QuiteLike Review (2024) – Everything You Need To Know About This Aussie Meal Kit

So, you’re curious about QuiteLike.

They’re part of a new wave of meal kit services in Australia looking to improve your home cooking experience. Fresh ingredients delivered direct to your front door, pre-portioned and ready to cook.

How are they different? Well, they promise to help you enjoy your time in the kitchen with recipes that celebrate mealtimes. It’s aimed a ‘food lovers’ who care about ingredient quality and flavour-packed dinners.

I’ve tried every meal kit in Australia over the last half-decade, so I’m uniquely placed to share with you what the QuiteLike meal kit experience is really like.

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I’m always inclined to get excited about Australian-owned meal kit services like QuiteLike. They are filling the gap for customers who care about where their ingredients are from and want to expand their repertoire in the kitchen.

This is my first major update of this review, having originally first tried their service in 2022. They also went through a major rebrand during the first half of 2024, so I’m excited and expectant for a great experience.

The QuiteLike service is a very standard offering for a meal kit service. You choose from a selection meals each week and they’ll deliver the ingredients in a single box so you can cook dinner without stepping foot in a supermarket (except for a couple of pantry ingredients).

The most important questions for this review revolve around the freshness of their ingredients, how easy the recipes are to follow and whether the food actually tastes good. We’ll get into all of that very shortly.

QuiteLike have been expanding their delivery network over the last few years, so they now cover:

• Melbourne Metro & Regional Area plus Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong, and the Mornington Peninsula
• Sydney Metro & Regional Area plus the Central Cous, Blue Mountains, Newcastle, and Wollongong.
• Brisbane Metro Area plus the Gold Coast and Toowoomba.
• Canberra Metro Area

If you’re outside of these areas, it’s worth keeping an eye out as they continue to expand into new regions.

Getting Started with QuiteLike

QuiteLike only offer a weekly subscription service with no commitments. You can change, skip and cancel each week with no penalty.

Jumping onto the website, they’ve opted for a dark theme with fun sketched cartoons and animations to liven up the place. They’ve clearly invested heavily in the website, making it very easy to use.

There are a few different subscription sizes available:

• 2 or 4 people
• 2, 3, or 4 meals per week.

These options are fairly standard for meal kits, although some kits will serve 5-6 meals per week, or serve up to 6 people. QuiteLike isn’t yet suitable for larger families or anyone looking to buy meals for every day of the week.

One meal kit trick I love is ordering larger meal kits than your needs. This leaves you with extra portions that can be quickly reheated and will reduce your cost per portion.

Meal Options Available

Expect to see 30 different recipes each week. This is a good selection that should easily allow even the pickiest eaters to find 4 recipes they like without being overwhelmed with choice.

There’s been a trend recently for meal kits to offer as many different meals each week as possible, such as Marley Spoon offering 70 options each week. Unless you have specific dietary requirements, a choice of 30 recipes is more than enough.

Speaking of dietary requirements, QuiteLike offers just 4-5 recipes each week for vegetarians. This is quite a limited offering, so you’ll need to like most of the meals on offer each week for QuiteLike to be enjoyable.

Before you choose each recipe you’ll be able to see all the ingredients, the nutritional information per serve, and the full recipe. This makes it super easy to pick out the recipes that are most suitable for you.

Meals need to be selected (or paused) 8 days before your delivery date. This is very standard for meal kits, but it’s worth watching out for in case you haven’t used one before.

Here are some of the interesting options available at the time of writing this review, which will give you a sense of the type of recipes QuiteLike provide:

• Italian Steak Salad with Tomato, Rocket and Parmesan
• Light Sweet and Sour Turmeric Fish Curry
• Chicken, Spinach and Zucchini Enchiladas
• Sticky Pork and Eggplant San Choy Bau

Alternatively, go and check out their upcoming menu!

Delivery Options

QuiteLike keeps it simple with delivery fees. A flat $9.99 on all orders, clearly displayed when you sign up for their meal kit plan.

That’s in line with the cheapest meal kit services for delivery and a plus point for me.

However, there are limited options for delivery days as QuiteLike are still a small company. In Sydney, they were only offering deliveries on a Sunday or Monday across two timeslots (12am – 7am, or 8am – 6pm). I know theyre working on expanding their delivery network though, so it’s worth checking for yourself.

