Order
Old school taste.
A new way to order it.
For years this kitchen has run on a morning message to about seventy regulars. It is a good system — it just requires knowing somebody. That is changing. Below is how to order today, and what is coming next.
Today · order direct
Send it straight to the kitchen
Fill this in and it opens WhatsApp with your order already written, addressed to the restaurant. You press send. Nothing is charged here — you pay at pickup.
Before you send
- Ask for today’s list
- The menu changes every morning. If you’re not sure what to order, say so — you’ll be told what’s in the oven.Two things are almost always on it: the old-fashioned lamb shoulder and the stuffed neck.
- Order early
- Most of the day’s sixty to a hundred meals are reserved before opening. During Ramadan the kitchen is typically fully booked by 4 p.m.
- Give notice for a crowd
- Orders for a hundred people are routine here, but they are cooked, not assembled. The more warning, the better it will be.
- No tipping
- There are no servers, and the chef does not accept tips. Please don’t try.
The morning list,
without needing to know somebody.
Same kitchen. Same hands. The app simply opens the door that the WhatsApp group has been holding half-shut — today’s cooking sent to anyone who wants it, the full menu written down, and your order placed without a phone call.
- 01 App orders cost lessOrdering in the app will be cheaper than ordering the same food any other way. Delivery apps take a cut of every plate; this one doesn’t, and Mohd would rather that saving went to the person eating.
- 02 The full menu, finally written downEverything the kitchen can make — not only what fits into a morning message.
- 03 Today’s list, pushed to your phoneWhat’s in the oven, the moment he decides it. Reserve before it’s gone.
- 04 Your usual, rememberedHe already knows what the regulars order. The app just stops him having to hold it all in his head.
One message, and you’re on the list for launch. No app store to wait on, no email address to hand over.
Catering
One hundred plates
out of one small kitchen.
Catering is a large part of what Old School does — a hundred-person order is an ordinary week here, and during Ramadan the kitchen turns out four to six hundred meals a day.
Quotes come after a conversation, not off a package sheet. Tell him the occasion, the number and the budget, and he will tell you what he would cook.
If you need a knife to cut the meat, you’re getting the food for free.Mohd Mahd · chef & owner