Baked and wired are a zillion times better. GTCC tastes like a sawdust ball with Crisco on top.

Cupcake preferences depend on frosting preferences. I don't like buttercream at all, which means I dislike most cupcake shops. I do love a good ganache or cream cheese frosting, and GC does those well, so I love GC. (GC's buttercream is indeed too sweet, but so is every other cupcakery's, in my experience.)
I'm also confused by the comments about GC's cake being dry. I've had a lot of their cupcakes, and I can't think of any dry ones - if anything, the occasional misses have been on the side of underbaked/too wet. Generally their cake is tender but not dense. I'm guessing "tender" vs "dense" is an individual preference thing as well - I find Baked and Wired too dense and heavy.

Anyway, if you want to try GC, here are my favorites: Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip, Chocolate^2, Maple, Pumpkin Spice, Key Lime. If you want plainer, stick to the cream cheese frostings (Chocolate & Vanilla or Vanilla & Chocolate, or Vanilla^2 for crazy chocolate haters).
There is something wretched-tasting in the colored sprinkles on the "Birthday" series, which are the buttercream ones. Oh, and even though Red Velvet is hyped and I recall it was good when they first opened, then they got on the red dye train like every other cake shop and the flavor suffered. Ignore, get a Chocolate [cake] & Vanilla [cream cheese frosting] instead, it's what Red Velvet should be when not ruined by dye.

I... have devoted too much brain space to this.

Oh, and as for rudeness, I haven't encountered any at the Bethesda shop, unless you mean from customers. (Pro tip: the time to call your friend and debate flavor choices at length is *before* you get to the front of the line.)

Anonymous wrote:
Maybe not for the cupcake snobs out there, but for the money, the Columbia Heights Giant has the best cupcakes around. Always dozens in stock. Great when you need 2 dozen for your kid's class.

That or homemade, I will never pay over $3 for one cupcake. Ever.

Isn't GTC $2.75 for a cupcake?

I like GTC but like another poster I love frosting. love the spice ones, salted caramel, coconut, choc lava fudge. Definitely dont find them dry but they do dry out after a day or two - are the posters reporting them to be dry eating them same day?

Anonymous wrote:Love Crumbs!

Ugh. Stale and ugly.

I love Georgetown Cupcakes. I've been to just about every other place, including many in Manhattan, and GC are just the best.

I think the staff is lovely, by the way. Always so sweet to my children - and patient while we change our order several times.

But I love the Giant poster - I go to Safeway when I need 2 dozen for my children's classes. No way am I paying more than necessary!

Another huge Baked and Wired fan here. Their cupcakes rock! The Karen's Birthday cupcake is the best!

Maybe not for the cupcake snobs out there, but for the money, the Columbia Heights Giant has the best cupcakes around. Always dozens in stock. Great when you need 2 dozen for your kid's class.

That or homemade, I will never pay over $3 for one cupcake. Ever.

Hello cupcake is better than gtc.

Way, way, way too dry. Kind of gross tasting.

I think Crumbs is just meh. The two sizes do nothing for me, and they kind of taste bland in that from-a-box way.

Sprinkles is okay. Red Velvet is okay. It just depends on the flavors.

The best cupcakes are certainly not in DC, that is for sure.

They like obamacare, makes me like them even less

Dry with too sweet frosting. Totally unoriginal. Baked and Wired is the best.

Baked and wired is so delicious. So delicious.

Overpriced, small, rude staff. My go to I'd Sprinkles (she started this cupcake craze), then Baked and Wired, then Crumbs

I like them but I generally like a lot of frosting. My son doesn't like them, and he doesn't like a lot of frosting. I don't wait in line for them, though.

Love Crumbs!