SUSPICIOUS FIRE IN TWEED HEADS Award served up to new café

By Samantha Elley

Earlier in the year

The Northern Rivers Times wrote about a new business in Ballina called, Dinner is Served.

Founded by the business’ managing director, Claudia Lawrence, it provides ready made gourmet meals for families and people on NDIS or home care plans.

By Sarah Waters

Last Saturday (September 23) at 8.45am Firefghters from Tweed Heads attended a fre at a singlestory unit on Altair Street, which was fully engulfed in fames.

The unit was one of four in an apartment block.

A statement on the Fire and Rescue NSW Tweed Heads Facebook page said frefghters worked tirelessly to prevent the fre from spreading to adjacent units.

“Unfortunately, the unit

Residents were unable to return to unaffected units as police established a crime scene due to the suspicious nature of the blaze.

Investigations are still ongoing with the cause of the fre yet to be determined.

Superintendent Adam

They must be doing something right as they recently walked away with an award at the Ballina Business Awards recently.

“We were delighted to win the 2023 award for Excellence in Retail and Personal Services at this year’s Business NSW Awards,” said Claudia.

“Over the last 12 months, since opening our commercial kitchen and café space in Ballina, our goal has been to create a beautiful food service and retail space, where we could bring to life our vision for a European style food hall, café venue and commercial kitchen which would allow us to meet the demand of our gourmet ready-meal business and sought after catering service. “

Claudia said they wanted to create a space which felt incredible from the moment you walked in.

“You feel nourished and nurtured by the décor and surroundings as much as our food and service,” she said.

“To have achieved this in what was a very diffcult year, and to take home the award in a category with such esteemed competition is incredibly humbling.

“We’re grateful for the recognition of our passion and commitment to delivering the highest quality food and service to our community across the Northern Rivers.”