Lulu’s Bake Shoppe

Stopped in here and bought 4 cupcakes.
Oreo…Coffee…Red Velvet… and something else I don’t remember.
They looked super delicious!
Chomp! chomp…(waiting for my taste buds to be ‘wowed’)…errr not so much.
The flavor was actually really good and rich, but they were not fresh. They were missing that moist fluffy characteristic. Expensive cupcakes should be fresh dammit!

Lulu’s is back and yes it is now located on Salem Street.
I popped in last Friday for few cupcakes. My family was extremely excited. When they come to town, they would go there for cupcakes.
If you have never had «the Lulu» cupcake, you have no idea what you’re missing!
Homemade chocolate cake, creamy frosting inside, dipped in chocolate ganache. WOW! Soo good.

Lulu’s apparently reopened on Salem St. according to a friend of mine who brought me their cupcakes last night.
She brought an assortment, including red velvet, oreo, and salty caramel. Now I was never one for cupcakes but these were pretty good. They were not too sweet and tasted truly «homemade» as she put it. I would recommend the salty caramel out of all 3.

Damn I miss you LULUS!

Very small shop — you can miss it if you’re not careful. Tucked away in Little Italy, this bakery boasts some delicious treats. I tried the crème brûlée after eyeing some of the cakes and tartes.
Overall it was pretty tasty. Not my definition of brulee, but it was enjoyable. I’ll probably return to try something else.

After reading about Lulu’s in Food Network magazine, I had to try it. It’s a super cute shop, and there are a few seats available inside if you want to eat your dessert there like we did.
BF got the chocolate-​peanut butter cupcake. Unfortunately he scarfed it down before I had a chance to steal a taste. I got the signature Lulu’s cupcake. It was okay, but it wasn’t as flavorful or moist as I had hoped. If you don’t like your cupcakes overly sweet, you would probably enjoy it, but it just didn’t have enough sugar for my sweet tooth. It is a really cute place though, and I’m glad I tried it.

TREMAZING!
I read about Lulu’s in a wonderful little book a friend gave me when I moved here called «Eat.Shop.Boston.»…for months I’ve been meaning to give this little bakery a try and finally yesterday I stumbled upon it with some friends & a full belly… but that didn’t stop us! we each got a cupcake to go and later on when my appetite for deliciousness came back… I sampled my chocolate cupcake with (green) buttercream frosty… and holy moly. Lulu’s don’t mess around. I can’t speak for their other treats, but this simple, delicious cupcake was un-​freaking-​believable. the icing was tremazing and the cupcake itself perfectly chocolately (but not too chocolately) and super moist. YUMMMMMMY!

The Boston Crème Cupcake was interesting but I really couldn’t finish the whole thing. It was so rich.
I’ve had a lot better red velvet. It was kind of dry and the frosting was so-​so.
I hate to give only two stars because their stuff was really cute! But it all boils down to taste…

Lulu’s is a must if you love cupcakes as much as I do… My all time favorite is the Carrot Cake Cupcake. Its moist and delicious, and the frosting is light and not overbearingly sweet. The best Carrot Cake I’ve ever had and it never lets me down. Unfortunately some of the other types can be a little inconsistent in terms of deliciousness. I think it depends on when during the day you get them.
The lady at the counter that everyone keeps talking about is straight up rude. She’s really my only complaint. But otherwise, Lulu’s is solid.

After reading through the other reviews and experiencing LuLu’s «customer service» (cough.cough.) myself — I have to wonder it LuLu’s is intentionally going for a «Soup Nazi” — like reputation. The girl that waited on me today (I was the only customer) was clearly annoyed that I was interrupting her solitude! As I took my time making my ½ dozen selection (these cupcakes LOOK fabulous) she tapped her foot impatently and threw them in the box when I chose one. (Sweety, get over yourself, you sell cupcakes for a living) So –0– stars for service.
As I said these LOOK amazing and the shop is very cute — but the taste is so mediocre (Shaw’s bakery could do as well). I had a red velvet cupcake that was dry and very bland and the frosting was AWFUL. It was a faux cream cheese frosting that had a weird oily taste and a VERY faint cream cheese flavor.
Friends liked the cupcake gesture but all agreed their cupcakes merited no more than a «meh» — pretty good but all had tasted MUCH better.

