Online butcher Farmison & Co offers chef-prepared items, hampers and a menu of Christmas meats including turkey, beef, goose, lamb, duck and gammon. Farmison also sells Christmas trimmings such as pigs in blankets, sausagemeat stuffing, potatoes and stuffing balls. Chef-prepared items include the luxury beef wellington (£125), beef fillet barrel with bearnaise butter (£115), and three bird roast with cranberries (£95).
If it’s the traditional dinner you’re after then Farmison’s turkey range includes popular items such as Devon bronze whole turkey (£110); Devon bronze turkey crown (£81); and turkey breast (£49.95). Delicious pantry items such as traditional poultry gravy, sourdough bread sauce, roast beef gravy, and cranberry and port sauce are also available. All of the Farmison & Co Christmas range is delivered from 19-24 December.
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The Copas family has dedicated six decades to rearing more than 30,000 premium turkeys each year on beautiful acres of Berkshire countryside. Allowed to roam around under the protection of 13 Peruvian alpacas (they scare off foxes), the turkeys are completely free range to full maturity at around six months. Copas traditional turkeys come with full cooking instructions, recipes, a no-nonsense timer, giblets and, best of all, you don’t even have to baste the bird thanks to the fat layer under the skin. If you’re unsure of what size turkey to order, the online turkey calculator will ensure the right size bird is picked for you. Whole turkeys are priced from £88.
Online fishmonger Rockfish has launched its collection of new festive products, perfect for a delicious seafood Christmas feast. Among the items in the Rockfish Christmas shop is the festive feast box (£125), which comes with a whole collection of sustainably-sourced seafood: south west crab thermidor; diver scallops wrapped in Piper Farms bacon; shell on Norwegian prawns with firecracker sauce; Alfred Enderby’s smoked salmon; and many more festive treats. All festive fish items have been designed with ease in mind. Available for pre-order with delivery between 1-16 December.
The Scottish Cookaway wild venison Scottish feast experience
Food boxes
The Cookaway has teamed up with 2020 Young Chef Young Waiter (YCYW) winner Peter Meechan to launch a new recipe kit – the Scottish Cookaway. The flavoursome menus are a winner for winter celebrations, and perfect for ambitious foodies who want to cook a luxurious meal from scratch. Boxes include the Gourmet Aged Ribeye Experience, which comes with bone-in ribeye steak, hispi cabbage with pangrattato, boulangère potatoes, and red wine jus or whisky peppercorn sauce. Or there’s the Wild Venison Scottish Feast Experience which comes with venison loin with skirlie crumb, whisky braised leeks, celeriac gratin, red wine jus or whisky peppercorn sauce. Sides with venison feast include Cullen skink, haggis bon bons with whisky mayo, and smoked applewood cauliflower cheese. Desserts include Cranachan, and chocolate and caramelised hazelnut tart. Prices start from £85 for two people or £140 for four people and the boxes can also be ordered without a specified delivery date for a unique Christmas gift.
Wild and Game has launched its Christmas hampers for 2022. Available to pre-order, there are three options available and designed to offer everything you need for a series of feasts throughout the Christmas period. They include Christmas Eve pheasant or venison wellingtons, Christmas Day three-bird roasts with pigs in blankets, Boxing Day venison roasts, and a festive buffet selection. As well as game roasts, charcuterie, wellingtons, pates and pies, the boxes contain Somerset cheeses and a luxury chutney selection. There are three boxes to choose from: hamper one feeds two people throughout the festive season for £55 per person (total box price £109); hamper two feeds four people for £50 per person (total box price £199.99); and hamper three feeds six people for £50 per person (total box price £299.99).
Each of the COOK Christmas dinner bundles contains everything you need for a sensational feast and comes with a handy timing plan to make sure everything is ready at once. Served with turkey and all the festive trimmings, the range includes a dinner for two (£36.35); dinner for eight (£108.65); and a dinner for 12 (£170.85). There’s also a veggie dinner for two (portobello mushroom wellington; £24.15) and a vegan dinner for two (butternut squash nut roast stacks; £19.55). All of COOK’s turkeys have been stuffed and rolled by hand in the kitchen in Kent and are already in the freezer. Available to buy on their own, or with all the trimmings, it takes minimal prep time and you will be sent a helpful reminder to defrost, letting you know how long it will need to be out of the freezer.
