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Seven London restaurants delivering Easter to your door, from hot cross buns to Sunday roasts

This Easter is going to be a little bit different. Last year you were preparing to wow the extended family with your epic roasting skills and enough lamb to feed the five thousand, but now you’re eyeing up a frozen shepherd’s pie for two.

It doesn’t have to be all bad – social distancing restrictions may have stopped us meeting up with all our weird cousins and great aunts this weekend, but it doesn’t mean we can’t have a smaller Easter shindig.

London’s restaurants are helping to bring that spring-like joy into our homes this weekend, offering those of us with lacklustre culinary talents deliveries of hot cross buns, chocolate treats and even full-blown Sunday roasts.

From marshmallow chicks to a Michelin-starred saddle of lamb, these are the restaurants delivering Easter feasts to your door during the lockdown.

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Ollie Dabbous’s Mayfair restaurant is offering a Michelin-starred way to enjoy the Easter weekend by delivering a fine-dining feast to your door. Over the next four days, diners using its Hide At Home service on delivery app Supper (or via telephone or email) can order a dinner for two priced at £48 per person, featuring roast Herdwick saddle of lamb served with butter and parsley-topped confit new potatoes, crushed peas with mint and a warm leek vinaigrette with Sussex Slipcote cheese. That is followed by a dessert of strawberry and vanilla custard tart, with guests able to add wine from Hedonism too. Delivery costs £6 and is available within a 2.5 mile radius of the Piccadilly restaurant.

85 Piccadilly, W1J 7NB, hide.co.uk

Townsend

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Townsend, the new restaurant at Whitechapel Gallery, had only just opened its doors when the lockdown forced them to close again, but it’s making the most of its first Easter. It’s sending out boxes filled with everything you need for a roast lamb dinner this weekend, complete with pre-braised lamb shoulder (which you just need to heat up), roast potatoes, caramelised onions, gravy, mint sauce, and a selection of veggies for either 2 or 4 people (£30-£55). Alternatively upgrade to an Easter hamper (£60-90) and add on English sparkling wine, rhubarb Eton Mess and bars of quality chocolate.

77-82 Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX, whitechapelgallery.org

Dominique Ansel Bakery

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Lauded pastry chef Dominique Ansel has recently extended the delivery remit of his Belgravia bakery to give all of central London access to his famed cronuts. That also means that those with a sweet tooth within the delivery radius can also get hold of his Easter treats, which include his brioche hot cross buns coated in a cinnamon star anise glaze (£12.50 for five), marshmallow chick Peep A Boos which sit in a chocolate egg (£20 for six), and his strawberry-flavoured Berry Easter eggs (£15). You can also get his cream-puff Magic Breakfast Bunny (£7.80), from which all profits will be donated to charity Magic Breakfast.

17-21 Elizabeth Street, SW1W 9RP, dominiqueansellondon.com

Petersham Nurseries

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The highly praised Richmond restaurant has remodelled itself as a grocery service, making local deliveries of fruit, veg, meat and more, with collection available too. For this Easter weekend, it has added a few extra treats to its order form including a tissue-wrapped Easter Box filled with a handmade chocolate chicken, a papier mache egg, an Easter card, a bottle of Petersham Prosecco and all the ingredients to make your own hot cross buns. With a lamb leg and more on the menu, they’re also selling all you need to cook up a stellar roast.

Church Lane, Petersham Road, TW10 7AB, petershamnurseries.com

The Laughing Heart

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Hackney wine bar and restaurant The Laughing Heart was quick to adapt its set-up following the lockdown, and has been offering a delivery service for both food and wine for the last couple of weeks, currently available via Slerp. While you can still order its “Finish at Home” menus – including dishes of mutton stew, aubergine parmigiana and spaghetti bolognese – there’s now the option to add a portion of home-baked hot cross buns, which come with cultured butter and sprinkled with brown sugar.

277 Hackney Road, E2 8NA, thelaughingheartlondon.com

Bread Ahead

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Top London bakery Bread Ahead has well and truly embraced the new delivery age, now offering to send its bread, doughnuts and more to postcodes all across central London from its Borough Market bakery, as well as locally from its Wembley and Chelsea bakeries on Deliveroo. This means you can order in hearty helping of its celebrated hot cross buns for this weekend (£9 for six), which are flavoured with nutmeg, mixed spice, apple, sultanas and brown sugar.

SE1, SW1, HA9, breadahead.com

Coal Rooms

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Following a brief hiatus – largely to launch its new delivery-only brand Fat Boy BBQ – Coal Rooms is once again offering Sunday roast deliveries just in time for Easter. You’ve got the option of choosing your meat, with available roasts including a Welsh saddle of lamb for two, but also a 400g portion of belted Galloway beef rump and a whole Cotswold chicken for two. All roasts come with beef dripping potatoes, carrots, January King cabbage, leeks and Yorkshire puddings. Orders will only be open via Slerp from 12pm on Sunday though, so you’ll need to be patient before you can secure your feast.

11a Station Way, SE15 4RX, coalroomspeckham.com