Deliciously Ella’s disaster: Food blogger blames coronavirus crisis as she is forced to shut up shop at her Mayfair delicatessen
- Ella Mills has shut the Mayfair delicatessen, Deliciously Ella, blaming coronavirus
- She sad she was sad to be closing and declined to say if staff will still be paid
- Ella established the deli with her husband, Matthew Mills, in 2016
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She made her name as the popular food blogger ‘Deliciously Ella’, but Ella Mills’s food business has left a sour taste.
The daughter of former Labour minister Shaun Woodward and supermarket heiress Camilla Sainsbury has shut up shop at her Mayfair delicatessen, Deliciously Ella, blaming the coronavirus crisis.
‘We’re really sad to be temporarily closing our deli,’ says Ella, who declines to say if staff will still be paid.
Ella Mills (pictured) has shut up shop at her Mayfair delicatessen, Deliciously Ella, blaming the coronavirus crisis
‘It’s been a very tough week, and making decisions like this is the worst part of running a business.’
Ella established the deli with her husband, Matthew Mills, son of the late Cabinet minister Dame Tessa Jowell in 2016.
Ella established the deli with her husband, Matthew Mills, son of the late Cabinet minister Dame Tessa Jowell in 2016. Pictured: one of her cookbooks
Its menu includes such trendy delicacies as avocado toast at £6.50, acai bowl for £6.95 and cauliflower dahl at £9.50.
She adds: ‘We’ve seen a substantial drop in trade in a very short period of time due to concerns about the coronavirus outbreak, and it’s impossible for us to keep operating in this climate.’