Introducing Cocktails At Home series from Bar Twenty Five’s in-house cocktail master, Jamie. The video tutorials are now available via the bar’s Facebook page for you to recreate cocktail-o-clock at home.
If you can’t find vanilla vodka, plain vodka will work perfectly, and Passoã makes for an easy passion fruit liquor. If you have any questions about ingredients or equipment, get in touch – the team would love to see your quarantined inspired creations!
For the past few weeks, the team at La Casa Loco have been donating 50 meals on a Saturday for the staff at the Hospital of St Cross.
Shirley Gale, Proprietor of Casa Loco, said “I know how hard the team at St Cross work to care for their patients and so I asked Kathryn Lawrence, President of the Friends of St Cross, how we could support the hospital and I was delighted to follow up on her suggestion of donating some ready-made meals.
“When some of our lovely regular customers heard what we were doing they kindly donated some money to pay for the ingredients! They continue to do this via our website and we plan to do this until the crisis is over and we get to what is the “new normal”. My staff have been delivering and cooking too. When we can re-open the restaurant, I plan to host a fundraising evening for the Friends of St Cross.”
The coronavirus pandemic is posing a huge challenge for businesses, forcing them to think more creatively about their offer and how they can adapt to customers’ needs like never before. The food and drink sector in particular is demonstrating their resilience by launching takeaway, deliveries and collection services – some of which are detailed in this month’s update.
Interior design store Curtains by Design is making wash bags, ear defenders and scrubs for NHS workers while their shop is closed during lockdown. The design duo owners have joined the Warwickshire Scrubbers initiative to unite design and sewing skills to benefit local hospitals and have been supported by linen donated by members of the public and Rugby School.
In the month since our last e-news, our town centre has been in lockdown due to the coronavirus crisis. This has seen our retailers having to quickly adapt to cope with the imposed restrictions on trading and social distancing in an unprecedented situation of uncertainty.
Rugby First is open and here to support our town centre businesses. We are continuing to keep the town centre clean and safe, promoting the business activities to circa 10,000 social media followers and working closely with partners to formulate plans for the economic recovery of the town centre.