Festive Food Delivery Services

Already starting to dread that last Christmas Eve trip to the shops to collect your turkey or smoked salmon? Forget early mornings, endless queues and parking problems and let your shopping come to you with our guide to the best festive food home delivery services to see you from Christmas right through to the New Year.

Rick Stein

You can enjoy the finest selection of delicious fish delivered to your door with a whole range of fresh fish boxes from Rick Stein online fishmongers. This festive season, treat yourself or someone special to the finest from the sea with this Luxury Seafood Platter: a succulent whole Cornish lobster, paired with rich smoked salmon, smoked mackerel fillets, whole cooked prawns, and a velvety smoked salmon pâté. It’s a showstopper – perfect for Christmas decadence or New Year’s Eve indulgence.

Alternatively you can choose the Christmas Seafood Platter, a ready-to-serve seafood celebration with Rick Stein’s smoked salmon, hand-prepared white crabmeat, whole cooked prawns and a smoked mackerel pâté, accompanied by two classic sauces - aioli and Marie Rose - and fresh lemons. As an unexpected bonus, you can even get your Christmas pudding delivered as well!

RRP: Luxury Seafood Platter £125.00; Christmas Seafood Platter, £95.00; Christmas pudding £25.00

Available from Rick Stein

Smokin' Brothers

You could order a whole side of fresh or dry-aged salmon or smoked trout, but we love their smoked salmon. Start with the tasting pack, which includes delicate and buttery belly slices, intense and smoky tail slices, and whisky & soy glazed slices. For a one-stop shop, add blinis, caviar and champagne, then just sit back and enjoy.

RRP: from £8.90

Note: Sign up to their newsletter for a 10% discount on your first order

Available from Smokin' Brothers

Rockfish

Fresh, frozen or tinned, Rockfish has your fish and seafood needs covered. Scallops wrapped in bacon, or lobster, caviar and noisette butter, anyone?

RRP: Lobster from £29.95, scallops in bacon £22.95, smoked Chalk Stream trout from £6.95

Note: Join the Seafood Club and get £10.00 off

Available from Rockfish

Turner & George

Whether you’re planning a grand family banquet or a cosy festive gathering, Turner & George has Christmas covered. From the show stopping centrepieces, think succulent whole turkeys, majestic ribs or beef, and rich, flavour-packed goose, to all the trimmings and treats that make Christmas dinner complete, Turner & George has taken care of every delicious detail.

RRP: Turkey from £114.00, gammon from £38.00, rib of beef from £163.00, pigs in blankets £13.25

Available from Turner & George

Field and Flower

Let Field & Flower do the work for you over the festive period, whether it's Christmas turkey, beef, gammon or game and all the trimmings, or a New Year's Eve gift box of salmon, cheese and charcuterie to make party planning a breeze.

You can even spread Christmas cheer with local farmers and families in need as you sort your shopping. Christmas demand is heavily focused on breast meat, which leaves farmers with millions of surplus turkey legs; of the 9 million turkeys eaten at Christmas, around 12 million legs risk being wasted. As part of their Leg Up campaign, for every turkey crown bought from Field & Flower they buy and donate the pair of turkey legs from that crown to FareShare South West, who make sure they reach families and communities in need. They also make Turkey Leg Up Bone Broth, where they buy the bones from their turkey farmers and donate 100% of the profits. You can support the initiative further by buying pairs of turkey legs from the site; this darker meat has by far the best flavour, and this year we're using them for a turkey and ham pie.

RRP: Turkey from £35.95 for a breast joint or £14.95 for a pair of legs; Christmas boxes from £117.47, or £34.32 for the Christmas Trimmings box; NYE gift box £50.00

Note: Discount codes on their website give you a very welcome 20% off your Christmas orders.

Available from Field & Flower

Grubby

Christmas dinner is the main event of the season, but shopping for all the trimmings and catering for different dietary requirements can be stressful and time-consuming – so why not have the ingredients for all your plant-based festive dishes delivered to your door by Grubby?

The UK’s leading plant-based recipe kit subscription is launching a series of nine Christmas recipes in December, including Christmas dinner and all the trimmings, miso mushroom wellington, the ultimate Christmas sausage roll and more.

All the ingredients in Grubby meal boxes are pre-portioned to keep food waste to a minimum; recipe cards feature easy-to-follow steps and nutritional information, as well as QR codes to curated Spotify playlists to cook along to whilst prepping!

RRP: From £28.00 or £21.00 for the first month with 25% off for new subscribers.

Note: New subscribers can receive 25% off a standard family box of 4 x recipes serving 16 people.

Available from Grubby

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Deputy Editor, Chatting Food London: Amanda David

Amanda David is a freelance food and drinks writer specialising in London’s restaurants, bars and events. She is the author of EAT THIS NOW! on Substack, the Events Editor and a contributing writer for London Cheapo, a regular contributor to Palate Magazine and a Member of the Guild of Food Writers.

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