Special offer: Free £10 wine voucher - Laithwaite Wines are offering first time customers a £10 voucher, this voucher may be used in part payment for a 12 bottle case of wine. Only one voucher per customer. Minimum spend £65 - i.e. voucher can only be used on cases costing at least £65 before discount. This voucher only applies when buying wine online and may not be used in conjunction with any other offers (including introductory offers and quarterly wine plans), exchanged for cash or refunded if lost. Please enter 'LWCJ0605' in the voucher request box to obtain your discount at Laithwaite Wine Merchants.

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Hotel Chocolat - Luxury Chocolates A good range of the finest chocolates in very attractive packaging, making them ideal for gifts. We tried them and they are delicious! The Chocolate Tasting Club offers chocoholics a way to taste some of the world's best chocolates every month. Rated one of the UK's 50 best online food and drink suppliers by the Independent newspaper who said: "Continental suppliers are the backbone of this well-designed site, while clear product pictures give you a good idea of what it is you are buying.......There is a linked Chocolate Tasting Club, too, in which members receive a new selection every month and rate the chocolates online; take out a gift subscription and treat a friend to a welcome and unusual present". Best Feature: Free delivery. Very tasty chocolates! Worst Feature: Not cheap, but good quality. Our Rating: 8/10. UK Delivery Charges: Free to UK. Click here to visit Hotel Chocolat. Also recommended are: The Chocolate Trading Company who stock a wide selection of premium chocolates from around the world - with gourmet chocolate from Amedei, Michel Cluizel, Valrhona, Bonnat, El Rey and many more highly respected chocolate makers creating fine, pure chocolate and they sell chocolate hampers too (great gifts!); Also good for luxury chocolates are zchocolat - quality French chocolates and delicious natural vanilla-flavoured hot chocolate; as well as the fabulous Montezumas (luxury hand made organic quality chocolate) and Montgomery Moore where you can buy the chocolate Nigella Lawson uses in her recipes. Delvaux offer delicious organic, Belgian and personalised chocolates; while a range of chocolate gifts is also available at Aphrodite Handmade Chocolates - these English luxury chocolates are hand made by chocolatier Janet Vine. Delicious Fruit Truffles, Fudge, Liqueurs and champagne chocolates and Fine Coffee make perfect ideas for Gifts or Presents with Free UK delivery. Finally, no chocoholic should miss Melchior's praline truffles, liquid chocolate liquers and gorgeous novelty chocolates for children including a chocolate cat, dog, pig, hen, owl, lamb, rabbit, squirrel, and two bunnies in a basket! Have your cake and eat it - if you are looking for a Birthday cake or indeed a cake for any other occasion try the website of Meg Rivers Cakes, where you can choose from a chocolate cake made from Belgian chocolate, Dutch cocoa and espresso coffee; rich English fruit cake packed with sherry soaked fruit, nuts and spices; or rich, moist and nutty chocolate brownie traybakes made with Belgian chocolate, walnuts and espresso coffee. You can also say Happy Birthday to someone special with a rich fruit, chocolate or Victoria sponge celebration cake baked to order and hand decorated with your chosen message. Oddbins Wine Merchants Winner of the 'best high-street chain' award from the Which? Wine Guide, Oddbins web site is another good place to buy wine online - you know what you are getting here with an online version of the award winning high street wine merchants. Offers a 5% discount when purchasing wine by the case - which is 12 or more, mixed or unmixed, bottles of wine. Not only wine, but champagne and single malt whisky are also available to buy online. A colourful site, which is easy to use - mixed cases of wine are available from £49,99 with delivery included in the price. A good place to buy single malt whisky online - current offers include buy two bottles and save £10 on a range of single malts including Laphroaig; Ardbeg; Dalwhinnie; Glenmorangie and Talisker. Best Feature: Great selection of single malts. Worst Feature: Our Rating: 9/10. UK Delivery Charges: Included. Click here to visit Oddbins. Majestic Wine Majestic Wine Warehouses are the UK's biggest mixed case wine retailer with over 100 stores nationwide and an award-winning website. Majestic offers free UK delivery, which