The best London restaurants offering takeaways and home deliveries
From Michelin-starred restaurants to our favourite bakeries, we round up the most exciting restaurants, cafés and bars delivering to your door
Breakfast and brunch…
Eggslut
Whether to absorb a hangover or provide bun-shaped comfort in these unsettling times, Eggslut’s baps are appealing fodder for a lazy weekend morning. The Notting Hill branch of the notorious LA brand has opened its doors for a delivery-only service, bringing freshly cooked egg sandwiches directly to your door (if you live nearby). Order from Deliveroo, UberEats or Just Eat to satisfy your yolky cravings.
The Gentlemen Baristas
Start your day with a caffeine injection from hipster coffee shop The Gentlemen Baristas. The team are delivering – by bike! – coffees, pastries and other pantry items to residents in SE1. What’s more, they’ve teamed up with Jarr Kombucha to offer a free bottle of ‘buch’ to all who order. How’s that for ethical shopping in the age of coronavirus?
Dominique Ansel Bakery
The Dominique Ansel group is offering home deliveries from both its Belgravia bakery. Place your orders now for pastries, sandwiches and gift hampers. Very excitingly, the bakery is also now delivering its signature creation, the Cronut, across central London and beyond.
Those who live within a five-minute walk of either will have the goods delivered to their door, while those within a 2km radius can order via Deliveroo. NHS workers can enjoy 50% off their order, and Dominique Ansel has partnered with the Magic Breakfast charity to offer children entitled to free school meals a free lunch box filled with tasty goods.
Pophams Bakery
Pophams Bakery is delivering its delectable baked goods (and fresh pasta, for those after lunch or dinner) from its hubs in Hackney and Islington to those who live within a one-mile radius. Delivery times are between 7:30am and 11:30am daily, with a £5 delivery charge on top of purchase costs.
Poilâne
Popular French bakery Poilâne has long been providing London’s French population with a taste of home – and bakes the best baguettes you’ll find this side of the Channel. Now, you can get Poilâne’s breads, sandwiches, pastries and more delivered to your door from the bakery on Elizabeth Street and the Comptoir Poilâne restaurant behind Sloane Square.
Lunch and dinner….
Mazi & Suzi Tros
Notting Hill’s delectable Greek restaurant Mazi and its little sister Suzi Tros are now open for home delivery. These siblings each offer something different: while Mazi is all about showcasing Greek cuisine at its most spectacular (with some dishes totting up 30-odd ingredients), Suzi Tros is a celebration of simplicity, specialising in pared-back small plates. Whatever you order, do use this as a chance to explore Greek wines through the restaurants’ expertly curated lists.
Pidgin
The team behind innovative Hackney joint Pidgin have responded to the pandemic by morphing from a sit-in restaurant specialising in British small plates to a home delivery service offering a three-course set menu for £25 plus an additional artisan wine list. The newly named Homing Pidgin boasts a weekly-changing menu (and additional vegetarian set menu) that can be ordered directly from the restaurant’s revamped, sleek-looking website.
Meals arrive with reheating instructions and an allergen sheet – and the restaurant is also committed to accommodating dietary requirements where possible. You’ll want to order well in advance, though, as orders sell out virtually as soon as the week’s menu is announced.
Wild By Tart
Gourmet deli and restaurant Wild By Tart also has its delivery service up and running. From its survival hamper filled with a surprise bundle of sumptuous treats to fresh groceries and daily lunch specials, Belgravia locals can rest assured that a Wild By Tart order will leave them wellnourished. And as an added bonus, all orders come with a complimentary roll of loo paper.
Bright
Trendy small-plate restaurant and wine shop Bright is offering home deliveries of fresh pasta bundles to those in the Hackney vicinity. Prices start at just £8 for pasta and sauce for one, and you can pair your order with a bottle of wine from the restaurant’s generous list.
Margaux
South Kensington’s delectable French restaurant Margaux has also launched a home delivery service, offering a chance to enjoy its most popular dishes – including beef bourguignon, black ink tortelloni and its much-loved tarte tatin – at home. Meals can be ordered by delivery services Supper and Deliveroo every day from 12pm to 9pm. Check out Margaux’s wine supplier Berkmann Wine Cellars, too, which is currently offering discounts as well as running a Help 4 Hospitality campaign to support those in the industry who are currently out of work.
Zuma
Knightsbridge-based Japanese restaurant Zuma has launched a delivery menu available exclusively on high-end delivery service Supper. From maki rolls to dishes prepared on the robata grill and Zuma’s signature wagyu no sumibiyaki, you’ll be able to enjoy all your usual favourites in the comfort of your home.
Bone Daddies
Craving the warm hug of a bowl of ramen? Us too. Thankfully, there’s no need to get to grips with a recipe or hunt for slightly obscure ingredients in the supermarket now that Bone Daddies is offering deliveries and a click-and-collect service from its Old Street and Bermondsey ramen bars. Available on Deliveroo, the menu features a selection of Bone Daddies’ favourites, from steaming bowls of its signature Tonkotsu, to sticky side portions of its Korean fried chicken wings.
