The most romantic night of the year is fast approaching, but why battle it out for a restaurant reservation when you can wine and dine from the comfort of your own home?
No naff background music (unless, of course, you want it), no furrowed brows at PDA, and dinner exactly when you want it - bliss.
While you can always rely on supermarkets to roll out luxe versions of their usual Dine In offers (this year all hovering around the £15 mark), thanks to the rise of recipe kits over the last two years, restaurants have been love bombing hungry romantics this year too.
And what a feast there is! From prime steak to mouthwatering curries, these gourmet bundles are ready to help you sweep that special someone clean off their feet.
They’re in heavy demand with many pre-orders closing days before February 14, so if you like the look of one we’ve listed below, move fast. They won’t hang around for long.
See our pick of the best Valentine’s meal kits below.
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Tesco Finest Valentine’s Dinner for Two
The supermarket has launched a limited edition menu for two for £15. Spanning starters, mains, two sides and desserts, the deal also includes either: a bottle of bubbly, wine, a four pack of Peroni, or non-alcoholic options.
The menu, available online and in-store, includes new additions for 2022 such as Calamari with Chilli Jam, Feta & Red Pepper Tartlets or Heart Shaped Camembert Sharing Bread to start, followed by Duck Breast Portions with a Raspberry Hoisin Sauce, Burgers with a Heart Shaped Triple Cheese Melt, Chicken in Prosecco Sauce and Butternut Squash & Goats Cheese Lasagne for vegetarian diners.
Sweet offers come in the form of Millionaires tarts festively finished with red sprinkled hearts and Belgian Chocolate & Orange Pots. Traditional favourites like steak with peppercorn sauce and salmon remain on the menu, as well as a selection of options from Tesco’s all-vegan Wicked Kitchen range.
In all, there’s a possible 76.800 combinations. How’s that for choice?
Buy now £15.00, Tesco
Sainsbury’s Valentine’s Dine-In For Two
Sainsbury’s is running its Valentine’s dinner promotion until February 14 so there’s still time to enjoy a special meal at a price that won’t make you faint.
Costing £15 for two diners, the bundles cherry-picks dishes from the supermarket’s Taste the Difference range and shoppers can pick a starter, main accompanied with a side, a dessert and one of a selection of drinks.
Time to take date night up a notch.
Buy now £15.00, Sainsbury’s
Asda’s 2022 Valentine's Meal Deal
Asda has thought of everything for your loved-up at-home dine-in experience this February. Its Extra Special meal deal not only includes a starter, main, two sides, dessert, and either a bottle of wine or a box of Lily O’Brien chocolates for just £15, but you’ll also get a free Sky Movies voucher too.
The menu includes popular dishes like sirloin steak, lamb shanks, and salmon but there’s also a decent vegan offer too with crabless croquettes, an Extra Special Vegan Coq-au-Vin Pie and Extra Special Vegan Belgian Dark Chocolate and Raspberry Hearts to finish.
Offer ends February 14.
Buy now £15.00, ASDA
M&S Valentine’s Dine In
Coming in at £5 more than its competitors, M&S’s V-Day menu is a tale of luxury all the way. The deal includes a starter, a main, a side, a dessert and a bottle of fizz or wine or a box of chocolates for £20. We’d start with the delightfully savoury leek and cheese souffle tarts before the lamb rack for our main course, wrapping things up with the Nuts About You cheesecake, an addictive baked chocolate praline cheesecake topped with heart shaped chocs.
And yes, we can confirm the Love Sausage is back for another year. Romance lives at M&S.
Available in-store only, find your nearest foodhall here.
Buy now £20.00, M&S
Morrisons Valentine’s Day Dine in for Two Meal Deal
The supermarket chain is matching its competitor’s offers with a £15 meal deal offer for two people.
Options for the delicious feast include camembert tear & share bread, scallops and prawns, beef wellington, sirloin steak, rolled dover sole, dauphinoise potatoes, profiteroles and chocolate brownie puddings for afters.
Wash it all down with one of Morrisons award-winning wines (Prosecco or Rose Prosecco are in the deal too), or a special soft drink. Vegans are catered for as well, with plenty of satisfying plant-based options.
Buy now £15.00, Morrisons
Best luxury meal kits for Valentine’s Day
Drake & Morgan
If you’re a carnivore, steak is the most popular option for Valentine’s dinner. But, as any connoisseur knows, not all cuts are created equal.
Push the boat out on the 14th by splashing out on Drake & Morgan Valentine’s Box which includes a 27-day Himalayan dry aged chateaubriand and all the trimmings to befit the occasion: think confit potatoes, salt-baked beetroot, thyme roasted carrots, spring greens, gravy & béarnaise sauce. The three-course dinner will come accompanied with a pair of Red Rose pre-batched cocktails and a bottle of Laurent-Perrier La Cuvée for extra Valentine’s sparkle. One for those hoping to make a big impression.
11:59pm on Sunday, February 6 for delivery on February 11or Saturday 12depending on your location.
Buy now £145.00, Drake & Morgan
Hawksmoor at Home this Valentine’s
There are a pair of Valentine’s-ready options to steak out (sorry) at Hawksmoor this year: the centre-cut rump box (a new cut, similar to a fillet, £95), and the chateaubriand box (£125). Bursting with enough gourmet fare to feed two, each comes with Old Spot Belly ribs and slaw, prepped chips to sling into the oven, and sides of creamed spinach, macaroni cheese and their deliciously addictive peppercorn sauce. There’s always room for dessert, especially when it’s a rich chocolate fondant. Options without alcohol are available, but if you do opt in, you can expect a bottle of Champagne and blood orange gimlet cocktails with your delivery.
