A Covid-secure space to socialise. Could these greenhouses¹ be the future of going out? As countries emerge² from lockdown all over Europe, they're experimenting with new ways to get people dining out again.

 

这是一个不用担心新冠病毒的安全社交空间。这些玻璃房会是未来外出活动的场所吗？随着欧洲各国走出封锁，人们正在尝试让大家再次外出用餐的新方法。

 

Temperature checks, outdoor seating and this innovative³ idea is designed to help people adjust from a state of isolation⁴ to a degree of social contact. And overcome the inevitable⁵ anxiety many of us feel about mixing in public again while the risk of infection still exists.

 

The head chef, Tomasso, is happy to be back in the kitchen.

 

Cooking is always like a kind of like a way to, like, care [for] people. So actually this moment especially I think is, for chefs, is more important also because we lose the opportunity to like, to feed the people and care for the people, like who are in our restaurants.

 

Waitresses and diners must observe social-distancing advice. Here in the Netherlands, that means staying one point five metres apart.

 

These wooden planks⁶ serve as a low-tech solution to help stick to the rules, but still the staff have some concerns.

 

Yeah, I worry all the time. I'm also Italian so Italy now, it's in the middle of the storm I would say. But at the same time we have the role of [making] this fear maybe a little bit less. Not to forget about it at all but to start co-living with it maybe.

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