Rabbit gives away free cupcakes pre-opening

Yet another venue is opeing in Clarendon offering gourmet cupcakes, and this one has a unique name: Rabbit. The restaurant is opening to the pubilc on Friday, so today they were giving away free cupcakes to get the word out.

Passers by who took up the offer could choose from one of 12 Red Velvet cupcakes, including the reliably delicious Cookies 'N Cream pictured here. With salads and sandwiches being served in a pleasent and open little seating area inside, I'm sure that Rabbit will do well in Clarendon when they open tomorrow.

Rabbit Preview Party Monday

So many new restaurants coming to Clarendon this month that it is hard to keep up! Here is one not to miss: Rabbit is having a preview party hosted by Bisnow this Monday. The price is $39 online or $49 at the door for an open bar and "power networking."

Rabbit will sit next to Pete's Apizza and will provide the are with soups, salads, sandwiches and Red Velvet cupcakes. As we all know, cupcakes are in short supply in Clarendon with only three other stores in walking distance offering them to go (Crumbs, Bakeshop, and Whole Foods).

Let the cupcake wars continue!

Free Cupcakes in Clarendon Saturday

The Sprinkles bakery located in DC has a delivery van that will be stopping by different locations every day and handing out free cupcakes. Follow sprinklesmobile on Twitter the for the exact time and location of Clarendon free cupcake giveaway this Saturday, March 12.

Thanks to Lis from the DCist for the heads up!

Valentine's Day destroys Crumbs

Hope everyone in Clarendon had as a nice Valentine's Day as owners of Crumbs Bake Shop must have had. The bakery that just recently opened was packed all day with people bringing their dates there for a V-Day treat or after dinner desert. When I dropped by around 8pm-ish the shelves were shockingly bare with only a few cupcakes and cookies left.

Another venue that looked popular tonight was the Clarendon Grill's salsa dancing night. Occurring every Monday evening, this one just happened to fall on V-Day and seemed like a great place to bring a date for fast paced dancing.

Cupcake wars continue in Clarendon

The battle for cupcake supremacy was heating up this past weekend, as competition between Clarendon's bakeshops was increased during the pre-Valentine's Day weekend.

First the newcomer Crumbs makes a delicious alliance with neighbor Best Cellars and features their mini cupcakes along side local chocolates in the free wine and chocolate tasting last Tuesday.

This was just a prelude to a popular joint venture cupcake and wine tasting on Saturday, which paired about five wines from Best Cellars' collection with five Crumbs' mini cupcakes.

Not to be outdone, Bakeshop on Fillmore Street fired back with its own champagne and wine tasting. Our local Bakeshop fought back against the Crumbs Empire by allying with neighbor Screwtop Wine Bar for a free one hour tasting on Sunday. According to their Twitter feed, there were no cupcake survivors by 2:14 pm.

The most important question still remains: for the future battles, which wine shop will ally with Red Velvet when they come to Clarendon?

Apologies to The Cupcake Blog for leaching the image, but that little tank themed cupcake was too cool not to post.

Free Cupcake & Wine Tasting this Saturday

Clarendon residents can't complain about lack of free wine tastings this weekend! One of these is a joint event by Best Cellars and Crumbs Bake Shop. This Saturday Feb 12th from 1 to 4pm they are hosting a free wine and cupcake tasting.

This could be an excellent pre-Valentine's day date, as Best Cellars offers a delicious variety of affordable wines and Crumbs offers great conversation starting cupcakes.

Crumbs Bake Shop

 Crumbs Bake Shop in Clarendon had a very successful Saturday as it drew a "chaotic" crowd by giving away 1,000 free cupcakes that morning. The new bakery on Clarendon Blvd next to Red Mango  has many delicious offerings in different sizes ranging from the mini cupcakes to normal traditional to the mega huge $35 Colossal Crumb cupcake cake pictured here. They were open late Saturday night much to my delight, and a free coffee with any purchase. They should offer some stiff competition to Bakeshop on Filmore!