Guides

Easter is a time of joy and celebration, and what better way to appreciate this wonderful holiday than with a magnificent feast with the best fine foods? This Easter at home, share the love with those closest to you and show how much you care with a delicious spread of the finest specialist lamb, Easter gifts, and much more. Here at Fine Food Specialist, we love being a part of your big celebrations and special occasions by supplying you with all the ingredients to make the day momentous. Read on down below for our top recommendations for gifting, Easter menu ideas, and more…

Go all out this Mother’s Day 2021 to celebrate the mums in your life with our stunning line-up of gourmet gift boxes and food hampers. What better way to show your appreciation and love than by gifting them their favourite foods? Put together a special dinner menu or send a collection of fine foods to show how much you care. Read our ultimate guide to Mother’s Day food gifts below.

Wondering what’s in season this March? Check out our handy guide to the best in season produce this month. March signals the beginning of spring and with it a whole new host of exciting vegetables and fruits to experiment with in the kitchen. We’ve got some exciting seasonal delights in store this month, so take a look below to learn more and pick up some tips and fantastic recipes from Drogo’s Kitchen.

Here at Fine Food Specialist, we are passionate about sourcing the best ingredients and new and exciting foods. Our stunning range of seafood is a great source of pride for us, and we love being able to offer some of the finest specialist fish and shellfish to our fantastic customers. This is the Fine Food Specialist guide to seafood featuring everything from sashimi grade fish to exotic delicacies that should be on your foodie bucket list, plus our best seafood recipes from Drogo’s Kitchen. Scroll down to read more…

Here at Fine Food Specialist we take the greatest care in sourcing the finest produce from around the world to deliver straight to your door, and there is no exception when it comes to truffles. Our fine selection is imported from Italy, France, and even further afield for more niche varieties of truffles...

During the month of February we see lots of earthy, wintry produce and many beautiful fruits too. Roots and citrus are the main types of fresh produce in February, but there are plenty of other exciting varieties available too. Our selection of root vegetables is diverse and exciting, and will provide ample reason to tuck into many hearty roasts and warming stews. Equally you’ll find that certain fruits such as oranges are hitting their peak flavour. Read on to explore all the vegetables in season and get inspired to try something new.

Let's get ready to celebrate Chinese New Year 2021! Everything you need to know about the Spring Festival, Chinese New Year recipes, traditions and more. We take you through all our best-selling foods and favourite dishes to ring in the Lunar New Year in style!

Wagyu is widely regarded in the beef industry as a luxury food thanks to its high standards of production, creating a beautiful end product that is enjoyed by many around the world. Wagyu beef has been featured on the menus of many high-end restaurants and is consistently favoured by purveyors of fine food.

Here's a round-up of our favourite recipes from Drogo's Kitchen for you to try out!  Featuring our best-selling ingredients...You'll want to delve into these! Level up your cooking in 2021 with us.

October brings a selection of comforting autumnal flavours in earthy mushrooms, sweet pumpkins and heartier greens such as chicory and watercress. We stock some of the most exciting varieties of fruit and vegetables available including hard to find Vitellotte purple potatoes, fragrant Muscat grapes and a pumpkin that’s nurtured, heat-cured and stamped with a special marker of quality - definitely not one for carving into a Halloween lantern!

Autumn means game season and the arrival of lots of new and interesting meats to play around with. The word ‘game’ defines a group of birds and wild animals, which are hunted by game specialists and prized for their full, rich flavour. Our wide selection of birds, venison, rabbit and hare are just what you need to bring some interest and excitement to a weekday meal or dinner party. 

We have sourced the finest varieties of caviar from Russia to Italy, farmed using innovative techniques to achieve the best taste. Peruse our comprehensive collection and you will find we cater to every occasion, from finding your personal favourites to impressing dinner party guests to treating a friend with a beautiful caviar gift. Here we will take you through all your questions about caviar and how to best enjoy this luxury foodstuff!

Mushrooms are the perfect way to add depth of flavour to a dish with very little effort, and at Fine Food Specialist, we stock a wide range; from earthy, meaty morels with their distinctive wrinkled caps to delicate golden chanterelles and skinny, silken enoki. Here’s our guide to working with one of nature’s most versatile ingredients.

Sometimes it’s hard to know what’s missing from a dish to give it the wow factor, which is where garnishes such as edible flowers and micro herbs really come into their own. 

These flowers and herbs are just coming into season in the spring, and you’ll find an exciting range available in store to transform your dish into something special. 

Every year, there are a host of exciting events dotted throughout the calendar. These are the events that help shape every 12 months, and keep us looking forward to what’s around the corner.  But so caught up in our own worlds can we be that it’s easy to forget there are not only other worlds out there, but that there are other calendars out there as well!

We all have our favourite types of luxury foods, and nothing quite matches a dish containing something you truly love the taste of and don’t get to eat every day. For many, perhaps due to the associations with holidays and sunshine, seafood is a top choice in the luxury food department. Exquisite fruits of the sea can be hard to acquire, but are so rewarding when they’re cooked to perfection and complemented by other fantastic food products. 

If you are on the lookout for gifts for foodies, you might not feel that the range of products available at your local supermarket are quite what you need. To deliver true culinary quality, it’s vital you seek the very best products sourced from high-quality suppliers.

When it comes to experiencing exquisite culinary delights, there are few things quite like a delicious selection of cheese. The combination of texture, smell and taste is what separates cheese from other gourmet food options. A truly top-quality cheese encompasses everything you want from a food choice – sensational flavours that can be enjoyed in a range of contexts and meal options.

As you may know, we held a competition for our customers to send photos in of the dishes that they have made using our ingredients. We had some amazing responses and have created this gallery of our favourite images and creations! Our winner was Chris Coleby, who sent it this amazing photo of Sashimi Cobia with Salted Cucumber Tartare, Green Chilli, Cucumber and Celeriac. Congratulations Chris on this amazing dish, we hope you enjoy your prize!

One of the most interesting things about great food dishes is the visual impact they can have, and how this transfers to taste and overall enjoyment. This idea goes back centuries. Apicius, a Roman Gourmand who lived in the 1st century, is rumoured to have coined the phrase ‘We eat first with our eyes’.