Mine is full but it is mainly tomato paste from the plot! Can’t get any pasta to go with it though…
You can see why people panic though - if you go to Sainsbury’s it feels like the end of the world and you almost feel you have to buy something.
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Apparently some businesses are doing “voucher” schemes encouraging loyal customers to buy vouchers now for use later. So if forced to close they have the cash to tied them over… not a bad idea.
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Interesting approach from Babur - who are keeping the restaurant open til Mother’s day, then shutting. Post shutting on Sunday, for delivery, suggesting eating via different homes, via skype etc - I do know some people who have done this with drinks, wonder if it will become more frequent is we effectively become housebound bar parks etc:
While the restaurant is closed we will be enhancing our home delivery service so that we can continue to provide you with a level of hospitality in your own home that is as close as possible to the experience of dining at Babur.
With your Babur food order we can deliver beer, wine and our new range of in-house bottled cocktails. For those who were planning on dining with friends but can’t actually get together to eat, we can arrange a time-coordinated multi-home delivery, which can be enhanced with a video call on FaceTime, Google Hangouts, Skype, House Party or Zoom, and we’ll also give a 15% discount on these orders. Please call us to arrange this.
For us, where we can, we will keep paying and not asking for refunds for the local clubs our children go to in the hope they will still be able to continue at some point in the future. I suspect we will renew most in April even if there is no chance of anything happening with them, whilst we still feel we can.
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Donde is still open.
Fantastic home delivery service this morning to Forest Hill from Jerome’s wine bar and shop (Crofton Park).
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So bars, restaurants and cafes are now to close other than deliveries.
Hopefully some of the locals will have voucher schemes so we can support them when the storm passes.
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How about we compile a dynamic list of all the places that are now offering home deliveries or take out, prioritising those, like Canvas and Cream, who normally rely on footfall? And then, if you can afford to, you commit to place an order at least once a week with whoever you want to support.
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Admittedly a Peckham business rather than SE23 but Brick Brewery are delivering free of charge to SE23. I’ve just received a lovely set of interesting beers and sours. Won’t stop me going to Clapton Craft for other breweries beers.
Quite a few places also doing pay now and collect later - to help their immediate cash flow. Good luck all!
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Shame Dartmouth Arms don’t join in! Banging a drum for that place!
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I know not everyone will be able to afford it or get out but I have spent a pleasant morning shopping at local shops in East Dulwich and Forest Hill. Plenty of bread and eggs at Blackbird and they are fully stocked at the grocers and butchers.
It is good to support local businesses and take pressure off supermarket stock levels.
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Anyone know of any Forest Hill pubs doing a take away roast tomorrow ? Was thinking how many cancelled bookings there must be from mother’s day and potentially wasted stock - we’d happily pre order and collect a roast each Sunday ! Xxx
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Hi, Coal Rooms in Peckham are delivering roasts every Sunday 
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Here’s a shared Google spreadsheet of South East London businesses which are currently open:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dPedjx_pAIOiLoLdWeTaJ1Zrj-CTqpb5gROUCkrLxBo/htmlview
Mostly other parts of SE London at the moment, so if any local businesses want to get the word out, I’d recommend you add yourself to this sheet.
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I can’t see a way to edit the sheet… but Brown & Green have a delivery or collection service, and they’ve increased their menu to include “Isolation Kits” (milk, bread & eggs), a “Home Baking Kit” (flour, eggs, sugar) and also some “Booze”:
Unfortunately it looks to be working from B&G Life which is a little far away from SE23, but it still looks like a very useful service for those closer to Crystal Palace:
Pick up and delivery (within 1 mile radius of B&G Life, Crystal Palace Park) is available between 9am & 3pm.
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Hi, do you need any extra help with deliveries? This morning I lost my job and my only source of income working as a bicycle courier, as a result of an anticipated reduction in business following last night’s announcement. So I have plenty of time on my hands!
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Any recommendations for grocery deliveries?
Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Waitrose, Asda and Amazon Fresh are unavailable. I even looked at Iceland.
Any smaller, local operations available? We got a fruit and veg delivery yesterday from Spier’s Salads which to be fair was good quality but a bit pricey. But it did include bread, milk, eggs etc, though a random selection.
Anything similar operating which also includes other groceries like beer, wine, fizzy drinks, and other stuff? I’d use Spiers again but I’m thinking for the non fruit and veg.
I’d also love to support a local business through this if possible.
Just emailed Brick Brewery, seems like supporting local breweries is a good way for both them and me to get through the apocalypse
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Does anyone know if Honor Oak Provender is still open and stocked?