Tagged food delivery. lockdown

  How I miss a fancy party.   Mind you, I do have a few complaints about that mass catering style of finger food.   Namely that there always seems to be fishy canapés, so you...

  It was Wednesday.   We were the only ones in the restaurant.   I was wearing a blue top, it was raining, we sat by the window and I ordered a steak sourdough sandwich with...

    It’s like assembling a jigsaw puzzle of an Arctic landscape.   We have about 30 unlabelled vacuum bags, five or so of which are in various shades of snow white, from nicotine...

Just as we round the final corner, our pithivier skids to the left.   “Nooooo!”, I screech, checking all the other precious cargo that’s stacked up on my lap and wedged into the...

    Face down in syrup isn’t the worst way to go.   When I reviewed this place on its opening three years ago, I mentioned the prevailing rescue advice of administering sugar in...

  We had a family birthday conference on Zoom recently.   As it wrapped up, the subject inevitably turned to what everyone was going to have for dinner.   The others’ teas all...

  A perfect paper-weight of a glacier.   It’s been a while since I had a negroni.   After choosing this cocktail (£9) as part of a delivery from Edinburgh restaurant, Le Roi...

  The collage of printed menus spelt TAKEAWAY.   It was hard to see inside, because there were so many of them taped to the window.   I’m finding it tricky to rate...

  Under lockdown, our favourite restaurants’ takeaway offerings seem to fall into a couple of groups. They either want to treat you like the princess/prince/poodle you most blatantly are, by helping...

The locations of the 15 McDonald's restaurants that will reopen will be announced the week beginning 4 May. The moves comes after the fast food chain spent a week testing its operations behind closed doors...