‘Summer’s going to be great’: Aussie cafes brew hope in a cup as England comes out of lockdown

When the time came for Cloe de la Vega to reopen the doors of her 50sqm cafe - Abuelo - in the heart of Covent Garden, her staff were more disbelieving than excited, after so many false starts out of lockdown.The scepticism is warranted. Londoners have had a hard year. Every time the country has attempted to reopen, their hopes have been dashed as they’ve been ordered indoors once more.

“If you’d spoken to us a few months ago we might have been more negative but now we’re starting to feel that energy.” Across town on Liverpool Street in the Square Mile, Huw Wardrope says sales at his Urban Baristas coffee shop have increased from around 10 per cent of pre-pandemic levels to around 30 per cent.

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