Restaurants may be closed as Valentine’s Day looms but you can still taste dishes from top chefs
Restaurant doors may be closed but chefs are boxing clever. Takeaways have evolved into home-delivery kits, and chefs who may never have envisioned their food being reheated and plated up outside of their restaurants are now packing and sending meals to homes all over the country.
These kits – a lifeline for an industry hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic – have proved popular. Restokit, one of several platforms offering a choice of different restaurants’ kits, has been taking about 1,000 orders a week for meals from businesses such as the family-run Sri Lankan restaurant Kolamba. The London pasta joint Padella is delivering up to 250 kits of freshly made pappardelle, pici and sauces nationwide every day. And numerous Valentine’s Day boxes have already sold out.