The fact that I discarded my cupcake unfinished should be explanation enough for how I felt about Lulu’s.
Were I forced to sum up the less than fulfilling experience in a word it would have to be disenchanted.

They have red velvet cupcakes! I know I usually go to the north end for a canolli, but RED VELVET CUPCAKES!
Sure it’s pricey, but it’s the north end. The cupcake was everything red velvet should be — rich… almost too rich for you to finish. Delicious!
The name makes me think of the movie Waitress.

Ehhh. i probably wont be coming here for a while. The window display was really pretty though, lots of white cupcakes topped with purple sugar flowers. I liked that.
The desserts looked soooooo good and the pistachio cupcake was actually really good. The red velvet with cream cheese cupcake wasnt that great. well ok the cake part was but the frosting was gross. It wasnt cream cheese at all and tasted like whipped lard, like it kinda slid around in your mouth like a raw clam. It was just a vanilla frosting which was supposed to be cream cheese, i mean who makes red velvet without cream cheese frosting?
They did have a lot of cheesecakes though that looked really good, maybe if i go again ill get the key lime cheesecake.

I held off on my review hoping I’d feel better about it, but I’ve gotten more upset. In a pinch for a cake due to a change in plans (and a terribly unreliable oven temp at home), I headed to the North End. I wanted more than just a supermarket cake. The usual places had lines out the door, so I tried Lulu’s. Ordered a cake for the next day after buying a cupcake to be sure it was good. It was good, so I paid $ 24 for a 6″ cake out of desperation. I was going to pick it up the next evening in time for the birthday celebration.
I picked it up and was a bit disappointed that they don’t throw in the candles. Lots of finer bakeries do that as a little perk; this place didn’t have them for sale. Luckily, I scoured stores for candles the night before (it was tougher than I expected, and I accidentally got trick candles, the last package at the drug store).
First: the rose atop the cake was white frosting with streaks of blue – not in an artful way but in a «wait – no time to mix the color in» way. the rest of the cake wasn’t fancy but looked fine. Just some script words to say «happy birthday.»
The birthday boy was touched by the effort and said he really liked the frosting, which tasted homemade. I wasn’t as impressed by the frostingand found the cake dry, almost a bit stale. My guess was that it had been in the freezer for a while before it became my cake. Now that time has passed and I know he appreciated the cake, the birthday boy admitted he thought it tasted like box cake – maybe it was made with oil instead of butter or something. We both agreed it was certainly stale when we went for a second piece the next day. By day 3, it was awful and hard.
At $ 24 for a cake 6″ in diameter, I expected much, much more. I feel that I could have gotten a comparable (or better?) cake at Stop N Shop for much less.

My weakness for sugary delights and butter always drives me to make a beeline for this adorable, pink walled shop whenever I’m in the North End. The storefront is quaint offering window displays that will have you salivating. Don’t let the proprietor (?) deter you from entering; she is so brusque that her behavior has cost this rating a star.
Anyhow, I’m a bit of a naturalist so I don’t like to eat Disney (all artificially colored and such) but the buttercreamed ones were bright so I went for one anyway. The yellow cake was moist and pleasant, perfect on the sweet index, but the seagreen frosting was crystalline and gritty and not the smooth richness that I’d hoped. The carrot cake was fantastic with shreds of flaming carrot, nuts and raisins and the cream cheese frosting was excellent. Onto the red velvet: my virgin bite was seriously yummy, though a more intense chocolate flavor would have been appreciated.
That’s right, I ate three cupcakes. The gem is really the peach and marizpan tart, winner! And I’m still fantasizing about how their cheesecake will feel in my mouth.