7. Steven Wallis ultimate turkey Christmas dinner recipe kit for six
Food boxes
MasterChef winner Steven Wallis has partnered with recipe box specialists Chefs For Foodies to launch the ultimate Christmas recipe box. Supplying all the ingredients you need to make a chef-quality Christmas dinner, the recipe kit feeds six people and is £139, the equivalent of £23.16 per head. The kit includes quality ingredients sourced from British suppliers and family-run butchers including a turkey breast fillet with prosciutto ham. The trimmings include sage and onion stuffing, roasted parsnips with polenta and parmesan, bacon pangritata brussel sprouts, roast potatoes, pigs in blankets and luxury gravy.
Vivek Singh’s restaurant, The Cinnamon Club, is spicing up celebrations with its Christmas Day meal kit. Available for nationwide delivery, the kit is priced at £220 for four people to share (£55 per person), or opt for the smaller, two-person box at £120 (£60 per person). The four-course at-home kit comes complete with two starters, a generous sharing main and dessert, and is available to pre-order now for delivery on 23 December. Pop open the fizz and enjoy starters of bhel papdi chaat and Madras shrimp pepper fry with curry leaf and black pepper, before the main event – a tender lamb rogan josh. A Cinnamon Club classic, the Kashmiri-style slow braised shank is served with all the trimmings including biryani rice, burhani raita with chilli and garlic and 24-hour simmered signature black lentils. Finish up with a garam masala sticky toffee pudding and warming nutmeg custard, made with home-soaked mincemeat and a garam masala blend. The kit is delivered in a temperature-controlled box with easy-to-follow instructions for reheating on the day. All orders must be placed by 16 December.
Côte at Home’s festive feasts come with a choice of two main course items: a sharing marinated turkey breast (£89.95) or the beef wellington (£139.95). Both feasts are served with spiced braised red cabbage; creamy dauphinoise potatoes; Brussels sprouts marinated in garlic and parsley; pigs in blankets; orange glazed carrots; pork and apricot stuffing with sage; and thyme jus. The turkey also comes with cranberry sauce. Enough for between 4-6 people, Côte at Home’s Christmas dinner takes only 25 minutes to prepare. Available for delivery from 14-23 December.
Dishoom’s limited-edition Christmas meal kit comes in the form of the festive raan feast. Feeding four to six people with easy-to-follow instructions, you will enjoy turkey raan with all the trimmings – sprouts with lime-chilli dressing, bhel, mattar paneer, house black daal, naan, rice, mango lassi – in the comfort of your own home. Dishoom’s festive playlist, incense and matches are also included to complete the experience, with an option to add marmalade mimosas. Delivered nationwide before 10pm and available to pre-order now for delivery on 15, 16, 17, 22, 23 and 24 December.
11. Darts Farm bumper veg box, hampers and festive cheeseboard
Darts Farm bumper veg box
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Food boxes
Devon-based Darts Farm has everything you need for the Christmas feast, including turkeys, meats and side dishes. The bumper festive veg box (£25) is filled with ten varieties of fresh veg, which is hand-picked from the farm’s fields or grown by local farmers. As well as the classic dishes for the dinner, Darts Farm also has the Festive Hamper (from £39), Large Festive Hamper (from £69), Festive Indulgent Hamper (from £189), and a Christmas cheeseboard (£35). Order by Wednesday 14 December for guaranteed Christmas delivery.
Recipe box provider HelloFresh has revealed its festive Christmas box which features everything you need to make the big day stress-free, with a step-by-step recipe card and pre-portioned ingredients. The Classic Christmas Dinner consists of a British butter-basted turkey with rosemary accompanied with Brussels sprout gratin, fluffy roast potatoes, pork and cranberry stuffing, sticky honey and thyme root veg, slow braised red cabbage, and finished off with traditional pigs in blankets and festive gravy. The Turkey & Sides option starts from £89.99 for four people to £159.99 for ten people. There’s also options for Turkey, Sides & Dessert (£101.99-£180.99) and a cheeseboard add-on (£24.49-£32.49). Available to purchase without an existing HelloFresh subscription and available to pre-order until 14 December, the Christmas box will be delivered straight to your door on 22 December.
Simon Rogan, the multi-Michelin star chef behind Henrock, Aulis, Rogan & Co, and L’Enclume restaurants, has brought back his festive feast for Christmas. Created by Rogan’s team in the Lake District, the five-course menu includes Jerusalem artichoke velouté, Berkswell cheese, crispy sourdough, dark beer reduction potted and smoked Loch Duart salmon, preserved lemon, brown butter, rye Goosnargh turkey with a rillette of the leg and all the trimmings, Christmas pudding with The Lakes Distillery whisky custard, mince pie and chocolates.
