Crumbs Bake Shop

Crumbs, oh Crumbs.
I missed you when you left the UES. Cupcakes the size of my head covered with candy decadence. Alas you over expanded and the cupcake were overtaken by the macaron as the Manhattanite dessert of choice.
I found one of the last few outposts across the street from a meeting I was attending and I bought a couple containers of your minis for my friends and colleagues.
The quality is still good, the flavors are a bit dated and the prices are sky high! 2 trays cost me almost $ 40!
That my friends, is absurd.
Will I come back? Possibly. Will I still consider them a rip-​off? Most definitely.

Blah… what happened to this chain besides severely downsizing? So sad! Use to be amazing and now awful. DRY cupcake def past its shelf life and frosting hard. Looks good but not edible… so sad. Hope the buttercup cupcake shop across the street is better, next time I’m in need of cupcakes, it’s not going to be crumbs. Sad demise of once what was a great bake shop.

I agree with the 1star reviewers on the cupcakes served at this location. Overpriced and the cupcakes tasted stale and very dry. Putting down $ 4 for a cupcake you would think the darn thing would be moist and tasty but it wasn’t. Pretty and inviting yes, edible no. I was a regular customer before their resurrection from financial ruins but I wil not be returrning.

Unilocal, Google and Crumbs own site said this location had Sunday hours. It was closed at 3:30 pm, and looked like it might never re-​open. Is this location out of business? Disappointed.

This is not the Crumbs of yester-​year and that is so disappointing. I used to go to Crumbs every morning before they closed their doors two years ago. When I heard they were back, I did a little dance — no lie. I have visited this location three times, different times of the day AND week hoping for a change. Cupcakes and muffins have been stale and dry each time. They are never really busy but you have practically jump the counter to get any service. One day they didn’t have milk for the coffee, «we ran out.» The coffee is not bad, I’ve had worse but for the price you pay, might as well get it from the cart on the street. At least they have flavored creamers and they smile at you. I will not be spending my hard-​earned $ here again. It’s not worth the calories. Ugh.

i can’t believe this is what they are serving at this place. I got 30 dollars in cupcakes. Crap Crap Crap.
my brownie was dry as ever. fine i can microwave it.
my cookie dough cupcake tasted like a stick of butter straight up stick of butter. i was told by my partner that cookie dough taste like butter but no this was too much for me.
the salted caramel also not so fun.
wtf happend to this place they should just shut down the cupcakes look pretty but taste like total shit
30 dollars down the drain but now i know officially that i add this place to the cupcake cemetery

This is why I hate this one. Now they don’t have descriptions in front of the cupcakes what the names are. So if there is a long line, you might have to wait for about 10minutes just to ask if they have it. There is one particular one that I love. After waiting 10 minutes I was told they didn’t have them. I asked if they carried them still, they said yes but they had sold out on this particular one. They came in on Mondays and although it was Tuesday AM they sold out. I asked if it was so popular why didn’t they add more to the delivery. The girl with a big bow in her hair just looked at me blankly. Never will I go in there again. Now the good news, I have saved myself the 550 calories they had been!

I purchased lemon/​chamomile tea and a strawberry cupcake to celebrate closing on my new home! It was awful! It tasted old! And it was so pricey!!! Yuck!!! So disappointed! Won’t be going back there :(

Stopped in en route to work for a free pastry from their new breakfast menu, and the staff took their suhweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet time, but was friendly enough. Had I been a paying customer, I would’ve left.

Got a cannoli cupcake here. First off, their cupcakes are HUGE. The one I had was very filling, maybe even a little too filling. Second, this one is pretty tiny & seating is limited but it wasn’t crowded when I came in on a weeknight. I was able to get a seat to enjoy my cupcake.
I’d never had a cupcake here before so decided to come try it. Sadly, I didn’t try any of the Girl Scout cookie cupcakes that originally enticed me to take the plunge but maybe I will in the future. The girl who helped me was friendly enough though definitely trying to push you to buy more (but not in an obnoxious, rude way). Haven’t been to any other locations so I can’t judge this one compared to others but I’d come back to this bakery in general if I had the money (prices are a little steep though the cupcakes are a decent size for me).

The cookies are better at McDonalds.
An unpleasant heavily tattooed dude, who couldn’t stop checking out my girlfriend, said, «Okay Boss» when I paid. Looked like he should have been out on the street robbing people, not working a minimum wage job.
I will NEVER set foot in this hole again. A place like belongs in a strip mall in Jersey.

Brownie cupcake was delicious, but service was appalling. My friend and I were the only ones in the shop as we conferred about cupcake selection. We asked the woman behind the counter for her opinion between two choices, and she responded in an unhappy and annoyed manner before continuing with her label making behind the counter.
When we were ready to order and told her, she continued making labels for at least 3 minutes while we waited. We had to get her attention again before she sighed loudly and rung me up. Confused and frustrated, we then had to ask politely and to wait another 2 minutes before she run up my friend.
The cupcake itself was simply divine. I like that they post the calories: my brownie cupcake was 550 calories. Assuming my service at this branch was an anomaly, I would visit Crumbs again, just not at this branch.

