Hoxton Beach bought a van-full of oranges at the doors of the organic growers Ave Maria near Seville just before Christmas and we have some to spare. Just drop in at one of our cafés and leave your email details. They make great marmalade and you can always buy ours, but everyone’s taste is different (we go for lowish sugar).. The oranges were one of three bulk imports we made just before Brexit — the others were organic Burgundy and organic Greek olive oil.
Lockdown 3 rules mean Hoxton Beach can’t sell alcohol at our park cafés, but we can organise a home delivery from Highgate Wood or Queens Park. It’s particularly sad we can’t offer our popular mulled apple juice with calvados or mulled wine. But we can sell mulled apple juice so maybe if it’s close enough customers can run home and splash in some of our Somerset Cider Brandy while the apple juice is still hot.
Sadly London Fields and Parliament Hill Fields Lido are to close again; the Hoxton Beach London Fields cafe will close but we will hope Parliament Hill Fields Lido café will stay open like in the Autumn lockdown. We also hope we will be able to do takeaways from Queens Park and Highgate though our popular alcoholic mulled drinks must stop (apple juice can continue of course). All takeaway alcohol sales are now banned, but you can still buy our lovely wines beers and ciders online for home delivery. We will reinstate online ordering tomorrow Tuesday 5 January.
Hoxton Beach cafés at London Fields Lido and Parliament Hill Fields Lido will both stay open, as they are not affected by the closure of indoor gyms. The Clissold Leisure Centre will now close but our café there has remained closed since the start of the pandemic in March. Our café in Chatsworth Road E5 Dorée will stay open for takeaway as will the kiosk in Nags Head Market.
The new exhibition at Parliament Hill Fields Lido café is of work by Matthews Meadows. As well as fine art, Matthew has kindly helped Hoxton Beach with some amazing images over the years including our logo (derived from a film star card he found in Lahore and a label for the French soft drink La Mortuacienne). This exhibition is a mixture of prints (£190) abstract collages (£180-£220) and Life collages (£210-£230). The papier maché masks are an experiment carried out during lockdown and sadly are not for sale. Sales enquiries to hoxtonhome@gmail.com
