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Some of the best things to do at home this Valentine’s Day in Manchester

Independent businesses are gearing up for Valentine's Day by delivering date night experiences directly to your door.

Emily Sergeant - 27th January 2021

With just over two weeks to go until Valentine’s Day arrives, we’ve pretty much resigned ourselves to the fact things will be a little different this year.

Whilst it’s true that we are somewhat used to adapting our seasonal celebrations for the circumstances nowadays, the loved-up among us won’t have forgotten that Valentine’s Day is new ground for the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, given that it was one of the last events to take place ‘normally’ before the stark realities of the crisis set in last March.

That doesn’t mean the occasion should to go un-celebrated in 2021 though.

Yes, we can’t deny that it’ll be a little different this year, but there’s no need to miss out on feeling the love with your special someone, especially as there’s a whole host of ways to safely celebrate from the comfort of your own home.

Independent businesses all across the region are gearing up for Valentine’s Day by delivering date night experiences directly to your front door.

Here’s the best of the bunch.

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Lockdown Love-IN

Park N Party

One Manchester-based immersive entertainment company is eager to put a unique and lockdown-friendly spin on the national day of love.

Starting on Friday 12th February and running for three nights, Park N Party – the team behind a series of sell-out drive-in cinema and theatre performances in Manchester – is adapting amid the third national lockdown by bringing the entertainment to you.

And they’ve aptly-named it the Lockdown Love-IN.

Lockdown Love-IN is an exclusive streaming platform, which sees singer and media personality Chrissy Bray provide a night of entertainment and music, accompanied by your choice of menu package, which has been expertly-crafted by top chefs, including options from the team behind Michelin star restaurant, Simpsons, prepared to simply reheat at home.

You can find out more and book your tickets for Lockdown Love-IN here.

Beer Tasting Experience

Seven Bro7hers Brewery & Sis4ers Distillery

Salford-based independent companies Si4ers Distillery and Seven Bro7hers Brewery are teaming up to bring the region’s lovers and best pals an exclusive live beer and gin tasting evening for one night only on Valentine’s Day this year.

The two-hour event will be hosted on Zoom and the wonderful tasting pack will be sent directly to your front door prior to the tasting taking place.

Each tasting pack includes:

• 3 x 440ml Seven Bro7hers beers (Salty Tiers Sour, Honeycomb Pale Ale, and Bubble House Brut IPA)
• 3 x 5cl SIS4ERS Gins (Signature, Strawberry and Lime and Thyme)
• 3 x Fever Tree Tonics
• 3 x bags of garnish for your gins
• A box of Cocoa Cabana Ancoats truffles to share (vegan friendly and nut free)

You can grab your tickets from the Si4ers Distillery website here.

Doughnut Decorating Kits

Doughnut Kitchen

This Manchester-based doughnut company is committed to bringing delicately-decorated sweet treats directly to your front door all year round, and Valentine’s Day is no different.

The Doughnut Kitchen’s Valentine’s Kits come in a themed box, complete with:

• x4 Large Ring Doughnuts
• White, Pink and Milk Chocolate
• Pink / Red Heart Sprinkles
• Pink Shimmer Sprinkles
• Mini Jammie Dodgers
• Valentine’s Toppers

Prices for the kits start from £12.

If you don’t fancy getting stuck into the decorating yourself though, don’t worry, you can simply order one of the showstopping pre-made Valentine’s boxes to be delivered instead.

All orders can be made via The Doughnut Kitchen on Facebook or Instagram.

Cheese & Wine Tasting

Decent Drop

Decent Drop’s Valentine’s Day Gift Boxes are perfect for the sceptics and hopeless romantic.

Along with the usual six wines and six cheeses that the Manchester-based, lockdown-born delivery company is known and loved right across the community for, the special Valentine’s Day kit will include a bottle of fizz and a miniature bottle of BRAND pink gin. Decent Drop has also teamed up with artisan chocolatiers, Cocoa Tree Café, to include a box of six bespoke chocolates that are sure to bring you “mouthwatering joy”, along with some fancy oat cakes and delicious chutney to complete each set, as well as the usual tasting notes.

Two person kits are £100, with one person kits setting you back just £75, and you will also receive an invitation for the interactive Zoom event too, which will be held on Saturday 13th February 2021.

You can order your Valentine’s Day Gift Box here.

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Not quite found something that takes your fancy just yet?

Don’t worry.

There’s still plenty of time before the big day arrives, and we will continue to update this article with all of the lockdown-friendly, COVID-safe Valentine’s events that we can find happening across Greater Manchester this year, so keep checking back to make sure you don’t miss out.