18 Dec 2025
City centre restaurant Lussmanns celebrated its 20th anniversary by serving dishes with 2005 prizes – with each item sold helping charity St Albans Community First Responders.
The promotion, which ran throughout November, raised £500 towards supporting the charity respond to emergency calls and provide urgent and potentially life-saving care.
St Albans Community First Responders team lader Monica Cherry said: “We’re so grateful for Lussmanns’ generosity via their anniversary dining initiative. Funds raised from this celebration of 20 successful years of business in St Albans will directly assist our volunteer community responders to deliver life-saving care for people in St Albans and the surrounding area by helping to fund much-needed new defibrillators.”
Managing director and founder of the Heritage Close eatery, Andrei Lussmann, said he was delighted to support a local charity delivering such a critical service while marking a milestone anniversary.
“We wanted to celebrate 20 years in the wonderful city of St Albans and thank our many loyal customers with a tasteful trip down memory lane at the same time as raising vital funds.
“Our brilliant customers clearly enjoyed their cut price camembert fondue, pasta alfredo and autumn pudding and I think it tasted even better knowing £1 for each one was going to the brilliant Community First Responders.”
Lussmanns are now looking to support another local charity, with a £1 donation for each handmade, Milanese panettone they sell going to OneYMCA to help them support more young people and families in Hertfordshire.
Andrei reflected on his time in the city with an in-depth interview in the St Albans Times: https://stalbanstimes.co.uk/feature/lussmanns-two-decades-of-the-locals-favourite/
