If I could pinpoint the the moment last March when I could no longer pretend that lockdown wasn’t coming, it was the phone call from my favourite neighbourhood restaurant cancelling our Mother’s Day booking.
The rising terror I felt was akin to the bit in The Handmaid’s Tale, just after women’s bank accounts have been frozen, but before the summary executions begin. Instead of drinking blood orange Bellinis, I’d be cooking the usual Sunday lunch, with possibly a bit of grudging help loading the dishwasher, before embarking on half a year of home school hell.
Restaurants and foodie businesses have been busy reinventing themselves for the Covid era ever since then. So hopefully you can be spared some of the domestic drudgery on Sunday 14th March with one of these home delivery boxes.
‘DeliverRuth’
The River Cafe’s many devotees were thrilled when Lady Rogers started a home delivery service last year. But the best news of all is, you don’t need to live in West London to enjoy her fabulous Italian food.
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