of way (which i like). it's pretty big actually--when you walk in, there's an ordering counter ahead, a huge, communal table to the right, a small counter that seats 2, and then 2 fairly large benches (that resemble pews), each with tables of their own. if you continue on, you'll pass the self serve area (it's sort of a hallway with 2 more 2 person tables). beyond that is another fairly large room (the cupcake display is in that 'hallway' part) with lots of 2 and 3 seater tables as well as a large counter with stools. so it's a big place with plenty of space
i really like doing work here! the coffee is good, the staff members are friendly, and the environment is quiet. they don't make you feel like you have to keep ordering or should leave if you've stayed a while and a lot of people in there at any given time are on their computers or reading.
i have never ordered a cupcake because i have read all the reviews for them on yelp and would prefer not to pay for one if they're so unpopular!! so obviously my review is not really about the quality of the food so much as the quality of the space for someone who likes to study and read outside of her apartment.
it's a quaint sort of place, the kind of place where you'd like to be a regular. the self serve milk choices are all housed in this fridge that looks like a wooden chest. it's things like that that i enjoy about this place.
i am not sure if there is wifi but if you need to get some reading or writing done, this is a fun place to go.
the only complaint i have about the place so far is that the communal table is actually too high for the chairs that have been paired with it. i'm sure it is not a big deal for the taller among us but, not being one of those myself, it poses some difficulties!
Just wanted to add that they have free WIFI. Internet + Coffee + Lots of tables with places to plug in = a place I like.
I was, i have to admit, disappointed by the cupcakes. It's in a kind of shady area, but whatever.
I'm with rachel.
I love the cupcake cafe and got my birthday/party cakes there, without fail for many years. But have things changed? (i never got their cupcakes and have not lived in nyc for 6 years)
The cakes were rich but not too sweet; the texture dense but moist. Think home-style, like Aunt Bertha made them-- with love and a lot of eggs.
Even the "Victoriana" flowery icing (which is beautiful and designed as you like) is not too sweet. Just butter cream, not too hard/sugary.
Compared to other birthday cakes on the market, Cupcake Cafe reigns supreme. (Or am i just being nostalgic?)
A cappuccino and a cupcake make for a lovely treat, especially at Cupcake Cafe. Yes, New Yorkers are spoiled by the multitude of cupcake spots, so it is understandable that there are many better spots for the perfect cupcake. Yet, this little place is cute, and has a really charming atmosphere. In addition, the marble table in the front is a rather awesome element, which added a lot to the experience.
I have to say though, that my cappuccino, although had me waiting 5 minutes to be prepared, was one of the best I have had in my life. The meticulous attention to detail and making each cup from scratch, slowly and carefully results in a more than satisfying cap, and one that is hard to forget.
Cupcake-wise, my only criticism was that the cake itself is a little tough to be considered a true cupcake, but I personally found it original in it's own way. After all, not all cupcakes aught to taste alike, and these were a little more grown-up, if you will. The frosting is to die for.
Will go back, next time I am in NYC.
wow these reviews are kinda harsh... yes its located in a run down area of town right across from the port authority... its totally random im not sure why anyone would go here as a destination cupcake shop... we just happened to pass by it on the way to watch a show...
as we came in i was thinking oh its kinda cute... huge common table... and cupcakes.. unfortunately the cupcakes looked like pitiful... only with pretty designs so i was thinkin man this isn't gonna be good... but we were wrong!
so we ordered the following:
- walnut maple butter cream - that was my favorite as the frosting was not sugary but definitely buttery which i loveee cuz i don't usually like such sweet items.
- chocolate buttercream on vanilla - this tasted like cornbread with chocolate frosting... but still really good...
ok yes its not moist its actually pretty dense... but for the cream frosting is why i give it 4 stars!
The pastry version of a c0ck tease. Sooooo pretty and tempting, but just wouldn't give it up. No flavor, no sweetness...zilch, nada.
The shop itself was hot and uninviting. The guy who rang me up was too bitchy for his own good. Blech and more blech.
It seems like you either love the buttercream frosting or you hate it.
I am the former and that's what makes this my favorite cupcake place in the city.
I have also ordered a couple of cakes from them through the years and was very impressed with the cake decorating artists.
Cupcake Cafe makes me happy! Looks like some people have had bad experiences, but my chocolate cupcake with chocolate frosting was, as Rachel Ray would say, yummo! Not too sweet like the one I got at Billy's Bakery, and the frosting was deliciously buttery.
