Dabbadrop

🎇Diwali is here! Falling on Halloween (or Samhain) this year, Diwali reminds us at this time of year, religious or not, to welcome in the darker, wintery months with open arms. It’s a joyous shift to cosier times and we are so here for it. 🪵🔥

🪔Diwali is celebrated in different ways all over the world and while we don’t both celebrate Diwali traditionally, we do like to mindfully extend it through the month and bring some of its light into our every day. 🥰

It’s a reason to light a candle and get in the garden with family and friends, light a fire or a sparkler and remember that light always wins over darkness. It’s also the best excuse to bring together your closest humans and FEAST! Sweet treats and savoury favourites wrapped up in joy, hugs and togetherness.

With this in mind, we hope you enjoy our brand new Kolkata-inspired feast next week, just in time for the festive season. And, we have SUPER SPECIAL sweet Jalebi back on the menu. Available for two weeks only.

Diwali ki shubhkamnayein! Happy Diwali! 🎇🪔

✨🪔ANNOUNCEMENT!🪔✨We’re thrilled to introduce a brand new feast to the DabbaDrop menu, this time inspired by the enchanting magic of Kolkata and just in time for Diwali.

Like the city that inspired it, our new Kolkata menu is a love letter to tradition reimagined. We’ve captured the soul of Bengal’s most beloved dishes - from the delicate panch phoron spiced Shukto gracing every Bengali table, to the warming comfort of perfectly simmered Cholar Dal.

And not forgetting our Chokka with Pumpkin and Black Gram balances earthy and sweet notes, while the Tomato & Peanut Rice adds new dimensions pf deliciouness. .

Just as Kolkata melds old-world charm with contemporary spirit, we’ve Dabbadropped these recipes adding a modern, plant-based twist - delivered as always, plastic-free and ready to heat to your doorstep.

We’re so excited to share this menu with you and as a super sweet treat to honour the Diwali celebrations, we’re cooking up fresh Jalebi, just for you. 🪔✨💖

ON THE MENU! Goan inspired goodness coming your way 🌴🥥 Inside info: Aubergine Recheado has our hearts, BIG TIME! Oooooooof! 🍆✨Swipe for kitchen scenes, beachy dreams and some Dabba team. 😁

🌴Get ready for Baby Aubergine Recheado, stuffed with a Portuguese inspired spice paste of chillis, garlic and vinegar.

🥥Our take on the classic Goan curry – trading prawns for tofu – with a tangy and tropical sauce.

🌴Sweet and sour Amti dal and our signature nutty red rice.

Last chance to order will be Monday 12pm. Not yet a subscriber? We've got a super deal for you: use the code AUTUMN30 when you get to the checkout, you’ll get 30% off your first three DabbaDrops. 🙌☺️✨

✨We are thrilled to announce that we’ll be exhibiting at Stylist Live from 8-10 November.✨

From our good friends , the brand leading the way in the canned fish industry, to the next generation of probiotic sodas, the Stylist Live 2024 marketplace is the perfect place to discover up-and-coming, amazing independent brands. ✨

We can’t wait to meet all the other fantastic small businesses AND, of course, taste our way around the shop floor!

See you soon AND THE REST!

Tickets available via the link in our bio 💓

We’re beyond thrilled to announce our first Supper Club event in collaboration with local lovelies cafe.💓

For one night only (Thursday 17th October) we’ll be bringing our classic Delhi Menu to their beautiful N7 café.

Indulge in our mouth-watering and soul-warming menu, perfectly paired with the carefully curated low-intervention wines or artisanal beers at The Roasting Shed.

Bring a date, a friend or a family member in need of a treat. To accompany the food, a DJ will be spinning the perfect tunes for a laid-back evening of delish food and human connection—a feast for the senses. 😌

What’s on the menu?

💛Gujarati Spiced Potato & Caramalised Onion Samosas with Pineapple Mango Chutney.

💛Aloo Tikki with tamarind chutney and seasoned kale.