Celebrity chef Rick Stein has festive shoppers covered, with food and drink hampers including the Chef’s Gift Box (£250), Christmas Essentials Box (£98.95), Sweet Christmas Box (£64.95) and the Happy Christmas Stocking (£39.95). The Celebration Large Hamper (£399) is a show-stopper packed with many Rick Stein items. The menu includes Champagne, a Spanish red wine, Tarquin’s Gin and Rick Stein-created and Cornish-produced sweets and savouries. Luxury keepsakes include a Padstow Christmas bauble, Rick Stein wine cooler and a Rick Stein bottle opener.
Bursting with the very best artisan food and drinks Cowdray Estate has to offer, the celebrate Christmas hamper includes the finest olive oils and balsamic vinegars, a selection of cheese, biscuits and olives, selection of fine wines, Prestat chocolates and finished off with an award-winning Nyetimber Classic Cuvée – English sparkling wine made with grapes grown just three miles from Cowdray. This is accompanied by a Cowdray branded apron and a selection of Cowdray produce, all packaged in a wicker hamper. Available for national delivery.
Tommy Banks, chef and owner of Michelin-starred restaurants The Black Swan and Roots, has again this year released a range of Christmas Day hampers from Made in Oldstead. Items include a four-course beef wellington menu (£190-£550), a festive vegetarian Oldstead pithivier menu (£160-£200), and a four-person duck menu (£350-£390). The Oldstead Ultimate Festive Feast Hamper (£185) is packed with everything you need for Christmas. It comes with Yuletide grazing items, before bedtime treats, and festive tipples.
17. Regency supreme indulgence hamper with Dom Pérignon
Hampers
One of the most lavish foodie gifts on the market this Christmas, Regency’s supreme indulgence hamper is packaged in a hand-made lidded willow picnic basket and comes with an extravagant collection of tipples, seasonal foods, snacks and confectionery. As well as the Dom Pérignon champagne, there’s also bottles of Nyetimber English sparkling wine, Muga Rioja Selección Especial, Cotswolds Single Malt Whisky, Hennessy VS Cognac, Graham’s Vintage Port and much more. A Cole’s Classic Christmas Pudding, cheeses, chocolates, and a pack of six gold “touch of sparkle” celebration crackers complete the festive offering. The hamper is only available for delivery between 13-31 December.
This Christmas, Eataly London will be serving up some festive offerings featuring the best Italian produce. Christmas hampers include panettone e bollincine (panettone and bubbles; £29.90); pasta e basta (pasta and more; £39.90); pistacchio amore mio (pistachio lovers; £49.90); vacanze Italiane (a trip to Eataly; £79.90); le chicche di Eataly (goodies of Eataly; £99.90); and il natale de Eataly (the ultimate Italian Christmas; £129.90).
Filled with delicious produce sourced from the West Country’s finest artisan suppliers, Devon Hampers has a fantastic choice of Christmas hampers for the festive season. You can create your own hamper or choose from the range, which includes the Ultimate Christmas Hamper (£365.50); the Spectacular Christmas Hamper (£265); The Devon and Cornish Hamper (from £105); and the Jingle Bells Jail Ale Hamper (from £56.50). The last date for Christmas delivery is 22 December.
Panzer’s Delicatessen in St John’s Wood, London, has a selection of six beautifully curated hampers to choose from including the finest festive produce. The Christmas connoisseur hamper features Panzer’s smoked salmon, Nana Lily’s luxury Christmas fruit cake, Panzer’s three nut selection box, XXL milk gianduja and hazelnuts bar and much more. The hamper is available to pre-order for delivery nationwide.
Enjoy a taste of Spain this Christmas with Ibérica. The Spanish restaurant group’s hamper selection are available to order now and have been expertly curated by Michelin-starred executive chef Nacho Manzano. Options include the deluxe delicatessen hamper (£139.95), Spanish icons hamper (£49.95), Mediterranean garden hamper (£74.95), and the Andalusian hamper (£99.95).
Classic Deli, from the team at Classic Fine Foods, has launched its range of premium Christmas hampers. Options include The Food Lover Christmas Hamper (£75), The Fine Gourmet Christmas Hamper (£110), The Luxury Treat Christmas Hamper (£170), Premium French Hamper (£145), and The Valrhona Premium Chocolate Treat Box (£35).
