Cox Cookies & Cake Opens

Some say it’s better than sex.
Christina Aguilera has likened her ahem, ‘Woo Hoo’ to it. Marie Antoinette probably rolled around in it before parcelling it out to the peasants. Yes – it’s cake.

So it’s kind of apt that London’s latest bakery is appearing in a derelict sex shop on Soho’s Brewer Street. What’s less apt is that the man behind Cox’s Cookies & Cake is none other than Patrick Cox, better known for his vertiginous heels favoured by the fashion set than his skills with a piping bag. Luckily he’s hooked up with Cake Boy’s celebrity patissier Eric Lanlard to create this corner shop of illicit icing, complete with XXX-style neon strip lighting and glossy black flooring.

But the home-baked goodies on offer promise to be much more stylish than suggestive, with the likes of Patrick’s Mummy Maureen’s Nanimo Bars made with coconut, chocolate biscuit and vanilla butter cream behind the counter, as well as a range of cupcakes decorated with everything from skulls to Marilyn Monroe cut-outs.

And with late-night openings to rival nearby gelato-joint Gelupo, it only remains to be seen how many of the site’s old customers can be satisfied with a cookie or two in place of their usual ‘treat’. Oh crumbs…

Info
Open from 1st September, Daily: 11am-11pm. 13 Brewer Street, W1F 0RH.
www.coxcookiesandcake.com

London's cultural highlights this month

September’s a big deal on the event circuit. Especially as it’s the month where the whole city gets to trade in all those music and art festivals in favour of something a little more debonair… So while you’re keeping busy with (or busily hiding away from) London Fashion Week, Fashion’s Night Out, London Design Festival and all the other myriad ‘distractions’, we thought we’d rustle up a tasty selection of cultural salves for your poor, overly-distracted soul…

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LOOK – at the cardboard creations and art-tastic expertise of Andrew Mockett, Colour May Vary. 10am-6pm, Rebecca Hossack gallery, 278 Charlotte Street, W1T 2NA. Free.

ESCAPE – in the beautiful operatic sounds of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. 8pm, Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, SW7 2AP £4-£44

MARVEL – at the magic and the mystery in Chris Dugale's Magic and Mindreading. 7:45pm, Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, W6 9RL. £10-£15.

LISTEN – to the charming voice of nu-folk singer Ana Silvera. 8pm, the Macbeth, 70 Hoxton Street, N1 6LP. £5-£7.