💛Classic Muttar Makhani

💛Savoury Roasted Cumin & Red Chilli Dal and a scrumptious Cardoffonut Brownie to finish off the meal in style!

Limited tickets are available via the 🔗 in our bi0

Just London and our ride being iconic. 😌👌

Hello, Dabbadroppers! With almost 100k of you beauties, we thought it was time to introduce ourselves to all our fantastic new followers!
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​We’re Anshu and Renee, the founders of DabbaDrop. We’re neighbours and busy mums who bonded over the kids, our love of food (+ wine) and sustainability. Our business was born from a desire for a convenient, tasty, and planet-friendly takeaway—something which simply didn’t exist five years ago.

Our mission was to change the way Britain does takeaway. Almost six years on and we’re doing this via our business model, which is inspired by Mumbai’s incredible Dabbawala system - an OG closed-loop approach that’s been running for over 100 years. With a slightly modern twist, we’ve brought this amazing system to the UK and are now feeding thousands of Londoners every week.

We currently deliver to ALL of London’s zones 1-3 and we’re about to expand to cover a few more major cities!

Watch this space for updates, we are so excited about DabbaDrop’s next steps.

Thanks for coming along for the ride!

Anshu & Renee  🙏🏽😁 
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We have a LOT of lovely customers and coincidentally a lot of lovely reviews but THIS one is defo one of the best! Swipe for the full story. These wonderful words really made us smile.😊

THANK YOU 🙏

Immense love and congratulations to our friend on her book launch! 📚✨

Meera is a massive inspiration to us and has championed DabbaDrop from the beginning. Her recipes once graced our dabbas, and to her, we are full of gratitude and admiration.

DINNER comes out today! Go grab a copy—your kitchen needs it and all who dine at your table will appreciate it, too!

Woop! 🥳💙

With in full flow, we thought, what better time than this to celebrate the humble Dabba tin - LUNCHBOX ENGINEERING AT ITS FINEST!

Four handy layers, made of gorgeous, infinitely recyclable stainless steel, easy to clean and so handsome! ✨🙌

Thank you to the dabbawalas of Mumbai for inspiring us with their incredible century-old food delivery system, and to India for inventing this dreamy zero waste food-carrying receptacle! We’d be nothing without it! ✨👌🔥🙌

WHAT A WEEK! 🥳 Not only did we tick a HUGE bucket list moment with the collab 🥰 but we also did our biggest week ever, cooking up an amazing 845 DabbaDrops! PHEWEEEEE! Huge love to everyone who got a delivery this week, and of course, to our team for working their socks off, aaaaand to our wonderful cyclists for all those deliveries! Big ups and AND our home team. We love you all 🥰🌼🙌☺️🥳 Happy weekend!

Shoutout to our hero, Meera Sodha! Writer and recipe developer extraordinaire Meera’s recipes have captured hearts worldwide. Her debut book, Made In India, was named a book of the year by the Times. Her second, Fresh India, won the 2017 Observer Food Monthly’s Best New Cookbook Award, and her weekly Guardian column provides culinary inspiration for the nation!

Meera has been a firm champion of DabbaDrop right from the start, and her love and support have been the most fantastic springboard for a small business like ours. She’s been kind enough to feature our recipes in her Guardian column, and now, much to ouR delight, she’s collaborated with us on a menu!

This exceptional Dabba dinner features dishes adapted from her books Fresh India and Made in India. Let us tell you, it is a delight! Get it in your diaries; the Meera Sodha collaboration drops 21st - 23rd Feb! Order via the link in bio ☀

Happy New Year! Happy ! After a crazy 2023 and a bucketload of new followers, we thought, what better time than this to reintroduce ourselves? 👋😍

We're Anshu and Renee, founders of DabbaDrop - London's favourite eco food-delivery service. United by motherhood, a passion for sustainability, wine (of course!), and healthy, delicious food, we created DabbaDrop.

DabbaDrop was born in 2018. We were sick of greasy takeaways that arrived in a great big puff of smoke, and at the time, vegan options weren't huge, and there seemed a need for a convenient, tasty plant-based takeaway that didn't come at the cost of the planet.

