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The Best London Restaurants for Takeaway and Delivery

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Doubles from Roti Joupa.
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London’s best delivery food tends to come — no surprises — from the best restaurants in London, whether delivered through apps like Deliveroo, Uber Eats, and Just Eat, or, better, directly by the restaurant. Or, even better, walk in for a takeaway.

This list includes many of those which were on the Eater London 38 pre-pandemic, plus those which have featured on past iterations. There are also notable additions from exciting restaurants which continued — through enormous, unrelenting uncertainty during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic — to cook, create, and serve their local neighbourhoods, and continue to do so now.

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Tetote Factory

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Check the website for up-to-date hours and the current menu, which now runs the full Tetote gamut of outstanding breads both Japanese and French, chaotic savoury buns like the hot dog and barbecue chicken, and featherlight brioches filled with fruit and rich custards.

Custard and adzuki bean buns at Tetote Factory in west London Jonathan Nunn

Santa Maria Pizzeria

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Ealing’s homage to Naples and one of London’s pioneering Neapolitan pizzerias is still delivering from its W5 headquarters (and from Chelsea and Fitzrovia, as well). Flash-cooking in a wood-fired oven blisters the crust of these excellent pizzas, while the interior remains chewy and yields spectacularly. Toppings are almost accessories, given the quality of the base, but there too, there’s quality — nduja, fior di latte, the tomatoes. There’s no such thing as a bad time for pizza, but right now there’s something extra special about the receipt of one of the city’s finest.

A margherita pizza on top of a paper pizza menu, flanked by knives and forks on napkins.
The margherita at Santa Maria.
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Lahore Local

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Reopened after a lengthy refurbishment, this Pakistani grill next to North China has immediately returned to the form that made it one of the best restaurants in the area. It’s unceremoniously and excellently playing the hits that makes the best bands so good, and that’s precisely what Lahore Local delivers with a menu of mirch pakoras, fragrant chapli, karahi raspy with ginger, and the trinity of haleem, nihaari, and paya.

The Temple Fortune sabich slinger opened its second restaurant, Alaesh at the height of the COVID-19 lockdowns and its third, on Leather Lane, as things receded. It’s taken it in its stride, with that sabich, one of the best sandwiches in the city, flying out alongside tubs of mafioso-smooth hummus and top-tier chips. Call for takeaway or order through the apps.

London’s best sandwiches: sabich at Balady Micaela Filippo/Instagram

Roti Joupa Clapham Junction

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Restored to the SW postcodes after closing its Clapham Common venue, Roti Joupa’s impeccable doubles, dalpuri, and buss up shut are back and ready for takeaway.

Chu Chin Chow

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While much of this Barnet restaurant’s best cooking is on a secret menu accessed by phone or Instagram DM, it’s still available to take away for lucky locals, who can find Malaysian fried chicken, butter king prawns, and more stunning dishes.

The iconic Soho gelateria is taking its ice cream to the streets, with flavours like ricotta with sour cherry and fresh mint stracciatella. A two tub minimum order makes the choosing less taxing, with delivery to inner London postcodes available Thursdays and Saturdays. It remains, of course, one of the best spots to grab a cup or cone and go in the city, too.

Gelupo [Official Photo]

Roti King

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The area around Euston station is replete with no-frills, delicious places to eat. This little Malaysian basement setup from chef Sugen Gopal on Doric Way may be the best. Two pieces of freshly made, high-moisture roti canai — eat in or take-away — are best served with curry dhal. That speciality costs only £4.50, and is available for takeaway. Roti King is also listed on the Dishpatch platform.

Roti canai at Roti King, reopened in Euston Ola Smit/Eater London

Master Wei Xi'An

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Master Wei, by London’s pre-eminent Xi’an Chinese chef Wei Guirong, is open for pre-order collection as well as delivery through multiple platforms: Biang biang noodle dishes, with vegetables or beef and hot chilli oil; fine liang pi, cold skin noodles with a cool, refreshing, umami rich dressing, and the chef’s inimitable “burgers” with a cumin-spiced beef or pork filling. It’s all available.

A range of shared items on decorative dishes.
Biang biang noodles, smacked cucumbers, ou jia mo, and liang pi at Master Wei
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Xi'an Impression London

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One of London’s most well-known Xi’an restaurants is still a hit for delivery and collection. Find some of the city’s best biang biang noodle dishes, liang pi, wood ear fungus salads, salt and pepper squid, and Chinese hamburgers.

From top left: pot-sticker dumplings, ‘cold skin’ noodles, and biang biang noodles at Xi’an Impression, a Xi’an Chinese restaurant in Islington Emma Hughes/Eater London

The Quality Chop House

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A blend of prepared foods — sometimes including the quintessential comfort classic of mince on toast — meal kits, snacks, sweets, and staples from this Farringdon heavyweight, delivering within 10 kilometres of the shop and also, remarkably, on Deliveroo.

