Fancy getting a hefty dose of Christmas cheer with your pizza this festive season? Well get ready to live out your Love Actually Keira Knightly and Andrew Lincoln “say it’s carol singers” scene fantasies to life, kind of.
In this case, you would actually be getting serenaded by a carol singer/pizza deliveryman hybrid rather than your husband’s best friend professing their love to you, which is most probably the better scenario if you ask me. Lewisham-based pizzeria Dinner For One Hundred is delivering their pizzas with a festive twist from their Telegraph Hill location, as hungry Londoners will be able to book a bespoke carol-pizza delivery on select days.
On Saturday December 9 and Friday December 15, Dinner For One Hundred’s (D4100 for short) deliveryman will croon the company’s version of ‘The Twelve Days Of Christmas’ with lyrics including “and a Macgyver [one of the most popular pizzas on the menu] in a pear tree” as they deliver your piping hot pizza pie. It’s all I want for Christmas and more.
If pizza with a side of doorstep Christmas carols sounds like your cup of tea, then all you have to do is DM Dinner For One Hundred’s Instagram page between 5pm and 9pm, between Thursday and Sunday and it’ll be done. For those who don’t fancy a Christmas singsong and would rather collect their pizza, there will also be an option to donate £2.50 to charity.
The South East London pizzeria has been a hit since its conception. Born out of a dinner for 100 hundred people the co-founders Jake Bucknall, 27, and Jacob Stuttard, 28 hosted back in 2020, the pizza pair decided to operate as a pizzeria instead and start selling their pizzas in Lewisham every Friday, selling out their first 60 pizzas on their launch day.
First operating outside of Jacob’s mum’s front garden then eventually moved up the road as a pop-up at The Hill Station Cafe where they made it their permanent spot. Now they’re dishing out their gorgeous pies in three locations; Telegraph Hill, Hunhead, and Bloomsbury.
For more information head to Dine For One Hundred’s Instagram page here.