This holiday season, our wish lists and gift lists are overlapping in new ways: We want to support the restaurants in New York, London and the Bay Area that we most love and miss in the hope that they can stay open for years to come — and we want to share their deliciousness and generosity of spirit. Here are just some of the ways we’re shipping the love.
King Celebration Box
One of our favorite New York City restaurants, King’s rustic Anglo-Italian food is both understated and cozy — and always delicious. Chefs Jess Shadbolt and Clare de Boer met while working at London’s River Café. Like their alma mater’s holiday offering, King’s box is over-the-top generous, featuring a Christmas cake, jars of their house-made ricciarelli (Tuscan almond cookies), nocciola (think Nutella) and quince jam, as well as a King tote and lambswool blanket — the outdoor-dining accessory of the season. They’re also offering the best stocking stuffer: an IOU for just-pressed olive oil — a collaboration with Montalcino winemaker Sesti — that will arrive in January. Ships nationally. $260.
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Momofuku Bo Ssäm
Until we can gather a group of friends at Momofuku Ssäm Bar to share chef David Chang’s momentous bo ssäm — a slow-roasted, brown-sugar-glazed pork shoulder that gets shredded at the table and tucked into fluffy Martin’s potato rolls and dressed with ginger-scallion sauce and Momofuku’s new crunchy chili sauce — we can recreate the experience at home for 4 to 10 pod people via the fantasy restaurant delivery service Goldbelly. It even includes a fried rice kit for leftovers. While we’re on the site, we might gift a few dozen Momo pork buns and hit the Russ & Daughters page to order a proper bagel brunch for our favorite NYC expats. Ships nationally. From $189.
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The Four Horsemen Wine Share
This Brooklyn wine bar and restaurant had truly hit its stride before March: a great Times review, a Michelin star, and a constantly surprising list of natural wines that had deepened into one of the city’s best, with allocations that were hard to find outside Europe. The owners had always wanted to do a wine club, but were too busy running the restaurant and, well, life has a funny way of giving you what you want. Now you can sign up for their monthly share, which includes rarities, B-sides and greatest hits, selected by wine director Justin Chearno. Depending on how many bottles you opt for, your box might include snacks from the chef. Cocktail club available, too. From $40.
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Manresa Bread Triple Chocolate Orange Panettone
Be honest: Do you ever really love panettone? It tends to be rather dry and joyless. Not so at the bakery offshoot of Manresa, the three-Michelin-starred restaurant in Los Gatos, Ca. Partner and head baker Avery Ruzicka studs her buttery organic version with dark chocolate, almonds and candied orange, adding cocoa powder, honey and barley malt syrup for a complex, toasty sweetness. For the fully indulgent, she also makes a large-format Breton kouign-amann — that crackly creation of butter-and-sugar-shellacked puff pastry — which will have your grateful recipients overhauling their New Year’s resolutions.