is carried out directly from local Majestic stores in Majestic vans by Majestic staff, all arranged at a time to suit the customer. All the in-store special offers are available online, plus there's a dedicated pre-mixed cases section (ideal for gifts) and customers can even order beer, water and soft drinks. Majestic only sells wine and spirits with a minimum purchase of 12 bottles, but you can mix any style or price. A very user friendly and well designed site, which makes it easy to purchase wine on the internet. Best Feature: Good prices and selection. Worst Feature: Our Rating: 9/10. UK Delivery Charges: Free. Click here to visit Majestic Wine. Waitrose Wines Direct Of all the supermarkets, Waitrose has by far the best selection of wines and now you can order them online even if you live nowhere near a Waitrose store. Select your own wines to make a case of 12 or simply buy one of the mixed cases, selected by their Masters of Wine. Waitrose guarantees the quality of their wines - if you are not completely satisfied they will replace your wine or refund your money. Our favourite wines include the gorgeous Rutherglen Estates Durif 2002; the silky smooth Ninth Island Pinot Noir from Tasmania and the fantastic Porcupine Ridge Syrah 2002 from Franschoek in South Africa. The site is quick and easy to use and our wine order arrived promptly. The Waitrose Wines department is now incorporated into the John Lewis site. Best Feature: Best selection of all the supermarkets. Worst Feature: You can no longer mix your own case. Our Rating: 9/10. UK Delivery Charges: Delivery takes 7-10 working days and costs £4.95, or is free for orders of £100 or more to a single address. Click here to visit Waitrose Wine Direct. Virgin Wines From Richard Branson's Virgin empire - Virgin wines is an online wine merchant selling wines by the case. New customers get £20 off their first order and the virgin wine web site is easy to navigate and use. Good features include customer reviews of wines and a promise to refund your money if you don't like a wine! A casual and friendly approach to wine drinking and buying wine online means that the site is aimed at people who are not wine experts and the 'Wine Wizard' will suggest wines for you based on your preferences. You can also join the online wine club. The selection of wine you can buy online is huge - over 6000 wines are on offer. Best Feature: £15 off your first order. Customer reviews. Worst Feature: Our Rating: 9/10. UK Delivery Charges: £3.95. Click here to visit Virgin Wines. The Real Meat Company An attractive and easy to use site offering a wide variety of high quality meat products. The founders, Richard Guy and Gilly Metherell, have been producing real meat from their own livestock since the 1970's. After getting married in 1985, they combined their ethical beliefs and their farming expertise by setting up The Real Meat Company. As well as various cuts of beef, pork, lamb and chicken - sausages, burgers and other ready prepared products are available. Best Feature: £5 off your first order. High quality. Worst Feature: Minimum order is £35. Our Rating: 9/10. UK Delivery Charges: £3.95. Click here to visit the Real Meat Company. AG Millers Specialists selling organic and free range meat, poultry, eggs, game and delicatessen items. Their next day UK home delivery service is only £5.95 or free delivery on orders over £75.00. (Order by 2 pm for next day delivery). Try a free range Turkey, Goose or Guinea Fowl for Christmas. Also recommended are: Heal Farm, who offer a wide range of meat as well as desserts, cakes, chocolates, preserves and ready made meals and Graig Farm, who offer organic meat, fruit and vegetables, fish, bread and groceries; as well as Higher Hacknell whose Beef in particular, is excellent (try the rib-eye steaks). Good quality Welsh Lamb and other meat is available to buy on-line at the friendly Edwards of Conwy Butchers, while Happy Meats provides quality lamb and Rare Breed Grass Fed Beef as well as sausages from their Gloucester Old Spot pigs. If you are looking for (frozen) ready meals made from free range chicken or organic meats, try the range on offer at Swaddles Green Farm. They offer a good variety of tasty convenience meals made from all natural ingredients and ready to pop into the microwave or oven. Another place to buy good quality ready made meals is at Piper's Farm who have 4 different ready-cooked dishes to choose from as well as larger portions of 7 different ready-to-go casseroles. They also sell