Restaurant Review

Restaurant Review
Who doesn’t like fresh baked cookies? And who doesn’t like to create your own cookie combination? The answer is nobody. This is the logic behind Crumb & Get It Cookie Co. located in downtown Blacksburg. Owners Chris and Kelly McMurray took the idea of giving customers choices in ingredients and mixed it with their love for cookies. The process is simple, customers start by choosing their dough and mix-in’s, and follow with cooking them after they are ordered. This not only gives the customers a choice in their cookie, but also a fresh baked cookie.
Customers choose from doughs such as sugar shortbread, oatmeal, peanut butter, and chocolate. Followed by their choice of mix-in’s that include milk chocolate chips, dark chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, butterscotch chips, andes mint chips, caramel chips, walnuts, macadamia nuts, peanuts, cashews, pecans, almonds, m&m’s, peanut butter m&m’s, heath bar pieces, hershey kisses, snickers pieces, crushed oreo’s, peanut butter cup pieces, butterfinger pieces, raisins, craisins, sprinkles, marshmallows, and coconut.
Cookies generally take about fifteen minutes to bake, and come with milk or other drink options when a customer orders the entrees. Entrees start at three cookies, but many other portions are available. Customers can get portions that range from three cookies to multiples of fifty cookies for party trays. Customers are allowed to choose one mix-in, but they can add more for $0.50 per extra mix-in. Customers can also get their cookies topped with icing for the same price.
Some “cookie creation faves” are listed on the menu. These concoctions include “candy dandy” which incorporates sugar cookie dough with m&m’s mixed in, “PB bombs” which is peanut butter dough with peanut butter cups mixed in the dough, and “chooey gooey chocolate” which starts with chocolate dough and has dark chocolate chips as well. These are just a few of the many favorites listed.
The dining room at Crumb & Get It Cookie Co. is a relaxing environment playing quiet music, and is filled with the sweet smell of the fresh baked cookies. The dining room is equipped with bars that allow single customers to dine, but also contains tables large enough for nearly twenty customers to sit together. Each table is also equipped with a stack of cards called “table topic cards” that contain questions that are thought provoking and easily start conversation. Some examples of questions are, “Would you be likely to survive alone in the wilderness?” and “Who do you think is the most important person alive today?” The dining room was well cleaned, and provided the customer a clean and friendly environment to enjoy their dish in.
The restaurant is located in Kent square on main street in the same complex as Starbucks coffee. It is not in the most easily seen location, but there are signs which will direct customers to the establishment. The restaurant is around the back side of the complex on the lowest floor. Even though it is not visible from main street, Crumb & Get It Cookie Co. is well worth the extra walk around the building to get to. I would recommend the restaurant to anyone who enjoys fresh baked cookies with friends or alone. It served the best cookies I have ever had the joy of tasting.