10 Next-Level Meal Kits To Try At Home

Home by Simon Rogan – the home delivery meals from the multi-Michelin-starred chef behind restaurants including L’Enclume and Aulis – offers an excellent monthly selection of next-level meal boxes. Created by Simon’s team in the Lake District, February’s dishes include ibis celeriac velouté with parsley oil and crispy fruit cracker; stuffed guinea hen with confit and pickled carrots with kale; spiced cake with citrus jam, toasted almond and infused honey cream. Looking ahead to March, the menu includes white onion soup with confit baby onions, spring onion oil and pickled walnut purée; pressed lamb belly with crushed new potatoes with a salsify crisp and parsley; and a Bakewell slice with rhubarb jam, marigold dried sponge cake and marigold oil.

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If you love Indian food, Dishoom is the meal delivery service to know. For something a little different, order in one of its famed bacon naan kits, which now comes with a ‘Marmalade Mimosa’, made with marmalade liqueur, fresh ruby grapefruit and Integrale natural sparkling wine. The kit contains everything you need for a fun brunch, alongside spices and loose-leaf tea to make the restaurant’s chai. Best of all, for every kit you order, the restaurant group donates a meal to Magic Breakfast. For an evening meal or relaxed weekend lunch, we love its feasting boxes. New this month is its Chicken Ruby kit, which includes many of Dishoom’s much loved items including chicken ruby, naan, bhel, basmati rice, tenderstem broccoli and house black daal – plus a gulkand mess for afters: strawberries in rose syrup served with fresh cream and meringue.

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It’s not the cheapest option on this list, but you can’t go wrong with a feast from The River Café, one of the capital’s most-loved restaurants. While the team has wound down its collection of feasting boxes post-pandemic, it is still possible to whip up an impressive meal at home using its most recent collection of pastas, sauces and cakes. We suggest opting for a box of Cipriani pasta and a couple of jars of sauce – think lemon, rocket and crème fraîche; amatriciana; and pork ragù – finished with one of founder Ruthie Rogers’ chocolate nemesis cakes or a couple of scoops of gelato. 

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Chef/owner of Michelin-starred restaurants The Black Swan and Roots, Tommy Banks launched Made in Oldstead in the first lockdown, offering a range of premium at-home dining boxes available for nationwide delivery. Now, it’s a full-blown business that even has its own collection of canned wines, Banks Brothers. At this time of year, dishes could include duck liver and truffle parfait served with brioche, followed by seared beef rump with a red wine jus and finishing with a salted caramel chocolate fondant served with toffee apple sauce.

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Masterchef: The Professionals head judge Michel Roux Jr’s delivery-only box – sent via Dishpatch – offers a collection of traditional French favourites. And now his much-loved restaurant Le Gavroche has closed, it’s one of the only ways to try his delicious dishes. Current menus include silky cauliflower soup, followed by succulent beef cheek bourguignon, slow-braised for six hours with lardons and winter vegetables. Then there’s a truly indulgent chalet-style tartiflette designed for two to share. The latter also comes with a fresh endive salad and pain perdu with brandy prunes to end the meal.

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If you’re more of a breakfast person, take a look at department store Fortnum & Mason’s at-home boxes. A luxe twist on a favourite, its champagne breakfast box features its famous smoked salmon, Cacklebean eggs, salted butter, seeded sourdough, strawberry and champagne preserve, Shropshire creamed honey, breakfast blend tea, Colombia el Jordan estate ground coffee and the store’s own-brand brut reserve champagne N.V. to finish off your feast. There’s also a breakfast box focused on pancakes, another on butchers’ produce (think top-quality sausages, two types of bacon and black pudding), plus a steak night box and ‘steak & chops’ collection, which comes with a côte de boeuf, hogget loin chops, bacon chops and triple-cooked chips and truffled macaroni cheese.

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If you want to surprise your other half with breakfast in bed, one of London’s best delis, Panzer’s, has created the ultimate weekend hamper. The box includes the deli’s famous freshly baked bagels, cream cheese, hand-sliced smoked salmon as well as homemade granola, a choice of pie and truffle crisps. This box for two is available for nationwide delivery. For something lighter, the team has created a Mediterranean brunch hamper, which is filled with mackerel pate, pitta, olives, lots of fresh veggies and shakshuka sauce.

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Angela Hartnett’s Café Murano team launched its pasta delivery set-up, complete with online Italian grocery, in 2019, where customers could order ready-made meals such as family-sized lasagne, risotto kits, spinach and ricotta tortelli, tagliatelle with sausage ragù, plus mix-and-match fresh pastas and sauces. Now, Angela has moved most of this onto Dishpatch. For £35 for two, you can order a meal of Nocellara olives; confit garlic and squash bruschetta with pickled red onion; gnocchi layered with indulgent mushroom ragù, béchamel and parma ham; and a side of cavolo nero. For a treat, order her osso buco box: cacio e pepe arancini; confit garlic and squash bruschetta with pickled red onion; slow-cooked osso buco veal shanks with polenta and gremolata; followed by chocolate olive oil cake with pistachio cream.

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We’ve said it many times, but Daylesford is one of the nation’s best and most sustainable farm shops. It also has its own abattoir and an award-winning cheesemonger. These days, BBQ, family and breakfast meat boxes are offered alongside a new steak night set designed for the ultimate indulgent night in. Each steak is cut by hand, before being dry-aged for 35 days in the farm's Himalayan salt chamber for exceptional flavour and texture.

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La Tua Pasta has spent years supplying world-renowned restaurants including those in Claridge’s and The Dorchester. Now the luxe supplier sells directly to customers and has a wide selection of fresh and filled pasta in the UK, all made in house at its pastificio using the finest ingredients – think tortelloni with fresh asparagus and ricotta. The family business can send out supper boxes for two, family boxes and one-offs from its à la carte menu. Right now, some of its hits include wild mushroom tortellini with sage butter; British crab and mascarpone with lemon butter; Italian sausage with spicy tomato sauce; and black truffle and ricotta with truffle butter.

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