Scoff

This place is absolutely terrible. Their website and advertising make the food look amazing. 4 of us ordered a range of dishes across the menu; they ranged from terrible to nearly passable. Portions were absolutely miniscule for the price — an £8.50 Chicken salad came with one tiny piece of chicken. The beef with Ale stew looked and tasted like a very poor ready meal. Superfood salad was so small, it was a joke.
All in all, one of the worst takeaway meals I’ve had for a while. Left a bad paste in the mouth, both literally and methaphorically.
Don’t think this is random bad experience either, as someone else did warn us but said that it probably was a random bad experience, but this confirms things.
Not sure whether I can give 0*, but that’s what the place deserves.

From what I can see, this is the third Scoff to open in or around London. Their motto is real food fast and their marketing and website focus on using British sourced products to create restaurant quality meals for you to eat at home.
I was tempted to order due to a £10 offer on the website’s blog but when I called they hadn’t heard of this offer so I had to direct them to where the offer on the site was. I always hate it when you have to tell a company about their own promotions. it makes me feel like I am being extra cheap and feels embarrassing.
I ordered penne beef bolognese, 3 seasonal veg, chocolate brownie and a ciabatta roll. It took about 45 minutes to arrive, which was less than the hour they’d told me it would take. The delivery guy was perhaps the most polite I’d ever had — he even greeted me by my name, which was very novel but nice.
The food arrived in a large cardboard box with a handle, which was another impressive touch.
Sadly the food that arrived wasn’t quite what I’d ordered: tagliatelle rather than penne with my bolognese and 2 veg rather than 3. Generally speaking, the food was of good quality and I was particularly impressed by the hot crispy bread roll. The brownie seemed a little microwave scorched in the middle but was still very tasty and the bolognese wasn’t as flavoursome as I hoped but this was such a nice departure from Thai/​Pizza/​Indian that it wasn’t much of a hangup.
I will try them again and would recommend others to do so too!