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Preorder food for Christmas or New Year now

Christmas deli cheese and ham board

Looking to beat the crowd? Get ahead and order fresh food for Christmas or New Year now.

In the final week before Christmas, our shop gets very busy as everyone comes in to order cheese, olives, salami, hams and all the other lovely food that makes for a lovely Christmas spread.

If you’d like to, this year you can pre-oder food from Amaretto Deli using our online shop. We offer food for click and collect or delivery in NR1-NR7; it’s easy to do and you can specify your ideal delivery slot on the delivery note section of the order. We are open up to and including Christmas Eve, and then re-open on Tuesday 30th for New Year’s.

Do browse our cheese category to find your cheese board selection; including melt in the mouth gorgonzola and the sheep’s milk cheese, manchego.  This semi-cured cheese is delicious and a tasty choice for those who can’t tolerate cow’s milk. You’ll also find membrillo paste, made from quince, which is a great accompniament to your cheese board, and makes a nice change from pickles.

If you’re looking for some cured hams for your Christmas or New Year table, then browse the prosciutto, ham and salume category; here you’ll find the fragrant finochionna (fennel salami), which is addictive, laced with fennel seeds and merlot wine and is refreshingly light in flavour. There is also the classic prosciutto di Parma DOP, and the Bolognese luncheon meat, mortadella, which is always a favourite with Italians of all ages, but especially children.

In the olives, hummus and pesto category you’ll find some delicious accompaniments, and some lovely vegetable treats. We have artisinal bread-sticks, fat and juicy Gordal pitted olives, artichocke hearts and more.

Apart from the fresh food, if you’re looking for Christmas gifts, or treats for main courses, you can also browse our pasta selection to find lovely coloured pasta, our Christmas food section for cakes, chocolates, and treats, or make up a hamper for a loved one to gift yourself on Christmas day, or for us to deliver up to Christmas Eve.

Do browse the shop and get your order in soon!

All best

The Amaretto Deli team

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A feast ready for Christmas

Right through this final Christmas week we’ll be serving up Christmas cheese, hams, salami and olives and any last minute hampers or gifts; closing at 6pm, Saturday 23rd December. People generally come to us for their Christmas treats because they’re looking for either local or artisanal goods; they come for that personal touch.

This personal touch is something Tuscany is still good at – Florence is particularly lovely at Christmas time; crisscrossing lamps across the little streets; stall vendors selling chestnuts, small shop windows dressed with traditional decorations; golds, maroon, gilt. Fab likes to create some of that same magic in Amaretto too but really it’s not only about products or colours. It’s about keeping Christmas thoughtful; personal and smaller scale.

For us, it’s all the many different individuals we meet that make this shop such a pleasure to work in; the quick chat, the checking in. So let us take this opportunity to wish you all well as we turn towards Christmas and a new year.

Auguri! Keep warm and see you soon.

Find out more about our range of cheeses, salami and olives here.

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