Make food from your favourite Birmingham restaurants this lockdown.
It’s just not the same with restaurants closed. We are all craving eating somewhere besides our dining table or lap and food that we haven’t made ourselves. Eating out was damn great. Especially as it is more exciting than the same old baked beans on toast or cup of soup for lunch. Luckily, Birmingham restaurants have adapted and helped bring some of the flavours and ambiance we miss so much to our door in the form of kits and heat at home packages, that include everything to prepare their meals in our very own kitchens. Here are just some of the best lockdown kits you can get your hands on in Birmingham.
1. Low ‘N’ Slow
One of Birmingham’s faves, which features at Digbeth Dining Club, is Low ‘N’ Slow who are offering their very own meaty meals to enjoy at home. Each lockdown kit includes step-by-step instructions to finish your dishes at home. The menu varies each week and dishes have included half a free range chicken, broken down into breast, inner fillet, thigh, leg and wing. The chicken is citrus brined for two days and coated in Low ‘N’ Slow’s blend of spiced flour ready for you to fry at home. This dish also comes with their hot pepper sauce and two cheddar and jalapeño cornbread muffins. Menus have also featured octopus, smoked lamb ribs as well as pecan pie for pudding. The kits found on their website start from around £25 and serves two with local delivery on Saturdays and national delivery on Wednesdays.
2. Pulperia
Experience the best dishes from this elegant Argentine restaurant as well as some top quality ingredients and drinks. Pulperia has a number of dishes for you to either finish or simply serve at home like their own take on a Sunday roast for £60 click and collect, or £75 national delivery, which includes 1 Kilo of Argentinian Sirloin Beef, roast heritage carrots, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, truffle cauliflower cheese, creamed cabbage with pommery mustard, and a bone marrow and Malbec gravy. You can order from their online shop and collect from the restaurant at a designated time. You can also order a curry box with a selection of 10 traditional curry dishes from sister restaurant, Aktar Islam, to enjoy at home.
3. Habaneros
Birmingham’s independent Mexican street food restaurant, Habaneros, will be serving up their very own home kits this lockdown – each packed with everything you need to make to make either DIY burritos, tacos or loaded nachos. Their menu includes chicken, chilli beef, BBQ pulled pork or roast vegetable burritos and tacos or chicken, pulled pork, chilli beef or standard nachos which all come with cheese, fresh salsa, jalapeños, hot sauce and sour cream. The DIY lockdown kits start from £5.50 and you can add guacamole and a bottle of Habaneros hot sauce if you’re wanting to take these kits up a notch on the spice scale. And if you’re looking for a low maintenance option, order one of their Cuban sandwiches which you simply bake in the oven. Plus, Habaneros offer free delivery for orders over £25.
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4. Buddha Belly
Providing comforting Thai food for us to enjoy at home (without hopelessly trying to cook up your own dish), Buddha Belly are offering reheatable Thai street food dishes as well as crispy chicken DIY kit. You can order yourself and your household up to 10 dishes, including slow cooked beef massaman and spicy chicken panang, to cook that evening or to freeze for another night of hassle-free cooking. The crispy chicken DIY kit includes chicken marinated in Thai herbs and coated in a crispy batter, as well as wheat-based noodles, sriracha mayo and sweet sauce. And of course full cooking instructions. You can also order their meals through Green Duck Brewery who are delivering in Birmingham or Cup Coffee Shop in Hagley for a click and collect service.
5. Bare Bones Pizza
Allowing customers to try their own hand at pizza making, Bare Bones Pizza is bringing DIY lockdown kits including ready-proofed dough, tomato sauce, cheese and, of course, the all important cooking instructions. It’s the perfect way to have the fresh-out-of-the-oven experience at home while the restaurant is closed – and you can take all the credit. Win-win. There are pizza kits for 2 or 4 people, with gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan options available, and can be ordered on their website from just £14.99. Bare Bones Pizza also have a number of collaboration pizza kits which can include beer by Leviathan Brewing or a murder mystery game for your household to get involved in.
6. The Deli in Boldmere
For all your delicatessen needs such as cheese, meats, chutneys and store cupboard items delivered to your door, The Deli in Boldmere is on hand. Plus, pizza fans can now get hold of their very own bake at home pizzas (doughy crust included!) thanks to the much-loved Sutton Coldfield deli. And differentiating themselves from the competition, they’re offering just £1 delivery for those within four kilometres of the deli so those in the north of Birmingham can get a slice of the action. Plus, you can sling in a few olives or charcuterie into your basket along with the £7.50 pizza kit to make it more personalised.
7. Wayland’s Yard
Just because we’re in lockdown doesn’t mean we need to miss out on brunch. Wayland’s Yard have solved our weekend woes by offering lockdown kits in the form of a brunch hamper including the recipe and ingredients for their famous Eggy Crumpet. Inside the hamper you’ll find crumpets, Wayland’s secret eggy crumpet herbs & spice mix, their homemade chilli jam, halloumi, eggs, fresh chilli and spring onion, a fresh loaf of bread, plus a bag of coffee (whole beans or ground) or tea alongside a choice of milks (dairy-free options available). The hamper starts from £24 and caters for around four people, or two people for both Saturday and Sunday, and there is the option to add additional portions. There will only be 50 available each week, so get in their quick.
8. Dishoom
Providing the opportunity to experience their cult classic bacon naan roll at home this lockdown, Dishoom has created a kit with everything you’ll need to make yours – and they really do make the perfect breakfast. The kits come complete with fresh naan doughballs to roll out and bake yourself, bacon, tomato-chilli jam, coriander and cream cheese – replicating the iconic breakfast experience in the comfort of our own homes.