Hey Little Cupcake! If I went into any other store and said that to a cupcake, I would probably be…read morelooked at confusingly and probably raise a smirk with a member of staff, but here, they actually have named their store that.
Hey Little Cupcake are a small business in Manchester, with a store in Spinningfields, and have recently opened this pop-up store in Selfridges at the Trafford Centre, having been to their store and been impressed with their gluten free cakes, I decided to call back and try out this new store.
As this is only a popup store theys is limitations, which is a shame and makes this particular "store" look cheap, and more like a corporate chain. As far as I'm aware, they don't serve drinks and just a small number of cupcakes in a small area, with no seating, meaning with queues, you feel you can't get such a good service, with it being more of a quick service counter.
I would have prefered Hey Little Cupcake to have an approach similar to PRET in Selfridges, with seating and serving drinks, so it is a shame it is only a pop-up stall.
Now back to the food - They did have a nice selection of cupcakes, with 2 gluten free ones - Manchester Mint and Red Velvet, they were at a good price at about £2.85 each, only a small amount more expensive than the "gluten" containing ones. The cupcakes were small, but I liked how they put a whole After Eight Chocolate on the "Manchester Mint" one so I opted for that
The cake was reasonable quality, although the mint flavour was a little too overpowering, but still I would say it did warrant the price for a gluten free cupcake anyway - even though it could have been considerably better.
Overall, this store in general is below average, the cupcake I tried was below average, the service was average, the prices were above average, so I feel I can only give 2 stars, although I hope to revisit in the near future and have a better experience, hence be able to leave a better review.