Mukaddes Yadikar’s acclaimed Uyghur restaurant, is Walthamstow’s finest neighbourhood restaurant. It remains open for takeaway and is delivering through Deliveroo. 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 (‘big plate chicken’): a remarkably deep, savoury, and spicy chicken and potato stew, teeming with Sichuan peppercorns, served with flat hand-pulled noodles.

The Temple Fortune sabich slinger opened its second restaurant, Alaesh next door mere weeks before the previous lockdown. 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.

The only one of London’s famous Trinidadian roti specialist’s three branches still open — for takeaway only. 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 dhalpuri (spiced lentil) roti, filled with curried goat or chicken; or that same, moreish chickpea curry which fortifies the doubles.

A relative newcomer to north London’s new-wave clique has fully pivoted to wine and grocery store. Shop Cuvee — “born out necessity” — offers ready meals (terrines, soups, pastas, salads, and tarts) designed for different party sizes, a massive selection of low-intervention wine, cocktails, spirits, Vichy Catalan sparkling water, and deli items, such as tins of La Morena’s chipotle peppers in adobo.

Esters is a cafe and a brunch location that does not serve avocado, out of principle. In other words, it’s a cafe — which verges into restaurant territory — with a little more ambition. Such ambition has been curtailed by this crisis but Esters is still offering coffee, cake, and ambitious sandwiches to local customers for takeaway.

Over the last four years, the carousel of rotating chefs at this Hackney wine bar and shop have been responsible for some of the capital’s most arresting gourmet artistry. Though an early pivot to food via delivery from across the P. Franco portfolio looked promising, the business decided it was unable to continue safely. Now, all the restaurant’s wines can be ordered for delivery online or can be collected from Bright, its sister restaurant in London Fields, which continues to put out squid sandwiches and the like on weekends.

One of Hackney’s smallest and most charming dining rooms has moved back into full “at home” mode, with Homing Pidgin: Home meal kits for pre-ordered collection are announced on Sunday evenings at 9 p.m. for the following and need to be snapped up fast. This week’s will include the likes of roasted Jerusalem artichokes, chili con carne, and sheep’s milk yogurt mousse. Wine pairings are suggested, too, with the restaurant’s list available for takeaway, too.

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. It remains open with a limited menu, in part because of the recent inability to receive specialist ingredients for spice blends from India. Still, 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.

Chef Mitshel Ibrahim’s Vyner Street trattoria is again a collection point and distributor hub for fresh pasta, fresh southern Italian fruit and vegetables, lots more of that low-intervention wine, pre-made negronis, and deli items, such as flour, yeast, eggs, olive oil, and some very nice tinned tomatoes. Good merch here, too; full details here.

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. There’s also a Diwali offer throughout November: 20 percent discount on the total bill. 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.

One of Hackney’s best new-wave wine bars and restaurants will offer a new takeaway menu delivered by Big Night. Keep an eye on their website.

Ed Wilson’s hearty Franco-Italian menu is a showcase for his own personal love of food. To eat here is to share that passion, especially now with an increased emphasis on fresh pasta, and spectacular comfort food. Since last summer, Brawn has been operating as a grocer, provisioner, and traiteur, with takeaway dishes like cassoulet; celeriac, mushroom, spinach, spenwood pie; pork and ricotta meatballs; hot chicken sandwiches, and more.

Kate Armah’s outstanding Ghanaian restaurant remains open for takeaway from 9.30 a.m. to 9 p.m. 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. Also available is a limited delivery service within a 3 mile radius of the restaurant (Monday – Friday, 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.)

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.

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.

In a most unpredictable year, it was striking that Anna Tobias’ debut restaurant — in partnership with 40 Maltby Street — was unilaterally predicted to be a hit. And so it has been, with this Bloomsbury restaurant’s gorgeous pastel tiles positively trampled by diners hungry for friable pissaladière whose sticky onions dissolve like vapour; wry, flawless sandwiches filled with coronation cauliflower fritters; and the textural perfection of a roast pork and harissa focaccia dressed with pickled fennel.

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 all London postcodes available.

Old Chang Kee’s approach to closure has been simple: take a single, unimpeachable item, and get it around the country to as many people as possible. Its Singaporean curry puffs arrive frozen in four varieties — chicken, chicken without egg, potato curry, and beef rendang — ready to burn greedy mouths. Frozen curries are also available. Their Goodge Street branch is open for takeaway, and available for pickup from Monday to Friday. Check their Instagram for more details.

Mayfair’s Michelin-starred Indian restaurant Gymkhana will deliver via apps, offering the likes of tandoori masala lamb chops, chicken butter masala, and its trademark wild muntjac biryani. It will also offer three types of feast menus for two, which includes the likes of Punjabi samosa, aloo chaat, and goat keema pao. Deliveries will cover a radius of up to 8 miles for pre-orders, or 3 miles for orders received with less than 24 hours notice. Click and collect takeaway is available in Mayfair. Gymkhana also introduces its online shop, Ambassador General Store, for cook-at-home family feast kits, signature dishes and drinks from sister restaurants Trishna and Brigadiers.

The inimitable Taiwanese restaurant brand that is Bao London fast-tracked the launch of a delivery service in May. Rice Error now operates out of Fitzrovia, Borough, Hackney sites, with the customary Bao union of careful, arresting branding and fine ingredients immaculately arranged. Choose from nine 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.

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.

One of the city’s best (Japanese) bakeries remains partially open, for pre-booked customers who must call 0208 579 8391 a day ahead. Card payment only. Check the website for up-to-date three-hour opening slots. A limited menu includes baguette; loaves of plain, black sesame, or walnut bread; butter rolls (5 pcs); sausage rolls, and its famous sweet buns — melon, choco melon; or raspberry jam, custard cream, and azuki bean.

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.

Maria-Luisa Riascos Solis’s peerless pica pollo, Dominican fried chicken, is available from La Barra, under the arch in Eagles Yard, Elephant and Castle for takeaway through lockdown.

“Indisputable king of suya in London” Abdullahi Maikano’s Peckham suya spot is closed, 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.

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. Check Instagram for more details.

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...”

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,