Greendale’s deli team have scoured the South West for some of the best artisan cheeses from South West dairies and have come up with a collection that includes Glastonbury Cheddar, Dorset Red Smoked, Dorset Blue Vinny, Cornish Yarg and Devon Sharpham Brie.. They’ll deliver the sealed and hand-tied box direct to whoever you’ve decided deserves it.
Costs £25. Buy it here.
Get a delivery of all the gorgeous ingredients needed to recreate a fabulous restaurant-style experience at home – care of the Rick Stein crew.
The Stein’s team have created nine different menu boxes, each containing a starter, main and dessert, which simply need to be finished off in the oven or on the hob. The only thing missing is the Padstow sea air.
From £40. Buy it here.
Consider your concerns about the quality of supermarket bread (and the trials of getting your hands on the good stuff) over. All of these loaves are organic and made from a 64-year-old culture. Feast on wild white, light rye, tumeric and chilli, the mighty St Martin and seeded sourdoughs. Just make sure to also source a generous supply of good butter to go with.
Costs £20.75 plus delivery. Buy it here.
Don’t let your coffee supply fall short in the run up to Christmas. Get freshly roasted barista-quality beans sent direct to your door care of the coffee pros at Indy Coffee Box. They’ve done the digging to source the best possible beans from world-class British artisan roasteries, all you have to do is brew and succumb to caffeinated bliss.
The speciality coffee subscription also makes a wonderful Christmas present so, if you’re stumped for what to get your brother in-law, niece or a coffee-loving friend, a beautiful Indy Coffee Gift Box could be just the thing. The gift box contains two bags of top-notch speciality grade beans, a gift card and a copy of journal Brew.
Order before December 13 for delivery before Christmas. Trencherman’s readers get free delivery and £5 off their first 3-4 bag box with code: ICB1. A monthly subscription starts from £19.99. Subscribe here.
The Hot Smoked starter kit contains all the gear needed – bar the barbecue – to hot-smoke food (meat, fish, veggies, it’s all good) at home.
It comes with a metal smoking box, woodchips (choose the right type for the food being smoked – the kit includes hickory, beech and whisky-infused oak chips), BBQ rub and a comprehensive instruction and recipe booklet. You’ll need a barbecue with a lid and something to smoke.
The folk at Food Magazine recently roadtested the kit using butcher-bought brisket, and described the results as ‘mind-blowing‘. Read the full review of the kit here.
Costs £30. Buy it here.
Outstanding smoked salmon from a small Devon fishery delivered to your door for Christmas breakfast.
Blakewell is a small trout fishery and smokery in a leafy north Devon valley, where the Nickell brothers have been smoking their own trout for years – hot and cold – developing a ‘Superior Devon Smoke’ recipe using matured beechwood and a no-rush approach. The trout’s great, but it was when they started smoking Atlantic salmon they hit on something seriously special.
Sides of fish are slowly cold-smoked in the Blakewell smoker until they take on crackling fireside flavours weaved with notes of vanilla and autumn, it’s then finely carved into tissue-thin layers to melt on the tongue. The sweet flavours and buttery mouthfeel of the salmon make it a perfect pairing to don’t-hold-the-cream scrambled eggs and chewy sourdough toast. Serve with a glass of Buck’s Fizz and freshly brewed filter coffee for 2020’s wish-list Christmas breakfast.
100g packets of four or five slices – enough for brunch for four – costs £6.25 on Blakewell’s new online shop. Buy it here.
Who wouldn’t want to receive a monthly supply of high calibre chocs crafted from fresh cream, butter and real herbs and spices? Each month the team of chocolatiers at The Chocolate Society create a Box of the Month which features 18 eye-catching domes, decorated with metallic flecks and housed in a smart box tied with a ribbon. Seasonal chocs in the December box include Mince Pie Caramel, and Mandarin and Yuzu.
Be warned – there are only 750 of them and competition to get your mitts on one is high, especially after it was crowned 2020’s best chocolate subscription box by The Independent.
A three-month subscription costs £65. Subscribe here.
For a Negroni that kicks like a mule, Exmoor-distilled Silver Bullet by Wicked Wolf certainly does the job. The navy-strength gin docks at 57 per cent ABV, yet is beautifully balanced and smooth enough to imbibe as a sipping gin.
Costs £56. Source it here.
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Jo Rees loosens her corset and revels in drama and dinner at one of the South West’s most historic country house hotels
Michael Caines’ country house hotel has been wowing reviewers and diners since its launch. Jo Rees visited to ‘experience the exceptional’.
The thought of splashing £200 plus on dinner for two might make you wince, but every penny is well accounted for in the uber luxe Lucknam Park experience.
We’ve been sunning ourselves at the Sea Side this month, checking out St Moritz Hotel’s revamped easy-going eatery
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