The Ultimate Guide To Mother’s Day Deliveries

BEST FOR BREAKFAST IN BED: Gail’s

Gail’s Breakfast in Bed hamper is available to order online for home delivery or click and collect (in London) and is the ideal way to kick off Mother’s Day. The generous hamper contains a range of the bakery’s favourites including croissant, cinnamon bun, waste-less sourdough, as well as orange juice, house blend coffee and marmalade. Every hamper also includes a branded tote bag and a notecard for customers to use or – if the box is being sent – customers can request a note to be written on. 

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BEST FOR FLOWER FANS: Sculpd x Bloom & Wild

Sculpd, the at-home clay pottery kit, has teamed up with Bloom & Wild to create a pottery and flower arranging kit especially for Mother’s Day. The kit will include a bunch of dried flowers by Bloom & Wild, as well as a clay kit by Sculpd to make three hand-crafted vases for the flowers to be placed in. The flowers range from craspedia, oat grass, bunny tails, statice and limonium, and have been dried for longevity. Also included is a video tutorial, where participants will learn how to craft the clay vases from scratch, alongside flower-arranging tips from the pros. 

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BEST FOR FIZZ & CAKE: Lanson x Pearl & Groove

Lanson champagne and gluten-free cake company Pearl & Groove have teamed up to create a limited-edition Mother’s Day box, which features a full-sized bottle of Lanson Le Rosé and a Pearl & Groove cake in a tube. The cakes come in two flavours: lemon syrup cake with lemon buttercream and pressed edible flowers and sprinkles; and pistachio and rosewater cake covered in a pastel pink rosewater buttercream, dried rose, pistachio crumb and a touch of glitter.

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BEST FOR ITALIAN COOKING: Bocca Di Lupo

Bocca Di Lupo’s Mother’s Day box is packed full of delicious components. Start things off with a bottle of Gelupo prosecco with crisp taralli and pecorino cream. Primi is trofie with pesto genovese, green beans and potatoes, followed by a main course of butterflied leg of lamb with rosemary, garlic and salsa verde, borlotti beans with tomato and basil, and a castelfranco and tardivo salad with hazelnuts and balsamic. Dessert will be a classic panettone bread and butter pudding. The box feeds two people and will be delivered on 13th March.

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BEST FOR CHEESE LOVERS: The Cheese Bar

The Cheese Bar has created ‘The Mummy’s Boy’, which includes a selection of three cheeses, crackers and a bottle of Pago de Tharsys cava or ‘Mummy’s Little Helper’, a cheese and gin tasting box which includes four cheeses (Driftwood, Baron Bigod, Kirkham’s Lancashire and Cropwell Bishop stilton) with each individually paired with a different gin. The box comes with tasting and pairing notes from The Cheese Bar’s head cheesemonger and prices start at £35. 

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BEST FOR PRETTY PASTRIES: The Connaught

The Connaught Patisserie team has created some impressive confections for Mother’s Day, all themed around a sugar-pink colour palette. The patisserie’s signature ‘Connaughty hound’, dressed in pink and complete with a flower on its collar, is a limited-edition vanilla mousse with rhubarb, sitting on an almond sponge. For a true showstopper, the Mother’s Day cake is a pink rose, crafted from vanilla sponge, pear, lemon curd, shortbread and chantilly cream. It is finished with a sprinkling of rose petals and gold and comes in a larger size for families or as a miniature.

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BEST FOR GETTING HANDS-ON: Officina 00

For Mother’s Day, head chef Elia Sebregondi and the Officina 00 team have created a one-off cook-at-home kit. To start, there’s a selection of snacks including focaccia with sweet leeks, gorgonzola picante and walnuts; frittatina with creamy béchamel, mushroom and peas; arancini of ‘nduja and ricotta; and sliced house-made porchetta with pickled carrots and garlic chips. For the mains, cooks will tune into an instructional video – led by Elia – to shape fresh pasta dough into cavatelli with wild garlic pesto and pickled red chillies; and pappardelle with pork and fennel sausage, datterini tomatoes and basil. To finish diners can and tuck into a torta caprese with fresh berry coulis.

