The year is 2024 and many restaurants are struggling. Yesterday saw a high-profile closure: Tony and Becky Rodd called time on Copper & Ink, their charming independent restaurant in Blackheath. It will be missed — and falls among a number of food businesses to have already shut across the UK in the first three days of January.
Post-Christmas, classically and understandably, diners are reluctant. As businesses are looking for money, so too are we. But there are good January sales that entice and for those who are able, these deals, bargains all, are cause to return to satisfying tables.
