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The Booze Subscription Boxes Worth Knowing About This Year

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It’s 2018. Subscription boxes are a thing – nay, the thing. Think of something, anything, and you can bet a start up will have created it in a deliverable format for your convenience. I get beauty surprises delivered to me monthly thanks to Glossybox to satisfy the part of me that craves novelty treats, and blades delivered to me bi-monthly from Friction Free Shaving to take the ballache out of remembering to replace them. A concept that is new to me, however, is getting booze delivered to my door. I’ve always been more of a grab-and-gulp girl than a plan-and-pour one. If I know I’ve got a fancy dinner on the cards, I’ll buy a bottle of wine. If I know I’ve got a night out planned, I make a beeline for the Aldi spirits aisle for their holy grail gin. Having trialled Clara Wine for the past few months, I can totally see the benefits of having bottles arrive monthly. Let’s dive into it. What’s the deal? Clara are a UK based wine subscription …

REVIEW // Marley Spoon, recipe delivery service

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It’s a Wednesday, I’ve just finished work, I’m feeling both hungry and unimaginative in equal parts and I don’t have anything in the cupboard. Thankfully, today is the day I try Marley Spoon. I lug my big box of ingredients for two nights worth of meals home (note to self for future: if I were to try this again, I would have the ingredients sent straight to my house instead of the office, that was one big box and I travel on one busy bus) and set about unpacking them. My Mum hangs around for this bit and if you were to pop into the kitchen you would think we were visiting a new born baby. We were “aww”ing and “ooh”ing and “oh my god that’s so cute/clever”ing left, right and centre. This is because every ingredient is carefully (dare I say lovingly?) packaged, mostly in brown paper, with a handwritten label. On the website, their ingredients are described as always organic when possible and sourced from within the UK unless there’s a good reason not …

Review | dinein.co.uk Brighton (MeatLiquor Takeaway!)

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The information I’m about to bestow upon you is the best news I had received in 2015 so far: You can now get food delivered from restaurants like MeatLiquor and the Curry Leaf Cafe. I’ll give you a moment to celebrate.. Perhaps I’m being extremely naive and there are plenty of services that cart Meat Liquor meals to your door but this is the first I’d heard. What’s the deal? dinein.co.uk is a website that allows you to order food from local restaurants that don’t usually do takeaway, charging a small delivery fee for their trouble. First impressions The only experience I’d had in the past with a service like this was with Dinner2Go (please avoid judging me, hangover McDonald’s are a thing of the past, I promise) so I was apprehensive when I received an email about dinein.co.uk. However, on the first brief inspection those apprehensions melted away pretty quickly. The website isn’t perfect but it’s easy to use and more than fit for purpose. The selection of restaurants is (at the moment) relatively small, some …