Boris Johnson has told English hospitality businesses we can soon reopen – but he’s left us without real guidance or support
We had no idea then. But on 14 March, at some point around 10.45pm, we presented someone with their bill for the final time. Before that they had probably had coffees brought to the table with warm almond friand cakes and dark chocolate truffles. There had certainly been five courses of food, cooked in our open kitchen and carried to the table by any one of the six members of the small team. Before that, bread and a selection of nibbles, possibly a martini in a coupe frosted with condensation. A warm relief from the cool late-winter evening for a reservation made many weeks ago.
We all know what happened next.
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