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BEST FOR GETTING INVOLVED: Mon Dessert

Based in London, but with nationwide delivery available, Mon Dessert’s Mother’s Day bundles come with simple recipe guides, video tutorials, ingredients and special tools, which can all be used to make a selection of restaurant-worthy puddings. Three bundles are on offer include the ‘Petits Fours Bundle’ (£55) includes a madeline kit and handmade chocolate kit; the ‘Chef Pâtissier Bundle’ (£70) includes a crème brûlée kit (along with a blow torch and ramekins) and a baked alaska kit; while the ‘Macaron Bundle’ (£100) comes with everything you need to make a dark chocolate and gold-dusted macarons and raspberry, rose and lemon macarons. 

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BEST FOR SEAFOOD LOVERS: Wright Brothers

Wright Brothers has two seafood boxes available to deliver to mothers across the country. The ‘Mother’s Day Brunch Box’ contains restaurant-quality seafood, including lobster, smoked salmon and crab meat, and a bottle of award-winning Della Vite prosecco for a decant spread. Alternatively, choose the ‘Dine For Two’ box featuring all the ingredients for a three-course menu of fresh seafood including Jersey oysters, scallops and a whole turbot. 

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BEST FOR AUTHENTIC ITALIAN: The River Café

The River Cafe ‘box sets’ are a great way to enjoy a Michelin-starred meal from your own home. Hero box sets, which each feature seasonal ingredients, include ‘Box Set Five’, which comes with Cornish roast chicken stuffed with lemon, rosemary and bay, ready for you to roast at home, alongside creamy sliced potatoes, braised cime di rapa and cannellini beans. Also included are smashed chickpeas and focaccia, a pistachio cake, taleggio and grissini, a box of La Molina pralines, and some Sicilian clementines. In addition to the box sets, the shop sells a variety of food, drink, design and homeware products which make for lovely Mother’s Day gifts, such as the River Cafe extra virgin olive oil or limoncello, which are available to purchase from the site for delivery nationwide.  

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BEST FOR A BIT OF EVERYTHING: Spring

Skye Gyngell and the Spring team have created an afternoon tea box packed filled with six scones, thick Jersey cream, Yorkshire rhubarb and vanilla jam, dark berry jam and a selection of two Postcard tea tins. It is also possible to add a Kitten Grayson seasonal flower bunch and champagne to the box, while whole cakes – either kefir-flavoured with lemon buttercream or chocolate with caramel buttercream – are available too. In collaboration with natural skincare brand Wildsmith, Spring has also created a gift box complete with the Spring cookbook, Italian ricciarelli biscuits, plus Wildsmith Ceramide Lipid Repair Balm and Nourishing Cleansing Balm.

Visit SpringRestaurant-Shop.co.uk 

BEST FOR A CLASSIC SUPPER: Home X

Home by Nico’s four-course Mother’s Day menu begins with potted hot smoked salmon, cucumber and apple; followed by sirloin of beef with red wine jus, butter garlic and thyme served with sides of truffle cheese dauphinoise with garlic and thyme. A cheese course comes in the form of Mrs Kirkham’s Lancashire cheese with spiced orchard fruit chutney and water crackers, while dessert is a dark chocolate mousse with salted caramel and golden cocoa nibs. The Mother’s Day edition also comes with a bottle of prosecco and will be delivered on 12th March.

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BEST FOR MICHELIN-STARRED FARE: Restaurant Kits x Tom Brown

Tom Brown of Michelin-starred restaurant Cornerstone is collaborating with meal kit platform Restaurant Kits to create the ultimate seafood brunch. The Mother's Day kits will include Cornerstone classics for you to recreate at home: think salmon pastrami; cold smoked chalk-steamed trout and hake sausages; cod pancetta, crab rarebit with Tom's signature crumpets and seaweed hot sauce; plus, a bottle of Billecart-Salmon champagne. The kits are available in limited quantities for delivery on 13th March. 

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BEST FOR A LOVELY LUNCH: Bermondsey Larder

The most recent opening from Robin and Sarah Gills, Bermondsey Larder has developed two offerings for Mother’s Day. Working closely with some of his favourite suppliers, Robin has created two boxes for the occasion: the meat box consists of homemade sourdough with smoked bone marrow butter served with chicken liver mousse, blood orange and Norfolk asparagus with seaweed mayonnaise. Cornish crab salad with coastal herbs follows, then a main course of Farmer Tom lamb merguez hot pot with spring cabbage, ricotta and herb salad. The vegetarian option replaces the mousse with crudités and sunflower seeds pulse, followed by a stracciatella, artichoke and tomato salad and a violetta aubergine with garlic miso, spring cabbage, ricotta and herb salad. Both boxes come with bay leaf panna cotta with Yorkshire rhubarb. 

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