The C-Word

Yes, I’m going to mention it. Yes I know it’s October. If you haven’t already started planning stuff, then come back to this post when you do.

This is a bit of a call out for information.

I want to pull together a blog post of all the venues that are pivoting (buzzword I know, sorry) for the festive season. So whereas normally they’d have a full on service for Christmas, they know they won’t have a full house. There’ll be no frantic service, and no digging out the spare chairs from the backroom to cram in all the office workers this year. The indies who are looking at different ways to offer Christmas to everyone.

I know normally I’d do all this myself – prep the veg, pick the wine, mix the cocktails. But let’s face it, the supermarket doesn’t really need my cash at Christmas. The restaurants, independent shops, bakeries and bars do. And I know I’m not the only one who feels like that.

So I want to know about those places who are going to adapt and do Christmas in a box – whether it’s dinner, wine, beer or cocktail boxes for the festive season. Those who are doing meat or veg deliveries, with everything you need to prep it yourself, or those indies who are going to take the hassle out for you, so it’s just reheat and serve.

Those who want to offer a festive gin sampling for you to enjoy at your leisure at home. Cakes, mince pies, you name it, I want to know. As lots of you know, I did something similar when we went into lockdown on a more general level. This time I’m focusing on Christmas.

This time, I want to focus a little more on those in the north, northwest in particular, or those offering national delivery. I’d love to do more, but last time it became such a huge and rather clunky post to keep editing and adding to, I want to focus it a bit.

Of course, if you’re offering something, or know someone who is, and tag me in it on social, I’ll share it anyway.

So, if you find something – drop me a message, tag me in a post, or comment on here – you can even send me an email. I’d love to hear from you. I want this to be a sort of one stop shop for people like me to browse and choose from. And yes, I’ll use it myself.

Hell if I get chance, I’ll trial some beforehand so you can see what they’re like.

Thank you.