Sometimes you just need someone else to cook and whether you’re planning to spend Valentine’s with your partner, your family in lockdown, solo or with your mates, delicious food is bound to make you feel good.
So with all the restaurants, cafes, cake shops and bars currently closed, we’ve curated a list of the best food deliveries to order for a Valentine’s Day feast.
Oh Briehave’s Cheese Bundles – From £45
Oh Briehave, a luxury grazing company, has a huge range of selections to choose from when it comes to Valentine’s Day celebrations. They promise to make date night on the sofa a ‘very brietiful evening’. The sweet grazing box (from £45) is filled all the beautiful things to satisfy your sugary cravings – gorgeous chocolate brownies, marshmallows, pretzels covered in chocolate, sweet and juicy fruit, mini pavlovas with clotted cream, cakes and biscuits, dark chocolate and edible flowers, and freshly-cut honeycomb. Or try the Deluxe cheese grazing box for £50. It’s stacked with Cornish brie, crumbly vintage cheddar, goats cheese rolled in flowers and infused with honey.
AllPlants Date Night Dining – £55.35
The award-winning delivery service AllPlants is paving the way for plant-based businesses by launching this date night box for you and yours. Perfect for a romantic evening – this box contains the likes of aubergine parmigiana, teriyaki udon, kale and chickpea daal, mushroom and chickpea korma and rigatoni Bolognese – a range of dinners for all tastes. Expect sides of Mediterranean pesto veggies, tahini garlic broccoli, and minty leeks and peas. But you’ll definitely need to leave some room for the golden apple crumble or the molten peanut caramel and chocolate fondant or perhaps, the sticky banoffee pudding with toasted pecans. From Italian to curry to healthy meal options, this is the perfect box for a cosy Valentine’s at home. They’re taking orders now and deliver UK-wide.
Panzer’s It’s A Date – £85
Based in London, Panzer is a Jewish deli with a sensational, beautifully-packaged food delivery box for Valentine’s Day. It’s A Date contains treats like Bird In Hand Sparkling Pinot Noir Rosé, Kokoa Collection Madagascar Hot Chocolate, salted caramel truffles, mini pink and white marshmallows, and Panzer’s heart-shaped (because why would it be anything else for V-Day?) Linzer cookies, and two super cute Panzer mugs for your collection. UK-wide deliveries available.
Tesco’s Valentine’s Day Meal – £15
Tesco has launched a three-course meal for two that includes an array of meat, fish, vegetarian and plant-based dishes. It has everything from delicious and melt-in-your mouth garlic bread, to an antipasti platter, rump steak with a heart-shaped pink peppercorn butter to melt over the top, pesto and parmigiano breaded chicken, beef bourguignon, salmon, and plant-based Wicked Kitchen Wicked Wellingtons, and Wicked Kitchen chocolate brownie topped with a rich chocolate ganache. And let’s not forget the utterly lush double chocolate profiteroles. For only £15, you can’t go wrong. Tesco delivers UK-wide.
Offer includes a starter, main, side, vegetable, dessert and a bottle of alcohol or non-alcoholic alternative. Available from 8 to 14 February.
Morrison’s Date Night For 2 – £30
Morrison’s has launched a special Valentine’s Date Night box consisting of a three-course meal. Their food is generally pretty great and affordable too, so you know this box will be fab for a date night meal. Turn up the heat with Morrison’s garlic and cream cheese stuffed mushrooms, followed by a sumptuous sirloin steak with chunky chips and beer battered onion rings, before rounding off with a delightful chocolate brownie and clotted cream dessert.
Cutter & Squidge Afternoon Tea – from £29.90
Change it up by getting yourself some cute afternoon tea delivered from Cutter and Squidge, a lovely little bakery-slash-café in the heart of London. They deliver nationwide and their afternoon tea boxes include yummy brownies, two mini lemon drizzle cakes, four buttery scones (to be warmed up), two pots of Rodda’s clotted cream, one pot of delicious fruity jam and Cutter and Squidge’s own fine loose leaf tea.
Asda Romantic Night In – £15
Have a cute little Valentine’s at home with Asda’s romantic dinners. The supermarket’s meal deals include roasted butternut squash, kale risotto, plant-based chow mein and gorgeous desserts like red velvet and sparkling orange puddings, vegan chocolate torte, and Belgian chocolate and raspberry puddings. They’ve got an amazing range of options available, it seems almost impossible to pick. Asda delivers UK-wide.
Cake or Death’s Letterbox Brownies – from £17
So this isn’t exactly a meal, but let’s face it Valentine’s is not complete without Cake or Death’s Letterbox Brownies for their fudgy deliciousness. The East London Cake or Death bakery is pure brownie-heaven, gooey, fudgy AF and vegan. It offers a wide range of flavours, from sea salted to peanut butter to Biscoff and a special box just for this Valentine’s. Cake or Death delivers nationwide.
Cook’s Valentine’s Day Meal – from £19.99
Since going out isn’t an option, Cook is delivering dinners for Valentine’s right to your door. They create delicious meals to take that weight off your shoulders. For £19.99, you get a lamb tagine box, including Moroccan spiced lamb tagine, minted couscous, and mango and passion fruit cheesecakes. Lush or what?
La Tua Pasta’s Valentine’s Day meal – £46 without Prosecco, £67 with Prosecco
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, La Tua Pasta have brought la dolce vita to life with limited-edition boxes filled with their famous foods – Tom’s to and mozzarella and black truffle and ricotta in heart shaped ravioli? Yes please. They also, of course, include lovely little Italian chocolates to finish off. La Tua Pasta delivers UK-wide.
Bellavita’s Valentine’s Day meal – £59
This hamper is absolutely divine for Valentine’s Day, with delicious olives, artisan pasta, pink pesto, a board of Prosciutto di Parma, Mortadella and Parmigiano Reggiano with a natural black olive spread as the main course, and three heavenly desserts: Baci di Dama biscuits filled with dark chocolate cream, heart-shaped pistachio chocolates and heart-shaped chestnut biscuits. There’s also a gorgeous rosé Prosecco. Pink, wrapped up and romantic, with UK-wide delivery, it all comes together in a white box with a silky ribbon.
Bakerdays letterbox cakes – from £14.99
Hilarious personalised cakes? No problem. The Schitt’s Creek Valentine’s Day cake is perfect for your special bebè, but Bakerdays also has a ton of choices for you to pick from. Letterbox flowers are one thing, but to get a cake? Honestly, what could be better than that? You can pick from all your fave TV shows (the Duke of Hastings, anyone?) and personalise the message for whomever you choose.
Feast Box’s Valentine’s Day meal – from £5.50
Feast Box is all about tasting the world, from Turkey to India, and China to Egypt. Its meal boxes come with all the ingredients you need and instructions to cook up that perfect dinner right in your kitchen. Because sometimes it’s romantic to cook together, right? Feasr offers options from Cantonese pork and braised tofu to Amritsari chicken curry. Feast delivers UK-wide.
The Minimalist Cakes – from £13.50
A cute small business based in Clapham, The Minimalist Cakes offers a gorgeous treat box which, for a small (£27.50), contains the little bowl cake, two NYC double chocolate cookies, two brownies, Lindt chocolate truffles, and two faux roses. For the large option, at £37.50, you’ll get the large bowl cake, four NYX double chocolate cookies, brownies, faux roses and some Lindt chocolate truffles. Its cakes are some of the cutest we’ve seen and can be personalised too. The Minimalist Cake delivers UK-wide.