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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Amira Arasteh

The rise of the luxe meal deal, London’s new lunchtime obsession

While many cling to the financial comforts of meal prep and yellow stickers, others in London are experiencing a lunchtime renaissance. Step out for a midday meal in the city and the queues are everywhere, winding round shopfronts, made up of a mix of City types and WFH escapists.

But the new lunch fixation on Londoners’ minds is not a return to three-martini blowouts, or even lunches that spill into dinner. Instead, there’s a new wave of “meal deal” menus cropping up across the capital faster than the latest Big Mamma opening.

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