Chicagoist: Sweet Cakes Sweetening Up Damen Ave

guest

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:43:28 -0600

It seems to me that Laura Oppenheimer is too literal and needs to educate herself on how gentrification works...

guest

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:09:38 -0600

I eat a corn muffin for breakfast every other day practically, if I *ever* find a nasty hard boiled chicken fetus inside somebody's getting hurt.

Stephen

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:13:43 -0600

#5: Yeah it really, really sucks when independent family businesses come in and mess up a perfectly good abandoned space that is zoned for retail/commercial purposes (and has been for quite some time). It's been a while since ANY family, poor or not, lived in that unit. That stretch of Damen is specifically zoned as a "Community Shopping District" which disallows residences on the first floor of many of those buildings, including this one.

Laura Oppenheimer

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:27:45 -0600

#5: that space was actually an empty restaurant for a long time. At least a year, I think. So no, no poor family lost its home. An empty restaurant was turned into a place where people living in the community can buy delicious things to eat. How can that be a bad thing?

guest

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:19:11 -0600

Because local restaurants add something to a neighborhood; condos don't.

guest

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:52:34 -0600

some poor family probably lost their home so yuppie transplants could have their fancy sweetcakes. what, the other twenty trendy bakeries in the neighborhood weren't enough? you had to eat at milk and honey more than once per month? why do you people only complain about gentrification when a condo is built?

guest

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:53:41 -0600

I just had one of these and I can confirm that they are indeed delicious. A little sweet, a lot of savory. The egg is genius.

Mo

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:50:03 -0600

Come on people, if you are going to comment, at least read the post! It's a corn muffin, and it sounds amazing! I'm definitely going to check this place out.

guest

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:31:55 -0600

NASTY NASTY!

guest

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:58:04 -0600

Is that a hard-boiled egg inside a blueberry muffin? Nasty!