10 tasty family treats you can get delivered to your door in Liverpool

If you are stuck inside with the kids night after night or over a weekend, it can be a struggle to make family time special.

How about ordering some tasty treats for you all, to be enjoyed together? Many local independent food and drink places offer home delivery, or you can safely pick purchases up yourself.

Interesting Eating Company

Founded on Allerton Road back in 2012, Interesting Eating provide a shamelessly indulgent and imaginative menu of foods for all the family, and a selection of coffees plus deluxe hot chocolate for the adults.
The pancakes from here are famous, of course. If savoury tickles your taste buds, then bacon or sausage with Maple syrup, chicken and mushroom to roasted vegetables and sundried tomatoes has you sorted. Sweet pancakes are available for your culinary pleasure as well, from classic lemon and sugar to the Kids! Decorate your own! option with a choice of sauce, marshmallows and jellybeans – and why not add on white chocolate, sprinkles, chopped nuts, or peanut butter? You can also upgrade to a Yank Stack, and Interesting Eating will do their best to accommodate any other requests you may have!

Follow on Facebook and order here.

Crust

Crust

Crust’s ovens are fired up and ready to cook your favourite pizza topped with fresh ingredients from tried and long trusted Italian suppliers. A Crust pizza is ideal to scoff with the kids. Or, once they’ve gone to bed, to help make date night at home extra memorable.  Get your scran to be delivered via Uber eats or deliveroo, or collect it yourself from the Liverpool Bold St or Woolton Village restaurants.

Choose from a selection of starters such as pan-fried prawns or Focaccia bread, and so many different pizzas tasty to both meat lovers  – spicy salami Diavola is a total winner-  and veggies, for example wild mushroom Boscaiola!  Pizza wraps are irresistible to children and grown-ups both, and Crust have chicken, sausage, steak, salmon, vegetarian and more. Then there are the burgers and pasta dishes and selection of beers and wines as well….

Order via the website www.crustliverpool.co.uk

Laura’s Little Bakery

Laura’s Little Bakery celebrates 10 years of success this month. Laura Worthington started her business with just six months baking experience and has gone from strength to strength, known for her bespoke beautifully designed and delicious cakes, cupcakes and baked goodies. She supplies the public, as well as corporate clients such as LFC, EFC, Harvery Nichols, the Arena and Liverpool Empire plus cafes, restaurants, and weddings.
Laura also runs the Donate A Cake initiative which aims to get birthday cakes to local children whose parents can’t afford it themselves.

Order here.

The Midnight Delivery

Midnight Delivery does exactly what it says on the (cake) tin! It delivers cakes, and sweets to your home from 7pm-12pm from Monday to Sunday. This is the delivery service for you if you’ve got a sweet tooth and find yourself hankering after a serious sugar hit out of hours. Try white chocolate Kinder Bueno filled doughnuts, Terry’s Chocolate Orange cookie dough, Galaxy Caramel Nutella brownies just to start with. And if you like milkshakes they have them too, Daim and salted caramel and Jammy Dodger ones are to die for!
Download the app and order here.

LIDS – Liverpool Independent Delivery Services

LIDS is the fastest way to get quality local products from the best and most reliable independent retailers around, delivered straight to your door. For family time, you can choose Mrs Danvers Afternoon Tea special for children with finger sandwiches, mini pizza, mini sausage roll, mini kiev and more. For sweet treats with the little ones, LIDS also has Laura’s Little Bakery offering between 4, 8 or 12 cakes in a box, or The Little Shoe Bakery’s Kids Festive Box of cake, mince pie, colouring book and treats.

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Honest Burgers

With Honest Burger, the family can get together and have fun making burgers as well as eating them! Honest at Home is a package containing everything you need to whip up Honest and Tribute Burgers – both made from chopped British chuck steak and rib cap patties from the Honest Butchery – and Plant Burgers, in your own kitchen at your convenience.  Firm favourites Honest chips aren’t available for home delivery, but you get some rosemary salt in the Honest at Home package to add that distinctive kick to your own spuds.

Order them here.

The Dark Kitchen Presents…

The Dark Kitchen Presents….is a brand new multi menu restaurant offering an ambitious seven different menus delivered to your door. They aim to cover all food tastes imaginable within their spectacular ranging menus! Asian, Italian, Mexican, plant based, with a massive range of fries to choose from, Liverpool’s best and dirtiest  – straight cut, curly, waffle and sweet potato –   and of course desserts, with cheesecake and ice cream. They have a Little White Christmas menu too – we hear great things about its Christmas Yorkshire Pudding Wrap!

See the massive menu here.

For Mums & Dads…

Love Lane Brewery

Love Lane’s online shop is open, and has the full range of the beer we’ve all become so familiar with, including the classic and ever popular Pale Ale, plus lager and a range of IPAs. You can treat yourself to a Higsons 5L mini cask of their Golden Ale too. It goes without saying that they have gin as well – from Ginsmiths of Liverpool, you can choose dry, Merchant and Marshmallow-flavoured and Love Lane’s own Passionflower. Should your beer thirst need slaking after a long week at work, if you take your growler bottle to the brewery they will refill it for you. Just swing by every Friday between 4pm – 7pm.  It’s the nearest thing to going to the pub and you’ll be supporting your favourite local brewery at the same time.

More info and orders here.

Craft Taproom

Craft Taproom on Smithdown Road are quite simply committed to distributing wonderful beer, which so happens to be fully vegan!
If you fancy stout or porter or fruity or sours or Belgian beer or cider or pretty much anything, they will deliver it to you via courier, or offer local delivery if you live nearby. They sell low alcohol beverages and gluten free as well. At Craft Taproom the Bob Ross Paint-A-Long nights were so popular, regulars creating unique oil painting masterpieces! That isn’t possible right now so you can buy a handy Bob In A Box with the tools and paint and the help you might need to create. The box includes a link to the Taproom’s Paint-A-Long video to watch anytime, or you can join everyone else at 7pm on Twitch on Thursday 12th of December.

Order here.

Idle Hands

Seasonal craft cocktails to enjoy at home, with specially designed garnishes to match, are made and delivered by Idle Hands in 250ml bottles for 2/3 serves and 500ml eco friendly pouches with 4/5 serves. Idle Hands give classic cocktails their very own unique twist; Rum Old Fashioned, Sidecar (cognac, Cointreau and mulled spice with a slug of Supasawa, in case you’re wondering), Espresso Martini (finished and elevated with the addition of marshmallow and a pinch of salt), Peel slowly and see, Nina, My Dear (ideal while listening to Nina Simone belt out Lilac Wine on the stereo), and Gravity’s Rainbow. The festive Christmas Thyme, Idle Hands’ take on the classic French 75 or Soixante Quinze, has half a bottle of Prosecco in it! Christmas cocktail boxes come with cupcakes complete with flavours to compliment each beverage.

Order here.