Cupcake bakeries in Victoria
#1
Posted 05 August 2008 - 10:23 AM
#2
Posted 05 August 2008 - 08:42 PM
I don't think I'd buy them myself, but should more turn up in our lunch room, you can bet I will be there with my fork and cup of coffee.
Very nice presentation, too, fancy box and all.
#3
Posted 05 August 2008 - 11:01 PM
#4
Posted 09 August 2008 - 09:07 PM
#5
Posted 09 August 2008 - 09:25 PM
#6
Posted 20 October 2008 - 02:01 PM
Pink Sugar Cupcakery is a long narrow space painted in a deep pink reminiscent of Pepto Bismol. Which I don't think you'll need here. Brightly coloured icing adorns chocolate and lemon cupcakes and some have molten fillings of peanut butter. Yum
1284 Gladstone Aven, 250-590-8055.
P.S. owner.baker Adrienne Jopp says very quietly, "they're vegan."
#7
Posted 22 July 2009 - 09:47 AM
#8
Posted 22 July 2009 - 09:49 AM
The new cupcake bakery in the 700 block of Fort is now open and was apparently very busy at lunchtime yesterday.
Has that replaced the Pink Sugar in Fernwood or is it in addition to it?
#9
Posted 22 July 2009 - 10:42 AM
The new cupcake bakery in the 700 block of Fort is now open and was apparently very busy at lunchtime yesterday.
Had some of these at work yesterday. Super sweet, nice and dense. tastes about the same as a Betty Crocker type mix with canned frosting. I don't see why these places are such a draw. Yet another LA fad that swept north I think. I wonder when the Pink Berry chain will open here?
#10
Posted 22 July 2009 - 12:57 PM
Has that replaced the Pink Sugar in Fernwood or is it in addition to it?
I believe it is a replacement with the operators of Little Piggy Bakery (on Fort) putting a take-out place in the Fernwood location
#11
Posted 22 July 2009 - 02:09 PM
I believe it is a replacement with the operators of Little Piggy Bakery (on Fort) putting a take-out place in the Fernwood location
Oh great, just what the neighbourhood needs, a snobby wannabe food critic. I wonder if she will continue providing restaurant reviews on her local competitors.
I also hope she doesn't bring her rodent problem with her from downtown.
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#12
Posted 22 July 2009 - 03:51 PM
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#13
Posted 23 July 2009 - 08:30 AM
#14
Posted 23 July 2009 - 09:11 AM
Oh great, just what the neighbourhood needs, a snobby wannabe food critic. I wonder if she will continue providing restaurant reviews on her local competitors.
I also hope she doesn't bring her rodent problem with her from downtown.
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Acting surprised that a restaurant downtown has a rodent problem is like acting surprised when you find a tourist who smells like BO and sunscreen at the end of the day. They're both everywhere.
#15
Posted 23 July 2009 - 09:25 AM
Acting surprised that a restaurant downtown has a rodent problem is like acting surprised when you find a tourist who smells like BO and sunscreen at the end of the day. They're both everywhere.
Perhaps you can indicate which word or phrasing in particular conveyed a sense of surprise to you?
Regardless, you may be interested to know that I went back to the VIHA health inspection site to test your hypothesis. I tested 10 other restaurants in the same general area and nary a rat problem to be found - hers was the only one. So if indeed you managed to infer a sense of surprise in my posting, it is justifiable.
#16
Posted 23 July 2009 - 09:41 AM
Perhaps you can indicate which word or phrasing in particular conveyed a sense of surprise to you?
Regardless, you may be interested to know that I went back to the VIHA health inspection site to test your hypothesis. I tested 10 other restaurants in the same general area and nary a rat problem to be found - hers was the only one. So if indeed you managed to infer a sense of surprise in my posting, it is justifiable.
Checking out listings on VIHA and actually working in and having friends who have worked in Downtown restaurants are two different things. VIHA inspections are hardly, if ever, a surprise, so most restaurants have the time to clean out the rat and mouse **** from their kitchens and store rooms before the actual inspection. You'd be surprised at which 'high-end' restaurants have a rodent problem. The closer you are to the waterfront, the more prelevant the problem can be.
For example: the Noodle Box on Fisgard street. Nowhere on the VIHA inspection site does it say anything about a rodent problem. I lived in an apartment building where the balcony faces right down into their back courtyard and their food storage 'shed'. The shed had a two inch gap between the frame and the concrete, leaving a nice, large opening for the mice that we saw constantly to enter through. Yet people still eat there and, as I said, there's no mention of a rodent problem there.
#17
Posted 23 July 2009 - 09:53 AM
#18
Posted 23 July 2009 - 10:08 AM
Who knows, it's quite probably that the rat problem has gotten exponentially worse in the last 10 years. Regardless, why take the chance when info like that is so easily available nowadays.
Oh, and thanks for yet another reason to avoid The Noodle Box.
#19
Posted 23 July 2009 - 10:27 AM
#20
Posted 23 July 2009 - 10:51 AM
Then again, I have a hard time believing selling nothing but lampshades is a viable business model, but that joint on Burnside has been there for yonks.
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