I guess cupcakes are hawt right now. So these boutiques demonstrate a little charm, flash some pastry coutoure and they’re all the buzz.
One cupcake stood to be the test — the often reviewed Red Velvet. That’s what I got because that’s what I like (being prior to my Unilocalin’ days, there was no external influence.) The South yields one helluva Red, and it would be tough to gain my approval. Great success! The cake was moist and spongy with tremendous cocoa flavor.
The frosting gave two stars coronaries, and unfortunately, no defibrilation could bring them back. In an homage to colonial bakery skeelz, Lulu’s seemingly maintains a recipe of two ingredients: lard and sugar. Two bites in, I waved the white flag and 86ed the mouth-​coating spackle in order to finish off the cake.
Sidenote: while waiting in line, a small child with his arms zipped inside his puffy jacket weeble-​wobbled headfirst off a stool. The terrified mother right-​sided the stunned boy and yelled at Dad, «Why weren’t you watching him?» The owner ran out from the back, looked at the kid’s head and mandated a trip to the ER only saying «Trust me. I know.» Didn’t affect the review or anything, but man, that was weird.

I think I went to Lu Lu’s more or less every weekend for a stretch of 3 months during the spring, and was hooked on their cupcakes! I’m a chocolate lover so the chocolate frosting on chocolate cake really hits the spot. The only drawback is that the frosting is a bit too sugary and too hard. (If you’ve been to Magnolia’s in New York, their frosting is better in that it’s more smooth, and the chocolate flavor is just sweet enough yet lightly subtle. But their actual cake REALLY BLOWS, so its some give and take).
Frosting aside, the cake portion of a Lulu’s cupcake is very well done. Very moist and well flavored, eats like a cake lover’s dream: D.
I’ve also tried some of their cookies and they’re pretty good, though I don’t care for cookies much. The various cheesecakes are average except for perhaps the Oreo cheesecake. I once got this little heart-​shaped cheesecake with a fresh berry glaze on top and it turned out to be a big disappointment. The cheesecake part tasted artificial, as if squeezed out from a tube, and the consistency was like cooked tofu. But that was only one incident…
All in all, Lulu’s is a really charming place and the people are friendly so go and try it out!

Ok first off HOW HAVE I NEVER SEEN THIS PLACE!
I went here on nothing but Unilocal recommendations alone, because I’ve walked by it a million times and never noticed it. Thanks to Aretha, I tried the Red Velvet cupcake and bought 2 for my boss and a coworker. I also tried a delicious chocolate cupcake covered in fudge and filled with marshmellow. My friend Adam got a S’Mores cupcake which he just admitted to me caused him to need to change his underwear that it was so good. They’re open til 9pm most nights I believe and also house other desserts such as key lime ricotta pie, eclairs, and various individual sized cheesecakes.
I’m coming back tonight. Seriously.
I had to come back and edit my review. Because I came back here again with a different friend last night as well. Carrotcake cupcakes, boston crème cupcakes, eclairs, key lime ricotta pie… oh my. AND they gave me a free vanilla cupcake! Lulu’s…I adore you. Truly. Can we be BFF4L?

I love cupcakes and I’m always on the search for the best ones since there are not many cupcake places in the San Francisco Bay Area. I’ve read about Lulu’s Bake Shoppe in my research prior coming to Boston and I thought that if I was in the area that i would try to check it out.
We were walking along the Freedom Trail and I was mosly concentrating on trying to get to Paul Revere’s house. We were walking down Hanover St and I thought that this street sounded familiar. I looked up and I saw Lulu’s Bakery across the street. I pretty much ran across the street and saw the cupcakes in the window. It’s a cute little bakeshop and the guy working there seemed nice. I tried the vanilla cupcake with the vanilla frosting and it was almost just like eating a Magnolia cupcake. The cake was moist and the frosting was not too sweet. Exactly how I like it. The red velvet cupcake was yummy too. The frosting was a little thick but that’s okay because the cake itself was really good. I liked the vanilla one so much that I ordered one to go.
Lulu’s is definitely going to be a must do the next time I go to Boston.

Half priced muffins that stay fresh for days if you go after 5pm. Which believe me, I do often! I also had some amazing pastry that was half like a danish and half like the best rugaluch ever. For you non-​Jews, it was very sweet but filled with all sorts of different things so it kept my taste buds intrigued. The cupcakes are kind of dinky still yummy. The only Italian thing they sell is biscotti so this original bakery certainly stands out in the North End!
Attn! Summer hours in effect!
Tuesdays and Wednesdays — 7:30am-10pm
Thursdays and Fridays — 7:30am-11pm
Saturdays — 10am-​11pm
Sundays — 10am-​10pm
Mondays — CLOSED