Quintessential comfort food classic mince on dripping toast at Quality Chop House, one of 10 places to eat in a listed building in London Quality Chop House [Official Photo]

Delhi Grill

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Islington stalwart which for a decade has offered a fun take on the street food-style snacks of Delhi and Punjab, Delhi Grill is available for takeaway. Chaats, samosas, lamb chops, and tikkas, and a selection of curries make for one of the most reliable bets in N1 right now. It also serves one of the best murgh makhanis (butter chicken) in the city. Try it. Check website for details.

Butter chicken, chicken fry and chutneys at Delhi Grill in Chapel Market, one of the best restaurants in Islington Ola Smit

Roti Joupa Finsbury Park

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London’s famous Trinidadian roti specialist has closed its Clapham original, but continues doing what it does best in Finsbury Park. That would be doubles: sandwiched fried barra filled with spiced chickpeas plus hot, sweet, and sour condiments are never not a good snack. For something more substantial, grab a dalpuri roti, filled with curried goat or chicken; or that same, moreish chickpea curry which fortifies the doubles.

The best Trinidadian roti and Caribbean food in London: Fried baras filled with chickpea curry from Roti Joupa on Clapham Common, London Adam Coghlan/Eater London

La Barra

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Peerless pica pollo, Dominican fried chicken, is available from La Barra, under the arch in Eagles Yard, Elephant and Castle for takeaway.

La Barra, a Colombian restaurant in Elephant and Castle, which serves outstanding Domincan fried chicken Michaël Protin

Kaieteur Kitchen Original

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Chef Faye Gomes’ outstanding Guyanese market stall has relocated to Castle Square following the controversial demolition of Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre next to which Gomes had traded for 17 years. For the chef’s trademark, long-prepared and slow-cooked traditional dishes like pepper pot, garlic pork, and cow foot souse, check in advance. Or go for a surprise and try dishes which draw on the many culinary influences and colonial legacies of Guyana: dal puri roti; phoulorie; fried fish with tomato; potato, green mango, okra, and coconut curry; stewed brown chicken which, like the pepper pot, is coloured and enriched with casareep, a liquid extraction from cassava root, as well as clove and cinnamon; and stew pumpkin. Check Gomes’ Instagram for the latest menu.

A plate of meat, plantains, and vegetables. Tomas Jivanda/Eater London

Casa do Frango

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Some of London’s best grilled chicken is now available via delivery. Casa do Frango make peerless Algarvian-style piri piri chicken, served with excellent fries, and a good crunchy, green pepper, tomato, and oregano salad. Available from London Bridge and Shoreditch via Deliveroo.

Casa do Frango piri piri chicken restaurant is one of London’s best new restaurants Casa do Frango [Official Photo]

Rice Error by BAO

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The inimitable Taiwanese restaurant brand that is Bao London fast-tracked the launch of a delivery service in May 2020, and Rice Error now operates out of myriad sites, with the customary Bao union of careful, arresting branding and fine ingredients immaculately arranged. Choose from a range of rice boxes, which use the award-winning Taiwanese chi shang variety: beef, chicken, pork belly, prawn, or tofu; and a selection of sides, including fried chicken, and sweet potato fries.

New London restaurants for 2019: Bao Borough Bao Borough [Official Photo]

Nandine - Camberwell Church St

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Nandine — “kitchen” in Kurdish — is run by Pary Baban, her husband Pola, and sons Rang and Raman. Its renowned mezze, including kubba (minced beef and rice patties), onion dolma, and qawarma, plus delicious, intricate pastries like borek — made with a Kurdish pastry called galgali — and baklava are available for collection or delivery via Deliveroo from Church Street and Vestry Road branches.

A mezze platter with various dishes surrounding a mound of rice. Nandine [Official Photo]

FLADDA Fish & Chips

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Probably London’s best, if not sole, high-low chippie. As Jonathan Nunn puts it: “A good fish and chip shop has to understand what fish and chips is about. There is no point trying to gussy it up...Fladda in Camberwell gets this, but isn’t shy to make improvements and alterations. Anonymous ‘chip shop’ sausages and pert, scarlet saveloys sit alongside battered sausages from The Butchery; homemade steak and ale pies alongside Pukka; whole fish fillets alongside a £5 fish bites...”

