"late for dinner" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone arriving late for a meal. For example: "I'm so sorry, I'm running late for dinner."
Just don't call me late for dinner".
We're half an hour late for dinner.
He arrives three hours late for dinner.
Let's talk.' I got home late for dinner several times".
This refers to the narrator's former habit, "years ago" of coming home late for dinner.
He returned to his former habits, coming home late for dinner and then working until midnight.
Every plot is a potential time bomb, skillfully paced and ticking with tension and suspense: a sketchy co-worker offers a young woman a midnight ride home, a teenager experiments with drugs, a late-for-dinner husband fails to answer his cellphone.
Mr. Coucill's Noah, the late arrival for dinner, is the odd man out.
Tony Blair, the British prime minister, was late arriving for dinner, and the president was offered a chance to rehearse again but said he was ready.
Why not go early enough for lunch or stay late enough for dinner at the not quite year-old Lark restaurant, a block from the station?
