{"id":343,"date":"2013-03-14T17:16:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T17:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anarchickitchen.com\/?p=343"},"modified":"2019-03-11T19:45:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T19:45:17","slug":"incredible-food-delivered-hubbub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/anarchickitchen.com\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Incredible food delivered – Hubbub"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>I have for the past few weeks used a new company called Hubbub<\/a>. They claim to deliver local food, from local shops, to your door, when you want \u2013 and they do.<\/p>\n

I live in the Herne Hill\/Dulwich area and we have some fantastic local shops nearby \u2013 Franklins Farm Shop<\/a>, Moxons for Fish<\/a>, Luca’s Bakery<\/a>, Mimosa Delicatessen <\/a>(French\/North African) to name but a few. I work fairly close to Chancery Lane and there are not many great food shops nearby. In the past I have had to rely on Ocado, great service and great supermarket food, but as someone who cooks regularly and is a self-defined food snob, I like local shops with great food providence, husbandry and sourcing. At weekends I can make it out and buy food for Saturday night, but generally by Thursday or Friday, I want cook something more when I get home.<\/p>\n

My first go on Hubbub, was an Dover Sole <\/a>with Bearnaise Sauce<\/a>, fresh spinach, crispy potatoes <\/a>and a Chocolate Fondant <\/a>for pudding. I also wanted some bread and cheese – a Manchego and french bread. I booked the slot and ordered the food that morning at 11am. It was delivered between 6-7pm that evening. There was someone home, so it was not a problem. But they do allow instructions to leave the food in the front garden behind the bin, or at a neighbours. The food was perfect, fresh and there were notes from the local shops and receipts. The dover sole was exactly as I had asked for, skinned whole. Everything was fresh and in date with a good shelf life (not that that mattered as it was for that evening). For two of the best fish money can buy, for there is no greater fish than a Dover Sole, I paid just over \u00a320. It may sound like a lot, but most restaurants charge them out at not less than \u00a330 each. So with good wine, we had great food and a great evening for \u00a350 in all without a babysitter. Going out for the same food, with taxis and babysitter, we would not have had much change from \u00a3200.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t add a premium to the price, just charge a flat fee of \u00a33.50 for the service and you can use as many local shops they list as you like. I thought I couldn\u2019t recommend them highly enough. Then last week I ordered, again just before midday (their cut off point for same day orders). It was for that night, a Friday, I have three young kids and they were joining us for supper, so I wanted to eat at 7.30. This time I was doing steak on a barbecue. Their butcher is the Ginger Pig, so it was going to be good. Then at around 5ish I got an email to say that their delivery man had come off his bike. He was OK, but perfectly understandably in no state to deliver. Now they are a new company and sometimes stuff happens, they had let me know and their delivery man had been in an accident. It was a bit inconvenient, but in the big scheme of things the delivery man was OK and I certainly wasn\u2019t going to hold it against them. But that is not the Hubbub way.<\/p>\n

I got a text, then I got a phone call from Sonja (I hope I remebered the name correctly) at Hubbub. She was driving down from North London to ensure that we got our delivery. The delivery was due between 6-7pm, they were going to be late. Probably 15 minutes late! In the end they were 10 minutes late and apologetic. Suffice to say the food, the centrepiece – a single rib of beef on the barbecue – was great and the kids enjoyed it. The service was even better. I don\u2019t understand how they manage it commercially, but I really hope they continue to. This is supporting great local shops, brilliant produce, totally traceable (no horsemeat until they find a butcher that does it!) and incredibly convenient, super value and truly brilliant service.<\/p>\n

Hubbub is fantastic, try it and support the best on your local high street. www.hubbub.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have for the past few weeks used a new company called Hubbub. They claim to deliver local food, from local shops, to your door, when you want \u2013 and they do. I live in the Herne Hill\/Dulwich area and we have some fantastic local shops nearby \u2013 Franklins Farm Shop, Moxons for Fish, Luca’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/anarchickitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/anarchickitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/anarchickitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anarchickitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anarchickitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/anarchickitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"http:\/\/anarchickitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anarchickitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/anarchickitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anarchickitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anarchickitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}