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# Your Morning Chat: Businesses To Support In Your Area
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/your-morning-chat-small-businesses-to-support-in-your-area-03-2020/
- Published: 2020-03-14T14:00:30.000Z
- Updated: 2020-03-14T17:23:29.000Z
- Description: Let's make a reference page, maybe?
- Author: Heather
- Tags: fugs, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 08:09

Many of us are stuck at home, and a lot of people who WANT to be can't do it because they're out there trying to keep their businesses from going under. Which brings me to: How can we help? How can we make a Fug Nation repository for swapping recommendations and strategies for supporting our communities? *Note: Tomorrow, if you think it would help, we could do a post like this for the people who ARE those small businesses, who want to trade advice with each other? Let us know.*

- Grocery store lines are insane, so we're gonna need food from somewhere; what **restaurants** that deliver, on their own or through Postmates/DoorDash/GrubHub (etc.), deserve recognition?
- CVS and Walgreens are jammed; are there mom-and-pop **drugstores** you love?
- What **day spas and manicurists** are you desperate to keep afloat, by buying gift cards now that can be redeemed later? **Facialists**?
- What about a **florist** who could send a bouquet to someone you miss, or... just to yourself, because you are worth it?
- Are there **school tutors** or **therapists** \-- psychologists, psychiatrists, speech, occupational (that one's tougher) -- who've mentioned they'll work through Skype, versus in-person lessons or sessions?
- Are there any **small theaters** or **arts organizations** who could stay alive with a similar gift card situation?
- And while we are here, which ones are offering free entertainment and thus might be worthy of donations? For example, **the Seattle Orchestra** [has a schedule of free online performances.](https://seattlesymphony.org/live?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) And [the Metropolitan Opera is streaming free performances nightly from its Live in HD series](https://www.playbill.com/article/metropolitan-opera-after-shutting-its-doors-will-offer-free-streams-from-live-in-hd-catalog?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io).

Basically, I wonder if we can swap advice and recommendations here. My thought is: **Open your comment with your nearest major metro area and then specific suburbs/regions** \-- or, if applicable, country, province, whatever anyone in your area would say -- so that people can do a find for their specific city/area, if they want. Does that make sense? For example: "Chicago, Wrigleyville," or, "Houston, Sugar Land," or "Los Angeles, Burbank."

For me, in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles, I love the food at **Ocado** on Ventura Blvd. -- a vegan restaurant beloved by non-vegans as well, which I am desperate to keep alive -- and **Mirabelle** Wine Bar on Burbank, but you probably have to pick up yourself at that one. (If you do, and they'll sell you a bottle, try the Chilean red Pais because it's utterly unusual; the bartender told me it has a finish that reminds her of Doritos and SHE WASN'T WRONG and it also kinda worked.) And La Fogata on Van Nuys Blvd. is great Mexican food, and of course **Four N 20 Restaurant**; the one on Van Nuys is what *Parks & Rec* used as Leslie Knope's favorite waffle joint, AND YET they don't actually serve waffles. We don't eat out enough for me to have other brilliant recommendations in my area but I know they're out there, just as I know y'all have businesses you want to support. Let's share and see what we can do. God knows the little bistro near me called Ralph's (aka Kroger, aka a supermarket) doesn't have any meat right now.