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1. Crazy, Stupid, Love movie nights at Bombay Sapphire Distillery
Bombay Sapphire
Bombay Sapphire Distillery in Hampshire is hosting Valentine’s movie nights on Friday 10 February, Saturday 11 February, Tuesday 14 February and Saturday 18 February. Starring Emma Stone, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling and Steve Carell, Crazy, Stupid, Love will be shown in the distillery’s cinema room and guests will also get a Valentine’s cocktail on arrival and light snacks and interval cocktail to enjoy throughout the film.
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Swyft’s Model 05 Love Seat is ideal for those who need that little bit more room when reading a good book, relaxing solo, or just need to add a dash of personality to their interiors. Available in a range of colours, this sofa is a perfect fit for almost any size room, nook or cranny.
3. Mean Girls immersive cinema and dining experience
Taste Film x Drake & Morgan
This immersive “eat what you see” Mean Girls experience from Drake & Morgan and Taste Film is so fetch. Nestle in at The Refinery City Point in Moorgate, London, and indulge in a menu consisting of six imaginative dishes and drinks, all cleverly inspired by the cult film’s favourite moments. Screenings will be held on the weekends of 11-12 February and 18-19 February.
Live Love Balloons by Ana Zaja Petrak and Love Affair by Andy Warhol
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King & McGaw
If your loved one is an art or photography lover then check out the thousands of limited edition and fine art prints on sale at King & McGaw. Works by new and noteworthy artists are featured, as well as selected prints from the online retailer’s museum and gallery partners. There are many themes to choose from to match any interior design style, including floral, fashion, food and drink, landscape, sport, pop art, and travel. Artworks with the theme of love and togetherness include pieces by Blue Farrier, Bella Freud, Robert Indiana, Ana Zaja Petrak and Andy Warhol among others.
East London bar Silverleaf at the Pan Pacific London hotel will host whisky tasting sessions every Tuesday and Thursday until 28 February. Whisky experts from the Silverleaf team will present an intimate sensory tasting experience within the bar’s hidden tasting room, Alba. With a tasting session on Valentine’s Day, you and your date can enjoy a romantic date by sampling a range of rare and deliciously peaty and smoky tipples. Each tasting consists of five different whiskies, served in 25ml measures.
This hoodie blanket from Kudd.ly has a breathable MicroCool teddy fleece exterior with a cosy sherpa fleece interior – the perfect gift for those who prefer a cosy night in. It also features an extra-large front pocket and, owing to its oversized style, is one size fits all up to 6XL.
Share the love this Valentine’s with Devon Hampers. There’s a whole range of hampers to choose from this year, including the movie night for two (£34); Cornish lust cream liquor and chocolates (£39.95); Devon love hamper (£58.95); Cornish lager and steak pasty hamper (£33.95); prosecco and truffles cream tea (£35); and the charcuterie-style picnic (£80.50). Other gifts include a Devon fudge selection box (£25); a Braemar Juliet mug (£12.50); Cornish chocolate letter box gift (£30); and an Apollo RB heart cheese board with three knives (£19.95).
Patisserie Valerie’s collection of Valentine’s baked goodies are lovingly handmade and available for nationwide delivery. The menu includes the Valentine’s Patisserie box (£32.95); strawberry love heart cake (£43.95); chocolate heart cake (£33.95); macaron box (six for £9.95 or 12 for £16.95); and red velvet cake (from £33.95).
Raise a glass to your loved ones with Chapel Down’s Rosé Brut NV. Made from 100% Pinot Noir and sourced from fruits yielded in Kent, Sussex and Essex, this English sparkling offers great balance and purity of character.
The new gift box includes a bottle of No.3 Gin, which has been voted the world’s best four times, as well as two NUDE x No.3 Gin martini glasses, which have been developed using scientific expertise to keep liquid cooler for twice as long as a classic glass.
Michelin-starred chef Tommy Banks and his team have created a Made in Oldstead six-course feast for those celebrating Valentine’s at home. The three menus (beef, halibut and vegetarian) use ingredients foraged for, picked or grown on or around Banks’s family farm in Oldstead. Dishes include charred spring onions with confit potatoes and goat’s cheese sauce and prime salt-aged beef wellington with roasted hen of the woods mushrooms, onion sauce and leek top emulsion. Finish with a salted caramel and yoghurt cremeux served with chicory root caramel. For those wanting to further indulge, there’s also an optional wine pairing available via Banks Brothers. Orders are open until 10 February for nationwide delivery.
With this tasty treat from Flapjackery you can get “Love You” or “Be My Valentine” inscribed in white chocolate on the top of a giant slab of millionaire flapjack (equivalent to four individual pieces). This centrepiece is then surrounded by eight other pieces of Flapjackery flapjacks in flavours you choose. Alternatively, choose a smaller box with four, rather than eight, extra pieces of flapjack.
Is your loved one culinary mad? Treat them to some world-class cookware from US brand HexClad. Dubbed the “Rolls Royce of pans” by Gordon Ramsay, the range brings the performance of stainless steel, the durability of cast iron, and the convenience of non-stick to your everyday pan. Pots, pans and woks are available to buy as single items, and there’s also a range of sets.
Nouveau Wine is 100% vegan and delivered straight to your door. Picked from an old block overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in South Africa, Nouveau Love Bite is a fresh beaujolais-style Cinsault from the Stellenbosch area. These old vines create a healthy concentration of red fruits, soft tannins and a moreish saline note in this natural wine. Sealed with a love bite design by artist James Graham.
