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Corporate Hampers: Perfect Gift Ideas for Clients and Employees
A sophisticated and thoughtful way to show appreciation and say thank you to clients and employees.
Ready-Made Picnic Hampers: Experience Outdoor Dining with Melrose and Morgan
We're excited to introduce our collection of ready-made picnic hampers, curated to enhance your al fresco dining experience.
Elevate Your Celebrations with our Luxury Food Hampers
If you're in search of a gift for a foodie friend or a selection of artisan foods to treat yourself, you've come to the right place.
Celebrate in style with Melrose and Morgan's Birthday Gift Ideas
We redefine birthday gifting with our collection of unique and luxurious food and drink gifts.
Why Simnel Cake is the Perfect Easter Treat
What is the meaning behind the time-honoured tradition of gifting Simnel Cake?
Our Easter Hampers Gift Guide for Traditional Foodies
Our gift guide is here to help you find the perfect gifts for your loved ones this Easter.
Rochelle Canteen X Melrose and Morgan
Find out more about our exciting mince pie collaboration with Rochelle Canteen this Christmas.
In Season: July
Following hot on the heels of the broad bean, the pea is next on the list of fresh summer pulses to arrive.
Supplier Story: Rapscallion Soda
Produced in Glasgow, Rapscallion Soda is the latest addition to our fridge and offers a fresh drink with 100% raw ingredients.
In Season: June
We love the month of June, particularly as the soft summer fruits and fresh vegetables start to emerge where you can really add flavour to your dishes.
Melrose and Morgan Ready-Made Picnics
We have carefully selected a handful of artisan suppliers to ensure our customers are treated with the very best products this summer and we’d love for you to get to know them.
In Season: April
As we make our way into British Summer Time, April is marked by the arrival of asparagus, known to some as 'sparrow grass'. It's only around until June and is extremely weather dependent, so make the most of it.
Supplier Story: Allpress Espresso
Our incredible supplier, Allpress Espresso, have been buying their coffee direct from farmers at origin since 2001 and have developed longstanding relationships with ethical producers.
Supplier Story: The Estate Dairy
One of London’s leading dairy suppliers, The Estate Dairy sources the richest milk from the Chew Valley, used exclusively in the crafting of our coffee.
Breakfast In Bed
Breakfast in bed is a wonderful way to start your day feeling relaxed or perfect to treat that someone special.
In Season: March
Whilst we patiently wait for spring to arrive and a new season's crop, there are some delicious vegetables to make the most of in March.
Making Your Own Herbal Teas
Home-made herbal infusions are incredibly easy to make. With just a little practice and experimentation you can come up with an array of delicious concoctions to use throughout the day, evening and into the night.
An Introduction to Fermented Foods
January is often a time for compensating for the excesses of December and the Christmas and New Year festivities. Each year we’re cajoled and encouraged to try new diets or detox our way to February.
Supplier Story: The Fine Cheese Company
A sophisticated cheeseboard will be relished at any dinner party or evening of entertaining. As we start to dust off the Christmas decorations, now is the perfect time to explore some new artisan cheeses.
In Season: December
With shorter days and frostier nights, winter is around the corner and so is the start of the Christmas celebrations. A time for feasting, certain produce has played an important part in the traditional foods at this point in the year with an absence of fresh fruit and vegetables available.
Regent's Park Honey
Regent’s Park honey is, as you’d expect, produced exclusively in Regent's Park. The bees have over 166 hectares of green space as their nectar source and as a result the honey takes on the flavours of the myriad flowers and trees found throughout the park.
Supplier Story: La Cultivada
We have introduced a new olive oil to our shops, La Cultivada. A Spanish based olive oil producer fully committed to the culture of olive oil and heirs to a family legacy.
The simple pleasures of a BBQ
Sharing food with our friends and family in your garden is one of the simple pleasures of summertime. We have shared our top tips on how to ensure you get the best out of your BBQ.
Supplier Story: 'Chin Chin' Vinho Verde
'Chin Chin' Vinho Verde took the market by storm during lockdown and our supply was consistently outstripped by demand, as it appeared to become the wine of choice!
Best spots for a picnic in London
With summer upon us and the perfect weather for alfresco eating, we have put together a list of our top five picnic spots in London that you must try.
Supplier Story: The (not so) Secret Smokehouse
What’s tastier than the simplicity of a plate of perfectly smoked salmon? For Max Bergius, the man behind the Secret Smokehouse and who we’ve been working with for the last 5 years, simplicity is key.
The Hungry Gap
With Spring on its way, our thoughts turn to new beginnings. That’s no more so evident than the change in our appetites, as the day’s get a little warmer and longer.
What’s in a Name?
One of the most common questions we’ve been asked over the years, is why we called the business Melrose and Morgan?
All about Yogurt
Keeping in with the fermented foods theme – yogurt is the result of the bacterial fermentation of milk.
12 Christmas Day Cooking Tips
Plan ahead - it’s the most obvious thing, but with everything else going on, it often gets pushed to the bottom of the list. Planning means planning, so that generally involves writing a list and a list will give you the confidence that you have thought of everything even if you haven’t!
