Meeting a first date for coffee can sometimes seem a little bit corny, but if you both take your coffee with a generous spoonful of kink, things are bound to liven up - sooner, rather than later.

Part sex shop and part coffee shop, Covent Garden-based Coffee, Cake and Kink manages to combine all the leisurely pleasures of drinking coffee and eating cake with teasing and tempting kinky goodies.

Feathers, leathers and vibrators sit comfortably alongside light and fluffy lemon sponge cakes and fair trade coffee, creating a relaxed and liberating approach to sexuality - or at least a rather upfront way of trying to get into someone's pants. Safe to say if you're brought here on a first date, the intention is to become more than 'just friends'.

This delicately small coffee shop also has a lively programme of evening events. From S&M bookclubs to kinky poetry readings something is sure to get your creative juices flowing. Just take along your own bottle and pay the £5 corkage fee.

Kink in a coffee shop - if nothing else, an interesting concept indeed.