Limited delivery slots are likely not an issue for many people as the boxes can be left for 6-8 hours whilst keeping the contents cool.

I was also very impressed with communication from the courier service. They shared a more specific ETA in the morning and I was able to track the van’s progress throughout the day.

My first ever box had an ETA of 10:30am and the box didn’t arrive until 13:45, which was frustrating. All of my more recent boxes have arrived within the estimated delivery window though, so I think I can put that initial experience down as a one-off.

How much does QuiteLike Cost?

QuiteLike are competing at the premium end of the meal kit market. They offer a full-service experience with quality ingredients that mean QuiteLike certainly isn’t the cheapest meal kit service.

People	Meals	Cost
2	2	$62.00
2	3	$77.00
2	4	$98.00
4	2	$98.00
4	3	$134.00
4	4	$162.00

QuiteLike’s pricing structure makes it far more economical to buy larger boxes, with the best value found when purchasing 4 portions for 4 nights of the week. That comes out to a price of $10.13 per serving compared to an expensive $15.50 per serving on the cheapest box.

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My QuiteLike Review Box

That’s enough background information. Let’s find out what a QuiteLike delivery is really like.

QuiteLike deliveries arrive in a fairly unnasuming delivery box (although I’ve had a few different designs recently) but you can’t miss the giant QuiteLike logo on the side.

Opening the box up, I found my meals packed neatly in individual paper bags. Compared to other meal kits where the ingredients are randomly thrown into the box, this is a huge benefit. It certainly makes unpacking the box very easy.

I understand that QuiteLike often pack a few extra goodies with your first box, although these aren’t guaranteed.

Pulling everything out of the box, you can see each meal is clearly labelled and has a QR code to take you directly to a digital version of the recipe. In line with this being a premium meal kit, you do of course receive full printed recipe cards as well.

Pantry ingredients are stored in the brown bags, whilst the refrigerated ingredients are all packed away in a branded cool bag.

As I always do, I inspected the ingredients for freshness as soon as the box was delivered. This is good practise just in case there are any issue, so you don’t get caught out when you are ready to cook.

All of my ingredients from QuiteLike arrived fresh and in great condition. I have been continually impressed by the quantity and quality of the vegetables, as well as the meat which normally has plenty of days left on the best before date.

How’s The Food?

When trying each meal for this QuiteLike review, I’m mainly thinking about three primary factors: Cooking, Taste, and Portion Size.

Cooking

I love that QuiteLike provide large, glossy recipe cards that provide pictures and step-by-step instructions. This means you should be able to just follow the instructions one by one and end up with a great meal.

However, that’s where I think my biggest disappointment ocurred with QuiteLike. Too often the recipes asked you to operate at inhuman speeds to complete a section whilst something else was cooking, or the sections didn’t follow each other logically.

Another challenge I faced repeatedly was that the oven timings were consistently under-timed. One glaring example occured when I was asked to put chunky sweet potato fries in the oven to cook for just 30 minutes. In the end, they took 40 minutes to cook through properly.

Whilst I understand that ovens can vary, and people’s skills in the kitchen vary significantly, I’m a firm believer that meal kit recipes should be as fool-proof as possible. I shouldn’t have to restructure the recipe completely around my own skills, or my very standard oven.

I can only assume they don’t test recipe cards in a home kitchen with a normal person trying to cook 4-person dishes. They should.

As a result, I’d recommend QuiteLike for people who already feel confident in their kitchen abilities, with the ability to adjust recipes as you go.

Taste

QuiteLike recipes are packed with herbs and spices that create some really exciting, zingy flavours. Unlike budget meal kits, you get all of the added ingredients that elevate dishes above your standard home cooking.

I’ve now cooked nearly 20 QuiteLike meals and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed almost all of them.

One star of the show was a Tarragon and Leek Chicken Maryland which involved huge chicken maryland pieces cooked in a flavourful, warming both that was perfect for a Sydney winters evening. It really showed off the high quality ingredients beautifully.

There have been some other superstar dishes, including a ‘Lamb, Feta and Za’atar Pie’, ‘Fast STeaks with Miso Mushrooms’ and a ‘Spiced Beef & Cauliflower Biryani’. These have been restaurant-quality, albeit perhaps not the most authentic international ingredients (the Biryani in particular felt quite westernised).

