M&S refreshes Gastropub range with Tom Kerridge ready meals

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M&S Food has refreshed its Gastropub lineup with nine new comfort food dishes. The range includes four developed with celebrity chef Tom Kerridge as shoppers lean into cosy, pub-style dining at home to save money in the cost of living crisis.

The autumn update follows similar premium dine-in pushes from rivals including Waitrose No.1 and Tesco Finest, and taps the trend for a fourth tier of ultra-premium own-label products as Brits turn their backs on eating out in favour of luxury meals at home.

It features hearty classics such as Lamb Hotpot Pie and Steak & Kidney Suet Crust Pie, along with new sides like Hot Maple Roasted Veg – tapping into the wider hot honey and hot maple flavour trend seen in grocery at the moment.

“This time of year is made for proper hearty meals, either home-cooked or all-in-one dishes, that allow us to pack in seasonal veg more easily and great for eating out of a bowl,” says Kerridge.

The new dishes are available in M&S’s £15 Gastropub Dine In deal, in store and on Ocado now.

Starters

Cauliflower Cheese Soup with Cheddar Biscuits by Tom

£7.25/540g
Serves two

Fresh cauliflower florets cooked in milk, with West Country cheddar cheese and seasoned with salt. With handcrafted caraway seeded cheese biscuits from the highlands of Scotland.

Pork & Mushroom Pate by Tom

£7.75/190g
Serves two

British pork liver, pork belly and bacon pâté with green peppercorns, topped with roasted mushrooms and a porcini mushroom glaze.

British Baking Brie

£6/190g
Serves two

Made with British brie from a fourth-generation speciality farmhouse cheesemaker, handmade using milk from the family and local farms within a 10-mile radius. It comes with a hot honey drizzle made with honey, brown sugar, roasted red chillies and cayenne pepper.

Sides

Sweet Potato & Butternut Crush

£5.50/380g
Serves two

With nutty brown butter, a sprinkling of sage and finished with fresh parsley and brown butter

Hot Maple Roasted Veg

£5.50/400g
Serves two

Buttery carrots, butternut squash and red onion with a sticky Canadian maple chilli glaze and fresh thyme.

Mains

Lamb Hotpot Pie by Tom

£14.50/500g
Serves two

Chunks of lamb shoulder slow-cooked for two hours in an Old Peculier ale and mint gravy, encased in all-butter pastry and hand-finished with a sliced potato lid, crimped by hand.

Steak & Kidney Suet Crust Pie by Tom

£14.50/500g
Serves two

Chunks of British beef steak and ox kidney, slow-cooked for three hours in beef gravy, featuring cabernet sauvignon and French brandy, encased in a suet pastry case. Serve upside down.

2 Roasted British Duck Legs

£14.50/560g
Serves two

British duck leg in a garlic, orange zest and honey marinade, slow-roasted for two hours. Roasting juices used to make the cassoulet, along with a Toulouse-style sausage meat and cannellini beans, finished with a splash of sauvignon blanc.