Save the LRB Cake Shop!

The Issue

The London Review Cake Shop is due to close its doors on the 8th of August after 17 delicious years. Here's what the cake shop has said about it (images taken from the LRB Bookshop twitter account):

 

 

Quote on a pink background saying: '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.

 

 

 

A collage of the LRB Cake Shop's Terry Glover as Queen Elizabeth II on a pink background, with the words 'Terry Glover, Queen of the Cake Shop'

 

The Cake Shop is the local hot spot for excellent coffee and the most delicious and exciting cakes and sandwiches and fosters a welcoming community spirit.

Sign this petition to let the LRB Bookshop know that the Cake Shop is cherished and that the decision to close it should be reversed! Alternatively you can email the bookshop directly and let them know your thoughts bookshop@lrbbookshop.co.uk

 

 

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The Issue

The London Review Cake Shop is due to close its doors on the 8th of August after 17 delicious years. Here's what the cake shop has said about it (images taken from the LRB Bookshop twitter account):

 

 

Quote on a pink background saying: '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.

 

 

 

A collage of the LRB Cake Shop's Terry Glover as Queen Elizabeth II on a pink background, with the words 'Terry Glover, Queen of the Cake Shop'

 

The Cake Shop is the local hot spot for excellent coffee and the most delicious and exciting cakes and sandwiches and fosters a welcoming community spirit.

Sign this petition to let the LRB Bookshop know that the Cake Shop is cherished and that the decision to close it should be reversed! Alternatively you can email the bookshop directly and let them know your thoughts bookshop@lrbbookshop.co.uk

 

 

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Petition created on 23 July 2024