Mity Nice Bakery Cafe

RIP

If restaurants were women, the Mity Nice Bakery Café would be kind of like the slightly awkward girl around the corner you wish was a bit cuter, until you realize her personality sucks and she thinks she’s a supermodel. Long story short, like that girl, the Mity Nice Bakery has no redeeming qualities.
I wish I could rate Mity Nice higher. I really do. It USED to be an ok place. I USED to enjoy their chicken salad and tolerate their B– cupcakes. Unfortunately, memories are all that is «Mity Nice» about the Mity Nice Bakery café. Let me explain and offer a few friendly words to the owners. Maybe they can make some «Mity Big» changes and turn their café around.
Cupcakes: My first cupcake here was pretty good. Not super duper good, just pretty good. I understood though even then why the café got eliminated in the first round of the TV show «Cupcake Wars.» The next few cupcakes I bought were something altogether different. Dry, stale globs of cake with flavorless smears of frosting. I then started to chase the unicorn. God, I WANTED to like them. I went back time after time hoping that they’d turn the corner. Nope. Overpriced nastiness.
Folks at Mity Nice, a field trip is in order. Seek out «Molly’s Mom Bakes.» She sells her cupcakes at Old Town Coffee & Chocolates. Hers are what cupcakes are supposed to be. If the lesson I’m trying to instill eludes your taste buds, let me be clear: cupcakes should be fresh, flavorful and moist. By the way, if Molly’s Mom decides to open a storefront, you’re sunk.
Sandwiches: A bit salty, but not bad. My gripe is that you had the nerve to keep your prices the same but shrink your portion size by 50%. I noticed. So did everyone else. This is why I don’t buy sandwiches from you anymore.

Delicious cupcakes… not the place for coffee…

This place was on the television show, Cupcake Wars on the Food Network. If you watched the episode they were on, you’d see they were eliminated first. After eating their cupcakes 3 times you’d see why.
The first visit. The cupcakes were excellent. Between two of us we split three. We had a blackberry cupcake, a margarita cupcake, and a boston crème pie cupcake.
The second time, the cupcakes tasted a week old. Dry as a bone. We thought it may be a fluke.
Third time– worse than the second.
I also find it amusing they try to sell the day old cupcakes. Really, the ones you are selling for full price taste like they are already a week old!
I have also heard through the grapevine that this business fails to donate to local charities for donations. Come on, 6 cupcakes is going to break the bank?! How much can that cost at wholesale prices? $ 2! You can just donate those old ones, that no one wants. .. oh wait, that’s all of them!
Speak to the hand Mity Nice. The word is out on you.

CUPCAKES ARE UNBELIEVABLE! Watch Philip owner of Mity Nice Bakery assisting his sister Allyson who owns Daddycakes Cupcakes in Topeka on CUPCAKE WARS on the Food Network June 15, 9pm.

Mity Nice Bakery Café seems to be trying to decide what it wants to be when it grows up: A sit-​down or take-​out joint? As presently configured, it doesn’t effectively cater to either one. The positive word-​of-​mouth has been building on this place for some time, so I gave it a shot — to mixed results.
Mity’s dining area is tiny, yet four large, round glass-​top tables crowd the floor area, leaving very little room for the take-​out diners to await purchase and delivery. I don’t picture large parties eating here — it’s a coffee and lunch joint — so you’d think Mity would focus on nearby County and City employees who are only a couple of blocks away. A better use of space would be six or seven small, rectangular tables, which would accommodate the typical lunch crowd, i.e., singles and couples.
Owing to its awkward floor design I observed two take-​out diners who, in addition to me, reluctantly got take-​out because single diners occupied two of the four large tables (the other two being occupied by a family and a couple). American culture being what it is, we just don’t «crash» other people’s tables, no matter how many empty chairs are available.
The food: Not bad, but not exemplary. The fare involves your standard-​issue deli options: Sandwiches and a rotating soup of the day, plus assorted baked goods. I ordered the ½ turkey/​bacon sandwich with a small cup of clam chowder and took my food to the Gazebo.
Everything was fresh and home-​made, if a little unimaginative. In addition to turkey and bacon on a fresh-​baked roll, the sandwich had green leaf lettuce, tomato and red onion. Oddly, no condiments. This was disappointing as I’m accustomed to mayo and mustard. But I have to say the ingredients were of high quality.
The clam chowder was home-​made and adequate, though unremarkable, and accompanied by a large slice of french bread and small brick of foil-​wrapped butter. A goodly amount of food for my $ 7.
All in all it was a quality deli meal, definitely a cut above a Subway or your typical small-​town greasy spoon, but not measuring up to the frou-​frou yuppie place to which it seems to aspire.
On the day I visited it was really hopping. Mity is gaining a good reputation in the Downtown area, which I suspect is owing mostly to its morning latte-​and-​muffin traffic. (Not being a coffee or muffin-​type of guy, I can’t comment on this aspect of the business.)
Although I can’t highly recommend Mity I do hope it succeeds, as its Fifth Street location — sandwiched-​in as it is amongst a bail bondsman, bank and a tattoo parlor — has high turnover. That neighborhood could use an affordable dining option with a touch of class. Mity Nice is almost there.