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Thursday, May 18, 2006

Cupcakes!

Posted by on May 18 at 15:40 PM

Cupcake Royale, makers of the best goddamn cupcakes in the WORLD, are opening a third location, this time in West Seattle. The new store is at 4556 California Ave SW, and they’re having a grand opening party tonight from 6-9 pm. They’ll open for business officially tomorrow. If a trip in West Seattle isn’t in your future, you can also snag their cakes in Ballard and Madrona.

Christ, I love cupcakes.


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West Seattle Blog has good coverage of the cupcake war escalating in the neighborhood.

Ugh. So much for good taste (you're not the food reviewer, right?)

Cupcake Royale's cupcakes are mediocre and overpriced. The cake parts are invariably dry and crumbly, and the "butter cream" a skimpy imitation of the real thing.

Seriously. Betty Croker does better.

I agree that they are overrated. They always seem somewhat stale to me. Like they have been sitting around awhile. I do wish they covered them.

Aw shucks, I wanted a Top Pot Doughnuts place instead:(.

How Quirky! Cupcakes! Take an ordinary food that's easy to make, and turn it into an overpriced specialty item for rich hipsters!



Let's take the treats of working class people and repackage them as quirky fancy food for rich people.


Meanwhile the same publication wants you to boycott the "slimy little mexican immigrant's restaurant on Broadway".


Eat expensive cupcakes, boycott working class poor people!
How edgy, how provocative!

hey cup cake, what are you doing making comments? don't you have a "free mumia" poster to design?

Oh, awesome! I was wondering what was going on at that tea place. Cupcakes! In walking distance! Yay!

That link to the cupcake war article in J's post is really interesting.

Free Mumia, drive a hybrid car, worry about global warming, become a democratic activist! I really wish activist hippies would move to Portland and stop trying to make Seattle wear a hair shirt.

The Stranger never called for a boycott of Septeime.

But, yeah, isn't it awful the way the hipsters all meet once a year and decide what working class treats we intend to co-opt over the next 12 months? So powerful, so organized. Hipsters rule the world!

Blixen- I just crapped my pants. Thanks for the laugh.

What's wrong with a $7 cupcake? I work hard and I love food. Yes I eat $7 cupcakes, and I also treat myself to $100 meals every month or so. Cry me a river.


Anyone unwilling to give themself a $100 meal once in a while simply doesn't understand how to live. It has nothing to do with being working class and everything to do with knowing how life is supposed to be lived.

Jeez, sometimes you people are just plain mean. The girl's excited about cupcakes, give her a fucking break. Step away from the computer and go run over baby rabbits or something.

when your balls finally drop and you decide you want to own up to those "i-can-eat-more-cupcakes-than-you" rants, let me know.

For consuming cupcakes while burning off the calories that you are consuming, here's an aprox. 40 mile bike ride which passes by all three Cupcake Royale.

http://www.wayfaring.com/maps/show/16517

"Jeez, sometimes you people are just plain mean."

This, from a Stranger writer?

Potkettleblack.

New York Cupcakes are better than Cupcake Royale. And Vancouver's Cupcakes is better than both.

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