Christmas Lunch Wine Tips - what should I be drinking on Christmas Day?
The Turkey or goose is in the oven, the veg is prepared, the pudding is happily steaming away - time to pour yourself (and the guests/family) a drink! After all that hard work in the kitchen, you’re probably in need of a little ‘lift
Your Christmas Cheeseboard - what to choose and how to serve
At Christmas creating a cheeseboard throws up all sorts of possibilities. Our advice is to go for a limited selection of best-quality artisan cheeses. Your dining room table doesn’t need to resemble your local cheesemonger or supermarket, in terms of range and number of cheeses you offer your family or guests!
Supplier Story - Colston Bassett Dairy
If there’s one cheese that speaks of Christmas here in the UK, it has to be a blue cheese, ideally a Stilton and for ‘gold standard’ it has to be a Colston Bassett. Rich, creamy, tangy and full of flavour. The cheese has been around for a long time, with first mention of it back in the 1720’s and it appears to have been first marketed by Cooper Thornhill of the Bell Inn in the village of Stilton.
Supplier Story - Pasticceria Triestina Ulcigrai
The delicious Italian sweet bread that arrives in our shops at the start of December each year has acquired cult status amongst some of our long-standing customers. There’s just something about that light, fluffy, sweet, vanilla baked bread with jewels of vine and candied fruits that just sings of Christmas.
OUR 5 FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS TIPPLES
Many of us will be partying at home this Christmas season, so we’ve lined up our top 5 favourite drinks to get you in the mood.
Supplier Story: El Vermut, Craft Vermouth’s and ready-made Cocktails
Brother and sister, Ollie and Greta Inglis moved to Spain in 2016 and whilst there became passionate about the wonderful world of Vermouth. Originally hailing from Italy, Vermouth is a fortified wine that’s been flavoured with botanicals and was originally used for medicinal purposes, although soon found favour as the aperitif of choice.
SUPPLIER STORY: PUMP STREET CHOCOLATE
One of our all-time favourite suppliers has got to be Pump Street. Originally the company was set up as a bakery in the village of Orford on Suffolk’s Heritage Coast.
Goodman’s Geese and Bronze Turkeys
Nestled in the lush Worcestershire countryside, Walsgrave Farm and the Goodman Family have been rearing turkeys and geese since the 1950’s and supplying us since 2005 with their free-range, hand-reared poultry for Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations alike.
Melrose and Morgan’s Christmas Bakery
Each Christmas Melrose and Morgan’s Christmas baking begins in earnest with the making of mincemeat in preparation for the thousands of mince pies will be baking in the coming weeks.
In Season
In Season - November: With the onset of November, winter feels even more close. However, it’s still very much autumn as far as the food calendar is concerned, with the fruits (and vegetables) of gardens, fields and orchards, still in abundance, as we await the first frosts
Serious coffee lovers…
As a virtual London Coffee Week gets underway, we thought we’d share some of our own very top coffee top tips.
The Chocolate Libertine
Each Halloween we look forward to finding out what our clever friends at The Chocolate Libertine have dreamed up in the form of new Halloween chocolate creations. As ever this year they’ve done themselves proud and you’ll find some in our shops and online.
How to ‘Up’ Your Pumpkin Carving Game
Yep, it’s Pumpkin carving time. Sharpen your knives, get your ice cream scoops ready, even resorting to an electric drill can prove useful in the annual pumpkin carving competition!
#SaveOurStandards
Back in March over 1million of us signed a petition to send a clear message to the Government that we didn’t want the high-quality UK food standards that we’ve come to expect to be lowered, as we prepare to leave the EU.
Supplier Stories: Fenton Farm Eggs
You’ll find Fenton Farm on the Somerset and Devon border near Holcombe Rogus. It’s a 155 acre farm that is now run by Andrew Gabriel and his family, who are third generation farmers on this land.
In Season: Squashes and Pumpkins
If there’s one vegetable to shout that it’s autumn, it’s got to be pumpkin. A pumpkin is a member of the winter squash family that includes an assortment of different-coloured, shaped and sized vegetables (or more accurately fruits).
The Biggest Little Farm
It’s a simple premise – fed up of living in the big city and dreaming of a simple life in the country with a few chickens, sheep, a pig or two and why not a cow to make up numbers?
British Food Fortnight
19th September to 4th October sees the annual celebration of all things British when it comes to food. More than ever we are appreciating food grown and produced here in the British Isles.
Shop Local
When Melrose and Morgan was just a glint in our eyes, over 15 years ago now, one of our main aims in opening a shop was to put grocery shopping back into the community. Back then, supermarkets were multiplying at an ever-increasing rate and ’independent’ was a dirty word. We’d grown up with visits to our local high streets, where we’d shop at the butcher, the baker, the fishmonger, the greengrocer, but now it was all about ‘one stop shopping’.
Sourdough Art
Lockdown saw many of us attempting our own sourdough loaves, some of us succeeding and others seeing the value in popping round to our local bakery or deli and picking up a morning fresh loaf, with the hard work removed.
