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| - We popped into the Polka Dot Bake Shop for an afternoon treat. After visiting cupcake bakeries in New York City and Seattle, we thought this might be an exciting new thing for us to do periodically in our own city.
Walking into the shop, it didn't feel like anything special. It felt "cold" and impersonal. There was nothing cutesy (or "polka dotty") about it. There was the fluorescently lit cupcake case, a few nondescript tables, a children's play table, a couple of cupcake paintings on the wall (a take-off on Andy Warhol's Cambell soup prints would have been cool)...and that was pretty much it. The colors and funness of their logo felt like they should have been used throughout the store more.
As for the cupcakes, they were decent, but nothing extraordinary. I expected a case full of a huge variety of choices. Not six. I tried their cupcake of the day, though, which was Chocolate Pistachio. It wasn't labeled in their case (why was it excluded from the rest of them?). I only knew what it was because we had looked at their website before going (at least that's kept up-to-date). The chocolate cake part of the cupcake was a bit dry, the chocolate frosting creamy, and the pistachios (although yummy separately) didn't really add anything to the mix. And then there was the bill. $2.50 per cupcake? Ouch.
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