The Food Buster

I just wanted to notify everyone that I’ll be slowing down reviews just a bit while I take care of some back-end work on the site. I’m hoping to come out with a sleeker template and a clearer format. In the meantime, though, I’ll have to take some time away from the reviews, focusing mostly [...]

Baked and Wired: Cupcakes
Cuisine: American Baked Goods
Specialty: Cupcakes
Location: 1052 Thomas Jefferson St. NW, Washington, DC 20007
Price: $3.25 or $3.50 for the cupcakes. Most treats are about $1-$3.

As I’ve said before, Washington, DC’s Georgetown area isn’t the hippest, despite the large college community. While it has its fair share of classy restaurants, it always seems [...]

Salty Oat Cookies at Teaism
Bakery/Café Type: Chinese-Inspired Teahouse
Specialty: Salty Oat Cookie
Location: 3 Locations in Washington, DC. Mine is at 2009 R St. NW.
Price: $2 for the Salty Oat and Chocolate Salty Oat Cookies
Washington, DC is a veritable wasteland when it comes to cookies. Never, in fact, have I had a cookie in DC that simply [...]

Cuisine: American Baked Goods
Specialties: Brownies, Cookies, Bread
Location: All throughout DC and Virginia. My store is at 1909 Q. Street, NW, Washington DC 20009.
Price: $1.45 for cookies, $2.50 for brownies
Best Value in Town, Best Brownie in Town
I see very few traditional bakeries these days, especially in the DC area. At one point in time, a bakery [...]

I’ve realized over the last few weeks that my scoring system may be giving an overly optimistic view of the food I eat. Since I’m employing a logarithmic scale, it’s actually easier for a restaurant to get in the earlier stages, so that there are numerous restaurants with 7’s, 8’s, and 9’s. I would only [...]

Georgetown Cupcake
3301 M St NW, Washington, DC
$3 for a cupcake
It’s no secret that I’m not a huge fan of cupcakes. To me, cupcakes are just a fad—an excuse for innumerable little bakeries to charge exorbitant prices for mini-cakes that are both small in size and flavor.
But every once in a while, a very special shop [...]

Deluscious Cookies and Milk
$38.95 for a dozen classic cookies. $1 extra for each “couture” cookie.
829 North Highland Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
www.delusciouscookies.com
Before returning home for the holidays, I had promised to find my brother, a cookie fiend, the best cookies in all of Los Angeles. So began a quest that eventually took me to Deluscious Cookies [...]

Patisserie Poupon, Cakes and Chocolate
Best Bakery in DC
1645 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest
Washington, DC 20007
The original location (where you can get the goods baked fresh) is at:
820 E Baltimore St
Baltimore, MD 21202

I was really craving a true French-style pastry the other day—something like a croissant or a mini-tart/cake. Unfortunately, while the Georgetown area is a [...]