From the phone to your door: how a takeaway order moves
What happens in the twenty minutes between your call and the ready time (sample).
Eat in, collect, or we bring it to you
Seasonal plates and slow braises from one small open kitchen on Alder Street. Order by phone or send a request, and we tell you exactly when it will be ready.
Kitchen open Tuesday to Sunday (sample). Book a table the same way.
Eat in
Table 6, 19:00
- 2× Braised short rib
- 1× Charred hispi cabbage
- 2× Dark chocolate pot
Birthday: one candle on a pot
Walk-ins until 21:30. Tables for up to 8; book for more.
Collection
Ready 18:40
- 1× Half roast chicken
- 1× Green beans
- 2× Fries
No butter on the beans (dairy)
Ready in about 20 minutes. Pay when you collect.
Delivery
Due 19:35
- 2× Salmon fillet
- 1× Garden salad
- 1× Lemon tart
Ring the side door
35 to 45 minutes within 4 miles. Minimum order $20.
Example orders (sample). We confirm every order by phone before we cook; you pay when you collect or at the door.
Lunch, Tue to Sat
12:00–14:30
Dinner, Tue to Sat
17:30–21:30
Sunday, all day
12:00–17:00
Last takeaway orders
21:00
Hours (sample). Closed on Mondays.
The menu
Short and seasonal: it changes a little every week, and everything on it can go out for collection or delivery.
Small plates
Charred hispi cabbage
Anchovy butter, toasted crumbs
$9
Burrata
Roast squash, sage, brown butter
$12
Chicken liver parfait
Pickled shallots, toast
$10
Crispy potatoes
Rosemary salt, garlic mayonnaise
$7
Large plates
Braised short rib
Mash, glazed carrots, gravy
$26
Half roast chicken
Green beans, brown butter, jus
$21
Salmon fillet
Leeks, mussel and saffron sauce
$24
Squash and ricotta dumplings
Sage, walnuts, parmesan
$18
Example prices. Ask us about allergens before you order.
Today's specials
The kitchen prints the specials on the same paper as the orders, every morning, from what came in that day.
Specials, Thursday
From 12:00 (sample)
- Glazed short rib, roast carrots, beetroot $24
- Mussels, cider and leeks, sourdough $16
- Plum and almond tart, crème fraîche $8
Until it runs out. Tell us about allergies when you order.
Specials also go out for collection and delivery. Example prices.
How ordering works
No app and no online payment. A person in the kitchen takes your order and tells you the time.
1
Call or send a request
Phone the kitchen during opening hours, or send the order request form with your dishes and a time.
2
We confirm the time
We read your order back, check allergies and give you a ready time or a delivery slot.
3
Collect it, or open the door
Pay by card or cash when you collect, or pay the driver at the door.
Delivery zones
Our own drivers deliver within four miles of the kitchen, from 17:30 until the last orders at 21:00.
Up to 2 miles
about 35 min
$2
2 to 4 miles
about 45 min
$4
Further than 4 miles
Collect
Minimum order $20. Example prices and times (sample).
Book a table
Forty seats, a counter facing the open kitchen and a back room for twenty. We keep a few tables for walk-ins every night.
- Tables for up to 8 by phone or the request form
- The back room for birthdays and work dinners, up to 20
- High chairs, step-free entrance and an accessible toilet
One open kitchen, four cooks
You can see the whole kitchen from the counter seats. The same four cooks make the bread, the stocks and the ice cream, and they cook the takeaway on the same stove as the dining room.
Kitchen notes
Spring onions are back on the menu
Hollow Lane Farm's first spring onions go on the grill this week (sample).
The roast potatoes, explained
Boiled, shaken, rested and roasted twice: why they take a day (sample).
Find us on Alder Street
Alder Street Kitchen
22 Alder Street, Springfield (sample)
- Bus 7 stops at Alder Street, two minutes' walk
- Evening parking on Market Lane after 18:00
- Step-free entrance and an accessible toilet
- Card and cash, in the dining room and at the door
Phone and email
We answer the phone from 11:00 on opening days (sample).