Whilst making our market rounds this Saturday afternoon, imagine our surprise when, directly before Rajun Cajun, steps from the meditative fiberglass Red Man, and across the street from the ever-scaffolded Herald Building, we chanced upon - Lo! - a cupcake van.
Yes, that's right. A cupcake van.
No sooner had we paused to consult the banner of cupcake offerings, both wondrous and manifold, than a line formed behind us. The treats are not cheap, but lovers of cupcakes have come to expect a premium for such imaginative toppings as bannana-strawberry cream and pineapple rum cakes. You may also be struck by the advanced design of the cupcake packaging, surely the most damage-proof and user friendly cupcake packaging yet devised.
And they come to you. A winning strategy: behold the hunger for mid-afternoon cupcakes on a Saturday afternoon.
The van is run by Flirty Cupcakes, a caterer operating out of the West Side, but fully mobile, and with scheduled stops all over Chicago-Land, including the 1500 E. block of 53rd Street on Saturdays from 3 o'clock onward. (Their van is tracked on Flirty's Facebook page).
Try them and come back to let us know what you think.
5 comments:
An outrage. We can solve this problem of flirty cupcake vans by instituting permit parking immediately.
Where have you been? The van stops by the hospital and Hyde Park all the time (the hospital has a set of very loyal followers). You can track where the van is going to be on Facebook. They list the schedule and then post when they get to the location.
do you think they take bribes to just park in front of my place of employment so that i needn't travel for an hourly cupcake fix??? thanks for making me aware!
Outside of the Reg earlier today, on 57th St., along with the Meatyballs Mobile.
Slightly off topic, but what happened to the ice cream truck that had taken up residence in Kimbark Plaza? I am jonesing...
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