London’s best seafood restaurants: Fish and chips at Fladda, one of five London restaurants to try this weekend Perin Tahsin/Facebook

Tasty Jerk

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Possibly London’s best Jamaican jerk shop. On the edge of Crystal Palace’s Selhurst Park, a smoky aroma detectable from many hundred metres, this stark room is still dedicated to one thing: immaculately, judiciously seasoned protein grilled without remorse. The age of these oil drums and the time-honoured expertise of Murphy Lawrence and his team turn out jerked pork belly, chicken, goat, and even lobster, that is penetrated with smoke, and lifted by all spice, scotch bonnet, and salt. Intoxicatingly delicious. Open Monday — Saturday,

40 Maltby St

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A treasure. Unmoved by the comings and goings of trends, Bermondsey’s 40 Maltby St is a 40-cover answer to the question, pejorative as it may often be: What is great British food? Chef Steve Williams’ usual mode of answering that question has returned, but it hasn’t dimmed the greatness of the 40 Maltby Street takeaway lunch: unimpeachable sandwiches, often using much-loved menu items like fritters, alongside bijou tarts and heftier savoury snacks.

From above, a variety of salads on a dark green table. Ola Smit

Dumpling Shack

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John Li’s Spitalfields Dumpling Shack — which spans the cuisines of Shanghai, Sichuan, and Hong Kong — offers some of the best and most consistent takeaway food available anywhere in the east end, if not the whole city. It is now up-and-running for delivery — sending out its trademark shengjianbao — pork and leek fried soup dumpling, hand-pulled noodles, and batches of chilli oil.

London’s best Chinese dumplings include these sheng jian bao at Dumpling Shack, served in a white takeaway box. Dumpling Shack [Official Photo]

Beigel Bake

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Beigel Bake is probably London’s most storied bagel shop, and given its reputation stems from chasteningly direct service as much as warm, salt beef-stuffed parcels, it’s fitting that it eschews the delivery juggernauts for its own app.

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Pho Thuy Tay Cafe

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One of London’s most accomplished Vietnamese restaurants, Thuy Nguyen’s Pho Thuy Tay is back to serving the hardcore Hanoi blackboard specials that attracted south east London’s Vietnamese students, but there is still a huge amount to love about the main menu which is available to pick up or order via Deliveroo. The pho is the best in the city, in the Northern crystalline style, but the pho chien trung is something rarely seen in London’s Vietnamese restaurants: noodles shaped into little rosti style patties and stir fried with beef, egg and vegetables. Don’t miss the beef and mustard green rice, the raw beef salad, or the pork belly stew, replete with one perfect and still runny deep fried boiled egg. Thuy’s phone number is 0788102988 — order by text.

Chef Thuy Nguyen, of Pho Thuy Tay on Old Kent Road, London’s best Vietnamese restaurant

Phở Thuý Tây Café

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Relocated from Old Kent Road to Rotherhithe, the Hanoi pho at Phở Thuý Tây remains some of the absolute best in the city, and is a staple of the takeaway menu. Or, come in to collect, and order from a blackboard that might feature rare beef salads or grilled offal sausage.

Etles Uyghur Restaurant

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Mukaddes Yadikar’s acclaimed Uyghur restaurant is Walthamstow’s finest neighbourhood restaurant. A great option both for smaller and larger households with dishes such as chaomian, a stir-fry of short, cut lengths of noodle wokked with chunks of of beef, spring onion and tomato; and the trademark da pan ji. It’s a remarkably deep, savoury, and spicy chicken and potato stew, teeming with Sichuan peppercorns, served with flat hand-pulled noodles.

London’s most interesting restaurants of 2018: Etles in Walthamstow Andrew Leitch/Eater London

Singburi

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Chef Sirichai Kularbwong might have reopened for dine-in, but a takeaway from Singburi remains one of London’s great dining events, especially when shared with a large group. Menu staples such as phad thai, wok-fried morning glory with garlic and fish sauce, and fiery, acidic tom yums will no doubt be available, but look to the blackboard menu for the restaurant’s hits — and never miss the moo krob.

Moo krob at Singburi restaurant, one of the top London standbys of 2019
Moo krob at Singburi restauran
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Alhaji Suya

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“Indisputable king of suya in London” Abdullahi Maikano’s Peckham suya spot has reopened, but his arrival in Greenwich was one of the success stories of the last lockdown, bringing his electric yaji a new, temporary home. Now he’s shipping his suya nationwide, alongside kilishi, a Hausaland dried beef snack dredged with even more of that yaji.

A spread of Hausa suya, grilled beef spiced with yaji, served on white plates with a salad of lettuce, tomato, and raw onion. Alhaji Suya/Uber Eats

Kate's Cafe and Restaurant

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Kate Armah’s outstanding Ghanaian restaurant is made for portability as much as for dining in: A sharing platter that includes tsofi, chicken wings, kebabs, plantain, and more, is perfect for big meals at home. Other highlights include akonfem (guinea fowl), red red (fried plantain with black eye bean stew and gari foto), and any of the soups, which come served with either fufu, omutuo, banku, kenkey, kokonte, or rice.

