If you find cooking Christmas dinner just too stressful then one of Edinburgh’s fine dining restaurants may have the solution.
The Wedgwood At Home Festive Box, a full six course festive feast, is created with local Scottish ingredients. The box is supplied with fail safe instructions as to how to cook and plate the dishes. The idea was launched to market during Covid and bought back last year.
Paul Wedgwood the chef patron of Wedgwood The Restaurant on Canongate is eager to help festive hosts on Christmas Day.
The boxes are prepared in a kitchen in Leith where Paul, wife Lisa and their staff have more space than they do in the Old Town.
The boxes are available for delivery nationwide. All boxes contain fully prepared meals, safely packaged and insulated, sent out on 22 December, for delivery by Christmas Eve.
Personal delivery
For customers who live in the EH postcode area they might have the pleasure of Paul and Lisa, or one of their team members, hand delivering the boxes to their doors. The boxes can also be collected from the restaurant.
Along with the classic box, which supplies a Christmas Dinner for two, boxes are available for a party of three and up. Those dining alone on the big day needn’t miss out on having something prepared and ready to eat on Christmas Day, with a box for one which is also available. Vegetarian and gluten free options can be substituted according to requirements.
Wedgwood At Home Festive Box
Paul Wedgwood.said: “After last year’s successful return, we just had to bring the Wedgwood At Home Festive Box back permanently.“Feedback from customers was not only that the dishes supplied tasted amazing and presented of a professional standard, but that they, as hosts, had been able to relax much more, and actually enjoy the meal themselves.
“We gave them two cold starters to be eaten whilst the other two hot courses were being heated. They could spend the maximum time with their guests, rather than being stuck in the kitchen for hours, missing out on the fun and frivolities of the day.
“We have stuck with this concept in this year’s boxes, with two easy, but impressive cold starters, a Douglas Fir cured Shetland salmon dish, served with smoked potato, beetroot, watercress, fennel, & capsicum crumble, and a Lammermuir Hills Grouse ham, with Jerusalem artichoke and hazelnut.
“These courses are alternating, as you enjoy one course, you can gently heat the next hot course. With a choice of main courses – a cider brined pheasant breast, or a roast turkey breast served with all the trimmings, you really do get to create your perfect Christmas. You can also choose different mains for different guests, in a box for two, one guest can opt for Turkey, whilst the other enjoys the pheasant dish.”
Christmas dinner made special
Paul says these are “tried and tested recipes that won’t let you down”, and he highlighted that his festive boxes contained local produce of the very highest quality.
He said:“Your Christmas Day Dinner should be the most special of the year.
“Time and logistics can be challenging in cooking. It can be extremely stressful getting everything ready on time. For many on Christmas Day, cooking involves a long, multi-hour process which leaves them feeling exhausted, and more than a bit cheated.
“If you follow our simple step by step instructions included in the box, regarding heat up and plating, you can’t go wrong.”
Desserts in The Wedgwood At Home Festive Box include vanilla poached pear, with salted caramel, almond crumb, and a spiced gingerbread sticky toffee pudding, served with sea buckthorn toffee sauce. Wedgwood can offer gluten free and vegetarian options.
Customers also have the chance to add specially selected wines to their order, including Wedgwood’s very own Rioja.
Wedgwood vouchers are fully redeemable against the festive boxes.
To order, simply visit the Wedgwood website at Festive Boxes 2025 — Wedgwood the Restaurant. Prices from £90.
www.wedgwoodtherestaurant.co.uk
- WEDGWOOD AT HOME FESTIVE BOX REGULAR TASTING MENU
- Douglas fir cured Shetland salmon, smoked potato, beetroot, watercress, fennel, capsicum crumble
- Butternut squash veloute, pancetta, kale, cumin cream
- Lammermuir Hills Grouse ham, Jerusalem artichoke, hazelnut
- Cider brined pheasant breast OR Roast turkey breast, all the best traditional trimmings
- Vanilla poached pear, Salted caramel, almond crumb
- Spiced gingerbread sticky toffee pudding, Sea buckthorn toffee sauce
- £90 for 1 person | £180 for 2 people ¦ £270 for 3 people ¦ Delivery included
