23/07/2024
After 17 unforgettable years, the London Review Cake Shop is closing its doors – its ovens, tea chests and Kilner jars – next month. Look out for news of farewell plans, including a special late shopping evening on 8 August; until then, a few words from Terry:
‘Coffee, cocktails, ferments, pick-me-ups and restoratives, pickles. £100-per-kilo teas. Experimental salads. Concepts lifted from high-end gastronomy transformed into lunch baguettes. Mealworm dukkah and strawberry butter. Korean waffle BLT.
The Cake Shop has been a hub, an essential yet irreverent expression of the LRB culture, bringing people together from the city’s cultural scene. As time went on customers turned into regulars, shared stories, brought us book recommendations and gifts: apples, Libyan mountain thyme, Soviet champagne. Many became friends. A lot of people wrote books there, or their theses. I made so many people’s birthday cakes.
The Cake Shop was meant to be enjoyed – and it has been, by so many people, in so many different ways. Now that it’s closing, I want to say: thank you.’
Head to the website to read more from Terry, and follow her future adventures on here:
