what is the longest YOU have been using the same takeaway?

The lamented Golden Carp in Wandsworth would have still been enjoying my custom after 15 or so years if it hadn't been a completely different pizza place last time I wanted fish and chips. Sigh.

Currently not that long really especially as the really good Chinese in Walthamstow doesn't deliver. The new Vietnamese place is ace though.

(haha it appears via the magic of google there is nothing especially polynesian about it either!!)

I have been going to the same chinese restaurant (which recently began doing take-away) with my parents for about 13 years maybe. It's really a fantastic chinese, I've never had one so good anywhere else actually. It sets the standards a bit too high though I guess, salted chilli dishes are never quite as good anywhere else, that's usually my favourite.

Even things like the standard of rice and stuff is never as good elsewhere, which makes a massive difference, cheap rice is horrible.

My local chipper I've also been using for 12 or 13 years, it's very good though always crowded since it's the only one in a fairly big town. Adam Clayton said he has never had a burger as good all over the world. I kind of think that is nonsense though, he's probably never eaten a burger since he left.

There's a nice place in Dublin called Mongolian Barbecue or something where you get all you can eat food quite cheaply, I'm not sure if it's still open though.

Anyway, quite possibly Richard's Takeaway down St Leonard's Road. Owned by a bunch of guys from Hong Kong, the best kebab outside the town centre, decent fries, great burgers, and some comedy banter. What else do you need?

Other than that, our local Chinese / Thai (Aroma Express) is excellent and I've been using it for about four years.

Hippo Pizza was the best pizza takeaway too, but it closed down. Admittedly the name didn't make it sound very slimming.

Kebab King. The king of takeaways. Donner kebab in naan (the proper way, so you don't end up dropping half of it on the damn way home) £4. Student discount as well. They do delivery as well.

There's also Up All Night as you say. Best chosen for the "BJ Special", a burger with half a butcher's inside it. Also, they do a decent steak kebab. They also have "banter" with the owner's.

I've never bothered with Flames, even though it's been there... god knows. 15 years? I got a can of coke from there once when I was about six sheets, but apart from that...

How can you not order from Italian Job, if only to wake up the following morning to see exactly how much grease from the pizza has congealed onto the box. You could use it as Polyfilla.

It's the little things.

This question had SO MUCH potential.

the guy who runs the kebab shop round the corner USED to work in the kebab shop i first went to when i arrived in london, so i've known him for pretty much 20 years also, and in a way this nearly counts

he was a kid back then, now he sports a magnificent ewing-style beard and an amusing line in jaded commentary on life in general — i am very fond of him, though i don't know his name

there are times when only a genuinely filthy doner will do :(

kebab kid (cowley rd) in oxford does great chicken donner naan and the chicken is tikka-ed which makes it much nicer (2 and a bit years)

i also have only recently discovered the joys of non-donner kebabs, planet kebab at archway does a top notch lamb shish, it's worth going for the large one (£4) over the small one (£3) as you get twice as much MEAT.

Top Nosh, best felafel for a hangover and they also do a roaring trade in marinated meat or chicken escalope in pitta.

Mayva: Chinese delivery-only takeaway, big portions, good quality.

Royal Inn: for the salt and chili ribs only. But I notice they've probably changed chefs because the're not as spicy now, grr.

There are no good pizza delivery places in this traditionally Italian neighbourhood of London.

Arsene Wenger is a frequent visitor apparently.

Actually, that's not true. All the places I mentioned are ancient and don't appear to be going out of business anytime soon. One of the biggest property owners in this area is the Italian Catholic parish and the family businesses in that catchment appear to be rent-controlled. Camden Council own the rest of the shop frontage locally. There's a pizza restaurant just across the street that should be a lot better than it is, which is why I wrote what I did.

sadly no, it closed down a couple of years ago. There was always a slight air of ramshackleness about the place, so it wasn't a huge surprise that it died once Dublin started becoming prosperous and demanding waiter service and "paninis".

I'm not Chris but: burgers. However, these are no ordinary burgers.

mmmmmmmm take out! i think one might be called for tonight, purely for celebratory reasons you understand!!!! ;-)