The place has moved from its previously semi-ghetto storefront on the east side of 9th into a much nicer, larger space on the west side of the street. The interior is very eclectic and cute. I would love to hang out there with a book and watch all the characters, linked together only by little frosted cakes, come and go.
The cupcakes come in different sizes, and the smallest one, the size of a 6-year-old's fist, costs a whopping $2.50. I don't know if it's a surcharge because you won't have to wait in line like people do at Magnolia?
Can you give zero stars?
I had one bite of this "cupcake" and thought, "ugh!"
Then, "maybe it will get better..." (no, I don't know why I thought that!) I commence with another bite of disgustingness.
Oh dear god, I couldn't finish the damn thing. I tossed it in the garbage and walked out.
The cake was like a brick: hard, dry, and crumbly. The "buttercream" tasted like they had smeared crisco over the top.
But, it was pretty? 3.25 for "pretty" is NOT okay. Plus, the ambiance was non-existent...with concrete floors and rude service, this place shouldn't last long.
I'll bet you a dollar that you can't tell the difference between a paper wrapper full of parched potting soil and a Cupcake Cafe cupcake.
That aside, I'd go with the potting soil because it probably came from somewhere cleaner than this bakeshop.
I think everyone who has reviewed this site is crazy.
Let me say one thing though, a cake from Cupcake Cafe is not the same as a cupcake from Cupcake Cafe. I will give the bakery 4 stars instead of 5 because of that.
The cakes are NOT crumbly, they do not break apart and they are moist all at the same time. It also helps that the cakes are layered so you get frosting in between the cake if it seems "dry". The frosting is a delicious butter cream that is more butter and cream than sugar which is how it's supposed to be. I'd rather a butter aftertaste then a sugar aftertaste if there was an after aste at all, which there is not.
The cakes are beautiful and I posted pictures from the last two birthdays I attended where the cakes were huge hits. I will never have a Crumbs cupcake after having Cupcake Cafe..the thought of that mound of sugary frosting makes me gag.
I'm definitely obsessed with cupcakes and try to go to a bakery/cupcakery every time I visit a new town. My friend Paul and I randomly passed this place in October and walked into the joint. In the past, I had visited their website via the Cupcakes Take the Cake blog. We located the cupcakes in the back of the bakery but alas, there were no signs so I had to flag this old lady down to ask what the flavors were. Like Charlene's review, she was also extremely "crusty," much like the cupcakes. She acted really annoyed. Well, honey, put up a damn sign to indicate the flavors, please. I believe the cupcakes were around $2.50, which was probably about $2.00 too much for these things. Although the cupcake cafe does a beautiful job creating buttercream flowers and other delightful designs, the taste and quality of both the icing and the cake itself are well, pretty terrible. The frosting is extremely buttery and greasy, while the cake is totally dry and lacking flavor.
I should have gone to Crumbs or Magnolia.
I remember seeing the front of the Cupcake Cafe while being driven around in circles by a cab as he was "trying" to find my hotel. The cab driver was trying to say that he would have to turn the meter on (there is a flat rate in place from JFK to anywhere in Manhattan) and I wasn't having any of it. Luckily the discussion I was having didn't distract me from noticing the front window adorned with "CUPCAKE CAFE".
My interest was piqued mostly because I have a friend with cupcake tattoos on her belly and I thought it would be great to get a picture of the front for her. Later in my visit to Manhattan a friend and I were trying to find a place to escape from the bitter cold. It was below freezing my entire visit. So I mentioned the Cupcake Cafe and we jumped in a cab and headed over.
The cupcakes in the display case were very pretty and I wanted to buy them all regardless of how they tasted. I don't really know what the locals think of this place but if it has any success a large part has to be a result of just how pretty these cupcakes are.
My friend Mokee and I made our cupcake selections, got some water, and headed to the back to enjoy our treats. The interior of this place has a lot of character. The exposed brick walls and exclectic mixture of chairs/tables gave me the feeling of being in some cupcake speakeasy, though this probably isn't the place to get your sugar rush and act wild.
The frosting was very much on the sweet side, but I guess that is what you should be in the mood for when you are eating cupcakes. I can't comment on their coffee selections because I am not a coffee drinker and didn't partake. If I was a coffee drinker though I could see myself sneaking in to the Cupcake Cafe on occasion to look at the pretty cupcake in front of me while sipping on a hot cup of joe.
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