I love Crumbs. Was walking home and decided to hit a different Crumbs. The usual awesome selection of cupcakes and now sandwiches by David Burke. I will try the sandwiches next time they looked really good despite being pre-​packaged. Picked up four for home Red Velvet Cookies & Cream, Macchiato, Goodguys, and Coffee Toffee. All were hits as usual. They had a new one called Canoli which might be worth a second look. Service was excellent and my server actually seemed to like her job which is a plus.

I redeemed my frequent buyers card today and to my surprise (maybe I just forgot), I got a free cupcake AND any coffee drink in any size!
So I ventured away from the usual Red Velvet and got a cotton candy cupcake. Now, I’m not usually a fan of Crumbs, especially over other cupcake shops, but the cake this time was moist and fresh, and the taste was better than other times I’ve had crumbs.
I also ordered a grande caramel macchiato and it was delicious! Was not aware that they brew Starbucks coffee.
This particular location also has great service — the two guys behind the counter were both very friendly and helpful.

I have a love/​hate relationship with this place. I love sweets and find I am only purchasing here because it is conveniently on the way home. Cupcakes are not baked on-​site as I had thought since I’ve clearly seen the third party delivery truck deliver at precisely 6am each morning. Disappointing that they aren’t made to order and the quality and flavor have declined over the years. How does a cupcake go from 350 calories one year to 550 the next and now almost 1000 calories, as did the Good Guy cupcake. What’s in here? Lard?
Have I forgotten to mention the size has decrease dramatically since Crumbs started out many years ago on the UES where I used to walk there and back 80 blocks just for these desserts.
Gone also is the signature high plateau top and slight slanted frosting edge finishing.
And as I love to pick apart flavors, I had the Avalanche, marshmallow flavored frosting with curls of white chocolate on top. The cake part tasted like corn muffin. Wth is that about? Eating the frosting, curls and cake together tasted like a Twinkie for a split second.
I also got the Chocolate Sundae. Looked like a sundae but tasted nothing like it. Chocolate cake part was perfect in flavor, but the frosting and décor on top was less than desirable.
Girl Scout Thin Mints is an absolute favorite. I hate Chocolate but this was great. Shouldn’t their Grasshopper cupcake taste this way?

I opted for a B&W as it was the most portion friendly option since I wanted some cake and it’s a waste to get an entire cupcake just for myself. It’s a good simple alternative and I like how the frosting wasn’t obnoxiously sweet like others are.
As a warning stay away from their cookies, especially the sugar cookie. It tasted and felt like I was eating sand. People who make cupcakes apparently can’t make cookies.

Does NOT live up to all the hype. First of all, these cupcakes contain up to 1,000 calories. ONE THOUSAND. You’d have to walk 4 hours straight to burn it off!
Still, I had to try one so I got the «peanut butter cup» which contained about 600 calories. I split it with my roommate so I don’t feel too guilty about it, but this giant cupcake is totally not worth gaining a couple pounds over. The cake was way too soft. I seriously don’t think it’s possible to hold the cupcake and eat it because it would just fall apart. Eat it with a fork!
The frosting was nothing special either. My friends make way better cupcake than this.

So many cupcakes, so little time… this is no little cupcake either! I «shared» the red velvet with my hubby. And it’s packed with fluffy red delight. We have been trying cupcakes all over town… especially the Red Velvet and this one is definitely a return cupcake indulgence. They also sell a mini-​size dozen of tasters… that run oh…1000 to 1200 calories if you snarfle the whole carton… great I so don’t want to know that…

Just what I need — to now be surrounded by Crumbs on one side and Shake Shack on the other. Life is very cruel indeed!
First time I ever stepped into this location today as it is only a few blocks from my office. Can’t believe I never noticed it before, and now I am sorry that I did. Especially around 4PM when the sugar and caffeine cravings kick in at work.
Nice clean and bright store on the small size. No seating here and only a small counter along the front window. Cupcake selection is limited as compared to some of the larger locations but still more than enough to satisfy the sweet tooth in you. Red Velvet, as noted by many, is a good one. Giant sized so it’s easy to split with a co-​worker, or have a pig-​out session behind your closed office door. They actually have some decent tasting coffee here too. Counter staff seemed very friendly when I dropped in.
Time to move the belt buckle down a notch…

I just wanted to be first to Unilocal this. Because I’ve been waiting a YEAR for this location to open!!! YES A CRUMBS NEXT TO MY OFFICE! YES!
They gave out 1000 free cupcakes today for their grand opening. Peep cupcake is SO cute! Looks better than it tastes. That goes for all of their cupcakes anyway. But hey, I won’t refuse baked goods.