Lockdown, Not Out

If we’re lucky we’ll get some food slid under the door for good behaviour.

Read on, and that food will be some of the best you’ve ever invited into your home. Because the party might have been canceled, but the caterers already prepped – and their banquets will not go to waste if we have anything to do with it.

Instead, let us browse the collective Sydney menu for mind blowing Cult Dishes as we eat our way through this latest curve ball.
Yes, we’re locked down.
No, we’re not out.
In fact staying home is the new… Actually, no. We promised not one more quip.
But we are committed to distracting you with food, so let’s do this:

Show a little lockdown love to Roxy’s Double Bay, brave enough to open their doors earlier this month in the midst of these crazy times. Take their rustic kitchen vibe back to yours with their Roxy’s At Home menu: $69 for a Middle Eastern feast that feeds two.

Celebrating 25 years in style this year Azuma offers top notch Japanese food in the comfort of your own home. It’s not just sushi, it’s a sushi experience. Think restaurant quality sukiyaki, shabu shabu and hotpot prepared by Sydney’s finest and available with drive through or delivery.

Think modern Middle Eastern street food, right in the heart of Sydney’s oldest neighbourhood on record. Finding inspiration in a new approach to old standards from centuries past executive chef Nathan Dennard’s blend of modern and traditional Middle Eastern cuisine is as stunning on your table as it is when served in the restaurant’s historic sandstone cavern.

Too soon to say it looks like it really is coming home?
Because ISK At Home means you get flavoursome dishes that warm the heart and feed the soul, on a menu that pays homage to their Italian roots and heritage. Plus it’s currently 15% off with takeaway and delivery available from both stores, and you can join the famiglia with their loyalty program and earn cash back every time you order.

#RiaPizzaSydney has transformed its offering for the lockdown period with the arrival of The Bentley Group each weekend stocking rare wines from the vault, cult cocktails and fine Italian food, from their signature pizzas take home meals, baked goods, and the classic tiramisu.

A little corner shop serving food inspired by the streets and homes of Egypt. Check out the charcoal meats of Egyptian cuisine and food that’s rich in plants, beans and falafel, fuul and Koshary grains.

Serving up good fresh Lebanese food In Your Face, every damn day – and embracing lockdown logistics by bringing you their celebrated menu packaged up as $22 boxed TV Dinners.

A warehouse style restaurant and café, reminiscent of New York’s Greenwich Village in the 60s. Delicious food plus coffee is their thing, normally open for private parties and events they’re now bringing the very best coffee experience straight to your living room.

Envy Deli Café is family run and every dish you’ll see there is made in house from scratch. Including the cakes. Hit them up for all day breakfast, lunch or take Home meals and have some lockdown fun with the quiz they just launched to win yourself $30 vouchers.

It’s a motorcycle workshop. But it’s a restaurant. But it works. And it has cult status.
Rising Sun Workshop is currently sendin noods with their Ramen At Home menu and nailing the aftercare with cold brew jars and bake at home cookie dough for the morning after.

Pilu Proprietor Giovanni believes that food, and the hospitality associated with sharing it, is integral to the Sardinian way of Life. It has also become integral to the way of life of for the many Sydneysiders who come to enjoy Giovanni’s Sardinian, and regional Italian cooking through the Pilu At Home menu and Sunday roasts that can be preordered to finish the weekend off in style.

If you feel like chicken tonight but don’t feel like cooking, congratulations you just struck gold. If you’re a seasoned foodie you no doubt learned the fun way that white plastic chairs are the calling card of the best street food you’ve ever tasted, and El Jannah wrote the blueprint.

These guys invite you to “taste the experience” and while you’d normally opt to do that dine in because it’s a full on bib-serviette-apron-flannel-washbowl experience (long before COVID) Kickin’Inn are now delivering their unique twist on Cajun seafood plus accessories right to your front door. Bonus: this one’s open to our Melbourne compadrés now joining us in lockdown.

A Northern Beaches icon serving market fresh seafood, premium quality steaks and house made pasta. The Lovat ethos is all about showcasing the produce as they invite you to enjoy their signature dishes in the comfort of your own home, washed down with a cocktail from the iconic lockdown pop up bar now at the entrance when you collect your food.

A mix of brewery bar and music giving great community vibes at the heart of the Northern Beaches’ emerging creative hub in Brookvale. When lockdown hit Buckettys pulled off a nifty 3 point turn and converted the space to a modern day drive through saving the day with craft brews and tacos for the surrounding areas.

Not content with curating some of Sydney’s baddest burgers these boiis have curated a lockdown playlist on spotify for you too. Plus they’re supporting artists during the pandemic and getting free meals to hospo workers – so get some Mary’s and do good while you eat good.

Yellow is the colour of fresh, happy, positively joyous energy so it’s no surprise at all to find it splashed all over this locals’ favourite in Haberfield. If you’re a fan of big plates with big personality preorder asap and partake in their lockdown edition of #HappyNights.

Purveyors of vegan, gluten free, baked donuts Nutie earn their stripes daily, even if just for the hole foods pun (!!) If you can’t catch them baking memories at one of their stores, check out their scrumptious, moreish treats at one of their local markets.

Golden Rule: We never walk past a Gelato Messina without stopping for a scoop. Every store is fronted by a 40 flavour cabinet jam packed with 35 all time faves and 5 rotating specials, each given the punniest names you’ll ever see and well worth the visit alone. They make bold claims about being the best in the planet and back them up with original recipes and ingredients that can be traced to the source.
Hell they even bought their own dairy farm 🐄

According to one of our readers foodies should head to this Baulkham Hills icon for “Ultra premium steaks and French classics. Duck and Wagyu burgers on Sunday nights.”