chicken stock and delicious Devon beef. More organic meat can be found at Jonathan Dimbleby and Paul Robinson's Bath Organic Farms - offering organic Beef, Lamb, Poultry, Pork and Sausages. Also recommended for meat - Moorlands Farm Shop, particularly for their mutton - they also sell good quality goat meat. Laverstoke Park Farm Shop offer their award winning Hebridean lamb as well as some more unusual meats, including Wild Boar; Buffalo and Biltong made from Beef, Buffalo or Venison. Longhorn beef (the breed used on Heston Blumenthal's BBC 2 programme) is one of the meats sold at Meridian Meats, along with Longhorn Beef and Colmans mustard sausages and Longhorn Beef, Thyme and wholegrain mustard sausages - both winners of Gold Awards in the 2006 Great Taste Awards. If you want to eat some of the best chicken you have ever tasted; then try Label Anglais Free Range Poultry. Chef Gordon Ramsay was a recent visitor to their farm. Having started to use Label Anglais chicken in his London restaurants, Gordon was interested in seeing how Label Anglais poultry was raised. He was so impressed that he featured Label Anglais in his regular Saturday Times Magazine feature. The Fish Society A huge selection of fish (frozen to ensure freshness) is available at this appealing site. This is good quality fish (recommended by BBC Good Food magazine and Good Housekeeping magazine) - so if you are a seafood fan then fill up your freezer! Best Feature: Discount on your first order. High quality. Worst Feature: Your order needs to be over £50 to avoid high postage. Our Rating: 9/10. UK Delivery Charges: £5.00 on orders over £50; free on orders over £100. £10 on orders under £50. Click here to visit the Fish Society. Martins Seafresh Which? Webtrader approved, and have been trading on the net for nearly three years, selling fresh Fish, Lobsters and other seafood direct from Cornish boats to the consumers door by overnight delivery. The internet gives consumers the ability to buy their fish direct from the source, giving them the best quality product at reasonable prices. Best Feature: Helpful and interesting weekly e-mail newsletter. Worst Feature: Our Rating: 9/10. UK Delivery Charges: No minimum order - for orders under £25.00 in value delivery charge is the full cost of £8.50; for orders between £25.00 and £60.00 delivery charge is £5.00; for orders over £60.00 delivery is free. Click here to visit Martins Seafresh. Also recommended for fresh seafood are http://www.cornish-fish.co.uk in Cornwall and Ramus Seafoods in Harrogate - both deliver to most parts of the UK. Brown and Forrest Smoked Food A good selection of smoked food, made in small batches at this Somerset smokery. We visited the premises last summer and were very impressed with the quality of the food in the on site restaurant. So if you are in the area, pop in for lunch - if they are not too busy they will show you how the food is smoked. They offer their products over the internet too with efficient and prompt delivery. The selection on offer includes their speciality, smoked eels - but if these are not to your taste there is also a variety of smoked salmon and trout products. The selection of smoked meats includes venison, duck, chicken, pork, bacon, ostrich and lamb. Best Feature: Great food, attractive web site. Worst Feature: A few more pictures of the food would be nice, prices have increased recently. Our Rating: 9/10. UK Delivery Charges: Included in the prices. Click here to visit Brown and Forrest Smoked Food. For smoked Scottish salmon we recommend the delicious organic smoked salmon and gravadlax from the friendly 'Harray Potter' - Applesmoke Salmon in Orkney. The Drink Shop If you are looking for an online supplier of liqueurs then try the Drink Shop - they are stockists of everything from Limoncello to Amaretto and Amarula, as well as a range of spirits, beers, cider, wines and champagnes. Clearwater Hampers - Food and Wine Gift Hampers Offers a good selection of high quality food hampers which would make ideal gifts for gourmets! How about a celebration hamper for breakfast in bed on the special day? Or the luxury of smoked salmon and champagne? Other options include hampers for Christmas and Easter, as well as food hampers filled with chocolates, port and stilton hampers, and wine hampers. If you live in Australia, New Zealand or Canada, you can even send a food hamper gift to a friend or relative in the UK filled with produce from your country. For example, the Australian 'Kookaburra' hamper offers Arabicas Black