Charm City Cakes

.Another good thing that Gretchen turned me on to is the Food Network's Ace of Cakes. I love this show, love the people. It's filmed at Charm City Cakes in Baltimore so I got it in my head that I wanted to do a drive-by of the bakery, just to see it. I didn't really expect to find their address on their website because I know they don't want to be found because tourists and fans would be a pain in their neck. It's a working bakery with people doing their jobs, in a clean environment, no less. The minimum price for their cakes is $500 (!) so if I'm paying that much for a cake, I want the employees paying attention to their work and don't want a bunch of goober tourists sneezing all over my cake. You're welcome for that visual.

A month or two ago I found what I thought was their address somewhere but neglected to write it down. By the time it was time to leave for our trip, I was hoping our new GPS could find it. (Also need to note here that the Hyatt does not offer free wireless anywhere in the hotel or I would have looked it up again while in Baltimore.)

We'd had a long day on Sunday and it was time to leave Baltimore to head to Virginia Beach. The only thing our GPS could find was Charm City Catering. I called Mom & Dad to look up the address of the bakery online for me. Bless their hearts, they looked high and low for the address.

Finally Dad came up with something, which turned out to be a private residence. I think he just said any ol' thing to get me off the phone. :-) We decided to give Charm City Catering a try, then we were outta there. Nope, that wasn't it either.

My dream was shattered. But we did enjoy a lovely tour of some interesting neighborhoods in Baltimore. Stuff we would not have seen otherwise, for sure.

I know they don't really want to be found but doggone it, I thought I was special and deserved to see the place. I was just going to roll down my window and take a picture. I wasn't even planning on getting out of the car and have Steve take my picture in front of the building. Is that so wroooong??

I looked all over the site when I got online the next day and couldn't find the address either. Then I remembered I must have gone to whitepages.com and looked them up under business look-up. There it was. I think it was right because I also found this by Googling "Charm City Cakes address" - read some of the comments too. (Just before I uploaded this entry, it seems there's a problem with that page I just linked to but I'm going to leave it here, assuming they will get it fixed.)

At least I don't feel so alone in my quest to drive by a building I've seen on TV.

Oh well.
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