Valentine’s Day boxes are available for deliveries from 10th to 12th and 17th to 19th February. Orders must be placed by Monday 9am for that week’s delivery.
From £95.
Buy now £95.00, Hawksmoor
Makes Miso Hungry
Japanese cuisine can seem like a complex culinary skill to master, but Makes Miso Hungry makes it so easy with its recipe kits. Founder Yoko Nakada prepares all the elements to make the cooking process as streamlined and as fun as possible.
For Valentine’s Day, the premium Japanese recipe box is offering a one- or two-person dining experience which puts miso aubergine, yellowtail, mushroom and yuzu rice, miso soup and matcha brownies on the table. Break out the candles and get ready for a relaxed evening free from the usual cliches.
Buy now £58.00, Makes Miso Hungry
Burger & Lobster at Home
The wildly popular London restaurant is bringing romance to your door with its Valentine’s Day offering which won’t force you to choose between its bestsellers.
Follow the easy instructions and you can soon expect to sit down to a feast of Whole Nova Scotia Lobster and an 8oz Nebraskan Beef Burger as well as a Lobster Roll to share. Two Potts & Co Lemon and Lime Possets take care of dessert and there’s even a round of MOTH Espresso Martinis to round things off. Free delivery.
Buy now £85.00, Burger & Lobster
Gymkhana Chicken Butter Feast + Wine
Designed for couples who don’t shy away from spice, Gymkhana offers a Valentine’s feast to delight. You’ll kick things off with some papad (poppadoms) and sweet mango chutney before loading the table with velvety Dal Makhani, mint chutney and raita as well as the star of the show, Gymkhana’s top dish: the succulent Butter Chicken, made with corn-fed poultry.
As well as fluffy pilau rice, the kit includes garlic naan to mop up the curry - take it from us, you won’t want to miss a single heavenly drop - and there’s a bottle of 2019 Tempranillo, La Maldicion, Bodegas Marc to accompany your meal too. Finish with a box of chocs.
Also available without wine for £55 - that’s just £25.50 a head. For the flavour, it’s a bargain.
Buy now £73.00, Restokit
Delamina LAND + Wine & Dessert kit
Feel transported to the Near East with Delamina’s Valentine’s dinner kit, which brings forward Eastern Mediterranean home cooking in spectacular style. Choose from EARTH, LAND and SEA packages depending on your tastes.
We felt most tantalised by the LAND menu, which involves a medley of small sharing plates including beef koftas, hand-pulled shawarma, crispy rosemary roasted potatoes and charred cauliflower drizzled with pomegranate molasses, amongst others.
The seven dish odyssey takes more prep than some of the other options in this list, but for the scents that will soon be wafting from your kitchen and the visual display on the table - not to mention the sumptuous flavours - it’s worth the effort. For drinks, the kit also includes a bottle of Montresor Rose Royal Pinot Noir Spumante.
Buy now £100.00, Restokit
Farmisons Valentine’s Meal Boxes
Many of us are trying to curb our meat consumption, saving it for a truly special occasion - and Valentine’s certainly meets the criteria. Treat yourselves to one of Farmison’s recipe kits; there are three options to choose from; Luxury Steak & Caviar, £135, Steak Box, £60, and the Coq au Vin box, £40. You can also pick up a steak tasting hamper, £50, featuring choice cuts to share (or keep for springtime BBQs) and a tasty cheeseboard with three cheeses and a pack of oatcakes, £35.
Buy now £35.00, Farmisons & Co.
Wright Brothers Dining Wright for Two
If you and your Valentine love nothing more than sitting down to a feast of the finest seafood, Wright Brothers has come up trumps. Its Valentine’s Day three course meal includes a scallop starter (complete with shells to amp up plate prettiness), and desserts of either chocolate fondant or sticky toffee pudding. The star of the show? A fully prepped whole Turbot, ready to sling into the oven to cook. It couldn’t be simpler.
Buy now £85.00, Wright Brothers
GAIL’s Breakfast in Bed Hamper
Let the romance start from sunrise with a breakfast hamper that has everything you need to stay warm and cosy between the covers. GAIL’s bundle brings together freshly baked sourdough, organic orange marmalade, Quicke’s whey butter, freshly baked pastries, Daily Dose freshly squeezed orange juice and GAIL’s House Blend Coffee all in a compact box, available for delivery or click and collect from your nearest bakery. A delicious way to start the day.
Côte at Home’s Saint-Valentin menu
Available until February 14, Côte is making it easy to whip up a decadent home-cooked meal with its 'at Home' delivery service. The Saint-Valentin set menu includes everything you need to prepare a three-course meal for your S.O. Choose starters of either British scallops, chicken liver parfait, or goat's cheese tartlets.
For mains, there's either lobster thermidor or chateaubriand steak, each with a selection of sumptuous sides. And for dessert, it's a choice between lemon and armagnac posset or a melty dark chocolate and almond fondant. Stick a fork in us...
From £84.95
Buy now £84.95, Côte
The Kraken Rum Jellyfish Valentine’s Dinner
If you're up for adding some adventure to your Valentine's dinner, an answer has risen from the deep thanks to The Kraken Rum.
The booze brand is running a competition which will see a slap-up three-course meal delivered to their door, free of charge.
Developed by professional chefs, the plates put one of the ocean’s most sustainable resources, the jellyfish, take the spotlight in the starter, main - even the dessert - all to be washed down with a wickedly boozy Kraken cocktail.
But that's not all; the kit will also contain Kraken’s new ‘Unknown Deep’ limited-edition bottle, a set of octopus-themed plates and an ocean projector to recreate an on-theme underwater setting at home, obviously.
Brits can enter to win via The Beast’s online portal The League of Darkness. Lucky winners will have feasts delivered on February 12.
Buy now, The Kraken
