We ate supermarket cafe Christmas dinners at Asda, Morrisons, Tesco, M&S and Sainsbury's and one smashed it
Is there anything more festive than going to a supermarket café in December? Well, yes, but Britain's big supermarkets are certainly giving the Christmas spirit a good try this year with their winter menus.
Visiting the Sainsbury’s café in Hazel Grove on a cold Tuesday afternoon, I opted for the £6.80 turkey dinner because, well, it is Christmas after all. It comes with turkey slices, roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, cauliflower cheese, Brussel sprouts, Yorkshire puddings, cranberry sauce, a stuffing ball and gravy. It’s really a shopping list in itself.
On the topic of the roasties, the potatoes are good. They’re tasty and verging on crispy. Had they been cooked just a little bit longer, I’d even have gone as far as saying they were just how I like them. Now, did I manage to eat it all? Sadly, I have to admit that it did defeat me and there was no room left for me to try a mince pie, but I feel I gave it a good go. There was a lot on my plate, after all.
And it’s almost a serendipity that there were no Yorkie puds on, because upon reading the menu at home, I discovered that between 11.30am and 3.30pm, you can actually get a two course meal for less than a tenner, or opt for three courses for £11.99 - saving around £2 on the total value. It felt hearty and artisanal, which is everything you want from a festive meal out, isn’t it? There’s nothing worse than being served up food that looks, smells and tastes like it’s just finished doing a waltz in the microwave.
No Christmas meal is complete without dessert and Morrisons Bramley apple crumble with cream was the perfect finale to what had been - as far as supermarket cafes go - a stellar meal. I genuinely don’t think I’d have gotten much better in a pub for £12 - essentially £4 per course - and I left absolutely stuffed.
Meanwhile, desserts are priced between £1.75 for a mince pie to £2.50 for a Black Forest gâteau. Under the 'festive hot drinks' section are standard tea and an Americano , which feels like cheating, or you can get a toffee-flavoured hot chocolate . On to the food, the pigs in blankets were also really tasty, even if one of the bacon 'blankets' was missing its mini sausage 'pig'. The stuffing balls were actually quite good with almost a meaty texture and the Yorkshire pudding was just the right amount of crispy.
There are also festive drinks to try and I go for the rather opulent candy cane frappe which is like a large milkshake with a hint of mint chocolate in there. It's finished with loads of cream and a cute candy cane chocolate on top. We also tried the mince pie latte which was pleasant but we couldn’t really pick up much of a mince pie flavour in it.
You can't leave an M&S Café without going for dessert and so we sampled the Christmas tree tiffin slice which was a tasty chunk of chocolatey biscuity stuff with bauble sugar decorations on the front. The red velvet candy cane loaf seemed a tad expensive for a cake slice but was pleasantly moist, although I was a little troubled by the crunchiness on top, which was the sugar crystals used to look a bit like snow.
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