Forget scrabbling for supermarket delivery spots having your Christmas dinner delivered is the way forward. Here's our pick of the best Christmas dinner in a box bundles out there this year.
Salmon en croute from Applebee's
Borough restaurant Applebee's are launching a very limited batch of Salmon en Croûte for Christmas at home. Enjoy a Scottish salmon fillet, wrapped in puff pastry with a layer of fresh herbs & spinach, glazed with Cacklebean Farm golden egg yolks and served with a chive and white wine velouté sauce. All you have to do is put it in the oven, slice and serve. It’ll make a stunning centrepiece for Christmas or Boxing Day and works beautifully with the usual trimmings. Made for 4, 6 or 8 people (£80, £120, £150 correspondingly), they'll be available to collect from either Applebee's (5 Stoney Street, SE1 9AA) or their sister site La Gamba (on the Southbank) on 23 & 24 December 2025.
Côte at Home’s festive collection
Côte's executive chef Steve Allen (ex-Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, Pétrus and Claridge’s) has a bunch of dishes to make serving up Christmas dinner less of a chore this year. The Festive Turkey Feast is the mainstay and features a marinated British turkey breast from Larchwood Farm, honey-glazed pigs in blankets, Brussels sprouts à la Française, apricot and mustard-glazed Chantenay carrots, and roast miso parsnips with shallot and thyme jus.
Price: £134.95, serves six
Christmas turkey box by Farm Shop
If you want to be sure that the meat you serve up on Christmas Day comes from high-welfare animals, then this Christmas Day lunch in a box from high-end deli Farm Shop is the one for you. It includes a free-range bronze turkey from Tim Way Turkeys in Winchester, along with pigs in blankets, stuffing, bread and cranberry sauces, turkey rub, gravy and even the bacon for putting on top of the turkey.
Price: £170, serves four.
Simon Rogan's Christmas at home menu
The chefs in Cartmel have been busy working up a six-course menu for Christmas Day, so you can take it easy. Dishes include a celeriac and fig leaf broth, Goosnargh turkey with all the trimmings and mince pie pastille. There's also a compelling vegetarian offering, too.
Price: Prices start at £95 per person.
Top chef dishes by Dishpatch and Waitrose
As part of this year's Waitrose Entertaining/Dispatch collab, there are a bunch of what they're calling 'restaurant quality centrepieces' and party food. Options include Rick Stein's Lobster and King Prawn Velouté Pie, Andi Oliver's Spiced rum and maple-glazed ham and Angela Hartnett's Osso Buco Arancini, which we've tried and are amazing.
Price: Angela's arancini are £24 for eight
Cook's Christmas Dinner with all the trimmings
Frozen food company Cook has a box that includes everything you need to get Christmas dinner on the table. There's turkey with stuffing, pigs in blankets, roasties, roast carrots with marmalade, roast parsnips with maple and thyme, brussels sprouts with maple and garlic, more stuffing and some gravy.
Price: Prices start at a very reasonable £42.70 for two people.
The Cinnamon Club's Christmas Feast at Home
If you're not wedded to the traditional turkey, then chef Vivek Singh's Christmas Day kit is a winner. The box includes Kentish lamb saddle in Rogan Josh sauce; 24-hour simmered black lentils, rice and saffron bread and the marvellous sounding Garam Masala Christmas Pudding with nutmeg custard.
Price: £150 for two.
Fine Dining with Made in Oldstead
Michelin-starred Chef Tommy Banks has opted for beef for his four-course Christmas menu delivery. Start with Cauliflower soup, followed by a sharing platter of Gravadlax, crab and slaw. The Christmas centrepiece is salt-aged Beef Wellington with all the trimmings (Pigs in blankets, red cabbage, bacon & chestnut sprouts, Duck fat roast potatoes and red wine jus). For dessert, there's a Christmas cake choux bun dusted with Douglas fir sherbet. Each course comes paired with a Banks Brothers canned wine, which is also included.
Price: Starts at £190 for two people.
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