Home Meal Reviews: Week 11 - Luke's Local

Meals:

Luke's Local offer a whole bundle of different things as part of their delivery service however one of the categories is 'Chef Meals' offering a handful of meal options each week. I decided to go with the family package that offers the somewhat standard 3 pairs of meals for a week of eating.

Convenience

A range of delivery days is pretty nice feature. I am a particular fan as one of the days is Monday! And even better, it arrived at a reasonable time. The food arrives in a non-descript brown box with rather minimal insulation and some modest ice packs that despite their lack of flamboyance, seemed to do the job as well as many of the more excessive options I have seen.

Preparation

As with Table Runner et al. these are oven or microwave however, unlike those offerings - these don't come out as well. The salmon was slimy, and the black beans in the beef short rib were so dry they crunched...

Ingredients

The food had problems but the provenance of the ingredients was impossible to find and really the nutritional value in general was minimal.

Taste

Terrible.

Conclusion

Well it had to happen sometime, a truly disappointing service.

Home Meal Reviews: Week 10 - Eat Mise

Meals:

A big range of 'professionally chef' meals delivered, ready to cook, to your door. The service seems very organised and friendly but there is not a huge amount of information or delivery flexibility:

Convenience

 

Delivery is on Saturday... no choice and no time. That's better than a Tuesday but it does mean come the tail end of the week - the meals can look a bit sorry.

Preparation

As with Table Runner and the Munchery ready meals, these are oven jobs with a microwave option. Simple instruction and not much to manage here although the outcome is not quite the same caliber.

Ingredients

The ingredients look to be pretty decent quality but there is very little information on the site to go off of.

Taste

Not as good as either TableRunner or Munchery although I have to say, I did really enjoy the Papusas. In retrospect I think I may have a rather high bar for Ramen given I live in the Bay Area but I have seen every attempt from a food service pan out pretty badly.

Conclusion

Mise has a great selection of meals and this seems to be growing and changing regularly however the meal quality seems to be fairly variable (from my limited sample) and overall not the same caliber as some services.

This was the highlight of Mise.