Kate’s Cafe [Official Photo]

Thattukada

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East Ham is home to London’s largest Kerala community, and its greatest concentration of south Indian restaurants. The pick of them might be Thattukada, run by Biju and Preeti Gopinath. Call 020 8548 8239 ahead to see what’s available for collection. There’s still an extensive selection of curries, some of its famous fries, and biriyani parotta.

Vegetable thali at Thattukada in East Ham, one of London’s best restaurants. Tomas Jivanda/Eater London

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Tetote Factory

Check the website for up-to-date hours and the current menu, which now runs the full Tetote gamut of outstanding breads both Japanese and French, chaotic savoury buns like the hot dog and barbecue chicken, and featherlight brioches filled with fruit and rich custards.

Custard and adzuki bean buns at Tetote Factory in west London Jonathan Nunn

Santa Maria Pizzeria

Ealing’s homage to Naples and one of London’s pioneering Neapolitan pizzerias is still delivering from its W5 headquarters (and from Chelsea and Fitzrovia, as well). Flash-cooking in a wood-fired oven blisters the crust of these excellent pizzas, while the interior remains chewy and yields spectacularly. Toppings are almost accessories, given the quality of the base, but there too, there’s quality — nduja, fior di latte, the tomatoes. There’s no such thing as a bad time for pizza, but right now there’s something extra special about the receipt of one of the city’s finest.

A margherita pizza on top of a paper pizza menu, flanked by knives and forks on napkins.
The margherita at Santa Maria.
Ola Smit/Eater London

Lahore Local

Reopened after a lengthy refurbishment, this Pakistani grill next to North China has immediately returned to the form that made it one of the best restaurants in the area. It’s unceremoniously and excellently playing the hits that makes the best bands so good, and that’s precisely what Lahore Local delivers with a menu of mirch pakoras, fragrant chapli, karahi raspy with ginger, and the trinity of haleem, nihaari, and paya.

Balady

The Temple Fortune sabich slinger opened its second restaurant, Alaesh at the height of the COVID-19 lockdowns and its third, on Leather Lane, as things receded. It’s taken it in its stride, with that sabich, one of the best sandwiches in the city, flying out alongside tubs of mafioso-smooth hummus and top-tier chips. Call for takeaway or order through the apps.

London’s best sandwiches: sabich at Balady Micaela Filippo/Instagram

Roti Joupa Clapham Junction

Restored to the SW postcodes after closing its Clapham Common venue, Roti Joupa’s impeccable doubles, dalpuri, and buss up shut are back and ready for takeaway.

Chu Chin Chow

While much of this Barnet restaurant’s best cooking is on a secret menu accessed by phone or Instagram DM, it’s still available to take away for lucky locals, who can find Malaysian fried chicken, butter king prawns, and more stunning dishes.

Gelupo

The iconic Soho gelateria is taking its ice cream to the streets, with flavours like ricotta with sour cherry and fresh mint stracciatella. A two tub minimum order makes the choosing less taxing, with delivery to inner London postcodes available Thursdays and Saturdays. It remains, of course, one of the best spots to grab a cup or cone and go in the city, too.

Gelupo [Official Photo]

Roti King

The area around Euston station is replete with no-frills, delicious places to eat. This little Malaysian basement setup from chef Sugen Gopal on Doric Way may be the best. Two pieces of freshly made, high-moisture roti canai — eat in or take-away — are best served with curry dhal. That speciality costs only £4.50, and is available for takeaway. Roti King is also listed on the Dishpatch platform.

Roti canai at Roti King, reopened in Euston Ola Smit/Eater London

Master Wei Xi'An

Master Wei, by London’s pre-eminent Xi’an Chinese chef Wei Guirong, is open for pre-order collection as well as delivery through multiple platforms: Biang biang noodle dishes, with vegetables or beef and hot chilli oil; fine liang pi, cold skin noodles with a cool, refreshing, umami rich dressing, and the chef’s inimitable “burgers” with a cumin-spiced beef or pork filling. It’s all available.

A range of shared items on decorative dishes.
Biang biang noodles, smacked cucumbers, ou jia mo, and liang pi at Master Wei
Sam Ashton/Eater London

Xi'an Impression London

One of London’s most well-known Xi’an restaurants is still a hit for delivery and collection. Find some of the city’s best biang biang noodle dishes, liang pi, wood ear fungus salads, salt and pepper squid, and Chinese hamburgers.

From top left: pot-sticker dumplings, ‘cold skin’ noodles, and biang biang noodles at Xi’an Impression, a Xi’an Chinese restaurant in Islington Emma Hughes/Eater London

The Quality Chop House

A blend of prepared foods — sometimes including the quintessential comfort classic of mince on toast — meal kits, snacks, sweets, and staples from this Farringdon heavyweight, delivering within 10 kilometres of the shop and also, rema