JKS Restaurants: Gymkhana, Trishna, Hoppers, Brigadiers and more
Sibling-run restaurant group JKS has launched a home delivery service from several of its most popular restaurants. Whether you’re craving a Michelin-starred curry from Gymkhana or Trishna, upmarket ‘beer snacks’ from Brigadiers, or Sri Lankan specials from Hoppers, you can now get them delivered to your door.
What’s more, the Sethi siblings have expanded the reach of their two delivery-only brands: the new Rice Error by BAO (from the team behind acclaimed Taiwanese mini-chain Bao) and Moto Indian Kitchen.
Special-occasion dining…
COYA Mayfair
Decadent Peruvian feasts at COYA Mayfair don’t have to be the reserve of your post-lockdown bucket list, because the lavish restaurant has launched a dinner service with high-end delivery app Supper London. Menu highlights include Chilean sea bass; Caramel con chocolate; and, of course, COYA’s signature pisco sours. Sure, a large part of COYA’s appeal is dining amid its exquisite interiors, but on the plus side, ordering the restaurant's dishes to your door means sampling its creations without the usual hefty price tag.
Hakkasan
Celebrating? You can do so in style by ordering from the Mayfair branch of delectable Cantonese restaurant Hakkasan. From Michelin-starred dim sum and platters of seafood to a champagne brunch for two, this is Chinese fine dining at its best, delivered to your door. Order via high-end takeaway service Supper.
Orasay
Those missing a night of fine dining at Jackson Boxer’s Orasay can rejoice, because the elegant Notting Hill restaurant is now offering home delivery to those who live nearby. Expect the usual gourmet fare, from 24-hour braised short-rib beef with celeriac purée (pictured), to lighter dishes like the Datterini tomatoes with grilled cuore verde chickpeas, basil and hazelnut pesto. Tempted? Order directly from the Orasay website.
Hide
Ollie Dabbous’ Hide in Mayfair became the first Michelin-starred restaurant in London to announce a home delivery service in response to the enforced closures. A special menu has been created that’ll see the likes of roast scallop with Jerusalem artichoke and black truffle; and suckling pig with mustard fruit purée delivered to your door.
Brat
Michelin-starred restaurant Brat has temporarily become a ‘kitchen market shop’, offering vegetable boxes, fresh seafood and rare-breed meats to cook at home. Shoreditch locals can also order bottles from Brat’s lengthy wine list and a selection of readily prepared dishes, including Cornish crab, grilled asparagus salad and wood-fired anchovy breads. Fine dining à la maison here we come.
Lazy Sundays…
Gaucho
If, for your clan, Sundays aren’t complete without a roast dinner, let Gaucho step in and take over the hard work. The Argentine steak restaurant is offering a Sunday roast home delivery service for a reasonable £20 per person, with a choice of beef or chicken with all the trimmings. With the warmer weather making balmy afternoons in the park a far more appealing prospect than slaving over a stove (or the dishes, afterwards), this could be your fuss-free answer. Order from Gaucho any other day of the week to enjoy its primary offering of steak – cooked your way – with a selection of gourmet sides.
The Coal Rooms
Before Covid-19, ordering a roast dinner to your door wasn’t a thing (and in many parts of the city, it still isn’t). But luckily for Peckhamites, The Coal Rooms – a restaurant with a reputation for serving up one of the best roasts in town – is offering an alternative to browsing bare supermarket shelves: home-delivered roasts every Sunday to those who live within a three-mile radius.
Strictly desserts…
Violet bakery
You’ll be hard-pushed to find better cakes and sweet treats than those from neighbourhood bakery-café Violet in Hackney. Run by chef-owner Claire Ptak (who made Harry and Meghan’s trend-setting lemon and elderflower wedding cake), the bakery is now offering the likes of its chocolate salted caramel loaves, tahini brownies, cupcakes and more via Deliveroo. And those who feel inspired to make their own should check out Violet Cakes on Instagram, where Ptak posts daily tips for baking like a superstar.
And to drink?
Three Sheets
Quarantine isn’t so bad when you can spend it sipping on bottled concoctions from Three Sheets – the 16th best cocktail bar in the world according to The World’s 50 Best list. Better still, unlike most restaurants and bars which are only delivering locally, Three Sheets has launched a national operation, meaning you can drink their wares in all four corners of the UK and Ireland (allowing a three-day delivery time). Cheers to that!
Hedonism Wines
Wine o’clock? Forget scouring the shelves at your local supermarket for the right bottle to see you through these tough times and instead order from the vast collection at Hedonism Wines. The Mayfair-based boutique is offering deliveries free of charge in central London, and nationally for those who order six bottles or more. Organising a party? The brand also offers virtual, bespoke private wine tasting sessions – a fun way to celebrate or make the sipping experience interactive.
Hacha
Dalston agaveria Hacha is delivering bottled versions of its delectable Mirror Margaritas (both with tequila and mezcal bases) to those who live in the vacinity.
Heads & Tails
West Hampstead cocktail bar Heads & Tails is offering a local – and national – delivery service, shipping out batched and bottled versions of some of its signature creations, including its espresso martini, negroni and old fashioned. You can also shop the bar’s collection of wines and save a trip to the bottle shop.