I’d visited Coffee Cake and Kink once before during the day, a small stylish café which as the name suggests offers coffee, cake, and kink. I furtively glanced at the dolls, erotic books and apparatus on show, whilst also noticing that the cakes looked rather delicious. I therefore vowed to come back here with friends for a more civilised visit.
So it was on a rainy Friday night that we headed to Covent Garden, and upon arrival Coffee was packed. We sat upstairs, surrounded by the items on show, to the soundtrack of Portishead’s Dummy. The lovely waitress brought us some glasses for the wine we had brought, for which they charged a £5 corkage fee, something we relished as opposed to having to buy cheap house wine at extortionate prices. As more friends arrived we headed down the perilous staircase to the basement, where an even lovelier waiter endeavoured to find us as many chairs as we needed. He even brought us extra candles as we were squeezed into a rather dark corner and asked if we wanted him to bring us a lamp. A collective “Aahhhh!” ensued.
The cakes were exquisite, the wine and conversation flowed, and we were even treated to a rather bizarre show of a man in a skirt being tied up, left to stand for a few minutes, and then being untied again. Random, however amusing. The lovely waiter returned to our table to ask us if we needed anything else before he went on his break. We eventually left drooling, at both the cakes, and the waiter.
Sadly, this unique café is to close at some point this year due to a dispute with the landlord, no doubt to give way to the latest Starbucks or Costa Coffee venture. Now is the time to experience this altogether different kind of London night, hurry while you have the chance.