Make-Out Meals Is the New Subscription Meal Kit with Recipes from Renowned Melbourne Restaurants

If you're missing the long-lost days of restaurant dining and you've maxed out your home-cooking repertoire three times over, you're not alone. Victoria feels like it's crawling ever-so-slowly through stage four lockdowns and that kitchen fatigue is real. But, if it's time for a little culinary reboot, there's a new subscription meal kit company in town that might just help level-up your dinner game with some real chef expertise.

Launching Monday, August 31, Melbourne-born Make-Out Meals delivers easy-to-assemble dinners featuring recipes by some of the city's best-loved eateries and chefs. Tackle La Tortilleria's fish tacos, try recreating the charred broccoli dish from Carlton North's Babajan, or even have a crack at making Tipico's rich pumpkin, gorgonzola and walnut risotto.

Each kit comes packed with all the pre-portioned ingredients required to whip up your two, three or four weekly meals, in two- or four-person serves, as ordered. There might be some special house-prepared sauces or spice blends in there as well, plus you'll find instructional recipe cards to help bring those feasts to life. You'll also score access to exclusive video tips and tricks, a weekly virtual cook-along session, an online chat platform to guide you through any sticky kitchen issues, and for select recipes, a chef-guided video tutorial.

Tipico risotto by Sammy Green

Make-Out Meals gives locals another way to support Melbourne's restaurant industry during lockdown, without dropping too much on nightly takeaway dinners. Every time a venue's recipe is selected for a meal kit, the venue gets a cut of the revenue. The group's already rallied favourites like Bomba Tapas Bar & Rooftop, Fancy Hank's, Simply Spanish and Fitzroy's ISH to share their recipes, and there are more to come.

Depending on the number of serves and dishes you sign up for, Make-Out Meals starts from a reasonable $10.56 per serve. Deliveries are made each Wednesday via cold freight, with a $10 flat-rate delivery fee for addresses in metropolitan Melbourne, and $15 for those in Geelong and the Mornington Peninsula.

Make-Out Meals launches from August 31, with orders made online. One-off kits are available for a limited time, or you can stick with a tailored subscription. See the website for more details.

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