The Ottolenghi festive range is back with exquisite products, gifts and tableware available to order. Ottolenghi’s Christmas hampers start from £70 for the Spice Hamper to £350 for The Ultimate Christmas Hamper. Other festive items include The Ottolenghi Christmas Hamper (£160), Christmas in a Bag (£110), and Christmas Essentials (£55).
Different Kind works with ethically-led and socially-minded producers to create gifts that will give back. This festive season the company has nine hampers to choose from, including the Frosty Night (£120), which includes products that benefit people who don’t have secure housing, and the “I Dream of Home” hamper (£175) that celebrates Ukrainian culture whilst also supporting those displaced by the war.
The River Cafe’s Christmas gifts boxes are available in a variety of sizes and prices. Boxes range from £80 for the Panettone and Franciacorta to £1,000 for The Ultimate. Other items include The Celebration Box (£550), The International Box (£495), The Italian Favourites Box (£215), The Chocolate Box (£100) and The Essentials Bag (£100).
If the cheese board and chocolates are your favourite part of the Christmas feast, or you’re looking for a consciously-sourced gift for a loved one, then this is the hamper to go for. Social Supermarket has partnered with Montcalm East hotel to offer an indulgent but thoughtfully-sourced selection of goodies from a range of social enterprises, packaged up in a sleek black hamper. The After Hours Hamper (£86.99) features Island Bakery oatcakes and cheese biscuits, seasonal Rubies in the Rubble relishes and Summderdown’s award-winning dark chocolate peppermint creams for an after-dinner treat. Enjoy with a NEMI peppermint tea or freshly-ground Old Spike artisanal coffee, both companies that offer employment and opportunities to refugees and homeless people respectively. If you’re sticking with the theme of indulgenous, crack open the show-stopping bottle of Graham’s Ruby Port.
Fine wine online retailer Marlo has launched its luxury wine hamper for 2022 – and it contains three of its favourite wines of the year alongside an abundance of tempting treats and delicacies. Wines included in the hamper are a 2016 Croix Canon, a 2020 Macon-Verze Domaine Leflaive, and a NV Marie Demets Brut. The added extras include a CRWST bake at home pancake kit, Drinks biscuits, Belazu rosemary nut mix, Coco Chocolatier Isle of Skye sea salt milk chocolate, Sweet Lounge vegan fizzy cola bottles pouch, Soffle’s pitta chips, Serious Pig snackalami classic, a pair of dinner candles, two cans of The Bloody Classic bloody mary, and a Marlo tote bag.
28. English Cheesecake Company’s Terry’s Chocolate Orange cheesecake
Terry’s Chocolate Orange cheesecake
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Dessert and sweet treats
This festive favourite from the English Cheesecake Company returns for 2022. The chocolate orange cheesecake is topped with a layer of dark fudge, milk chocolate curls and mini Terry’s Chocolate Orange slices. It has been pre-portioned, so all you need to do is defrost and enjoy.
Luxury gelato producer Badiani is bringing a touch of la dolce vita to this festive season with its new Christmas collection. Available from all nine of its boutique London shops, as well as online to ship nationwide, the collection features a range of Italian desserts; limited-edition festive-flavoured gelato; Cioccolata Calda – a premium hot Italian chocolate; and Italian wines and fizz. Items in the Badiani’s Christmas collection includes a classic panettone (£28; serves eight); tronchetto di Natale (Christmas yule log; £30); panettone gelato, available in 500ml-1000ml tubs (£20-£32); and gelato cakes (£35-£45).
Vegan and gluten-free cake brand Positive Bakes has launched its biggest range of Christmas hampers since it was founded in 2020. The Ultimate Christmas Feast Hamper (£175) comes with a number of cakes (lemon drizzle cake, raspberry bakewell cake, chocolate and salted caramel cake, carrot and pecan cake, banana cake, sticky toffee pudding cake); savoury treats (biscuits and pâté); drinks (coffee and tea); and 25 mini blondie and brownie bites (flavours include Christmas pudding brownie, mince pie slices, and mini festive scones). Other hampers include the Luxury Family Festive Sweet & Savoury Hamper (£84.95), Festive Afternoon Tea Hamper (£49.95), Sweet & Savoury Christmas Treat Box (£49.95), Savoury Christmas Treat Box (£42.95), Festive Favourites Sharing Box (£34.95), Festive Treats Stocking Filler (£22.95), and Luxury Vegan Mince Pie Bites (£19.95).