We now deliver weekly set menus in reusable stainless steel tiffins (called dabbas in Hindi) by bike, e-van and to customers all over London. So far, we've saved over 222476 plastic containers from ending in landfills!

Our subscription model means we know EXACTLY how many we're cooking for, so zero food waste. Anything left over goes to staff or to generate biofuel.

Our homestyle curries are inspired by the colours and flavours of South Asia and beyond - vibrant and PACKED with plant-based healthy goodness - the perfect takeaway for someone looking to try a more veg-forward lifestyle. Our aim was, and still is, to offer flavoursome food that packs a punch and would leave even the most meat-fanatical customers satisfied and full.

We currently deliver to all of London zones 1-3 with the recent addition of SW postcodes KT1 - KT 22, TW1, TW10 - 20, SW15, SW19, SW20, and GU21-24. We're looking to expand in the future - delivering healthy, hearty and sustainable food to the nation!

Thanks for being here - we’re looking forward to a fantastic 2024 with you all! Keep ypir eyes peeled - we’ll be sharing loads of recipes and tips through Veganuary too.

BIG LOVE - Anshu and Renee xx

To all of our wonderful customers - right now, we're gearing up for a festive pause to give our incredible team a well-deserved break this holiday season.

We'll take a holiday breather from December 23rd to January 1st. This means we won't be making deliveries from December 27th to 29th. However, rest assured our team will be back and fully operational on January 2nd.

If your delivery falls within the week we're taking off, here's what to expect:

For our weekly plan subscribers: Your next delivery will automatically shift to the week starting January 1st.

If you're on a fortnightly plan: Your delivery will be rescheduled for the following week (w/c 8/01).

We're all about making things seamless for you, so remember, you won't be charged during our break. Plus, if your plans change, you have the flexibility to adjust your delivery dates whenever you like by simply logging in.

We appreciate your understanding and support as we recharge to continue bringing you fresh and delicious DabbaDrop experiences. Thank you so much for being a part of our journey.

Wishing you all a very merry holiday season.

Team DabbaDrop 🥰🙏🏾

Christmas party frolicks!! Big ❤️ to the for having us! 🥳✨ 🥰 and MASSIVE love to the Dabbadrop team - it’s been a huge year with some serious ups and downs. Everyone has chipped in so much blood, sweat and tears! We’d be nothing without you 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 THREE DAYS TILL WE’RE ALL ON HOLIDAY!! 🎄🥂

WE’VE EXPANDED OUR DELIVERY RADIUS! 🥳 Swipe for postcodes.

Areas of SW London are now open for DabbaDrop magic ✨

This includes areas of Richmond, Putney, Kingston, Roehampton, Woking, Esher, Cobham, Walton-On-Thames, and MORE!

To see if we deliver to YOUR area, head to our link in bio and hit the Postcode Checker!

ALL NEW SIGN UPS receive 25% off their first THREE DabbaDrops. Use the code DABBA25 when you get to the checkout. Boop! 🛍️

Christmas is just six weeks away - it's time to start planning! 🎄Have you thought about giving the gift of DabbaDrop? 🥰😁🎄 Here are three awesome ways to spread the DabbaDrop love this festive season.
 
🎁1. Gift A Subscription
A unique and memorable present for loved ones, our extraordinary culinary experience features fresh, healthy South Asian-inspired dishes, prepared by our chefs and delivered in reusable, eco-friendly Dabba containers. We have gifting options to suit all budgets - you can gift just one delivery or as many as twelve (lucky recipient!!😁👌) . And as you know, our mission goes beyond taste - it's a culinary adventure all while contributing to a greener planet 🌍 Double win!
 

 🎁2. Shop From Our Pantry
Check out our gorgeous, carefully curated, beautifully handcrafted and freshly prepared gifts. From our hand-thrown sunshine mugs and make-at-home dosa kits to block-printed tablecloths  - we've got something to suit all budgets (and even those hard-to-impress folks!) PS - for a limited time, to help you get ahead on your Christmas shopping, we're offering 15% off in our shop! Just use the code SHOP15 at checkout.  WOOP!

