Mail Order Italian – Arthur Avenue Italian Deli

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The Italian culture excels at living the philosophy that good food equals love. Now, imagine ordering an authentic antipasto platter to serve at your next celebration. Imagine a platter of hot and sweet soppressata, hot and sweet dry sausage, prosciutto, sharp provolone, 3-4 year old Parmigiano Reggiano, smoked mozzarella, red pepper cheese, and marinated bocconcini.

Hold on–Yes, your food is going to arrive packaged and deconstructed, so the beautiful presentation is going to take some effort on your part–but that’s good because then you get all the credit you rightly deserve for bringing it all together. Plus there are beautiful photos of the antipasto platters on the Arthur Avenue Italian Deli website to serve as a “how to” guide.

Maybe you prefer to send lasagne or eggplant parmigina or baked ziti? pasta? stuffed breads? foccacia? The Arthur Avenue Deli has been a Bronx, NY institution since 1940. Even its website is like walking into the deli itself so spend some time shopping, and soon enough a taste of Italy via New York will be on its way to you or someone you love.

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Pricing: Starting at $20+ so with shipping expect to spend at least $50+

Gift Cards: Yes

Shipping: You can check shipping costs before you hand over your credit card info.

Take me there! www.arthuravenue.com or 718-295-5033

Location: Bronx, New York

Loveless Cafe

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The Loveless Cafe had its modest launch in 1951 when Lon and Annie Loveless began serving fried chicken and biscuits from the front door of their home to travelers who passed by on US Highway 100 in Nashville, Tennessee. In time the tiny home became a planned stop for those traveling through Nashville. As demand grew, Lon Loveless built and ran 14 motel rooms on the property and launched the Loveless Motel and Cafe.

Mail order food gifts of southern food

Loveless Cafe Biscuits and Ham from $28

Christmas food gifts

Loveless Cafe Holiday Breakfast Gift

The Loveless Cafe has changed hands over the years, and the Loveless Motel Rooms are no longer in use, but thankfully, Annie Loveless’ biscuit recipe never changed with the ownership, enabling the Loveless Motel and Cafe to maintain its position as a true Tennessee tradition.

Even today The Loveless Cafe remains true to its authentic southern comfort food, and that southern comfort can now be be delivered to your door. Loveless breakfast baskets are on our personal list to send as a gift at Christmas, Easter, house warmings, and baby welcomings. Yeah, we’re cool like that.

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Pricing: Biscuit mix starts at $7, but you can send Ham ‘n’ Biscuits for $28, or full southern breakfasts for $60+

Shipping: Shipping starts at $12 FedEx ground

Location: Nashville, Tennessee

Take me there! store.lovelesscafe.com

Lobels of New York

Lobels mail order Wagyu BeefLobel’s butcher shop is an institution in New York City, and serves a devoted clientele of well-heeled upper East siders, and other deep-pocketed meat-loving folks in the know. There’s a good reason they have fans: Lobel’s offers dry-aged USDA high-prime and Wagyu beef, all-natural veal, lamb, and poultry, Kurobuta pork, heritage meats, and specialty products.

To ensure optimum flavor and freshness, each order is hand-cut, individually vacuum-sealed, securely packed, and delivered overnight—fresh from Lobels to your door.

Lobels offers USDA prime beef, which accounts for less than 2% of all beef. But within the prime beef category, Lobels takes only the finest cuts, paying up to a 10% premium to get the best. They then dry age the beef for four to six weeks, a process that can mean the difference between a good and a great tasting piece of meat. Steaks, filets and roasts from Lobel’s are unlike any others on the market, which prompted a Wall Street Journal writer to note of a Lobel’s steak, “It was so perfect—in looks, taste, and texture—that we were tempted to eat it raw. The buttery flavor was beyond comparison.”

Pricey? You betcha. But it’s a gift the giver will know is the best of the best.

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Gift Presentation: They offer “Black Tie” gift boxes so your gift will arrive in style

Pricing: Expect to spend $200+

Corporate Gifts: Yes

Gift Cards: Yes

Locations: New York City

Take me there! www.lobels.com or 212-737-1372 or Toll-free: 1-800-556-2357