Lina Stores, London W1 and N1 (Soho and King’s Cross)
The team at Lina Stores has raised more than £24,000 (and counting!) to produce and deliver care packages to London-based hospitality workers whose income has been affected by COVID-19. If you donate £20 or more via the GoFundMe page you’ll get a 20% discount when you eat in the restaurants during their re-opening period. Meantime, the delis are still open for grocery shopping and Deliveroo orders.
Bodega Rita’s, London N1 (King’s Cross)
From the people behind Bodega Rita’s, Rita’s 4 U allows local Londoners to order premium groceries online to be dropped off on their doorstep. Natural wines like Calcarius’ Hellen Bianco and Domaine Les Vigneaux’s Syrah are on the virtual shelves alongside kombucha, ready-mixed cocktails, pickles and hot sauce. Great news if you’re due a fix from this ace deli and wine shop.
Yard Sale Pizza, London (various)
Not only is this group of pizza joints offering a 50% discount for NHS staff on takeaways (25% on deliveries), but it’s also cooking up pizzas for local hospitals (Whipps Cross, Homerton, and Royal London) for free, so staff can get food on-site. Donate to the cause via the website – and don’t forget you can still order pizzas for no-contact home delivery, too.
Slow Life, Good Life, Dorset and Devon
A group of food pros have put their heads together to create this new online community and resource. It aims to help us save money, eat well and maintain connections amid the current crisis. The £5 per month membership fees – for which you get three video tutorials a week from the likes of Gill Meller and Steven Lamb, access to an exclusive Facebook community with experts on hand, and weekly live broadcasts – pay for food for the vulnerable, too.
Carvetii Coffee Roasters, Cumbria
This coffee roaster is continuing to support Cumbria’s hospitality businesses by donating beans to local coffee shops. It works like this: when ordering Carvetii’s tea and coffee online, customers get to choose their favourite Carvetii-supplied outlet, and 10% of each order’s value will be converted into free beans for them (that’s a kilogram of coffee per 16 bags sold online).
Berber & Q, London E8 (Haggerston)
Founders Josh Katz and Mattia Bianchi are doing their bit by keeping our NHS workers fuelled up with their famous fire-cooked food – for free. So, while the restaurant and shawarma bar are closed, the team are still pulling shifts in the kitchen and sending deliveries out to local hospitals. The new project is called Berber & You and it needs donations – get involved here.
Lyaness, London SE1 (Southbank)
This cocktail bar – named one of the World’s 50 Best – sees lockdown as a prime opportunity to learn a new skill and get mixing (not to mention drinking) libations at home. Founder Ryan Chetiyawardana (AKA Mr Lyan) has started filming recipe videos on Instagram, encouraging us to bring the household together over delicious concoctions.
The Cauldron, Bristol
In a bid to support indie businesses as well as its staff and customers, this restaurant – normally known for its solid-fuelled fire cookery – has transformed into a grocery and meal delivery service, having teamed up with a local cab firm. Its new online ordering system promises everything from produce boxes to meal kits and even toiletries (their famous Sunday roasts are available, too.)
Six Poor Folk, Yorkshire
The team behind this popular bar were quick to act when it seemed food businesses and self-isolators might be at risk. They created Knaresborough Delivers, a new service that allows people to order food from their local independents (eateries as well as shops), and have it delivered to their door.
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Cater Edinburgh, Edinburgh
Usually to be found serving up his fine-dining food at events as a private chef, Barry Bryson is setting up camp in the kitchen for the foreseeable to cook homemade ready meals – think pies, tagines, and curries – for contact-free delivery. The dishes come in large portions, ready to be divided up and chilled or frozen at home.
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Bar 44, Wales and Bristol
On closing, these popular tapas outfits first used up all their remaining stock to make freezer meals to tide staff over, and now they’re offering Spanish cooking ideas on Instagram, with recipes and videos so we can recreate their Mediterranean-inspired meals at home.
Rogan & Co, Cumbria
Not only are Simon Rogan and his team of chefs making ready-to-heat meals for a mere £5 – which are available alongside produce like home-baked bread and beer, all for delivery – but they’re using all the profit they make (after the cost of ingredients) to fund food for vulnerable locals, too.
Healeys Cornish Cyder Farm, Cornwall
This cider-making team have turned their hands to making urgently required sanitiser for the Royal Cornwall Hospital, free of charge. The sanitiser is made in the on-site distillery, normally used to make gin.
Brickell’s Ice Cream, Somerset
This small South West outfit makes ice cream using fresh milk from its very own herd of cows – and is now delivering it locally for free if your order totals more than £15.
Pippy Eats, Manchester
Former winner of the BBC’s Britain’s Best Home Cook programme, Pippa Middlehurst cooks at events, hosts workshops and has her first cookbook on the way. She’s bringing extra sunshine into people’s lives now too, with new meal kits (dan dan noodles for dinner?) containing everything needed to make a killer meal (delivery across Manchester) and an updated online shop which now features the likes of her homemade Sichuan chilli oil.
Carters of Moseley, Birmingham
Brad Carter was crowned Sustainable Star at the olive Chef Awards 2018, and he’s showing no signs of slowing down in his foodie pursuits, having just launched new smile-inducing food hampers to keep us well fed at home. Containing cooked meals as well as raw ingredients, they even have optional wine pairings, too. Delivery is free within 10 miles of the restaurant.
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