It’s not all perfect…

However, there have also been some real disappointments. The “Caramelised Onion Roasted Sausages with Broccolini and Mash” was a disaster from start to finish where not a single element of the dish was redeemable. Flavourless mashed potato, crunchy broccolini, soggy leeks, and worst of all anaemic unbalanced pork & fennel sausages.

It was a scenario where I cooked following the recipe, knowing it wouldn’t produce a great dish, but hoping that QuiteLike knew something I didn’t. Turns out I should have use my experience and cooked with my own process instead. The sausages were bizarre because they come from a high-quality free range butcher (Scotch & Fillet) but tasted only of fennel.

Here’s a gallery of various meals I’ve cooked with QuiteLike:

Portion Sizes

I’ve always ordered 4-person boxes and found that every meal has comfortably served at least four large portions. Each meal has been very filling, with a good mix of carbohydrates, protein, and vegetables leading to a balanced diet.

In fact, I had a few occasions where there was more food than we needed. Recently, the “Lamb Shawarma Wraps” recipe was incredibly generous with lamb and could easily have served 6 people.

We also experienced this with the Red Curry & Coconut Fish Parcels because QuiteLike had sent around 500g more sweet potato than was listed in the recipe! Fortunately I noticed this before cooking so we saved them to eat another day.

What isn’t included?

As is standard with all meal kit delivery services, QuiteLike ask that you provide some standard ‘pantry‘ ingredients alongside their provided kits. These are some of the ingredients that they might ask you to have:

Seasonings

• Salt
• Pepper

Oils & Vinegars

• Olive Oil
• Vegetable Oil
• Red Wine Vinegar
• Apple Cider Vinegar
• Honey
• Soy Sauce

Other

• Cornflour
• Caster Sugar
• Brown Sugar
• Plain Flour

I’m always a little disappointed when meal kits don’t provide small amounts of ingredients that aren’t super common. I don’t often have a bag of brown sugar, or a bottle of apple cider vinegar, hanging around at home waiting to be used so this can be quite inconvenient.

I always recommend checking your recipes before your box arrives so you can make sure you have all your staple ingredients available.

Managing My Order

I found it incredibly easy to navigate through the QuiteLike site and manage my order, no matter what I needed to do.

Changing meal selections was a breeze. Simply look through the 25 recipes available for that week and select the number of meals that match your subscription.

Changing subscription size can also be done very easily. They have this in the settings page and are up-front about the impact on your weekly subscription cost.

Skipping QuiteLike must be done before the cut-off point around 8 days before delivery, but is as easy as pressing a single button in your online account.

Finally, cancelling the service can be done online very quickly either by cancelling your account or pausing your subscription to prevent any further deliveries. Remember, you aren’t locked into receiving your subscription box every single week.

My Overall Thoughts

I think QuiteLike manage to deliver a high-quality, polished meal kit service with a focus around incredible local ingredients.

The website is incredibly well designed, making the ordering and subscription management activities incredibly easy. It was exactly the customer-friendly experience I’d expect from a meal kit

QuiteLike stands out from other meal kits through their use of quality, locally-sourced ingredients that combine to deliver delicious restaurant-standard meals… most of the time.

My primary negative experiences with QuiteLike have stemmed from the recipes in two ways:

1. I don’t believe the recipes have been stress-tested enough to make them foolproof. Therefore, it really helps to be an experienced home cook so you can modify the recipe to your own preferences and kitchen environment.
2. Some of the recipes don’t do justice to the amazing ingredients in the box. This may be personal preference, but I think they could optimise recipes to get more flavour out of the ingredients.

Overall, QuiteLike is a great meal kit, with an enjoyable rotating menu each week that you won’t get bored of. The ingredients are fantastic, along with the delivery experience and packaging.

If they can get their recipes more consistent, they’d probably be the best meal kit in Australia.

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Competing Services

The most similar service available currently would be HelloFresh. I’ve always found their recipes to deliver restaurant-standard meals, much like QuiteLike. The service is less personal but you’ll get more variety and pay a little bit less. There are many others you can try though.

I’d love to hear about other people’s experiences with QuiteLike – were they similar to mine? Did you find my QuiteLike review useful? Let me know in the comments section below!