Crumbs Bake Shop

The cupcake we tried was really dry — both the cake and icing. Disappointing, since they looked real yum. But, open until 11.

An impressive selection of cupcakes, more than others I’ve seen. The cake is not the most moist but still good. the icing is absolutely delicious. The price is about average, some speciality ones are about a dollor more than I’ve seen but it’s a large cupcake. I’d go back.

Purchased a cronut on my way to work as soon as the store opened at 9 AM. It was nothing special. My wife had the one with cream, she didn’t finish it.

Just another overpriced cupcake in Arlington. The cupcakes are big but they’re dry and lack the flavor you’d want for this price.
I’ve tried the red velvet and a few of the chocolate versions, peanut butter and cookies n cream. With all the competition in the DC area, it’s not worth visiting Crumbs. It’s simply another chain cupcake joint.

Not impressed.
I hate writing reviews less than 3 stars. But if the cake crumbles… lol. Okay, lame attempt at a joke. Comedy is not my forte.
On the positive side, Crumbs is a decent sized and clean bakery near all the best Clarendon shops with fair pricing. I went in on a rainy Wed afternoon after stopping by the neighboring eye doctor and a window sign advertising their version of the infamous cronut, called a «Crumbnut» caught my eye.
The bakery was empty when I came in except for one lone employee. I thought that was odd, but it was a rainy day so ignored that. All the treats were pretty enough, but looked dry and dull to me. All right… so maybe they just don’t have my style of cupcakes. The cupcakes are humongous! Yet still not appealing to me.
After asking the employee about the Crumbnut, he brought my attention to a cake stand holding a bunch of them. I found that odd as well since the local cronut competitors are all out of their supply for the day by this time. Crumbs has two options for the crumbnuts — cinnamon sugar and bavarian cream. I asked for the one most like the original cronut which was the bavarian cream. I took it to-​go so my S/​O and I could share, since it was room temperature already, I knew this wouldn’t affect the taste.
My verdict is: Okay — for a plain old cream filled doughnut. The cake was very dry and lacked flavor, the cream was excellent. However I wouldn’t order this again. Honestly, I’ll politely pass on this bakery again.

Looking at the case of beautiful and temping cupcake, I couldn’t make up my mind, so I decided to go for the advertised 6 classics for $ 10 and let everyone try some. I got a rude «we don’t have those boxes» answer — even though they clearly had the classic cupcakes… and pretty boxes… and it was advertised. But whatever… back to the temp delights.
«How is the cookie dough one?» Again, the skillful saleswoman: «I don’t like it. It kind of plain. Just vanilla with come cookies mixed into the frosting. It doesn’t taste like cookie dough.» Wow. The false advertising here is awesome!
I finally settle on a set of four classics (skipping the cookie dough one) and take two samples from the sample tray — which I usually wouldn’t do, but she was pretty rude. I guess they got the last laugh though as the cupcakes weren’t that good anyway.
Two stars only bc it wasn’t a dump and there were no bugs or rats.

There were more than just crumbs left… I actually didn’t even eat the second cupcake. I ordered the red velvet and the devil’s food. They are huge, I’ll give them that. Took them home for a taste test with my son… we like to try different bakeries. So we split the red velvet in half, because that’s usually our favorite, and dug in. The cake had no flavor, the frosting was sub par. There was nothing about the flavor of the cupcake that made me want to waste the additional calorie intake to try the devil’s food cupcake. I won’t be visiting Crumbs again. And to the employee who was speaking negatively about Georgetown Cupcakes to other customers the day that I visited, that was just unprofessional. So for those two reasons (flavorless cupcakes and unprofessional staff), I won’t be a repeat customer. Keep your Crumbs!!!

As part of our holiday brunch I ordered a box of ‘cronuts’ for the family. As we had some out of town visitors, several people had heard of them but never tried them.
I was extremely disappointed! They were clearly over baked, very dry, the toppings were half rubbed off, and overall the experience was a bust. I’ve had better cronuts from the bakery department at Safeway. Usually I enjoy Crumbs’ cupcakes but definitely steer clear of the cronuts.

I almost considered giving this place a 1. This is not based on one bad experience. I’ve been here about 6 times because I have a 3 year old daughter and we will get dessert after dinner in Clarendon occasionally
Flat out. The cake portion of the cup cake is NEVER moist enough… It’s borderline dry. You’d think they would notice this. My dad visited 2 weeks ago and didn’t even finish it. Before I told him my thoughts he said he would never go back. When you serve one thing on the menu. There is no reason for it to not be great.

Just happened to pop in because I needed a quick shot of espresso.
Ordered a solo, but the cute girl with glasses behind the counter decided to give me a doppio. Maybe because I’m her type? I dunno, maybe a «missed connections» situation going on there.
Anyway, the espresso was actually good and rich. I noticed the gigantic cupcakes priced at $ 35 (seriously?) and the normal-​ish sized (albeit decorated to the nines) cupcakes priced at $ 4.50. Wow. Talk about market price. I did sample a piece of chocolate cupcake they had laying out on a stand, and it was rich enough though a little dry (I’m assuming because it was cut up and laying around). Taste-​wise, good. Price-​wise, not sure why someone wouldn’t just go to another shop for their fix.
Anyway, Crumbs will get at least my random coffee business in the immediate Clarendon area. Thank you, cute girl with glasses behind the counter.

