MEATliquor to reopen East Dulwich restaurant for takeaway and delivery
The site is due to reopen on Thursday (23 April) almost exactly a month after MEATliquor closed all of its restaurants because of the Coronavirus pandemic and the enforced lockdown of eat-in hospitality businesses.
It will be open five days a week operating at reduced hours with food available for click and collect and takeaway as well as through delivery platform Uber Eats
The company is one of a number of restaurant groups that has started to reopen some of its sites for takeaway and delivery.
Burger chain Five Guys also recently reopened six sites, including two in the capital, and pizza group Pizza Pilgrims last week opened its Victoria restaurant to serve food via Deliveroo.
Fast food giants KFC and Burger King have also reopened a number of their venues as delivery-only kitchens.
The East Dulwich restaurant will serve a reduced menu of MEATliquor’s key dishes, which include its Dead Hippie burger and topped fries, but its hotdogs will not be on offer.
If successful, the group, which operates restaurants across central London as well as in Croydon, Brighton, and Leeds, says it will consider opening a few more of it sites for takeaway and delivery.
In an email message sent out to its customers last week, the group said it was “grafting hard behind the scenes” preparing for the re-openings.
“We’re chomping at the bit and as soon as that flag drops, we’ll be off,” it said.
“To celebrate one calendar month of lockdown we’re reopening one of our sites, East Dulwich,” says MEATLiquor founder Scott Collins, confirming the first venue to reopen.
