Georgetown Cupcake, a popular cupcake shop in Washington, D.C., has been shut down by the district’s health department due to an “imminent health hazard to the public.”
The shop located on M Street in northwest Washington typically has a line out the door stretching down the sidewalk and brimming with out-of-towners who have seen the cupcakes online or on the reality TV show DC Cupcakes. However, those looking to get their cupcake fix may have to wait after the shop was slapped with a closure notice due to health concerns.
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The district’s health department served the shop with a closure notice on Wednesday placed on the front door that says the business violated the district’s health code. The D.C. Department of Health conducted a routine health inspection at Georgetown Cupcake last month and reported several health and safety violations as well as an expired business license.
Georgetown Cupcake had several health violations documented in the July report, including mold on some of the shop’s food containers and mice droppings under some of the shelving at the coffee station area.
Health officials returned to the shop on Wednesday for a follow-up inspection, finding that all health violations “had been addressed,” the department told the Washington Examiner. However, the cupcakery failed to renew its business license, prompting D.C. Health to close the shop.
Georgetown Cupcake must obtain a new business license through the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs and pass another health inspection before reopening. It’s not clear how long this may take.
The cupcakery has already filed for a license renewal and hopes to reopen “as soon as possible,” a spokesperson for Georgetown Cupcake told the Washington Examiner.
SHUT DOWN: Popular Georgetown Cupcake, known for lines of visitors down the block and its reality TV show, has a sign posted from DC health ordering it shut down until further notice for code violation “which presents an imminent health hazard(s) to the public.” pic.twitter.com/AsEcmED2Jx
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Georgetown Cupcake opened in early 2008 and quickly became a staple of the city, often running out of cupcakes before the work day was over. It garnered national attention after the owners, sisters Katherine Berman and Sophie LaMontagne, filmed a reality TV series with TLC called DC Cupcakes, which lasted for three seasons.
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The shop grew in popularity due to the show, prompting the sisters to open a second location in Bethesda, Maryland, in 2010. Georgetown Cupcake has since expanded to six locations throughout the country, stretching from Los Angeles to New York, and offers nationwide shipping.
