Totally Hott Salon’s Root Rescue kit can save the day.
Stores and Restaurants May be Closed, but New Services at Rye Ridge Fill the Void
By Georgetta L. Morque
While we wait for businesses to reopen, a number of retailers, restaurateurs, and service businesses in the Rye Ridge Shopping Center have come up with plan Bs to meet our needs.
Fortina Pizza has taken virtual to another level with its live Instagram cooking demos with restaurant owner and chef Christian Petroni of Food Network fame. “Cooking with Christian” airs every Tuesday at 6 p.m. You can order an ingredients’ kit in advance to pick up curbside and follow along in your kitchen. Lemon spaghetti, a Fortina favorite, and paccheri alla vodka, a popular menu item, were recently featured. If you miss the demo, recipes are posted afterwards. Fortina is also operating a pantry with dry pastas, sauces, pâté, cheeses, and olive oils. All can be ordered online for curbside pickup or delivery along with Fortina-to-Go menu items, beer, wine, and cocktails or Sunday Specials, which have recently included brisket with polenta.
Most eating establishments are offering curbside pickup or delivery, and several, along with your support, are also helping the needy. You can order an optional “Pies for the People” charitable donation pizza from Fortina, and at the end of the week, the pies purchased are donated to hospitals, police, or fire departments. At Chopt, orders of its “Feed the Frontline Salad” will help provide meals to medical professionals. Dig Inn, which has recently added vegetable curry and red wine braised beef to its menu, is also collecting donations for people in need through “Dig Feeds.” And through its “Feeding Family” initiative, CAVA, in partnership with Uber Eats, is donating meals to families of frontline workers through sales of its family meals.
Christian Petroni of Fortina Pizza sharing some of his culinary know-how on Instagram Live.
To work off the tasty food, fitness enthusiasts can tune into virtual classes from SLT, Ripped, Stretch*d, and SoulCycle — without the bike — and Bikram Yoga. And when your athletic footwear loses its tread, Sportech will have new shoes shipped directly to your door from the manufacturer. Unsure of your needs? Sportech managers will take a video of product selections and make recommendations. New tennis racquets and a new season of clothing are in stock for those waiting for the courts to open.
For most of us, a hair salon appointment is way overdue. Totally Hott Salon has come up with a solution: its Root Rescue touch-up color kit. You can book a virtual appointment with a colorist to determine the best color, order a customized color kit, complete with all the tools, and then schedule a virtual instructional appointment for help with the application process. The salon, which has additional products on sale for delivery or curbside pickup, is also offering Zoom classes on blow drying and other styling techniques.
For the latest in spring and summer fashion, check out Z Life’s daily Facebook videos. The store is offering virtual FaceTime shopping with shipping or delivery which you can read at MyUSAddress blog as it is clearly mentions everything. Need to replenish your basics? Call Dusty Rose and have your favorites shipped to your home. Shopping is all online at Shoe-Inn, Mixology, and Lester’s.
Crave a nice Malbec to accompany a meal? Online orders from the Wine Cellar can be ready for curbside pickup in three hours or less.
Christian Petroni of Fortina Pizza sharing some of his culinary know-how on Instagram Live.
