March lockdown feels like a lifetime ago and currently life status ebbs in and out of varying tiers of lockdown and how much time you have to spend at home and away from others.

My joy in life comes in the form of food, drink and travel. Heading out to a restaurant, meeting someone for a cocktail or travelling to a romantic destination will always get me buzzing but as we all know, across the globe these joys are on hold.

Luckily, chefs, restaurant and bar owners are creative people and use to pressure, they can easily jump outside the box and come up with solutions that allow us all to exercise small starjumps of joy in our own homes.

Enter Chef Paul Wedgwood, who was probably one of the very first Edinburgh restaurants to reinvent themselves and bring you Wedgwood Takeaway/Wedgwood at Home #wedgwoodreinvented

REVIEW - WEDGWOOD TAKEAWAY, EDINBURGH

Each Monday at 5pm, Wedgwood release their menu for the forthcoming weekend. You can order everything through their website, including wine and you can select collection or delivery, Thursday through to Sunday.

Thursday evening arrived as did the brown paper bag with plastic containers filled with fresh food cooked by Chef Paul Wedgwood.

The menu is a choice of three starters, three mains and three desserts with an option to choose bread and a special main dish should you want to upgrade from the choice of the other three mains. Three courses, bread and a bottle of wine will cost a minimum of £66 for two people.

Starters - Potted Pork Rillettes with crisp chorizo, black pudding, pickled apple gel and parsley (£6.50)

This was the easiest dish to prepare, scoop it out the container and onto a plate then allow to come to room temperature before serving. This served with the homemade loaf and seaweed butter was good (£6.00)

Starters - Braised Featherblade of Beef with root vegetable and potato hash, herb crumb and brown sauce (£6.50)

Soft pulled beef with chunks of vegetable running through it. It was like a nice big warm hug of a dish.

Mains - Roasted Heritage Carrot, fried sweet potato, labneh, ginger, quinoa crisp, peanut and pistachio (£10.50)

It’s the colours of the vegetarian dish that strike you the most; the yellows, oranges and purples really contrast and compliment each other on the plate. I particularly loved the quinoa crisp. However, I found that this dish wasn’t substantial enough and on ordering it again, it would be as a side dish.

Special Mains - 80 Hour Slow Cooked Scotch Beef Brisket Steak with fine beans, garlic mushrooms, roast parsnip, truffled dauphinoise potato and a whisky, haggis and peppercorn sauce (£16.50)

The steak held together, just. As soon as your fork went near it, it fell apart it was that tender. The sauce was perfect and really complimented the earthiness in the mushrooms and parsnips.

Desserts - Muscovado Panna Cotta with compressed plums, plum gel and rosemary crumble (£5.50)

I couldn’t lift this out the dish but looking at Wedgwood’s plating up photos, I decided you weren’t meant to. It retained a good panna cotta wobble and all the flavours were really subtle.

Desserts - Sticky Toffee Pudding with Coal Ila Butterscotch (£5.50)

This combines two of my favourite things - Caol Ila is my favourite Islay peated whisky and Sticky Toffee Pudding is the only dessert I ever eat. Expectations were high.

The cake itself was super moist and filled with stickiness. The sauce drinkable. A big thumbs up from me.

If you are looking for a meat and veg dinner, a simple and easy dinner to finish off at home with little to no cooking and hassle and if you want something for date night at home, then Wedgwood Takeaway is the delivery for you.

Chef Paul Wedgwood also challenges you to plate up his food. Photos of the dishes that week are on Wedgwood Facebook but Chef asks you to show off your plating up by tagging them and using the #wedgwoodreinvented. How will you plate up?

Wedgwood the Restaurant, 267 Canongate, Royal Mile, Edinburgh, EH8 8BQ. Tel : 0131 5588737 www.wedgwoodtherestaurant.co.uk

My Spoon Award : Silver Spoon 8/10

I was invited by Wedgwood the Restaurant to review their takeaway menu. Food was complimentary but the views are very much my own.