HUSKI – A NEW CONCEPT IN HOLIDAY CATERING

Chalet Holiday is changing. Regardless of the issues for the travel industry, unfortunately Brexit is hitting this British holiday staple pretty hard, with the way in which staff have always been employed having to change to comply with local employment laws, the popular way of spending a week in the alps is becoming less possible in it’s traditional form. Of course, the high end will remain but the chalets offered by many operators will either cease to be, or be offered on a self catering basis by either the tour operators, or the owners. This means that there will be three choices if one still wants to holiday in a chalet. Self cater, which is off the menu for many, find a friend or local to cater for you, or use a company such as Huski, which will give you a great option for catering at a good price.

Huski is one of the new generation of food and drink delivery companies that is a familiar feature on the dashboard of modern day life. Browse, choose, order and delivery follows. Deliveroo and Uber Eats haven't made it to the French Alps, but Huski's extensive range of mouth-watering meals more than makes up for this blip in generation Z’s (and before's) dining requirements. Delivering to all major resorts in the French Alps, Huski takes the hassle out of winter sports holidays (and summer for that matter). Order your food whilst booking your transport, accommodation and ski hire and you can forget about fighting your way through packed supermarkets and thinking about reserving Covid-cautious restaurants, giving you more time for skiing, snowboarding, ski touring or snowshoeing and, of course, the all-important après vin-et-chocolat-chauds, huddled on restaurant and bar terraces.

By far the safest Covid-19 dining option around, Huski can cater to all tastes and food and drink preferences from tartiflette to tagine to Thai green curry with everything in between. Between them, Huski’s two food brands also cover all the main special dietary requirements (vegetarian, vegan, dairy and gluten free). From their local kitchens in Bourg St Maurice, hearty, warming and flavoursome French dishes include eternally popular slow-cooked beef mondeuse (the Alps’ answer to bourgignon made from the powerfully aromatic local Mondeuse wine), oozingly tempting tartiflette and deliciously moreish chicken savoyarde. There’s a selection of local charcuterie (the Alpine saucissons with Génépi, hazelnuts and Beaufort are hard to resist), baked Camembert (enough said), and winter warming roasted red pepper and tomato soup. Chef Rob’s rich and velvety mousse au chocolat is legendary and spiced poached pears and seasonal cheesecake add to the small but perfectly formed Gourmet 73 dessert menu. And then there’s COOK in the mountains. COOK has been delighting Brits for over 20 years with their simple concept of home-cooked food for the busy, the culinary-challenged and the lover of exceedingly tasty food. Using only the finest ingredients to create their utterly devourable dishes, COOK’s Indian and Thai curries, tagines, stalwarts like classic fish pie, lasagne al forno and coq au vin are all crowd-pleasers, and, the best thing about them is that they can be cooked from frozen, so if you forget to take it out of the freezer in the morning, you can pop one in the oven when you get back and dinner’s ready in no time. All hot dishes are re-heatable in traditional ovens and microwaves.

Huski has put together a small but very sweet list of local and internationally-acclaimed wines and has teamed up with local craft brewer – the grandly-named Brasserie du Petit St Bernard Brewing Co (PSB for short) to brew an IPA for Huski. So, in the absence of Majestic or The Wine Society, Huski can cater to your drinks needs, also supplying all the usual-suspect soft drinks.

Huski’s General Manager, Tania Casey is quietly cautious about next season: “Nothing is certain with Covid in our midst, but at Huski we have done everything in our power to ensure that our deliveries will be as Covid-safe as possible. Our team is raring to go and we’re looking forward to welcoming holidaymakers back to the Alps, after such a bleak time.”.

A click away from holiday freedom, Huski is available in all major resorts in the French Alps and can be predelivered to your home, chalet or apartment, contact free and Covid-19-safe, and waiting for you on your arrival in resort.

www.hu.ski

Enquiries: +33 (0)4 79 04 15 36 | orders@hu.ski

Ordering: You can place orders 24/7 on www.hu.ski If you have any order queries, please contact us on orders@hu.ski

Payment accepted: Credit & debit cards, Paypal, Apple Pay

Delivery to All major ski resorts across the French Alps

Delivery charges: Minimum spend: €50. Delivery charge between €9.99 and €19.99 depending on resort

Click & collect service: If you’re staying in Les Arcs, Peisey-Vallandry, La Plagne, La Rosiere, Sainte-Foy-Tarentaise, Val d’Isere or Tignes, you could use our click & collect service. Pre-order and pick up from our HQ, 84 Rue d'Edelweiss (off rue du Pinon), 73700 Bourg-Saint-Maurice (pin here)

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Early Bird offer: 10% off food and drink if you order before 1 December

Christmas dinner: See here (www.hu.ski/cuisine/christmas/)

Picnics on the mountains: Build your own picnic for lunch on the mountains from our range of pâtés, Reblochon, quiches, charcuterie and sweet treats. All resorts have picnic areas and you’ll be sure to be Covid-safe if you choose this option.

Whole catering packages: You can order breakfast, tea and dinner for the whole of your holiday, which frees you up for skiing. See here (www.hu.ski/product-category/bundled-menus/)

Welcome hampers: Simple dinner with wine and breakfast essentials so you don’t have to go shopping the next morning. See here (www.hu.ski/product-category/bundled-menus/)

Same day delivery: No, but you can order until 8pm CET (7pm GMT) the night before for delivery the next day, depending on where you are located in France and which delivery days are scheduled for those regions