🎁3. Christmas Party Catering
If you know us, you'll know...WE LOVE A PARTY! If you're planning a Christmas soiree, office get-together, family gathering or having friends over to celebrate, let us help with the catering! We can offer a delicious range of catering options - from snacks/canapés to four-course meals - to suit any budget. 
Drop us a DM and let's get the party started! 🤩🥳🥰

Who's feeling festive? Xx

SWIPE TO SEE WHO WON CURRY & BEER FOR THE WHOLE STREET! 👉

MASSIVE congratulations to the people of Pellatt Road 🥳 Curry and beer for all! Thanks to all who entered - what an outstanding display of curry love 🤩✨

We’ll be in touch with the winner via email. For all else, keep your eyes peeled for the next episode of Free Curry For Your Street! 🥳

Team Dabba x

☀️OUR NEWSLETTER IS LIVE! ‘Easy Like Sunday Morning’ is all about taking things down a gear. It’s an ode to life in the slow lane 🐢 our not-so-secret favourite place to be!

With each new month, we'll celebrate the best of what the season has to offer, share recipes and ideas, and, hopefully, we'll help you with some decisions for the rest of your week.

Sign up today and be in with a chance to win THREE MONTHS worth of free DabbaDrop dinners!

Head to the link in bio now 🥰

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RENEE! One half of the DabbaDrop co-founder dream team, creative genius, design guru, hard-working, driven, inspiring, and a woman with the most INCREDIBLE eye for detail! 🤩👌✨

She’s caring, kind, funny, wonderful, wondrous and wild at heart - SHE'S A LEGEND, she's a queen, and DabbaDrop would never have seen the light of day without her. 🥰

WE LOVE YOU ❤️Thank you for your vibes, fabulousness, good-time bringing, and kind, kind heart. Happiest of birthdays to you!

We’re expanding our delivery radius in West and South West London! Join our waitlist and receive up to 50% off your first meal!! PLUS, invite your friends to the waitlist club, and gain access to EXCLUSIVE offers and AWESOME prizes when we're live! WOOP! ✌😊

Head to our link in bio to get started.

WE'RE HIRING! Seeking one fabulous all-rounder! You'll be part of a fun and friendly team of game-changers. You'll also be involved in the eating/sampling/drooling over of MUCH plant-based deliciousness. 🤤💚

The job entails a megamix of helping with our online shop orders (e-comm), routing and dispatch week on week, a bit of office admin, and a bit of marketing (flyering, content creation, email send-outs). Therefore, tech-savviness, organisational skills and a can-do attitude are a MUST.

This is a dynamic intern role. You'll be working across the ENTIRE DabbaDrop business - so you will gain insight into the multiple facets of a sustainable food delivery service. Hours start at 24 hours, with room to expand as we grow.

To apply, please email your CV to [email protected]

WHAT A BLAST! 🥳Thanks for having us we had SUCH a fantastic evening teaching, laughing, scoffing and merry making. Such fun!

Big love to everyone who came along. What a pleasure.

Happy Friday, all. Have a splendid weekend, and if you're dining with us this evening, ENJOY! ❤️

LAST CHANCE TO GRAB THIS DEAL! ✨

Head to our link in bio and check to see if we deliver to your London neighbourhood 🥳✨Offer ends Feb 28th.

We hope to see you soon at our communal table. Big love. Team Dabba x

We are so excited to announce that DabbaDrop is part of latest Caravan & Friends box, the Female Founders Edition. 😍
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This box celebrates all strong women in business for International Women's Day and Mother's Day, and we're thrilled to be part of it!
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Alongside gorgeous products from NICE Drinks, Daye, Rhythm 108 and KIND bag, we've included our delicious Biryani Spice Blend into the dreamy mix. ♥😁
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The goodie box is worth over £50, which you can claim for free when you subscribe to their compostable, Nespresso machine-compatible coffee pods.
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Head over to caravancoffeeroasters.co.uk via the link in our bio to find out more!
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