Not the best but definately better than Georgetown Cupcakes. I still think Baked and Wired is the way to go for cupcakes. Also, Best Buns Bakery in Shilington right next to Carlyle has yummy cupcakes also. Just not as large in variety as baked and wired.
I’ll have to give props to Crumbs because their cupcakes are ginormous! Bigger is better right? =) This is a cupcake I always have to split with someone.
Taste wise, they are ok. I’ve tried a lot of the flavors. The actual cupcake can be a hit or miss. Once I got a very dry, dense, and crumbly frosting cupcake. Another time I got a very moist, creamy frosting cupcake. I guess it all depends which one you get. A lot of their cupcakes are filled which I like. It’s like a surprise hidden in there. Aesthetically pleasing to the eye also. But I’m not a fan of the oodles of sprinkles topped on the red velvet cupcake.
If you need a sweet something do go to Crumbs if you are in the area. Not worth driving all the way to though. I prefer Baked and Wired or Best Buns over Crumbs any day.

Likely, the worst cupcakes I’ve ever gotten, right next to, maybe slightly above CakeLove. I tried two cupcakes there and both were bad. Cake was dry in both cupcakes, the icings and toppings, lackluster. I mean, when you have icing that doesn’t have the consistency of icing but is more crumbly, you know something is wrong. I give them props for the different types of flavor combos that they offer and the nice display case, however, it won’t ever make up for bad cupcakes when the base recipe isn’t even good. I hate a dry cake. Sorry, but I do.

Decided to try this place out since we have tried most other cupcake places in the area.
Overall we really enjoyed their cupcakes. They have a wide variety to choose from and unique flavors.
We also liked the fact that they have different size cupcakes.
Only thing we noticed, was that the cake was slightly dry. Would have like a more moist cupcake.

I think Crumbs was just alright.
Loved:
— size to price ratio of cupcake! Huge cupcake for about 3 – 4 dollars I believe.
— cute bag and box for cupcake
Disliked:
— limited selection of cupcakes
–red velvet not having cream cheese frosting ;(
The cupcake was however pretty good. I can’t say it’s as good as sprinkles or red velvet cupcakery in Reston but it was good.
Probably will come back to try other carb giving flavors ;)

Would definitely try again. The apple crumb cake was delicious (although a little sweet), and the red velvet was ok (really needed cream cheese frosting — vanilla was too sweet and no thanks on sprinkles). But they were both moist and good cupcakes

Yup, gave it a second try as the office bought some from the Union Station location.
Same as last time, pure sugar, no other taste.
At the end of the day, all the cupcakes were pretty intact, no one liked them.

Dear Crumbs, I really wanted to like you because I was craving a moist and delicious cupcake. But, you let me down. Although, I have discovered why it is that you are named «crumbs». Because, quite literally, there is no way of eating your gigantic cupcakes without making a mess. Try sharing one of those cupcakes with four people. The entire table was covered with little crumbs.
The cupcakes are large and have a variety of creative flavors. But, unfortunately, the icing kills the taste. It’s hardened and doesn’t make the cupcake worth $ 4. I got the Cappucino which was supposedly a chocolate cupcake with espresso cream cheese icing and buttercream icing on top with chocolate chips. The icing wasn’t impressive at all. The cupcake itself was pretty light and fluffy but it was not worth $ 4. I’ve had plenty better cupcakes for less money.

If you’ve read my other reviews, I’m not of fan of Georgetown. I like the smaller and less obnoxious places. Crumbs is not as hipster-grove’ster as Baked and Wired, but I like the flavors, and creativity of the cupcakes. That and they’re huge. Like the size of a slightly premature baby’s head.
But not everyone can relate, especially the fans of Georgetown Cupcake. Think about it like this, Georgetown C’Cake Sellouts… Take your iPhone, because I know you have one. You guys are just so trendy like that. Georgetown is like the iPhone 3G. Baked and Wired is like the iPhone 4. Crumbs like is like the iPhone 3GS. Now my goal is to find an iPhone 4S. Maybe one day… ONE DAY… I’ll find my iPhone 5… one day…
Now do you understand?

I was tempted to try these because they were free on their opening day. I had already experienced a let down when I tried their cupcakes in New York last year, but I thought maybe it was just a bad bakery day. Unless they were having a bad bakery day at the Clarendon location as well, then these cupcakes are on the «Stay away!» list.
I took a few bites then threw them away.
The boston cream was brown on the bottom, dry, flaky, and flavorless and the frosting too sweet. The cake is flat on top which means when the liner ends, the rest is just frosting.
The carrot cake cream cheese frosting is too sweet as well, and the cake dry yet dense at the same time. The flavors were muddled and didn’t really taste much of carrot, but just a generic spice muffin.
The service is friendly here, but they also made the same mistake other cupcakeries have — having only one door for entrance that is very close to where the ordering line is. This causes a traffic jam if there are ever more than 4 people inside. Also, the trash cans are on the opposite side of the seating area and located behind the line for ordering, so you have to cut through the line just to throw a napkin away or exit the store.
I didn’t know what to order when I got to the case, but it’s not because my I couldn’t decide. It was because the flavor cards (when there) don’t have descriptions of the ingredients. Some are pretty straight forward, but others give no hints and the staff had to parrot back the components for multiple cupcakes to each customer which adds up.
p. s. Crumbs dissed all DC-​Area cupcake places when they sent their press release out, saying they wanted to expand here because they didn’t see any «worthy» existing cupcakeries in the area on a trip they took down to DC.

Thrilled they’ve opened a new stop in VA! Things were going very smoothly here this afternoon on their second day. A girl working there was very pleasant and patient as she responded to each customer’s request of ‘what’s in this one’? It would help keep the line moving if the descriptions were posted somewhere and save the poor girl some time also.
They had several cupcakes that aren’t described on the crumbs site yet, a few that I remember:
Bryant Park– vanilla cake with chocolate mousse filling
Elvis — must be peanut butter and banana
It was about 3pm and half their shelves were cleared out. clearly I’m not the only one that’s happy they’re there. :)