Georgetown Cupcake in The Hoya


photo by Flickr user spakattacks, who says the cupcakes were "so good!"

Georgetown Cupcake, the bakery most famous for being closed and denying customers their cupcakes (if you look them up on here, you'll see numerous customer complaints about this), is featured in Georgetown University paper The Hoya.

The owners of the “cupcakery,” sisters Katherine Kallinis and Sophie LaMontagne, bake and ice all of the cupcakes they sell — and more often than not, they sell out before the end of the day.

Yesterday, there was a small line of customers waiting for cupcakes at around 11:30 a.m. By 3 p.m., only four hours after opening for the day, Georgetown Cupcake sold out of the 1,000 cupcakes Kallinis and LaMontagne had baked that morning. The sisters re-opened at 5 p.m. with a new batch of 500 cupcakes.

Kallinis and LaMontagne also baked an additional 10 dozen cupcakes for a special “call-in” order. By closing time, a few dozen red velvet cupcakes were left.


They do address some of the complaints:

LaMontagne and Kallinis stressed their desire to accommodate every customer. LaMontagne said she even tries to save a few “emergency cupcakes” so that she can avoid disappointing any children who wait in line for a cupcake.

Kallinis and LaMontagne said one of their plans for future expansion is to create a satellite kitchen where people can only come to pick up orders. They say this will allow them to accept more catering jobs, such as weddings, that they currently do not feel that they can “take on.”


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Comments

Anonymous said…
Just goes to show you the dearth of good bakeries in and around the DC metro area.. Georgetown is kinda out of the way so folks must be traveling to get there and open parking is a rare find. So, GC has a good thing going and I hope they start to branch out because after one visit, I found Cake Love not worth a trip back. The GC cupcakes are actually very good but on the small side (unlike the giant Crumbs/NYC cupcakes). Good luck to GC, they just happened to have a good product at the right time of the "cupcake craze."
Anonymous said…
Here's a good question: Why the the sisters decide to come all the way down here from Canada just to open up a cupcake shop a couple blocks away from another cupcake shop (Baked and Wired)? Judging by online ratings and reviews, people seem to prefer Baked and Wired's cupcakes anyway.
Anonymous said…
Thanks for using my photo! They were delicious! The red velvet was the best.
Anonymous said…
Baked and Wired and Georgetown Cupcake are totally different concepts and can't really be qualified as competitors because Baked and Wired is more of a one cupcake at a time kind of place as you drink your coffee and GC is more like buy a dozen, take them home, and share. GC has more flavors and selection because that is their main source of income, Baked and Wired's main source of income is drinks. People need to stop cupcake bashing these stores because they are both small companies that are doing well, employing students, and satisfying the sweet tooth of the DC community. GC is still relatively new and trying to work out the kinks, Baked and Wired has been around longer... they are both good and remember cupcakes should make people happy and not be a source of conflict or bashing. Get over it and go to both depending on your craving, you want a cupcake and to sit down, relax and enjoy it while surfing the web with a coffee go to Baked and Wired, you want them for dinner or to bring home to your family or just one in hand to walk with go to Georgetown Cupcake. Both businesses are quality in service and product.