I stumbled upon this Burgers & Cupcakes offshoot on 37th & 9th walking down to Chelsea Market with Daniel one day. Yes, we are true New Yorkers- we walk everywhere. Their burgers looked really good, but I just had myself a slice of pizza just a few blocks ago. We went in because they had a deal: 3 mini cupcakes for $5! I didn’t even have to drag Daniel and we were already inside.
I was surprised that they had table service here. I thought one would just order food and find a seat. We went to look at the day’s selection of cupcakes to figure out what we wanted to order and took a seat by the window. I decided that I should get some real food to eat along with the cupcakes. I wasn’t hungry enough for a burger (though they looked smashingly delish), so I got a mesclun salad with cherry tomatoes and avocado.
The salad was fresh, especially the avocado. Look! No brown spots! =) That always makes me happy. I didn’t really like the dressing though- too much olive oil for my liking. BTW, I did eat this salad all by myself because Daniel didn’t want to participate in my fattiness. He says the cupcakes have enough calories alone- he doesn’t need to add to them. Though, 15 minutes later, he wanted to go hunt down some White Castle, so….
We decided on the vanilla with vanilla icing [with the Christmas sprinkles], the carrot with the cream cheese and coconut icing, and the vanilla with the chocolate icing for the cupcakes. The mini cupcakes are actually the size of regular cupcakes. The jumbo ones were humungous. They were very exciting to look at. It turns out that these cupcakes have been sitting around for a while [it was only a bit past lunch by the time we got there], so the cupcakes were not as soft and fluffly as they could have been. Also, since it’s been sitting outside, the icing has started to get hard on the sides, which was fairly disappointing. The degree of sweetness was not too bad though; it wasn’t over the top sweet. We just weren’t wowed by their cupcakes. Maybe we shall try the original one next time.