Darts Farm is one of the few UK producers to craft chocolate from bean-to-bar at its in-house chocolatier, Cow & Cacao. This hamper contains an incredible selection of hand-crafted treats, including a box of truffles, milk chocolate dipped oranges, a milk chocolate and raspberry heart lolly, and expert chocolatier Louise’s favourite single origin bar.
Start Valentine’s Day with the perfect cuppa on 14 February. Bird & Blend Tea Co.’s Love Potion is a magical blend of chocolate, rose and strawberry loose tea with added candy love hearts.
These letterbox flowers by Swedish florist Anna Eklöv’s LOV Flowers are carefully selected and assembled using only the highest-quality blooms. There are a range to choose from, including The Elsa, a wild garden-style bouquet with blue thistle flowers, white carnations, white Peruvian lilies and scented eucalyptus. Flower selections arrive in sustainably sourced, 100% recyclable packaging; even the decorative box sleeves are naturally degradable.
Give your loved one the five-star hotel experience from the comfort of their own home with a fabulously fluffy Tielle Love Luxury hotel bathrobe. Featuring smooth cotton velour on the outside and absorbent terry towelling on the inside, this luxury bathrobe is wonderfully cosy to lounge around in after a shower or bath.
For a truly romantic – yet not cringey – Valentine’s Day gift, check out Love Poems, The Folio Society’s anthology of 155 poems on the subject of love. Selected and introduced by British poet, artist and filmmaker Imtiaz Dharker, each poem provides a response to love, from Rumi, Shakespeare and Christina Rosetti to Philip Larkin, Michael Ondaatje and Carol Ann Duffy. The stunning 264-page anthology is bound in black cloth with two ribbon markers and a blocked cloth slipcase.
Delight your book and booze-loving Valentine with a monthly subscription to Words with Wine, the UK’s first book and wine subscription box. Each box arrives with a full-size bottle of wine, a book of the month and an information card. Recipients have access to an online book club where members can discuss their thoughts on the book and share photos. Non-alcoholic options are also available, as are one-off book and wine sets.
This is a jasmine, sandalwood and lavender candle with a unique twist: when melted, it transforms into a nourishing body CBD oil which can be massaged into the skin straight away. What could be a better Valentine’s Day surprise than an unexpected massage, especially one with CBD properties?
Eighty per cent of wine purchases are made by women, yet wine is still considered a man’s pursuit. Outpour – a female-founded wine shop and women-only wine community – is here to change that. Founded by Joanne Koukis, who left her corporate barrister job to launch the company, Outpour offers a curated selection of wines and related events designed to make drinking and learning about wine more accessible and welcoming.
Silent Pool Distillers, the sustainable gin brand made on the Albury Estate in the heart of the Surrey Hills, has produced a Valentine’s Day gift box for its bestselling Rose Expression gin. Distilled with a unique rose tea infusion, Rose Expression has a distinctive yet delicate rose flavour, and the 70cl bottle comes packaged with a pair of beautiful Copa-style gin glasses.
What could be more romantic than flowers you’re not going to need to throw out next week? These sustainable dried flowers from online gardening centre The Stem will last for years and require little to no effort to care for. Various arrangements are available, including Pretty in Pink (long stems in shades of pink with dried pink reel grass, oats and delicate baby’s breath) and Lilac Blush (long stems in shades of purple, spiced up with dried Indian corn and lilac phalaris).
Unisex fragrance platform HOOHAA delivers travel size-friendly scents to your door each month. There are three edits to choose from (Easy Does It, Buckle Up or Take Me To Mars) and it’s always a surprise which fragrance you receive. The platform supports sustainable, artisan brands and previous favourites have included Maya Njie, Gallivant and Maison Matine.
KIVU Skincare, created by a Harley Street dermatologist, has a powerful hydrating elixir designed for even the driest of skins. This innovative, lightweight elixir is intensely moisturising, leaving skin with a radiant, long-lasting glow. And the not-so-secret ingredient? Helix Aspersa secretion, or snail secretion, as it is more commonly known. Its origins as a skin tool can be traced back to Ancient Greece, where snail secretion was a popular treatment for inflammation and wound healing. So, this Valentine’s Day, why not give your loved one a skincare product they won’t forget in a hurry?
Swap prosecco, rosé and other drinks traditionally associated with Valentine’s Day for a beautiful bottle of Forest Gin produced by husband and wife team Karl and Lindsay Bond. To make the gin, the pair steep some classic gin botanicals (including organic juniper berries and coriander seeds) in organic grain spirit before taking a pestle and mortar to bundles of botanicals foraged from Macclesfield Forest in Cheshire. The concoction is then distilled through a copper condenser and blended with local spring water. This gin is available in a special gift box, where it comes with a branded crystal G&T glass.
Nothing says “I love you” like tequila, right? Cazcabel Tequila is a range of authentic, high-quality, natural tequilas which can be used in cocktails or sipped neat and savoured. Flavours include Cazcabel Blanco, Reposado, Coffee Liqueur (which is blended with luxury arabica coffee), Coconut Liqueur (made using prized coconuts from Jalisco, Mexico) and Honey Tequila Liqueur (the first of its kind, which is made with 100% natural honey).
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