Phoenix delivers fast food by Fiona McLelland

Geronimo Inns is offering two and three-course express business lunches at its new Phoenix pub in Westminster, London.

The latest addition to the group's portfolio of 17 pubs, located in Palace Street, near Victoria

station, is guaranteeing an express lunch tray being delivered to the customer within 10

minutes of ordering.

The menu costs £7.50 for two courses and £10 for three. Dishes on offer include a small salad bowl of seared salmon with baby gem, French beans, gherkins and mint mayonnaise, followed by a cassoulet with duck confit, Toulouse sausage and white beans served in a mini Le Creuset with a side of buttered mange tout and rhubarb crème brûlée.

The kitchen will be run by Brent Nicholls, under the supervision of Mark Blatchford, who was previously head chef at Soho House, New York.

The pub is also offering a salad bar with dishes including rare roast beef with rocket, baby beetroot and truffle oil; warm confit of duck with mixed leaves, bacon lardons, croutons, capers and Cabernet Sauvignon dressing; caramelised

butternut squash, shaved fennel and chive with saffron aioli; or classic Caesar and Cobb salads. A large plate costs £7.50 and a small £4.

Also on offer are kilner jars that are presented on the open kitchen-style bar and served on wooden chopping boards with slices of warm

buttered toast. The jars include potted salmon with pickled cucumber and chicken liver parfait with fig chutney.

The evening menu will offer blackboard daily kitchen specials, with a choice of three fish and three meats plus an option of sauces, potatoes and seasonal vegetables.

Blatchford will also be involved in creating a new country pub menu of British food with a Mediterranean feel when Geronimo Inns opens The Black Swan in Oakham, Surrey, this autumn. The company's first out-of-town site was purchased in November 2005 and the complete refurbishment is in the finishing stages.