Since opening in 2005, Cake Shop has been a comfortable intimate cafe/bar/venue/record shop that has become a globally recognized Brand for breaking new talent centered around indie rock and D.I.Y culture. A two story location at 152 Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, provides a lively ground floor cafe / bar scene with a hand picked selection of vinyl complementing a fully functioning 74 person capacity music venue in the basement.