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“The message is simple and succinct: support your local businesses, in whatever ways you can”
takeaway foods, dropping a note through the door or tweeting in solidarity. We will have to be creative and think of new ways to serve you. We will adapt and evolve and make changes where we want to and need to. We will cling on for as long as we can, desperately trying to do what we love and make you happy and keep you fed. So, yes, times are interesting. Unprecedented, even. But one day they won’t be. And when
up late doing what they love: creating delicious food, serving great drinks and striving to give amazing service. Hospitality is now a lifeblood that runs through the veins of a city that just a decade ago was mocked for its lack of character and independence. You could eat out every day for a year and still not take in all of Cambridge’s vibrant food scene. King’s College might bring the tourists, but the cafes, bars, restaurants, and food trucks and stalls make sure they stay here for longer than 15 minutes. The message, then, is simple and succinct: support your local businesses, all of them, in whatever ways you can, whether it is buying vouchers, purchasing
who steams the milk for your morning cappuccino on the way to the station, to the bartender who knows exactly how you like your Friday-night cocktail. We are all in the same boat. We live to serve and the prospect of that avenue being closed to us for an undefined period is currently too terrifying to contemplate. Working from home in self-isolation is categorically not an option for us. Cambridge has come so far in the last ten years and we now have a food and drink scene that thrives and pulses and vibrates with an energy and character that few other cities of our size do. It’s driven by hard-working and passionate individuals who wake up early and stay
that time comes, we’ll all want to go out for dinner. Let’s make sure we still can.
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