Bakery or Fudge Shop?
Nowhere. Not because takeout is unavailable, but MrsRico is rightfully fearful. “Eating out” means sandwiches and beer on the back deck and watching passing wildlife.
I’ve tried that argument. Ukulele Lady sez “Let the young people support the local restaurants.”
I did make our own pizza last week, to use up a softening red bell pepper, week-old fresh mozzarella, and a small amount of Italian sausage. I gave the dough a 24-hour rise, and it made a spectacular crust.
Only one package of yeast remains…
There’s no where to eat out around here, but I have gotten take-out several times from a local restaurant called Shucker’s. I hadn’t tried them before the shutdown. Ordering online is super easy, and they have a surprisingly wide selection. They’ve even started a small grocery service on the side. I’ve also eaten frozen custard in the parking lot of Goodberry’s a few times – I was on my way to a gas station, so it wasn’t really a wasted trip.
I have gotten Subway sandwiches from my local “Walmart Subway” twice since the lockdown started. (The seating area was cordoned off limits.) My cousin brought me some Arby’s sandwiches last week. Then, a few days ago, I got a bucket of KFC via “GrubHub” delivery.
I was going to make a pizza Wednesday (using Trader Joe’s dough we have). I didn’t know if the sauce in the fridge was still good, or if there was enough, but we have tomato paste, tomato sauce, garlic, and herbs so I thought we were good. We have plenty of pepperoni. Mozzarella? Oops. Not going to the store just for that. So that was the second time we ordered pizza to be delivered. It’s an independent place. With the $6 delivery charge and a $5 tip, the large Supreme came to almost $34.
No restaurant food in over a month now.
There are several meanings for that term.
While my fiancee and I have been working from home, we’ve been eating takeout food much less than when in the office – it helps that she likes to cook and bake
– but still a few times a week rather than the handful of times (or never!) in over a month that many here have been saying.
I’ve* gone several times to a couple of local Greek-diner places, and a couple of times to a local Chinese restaurant, that we want to support. As to chains (those workers have to live too) I’ve gone a few times to MOD Pizza, a couple of times each to Portillo’s, Subway, Qdoba, and Arby’s, and once to McDonalds. Except for the cheat/treat run to McD’s, that’s pretty much where we’d get takeout from during normal times.
*I’m invariably the one who actually goes to pick up the food. And to the grocery store. My fiancee’s car hasn’t been driven in over a month, I think. 
I haven’t been able to do dine-in, but I’ve been making an effort to order delivery or take-out from someplace every Friday, often a more local place I’ve never tried before. I’m ordering Indian tonight. My birthday was the 14th, so I got together with my immediate family and we ordered in Famous Dave’s.
I think you mean Ukelady?
I’m not old, but I haven’t been grouped with the young people for a good few years. ![]()
I’ve only eaten out one time in the last few weeks. I had to drive across the state and I went through a Burger King drive-through during the trip. All of my other meals have been at home. I don’t think I’ve ordered a meal for delivery since I retired.
Picked up take and bake pizza from Papa Murphy’s a couple times, and got Pizza Hut delivered last night. That’s it.
We have been getting takeout 2 or 3 times a week. Mostly, but not exclusively, from a couple of the restaurants located in the shopping plaza inside my sub development.
I want them to stay in business. I just moved to the suburbs from a large city and I like having places I can walk to. One of them is going to be fine, they have always been mostly takeout and their drive-through window has always been a notable attraction. They’re also really cheap which makes them a cost effective alternative to home cooking.
The other one is an independently owned casual restaurant with a sports bar and an outdoor patio. I want them to pull through but it’s going to be hard. Even though the food is good (not fantastic, but good) their main attraction has always been that it’s a nice comfortable place to hang out. I try to pick up something there once a week or so. They have a Monday pizza special and I pick up a couple and refrigerate the slices - they are good for lunches ( and breakfast, too).
We do other takeout on occasion, too - I just picked up some really good -and cheap- fried seafood box dinners. We are probably getting takeout more often than we did pre-pandemic but it’s actually keeping our grocery store trips down.
Nope. “Ukulele Lady” is an actual thing. Here’s Peter Sellers (!) singing it with the Temperance Seven in 1960.
Well…Mrs. Pudding* is NHS staff so gets 25% off anything through JustEat at the moment, so we treated ourselves to a gratuitous kebab apiece. But otherwise…well, our local pub is pretty renowned for its grub and started doing takeaway, but as they’re sufficiently renowned, they were sold out of just about everything when we called so I made pie and chips here instead.
I’m interested though: the various “I miss the… from…” posts are nothing like my experience. We get takeaway once every few months, if that, and eat out far less. Probably takes two years to crack double figures.
I’ve no idea if that’s a Brit/American thing though: fellow UK dopers, am I a bit adrift from the norm in cooking every day?
*I’d say she was the Toad in my Hole, but that keeps getting worse every time I read it.
♫ If you like-a 'Ukulele Lady, 'Ukulele Lady like-a you
If you like to linger where it’s shady, 'Ukulele Lady linger too ♫
(I’ll relinquish my taropatch now.)
Going by the last sentence, I will assume you are referring to actually sitting down inside the restaurant to eat, as opposed to takeout (but in that case, why mention grocery and convenience stores?), in which case, none, as none of the places I go to will let anyone eat there. In fact, I’m trying to remember the last time I ate out, period; I think it was last December, when I went to an Indian buffet for lunch. The last time I had dinner in a restaurant was last June in Las Vegas.
If you are including takeout, I got a couple of pizzas from a local pizzeria about three weeks ago.
This. Since March 9 for me, the day my company (but not county or state) sent everyone home for work.
And damn I could really go for a good burger.