Cupcake shop reopening in Chinatown
STAR-ADVERTISER / JUNE 2011
Cupcakes by Let Them Eat Cupcakes.
The Let Them Eat Cupcakes bakery will reopen to the public at 10 a.m. this morning at 35 S. Beretania Street.
The bakery’s retail operations at 1153 Bethel Street were shuttered by the sudden closure of sister-business Bethel Street Tap Room earlier this month due to a lease dispute.
“There was no eviction,” said Kawehi Haug, owner of the cupcake business and co-owner of the bar and restaurant, out of which she also sold cupcakes.
Because they were subletting the space from the owner of the long-closed RaKuen Lounge, Bethel Street Tap Room owners had “no contractual relationship with the landlord” and had no ability to remain open when representatives came to enforce a lock-out order.
“The current leaseholders are in a legal fight over the lease, but we don’t know the details,” she said.
The fee owner of the property is 1149 Bethel Street Development LLC, whose officers include several members of the Fullard-Leo family, according to city records. The kamaaina family is well-known for its former ownership of Palmyra Atoll and other land holdings.
Let Them Eat Cupcakes reopens this morning with flavors including red velvet, chocolate, German chocolate, vanilla bean, mocha, pistachio, and some gluten-free options, as well as eclairs, cookies, cake pops and scones in various flavors.
Haug and her partners in the bar and restaurant business intend to reopen elsewhere, but “in the meantime, we’ll be launching the Tap Room Test Kitchen, a rotating menu of new recipes and fun foodie experiments that will be available at our Beretania Street shop,” she said. Dishes that garner the most favor “will be on the menu at our new place. We’re also hoping to take the Test Kitchen to farmers markets and other street events,” Haug said.
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Hope we not talking the two legged cupcakes?
hey!
If the shoe fits..
I’m retired, so I don’t have to ask my boss for time off.
Great location. All the major bus routes pass by there.
This certainly is a ” Top News ” story. Or just an effort to drum up business for this bakery.
Right across HPU at Bethel Street.
Doesn’t matter, wrightj. Just watch all the off topics appear here.
It’s 1019 in the morning and no one around this joint. No free samples, I guess?
Every cupcake is an “end piece” of cake. Might be good for pizza but I like the tender interior of a cake which these have very little of.
“Tender Interior” applies to everything that is young, and fresh?
I can make my own cupcakes for a nickel a piece by buying the cake mix at the military commissary. Very good prices there. I’m glad that I served my country.
Pressing news and NOT free advertisement at all, right?