County hotel needs delivery of food first (5)
I believe the answer is:
meath
'county' is the definition.
(County Meath in Ireland)
'hotel needs delivery of food first' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'hotel' could be 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.) and 'h' is present in the answer.
'food' could be 'e' (E is an example) and 'e' is located in the answer.
'first' could be 'a' (first letter of the alphabet) and 'a' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
(Other definitions for meath that I've seen before include "Irish county of ancient kings, site of Tara" , "lost province" , "County NW of Dublin" , "part of Ireland" , "Tara's county" .)