Mountain Ground Coffee, Lemon Myrtle Sweet Chilli Sauce, Penfolds Wine, Suncoast Gold Roasted Salted Macadamias and a Yummy Kitchen Australian Celebration Cake in a presentation box for £34.84 plus £4 for UK delivery. You can also create your own gourmet basket gift hamper by choosing products from a wide selection of food, as well as coffee, tea, port and wine. The only negative point is that while delivery to an address in the UK is very reasonable at around £4, delivery to other countries is expensive, particularly outside of Europe. Best Feature: High quality food hampers. Worst Feature: Delivery outside of Europe can cost more than the hamper! Our Rating: 8/10. UK Delivery Charges: Delivery to the UK and worldwide - cost varies. Click here to visit Clearwater Hampers. Also recommended are: Esperya (Gorgeous Italian Food direct from Italy); Olives et al (the best Olives we have ever tasted, as well as various snacks and delicious nuts in honey); Limoncello (a Cambridge based deli who deliver throughout the UK); Valvona & Crolla (an excellent Edinburgh based deli who also deliver nationwide) and Gourmet World, who have some delicious cakes and nougat, as well as olives, pasta sauces and other food items. Another good online deli is Provender Delicatessen which specialises in fine food and drink from the English West Country - everything from farmhouse cheese to cider brandy, dry cured bacon and hams to smoked eels. Finally, for fantastic garlic and garlic products the Really Garlicky Company (featured on Rick Stein's Food Heroes) is highly recommended - try their recipe for Really Garlicky Chicken. We also love Seasoned Pioneers who sell a vast range of herbs, spices and seasonings in resealable funky foil pouches. Their aim is to "Help Adventurous Souls Achieve Culinary Inspiration" with over one hundred exotic spices, herbs, peppercorns, chillies, and other specialist ingredients, including many organic lines. Try the fragrant Moroccan spice blend Ras-el-Hanout - add it to Couscous or sprinkle a little bit into mashed sweet potatoes. Wineracks If you need somwhere to store your wine purchase, Cotswold Furniture do an attractive wood and steel expandable winerack which will hold from 15 to 90 bottles of wine. Simply extend the storage as you build your wine collection. A good budget solution to your wine storage is the VacuVin Wine Rack. Other sites of interest: BBC Food A comprehensive site from the bbc, offers details of related programmes on tv and radio as well as recipes from celebrity chefs. The site also has a message board, healthy eating advice, readers ratings of recipes and a newsletter. The Yummy Co An excellent site with meal ideas, recipes and entertaining top ten lists of: Restaurants; Summer Puddings; Cocktails; Soups; Dinner Etiquette Tips; Christmas Baking Recipes; Scottish Recipes (try the Cranachan recipe); Organic Food Shops; UK Cookery Courses; Wine Varieties; Breads; Restaurant Reservation Services; Salads; Ice Creams and Organic Restaurants. Small Island Trader Online shopping for luxury fine china, crystal and cookware. Offers all the fine china and porcelain names from the UK and Continental Europe; including: Wedgwood, Spode, Royal Doulton, Haviland Limoges, Royal Albert , Johnson Brothers, Rosenthal, Villeroy & Boch and more. The Cook Shop offers kitchen knives, pots and pans and kitchen gadgets — brands include Le Creuset, Henkels, Chasseuer, All-Clad, Berndes and Mauviel. Also sells crystal from Waterford, Stuart, Dartington, Galway, Schott Zwiesel and more. Recommended reading and recipe books for foodies: Save 60% on Food and Drink books at bol, including 'Kitchen Heaven' by Gordon Ramsay; Rick Stein's 'Food Heroes: Another Helping' and the new Wagamama Cookbook which features 120 Wagamama recipes for you to make at home. French Leave: Over 100 Irresistible Recipes by John Burton Race. The River Cottage Year by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Vino: Great Wine for Everyday Life by Hamish Anderson. Schotts Food and Drink Miscellany by Ben Schott. A collection of vital irrelevance and uncommon knowledge surrounding the worlds of food and drink - the perfect gift for anybody who loves Food and Drink! The Delia Collection: Chicken by Delia Smith. Part of a collection of recipes from Delia Smith, this volume presents fifty of Delia's best chicken recipes. More Cookbooks and Food and Drink Book Offers. Top 10 United Kingdom "Food and Beverage" sites, based on visits. 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