Flapjackery’s Christmas hampers are laden with its own delicious, gluten free, lovingly made flapjacks, fudge, clusters and other delicious sweet treats that are packed with the finest British ingredients. Hampers include Flapjackery Flapjacks and Chocolate Treats Christmas Hamper (£25), Flapjackery Christmas Treats Hamper (£25), Flapjackery’s Christmas Indulgence Hamper (£50), Flapjackery’s Ultimate Christmas Treats Hamper (£80).
Kent-based chocolate company Cocoba has launched its vegan Christmas range, which has everything you can think of to keep a chocoholic sweet. The Vegan Christmas Treat Gift Set (£32.95) includes a vegan dark chocolate hot chocolate bombe Christmas cracker, a vegan Santa hot chocolate spoon, a vegan “milk” chocolate marshmallow bauble, and a vegan Santa “milk” chocolate tree hanger. Other items include vegan Christmas marshmallow hot chocolate spoons (three for £10.95); vegan Christmas character hot chocolate bombe with mini marshmallows (£10.95); and a vegan honeycomb bar (£4.50).
It’s not a festive feast unless there’s a cheese board to finish the meal. La Fromagerie, which has three outlets in London, has a range of cheese gift boxes available for delivery, some of which are paired with wine and beer. Options from La Fromagerie’s online shop include The Champagne Celebration Box (£105), British Cheese and Beer Box (£67), and The French Cheese Box (£50).
Sharpham Dairy, which is situated on the banks of the River Dart near Totnes in south Devon, is once again pulling out all the cheese stops for Christmas. This year’s hamper and gift range includes the Essential Devon Cheese Board (£25), The Dart Valley Cheese & Wine Selection (£40), and the Sharpham Devon Cheese & Wine Christmas Feast (£90). A real Devon treat, this hamper comes jam-packed with everything you need for your home festivities. It includes handmade, artisan cheese – a 300g Sharpham Brie, 450g Ticklemore goats’ truckle, 450g Rustic Chive & Garlic truckle, 150g Elmhirst and 210g Quicke's Vintage Cheddar – along with a bottle of each of best-selling Sharpham Dart Valley Reserve and Sharpham Pinot Rosé.
35. ‘The Ultimate’ cheese and fine wine box by cheesegeek
Cheese and wine
The Ultimate box has been curated by Edward Hancock, founder of cheesegeek, and Alistair Cooper, master of wine. Inside, there are eight award-winning kinds of cheese and eight fine wines, carefully selected to elevate each other. Some of the pairings include Bath Soft x AOP Bandol (a British brie style soft paired with a delicious fruity limited rosé) and Gorwydd Caerphilly x Le Clos Des Saumanes (an English Caerphilly paired with a lively French white).
The height of luxury, Mouse & Grape hampers are beautifully presented and filled with mouth-watering artisan cheeses paired perfectly with exceptional wines and a host of tasty extras including fruit jams and truffle honey. Each gift hamper comes with detailed pairing notes and tasting instructions to create the best “at-home” cheese and wine experience that doubles as a special limited-edition gift. There are four hampers available: The Classic Christmas (£110), The Old and Bold Christmas (£110), The Luxury Christmas (£150), and The Ultimate Christmas (£225). Pre-order on or before Thursday 15 December for delivery on Wednesday 21 or Thursday 22 December.
Majestic’s 12-bottle mixed wine case has everything you need for Christmas Day. There’s a classic celebratory fizz, favourites for the dinner table, and even port for the cheese board. Wines include Château Méaume Bordeaux Supérieur 2018/19; Beronia Rioja Reserva 2017/18; Mud House Sauvignon Blanc 2021/22, Marlborough; Croft Reserve Tawny Port; Olivier Baudin Brut Champagne; Bouvet Ladubay “Blanc de Blancs” Crémant de Loire 2019/20; and Cave de Lugny “Reserve” Mâcon-Chardonnay 2019/20.
Mike Starling is the former digital features editor at The Week. He started his career in 2001 in Gloucestershire as a sports reporter and sub-editor and has held various roles as a writer and editor at news, travel and B2B publications. He has spoken at a number of sports business conferences and also worked as a consultant creating sports travel content for tourism boards. International experience includes spells living and working in Dubai, UAE; Brisbane, Australia; and Beirut, Lebanon.
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