Goldbelly Review

Whether you live in a rural part of the country or are a gormet food lover, it can be difficult to have access to these top rated delicacies on a regular basis.

Enter Goldbelly, a global online gourmet food and food-gifts marketplace that links you to your favorite gourmet meals.

Once you place an order, Goldbelly procures it from gormet restaurants and meal providers, packs it for shipping with dry ice packs, and delivers it to you. The company is renowned for its quality foods and extra-fast delivery.

Although it operates from San Francisco, Goldbelly distributes food nationwide.

How Does Goldbelly Work?

Goldbelly has taken the idea of meal kit subscription services that are delivered to your home and expanded it to gormet foods that are ready for you to serve with little to no effort.

For example, if you ordered fried chicken for your first order, it comes already cooked but frozen. You have to thaw and heat the chicken in your oven but no other prep work would be necessary.

Goldbelly can accept returns if your order is not to your satisfaction. Cancellations rarely occur, but if they do, you can choose a replacement product.

Ordering Process

From the Godlbelly website, you identify the food or food gift you want, customize the order, and add it to your cart.

Just like other online vendors, you go to the payment page to enter your payment details. After a successful payment, your order is complete.

Goldbelly then places the order with the restaurant or vendor, and the order is shipped exactly as you requested with instruction on any prep work you have to do.

Every person that we have had try Goldbelly for the first time have found the ordering process very easy to work with.

Meals Available and Pricing

The Goldbelly website offers a wide variety of meals and foods.

Locations

You can search Goldbelly options by city and region. The main featured cities include:

• Austin, TX
• Boston, MA
• Chicago, IL
• Los Angeles, CA
• Miami, FL
• Nashville, TN
• New Orleans, LA
• New York City, NY
• San Francisco, CA

You are not, however, limited to these cities. For example, if I want a hot salami sandwich from St. Louis, I can search in the Midwest region and find one with no problem.

Restaurants

Just like the city search you can search by restaurant. For example, if I enjoyed the vinegar based BBQ from Caroline’s in Spartanburg, SC, I can search and see that she also offers souther style cheese biscuits, which are ridiculous.

Goldbelly also allows you to save which restaurants you like the most into a list you can visit later. I made sure to keel Lou Malnati’s on my list for their Chicago style deep dish pizza.

Types of Food

One nice feature of the Goldbelly ordering process is you can sort by the type of food you want. The main categories include:

BBQ

Goldbelly delivers some of the tastiest barbecue in the U.S. What’s more, Goldbelly barbecue is shipped for free nationwide. The BBQ options available include:
Pulled Pork

• Brisket
• Ribs
• Sausage
• Sandwiches

Goldbelly gives you the option to select from what they consider to be the top BBQ restaurants in the country, allowing you to order BBQ from the regions that specialize in a specific type of meat or flavor. For example, you can get brisket from Texas, pulled pork from the Carolinas, and ribs from Kansas City.

If you get any BBQ from New York City or Los Angeles then your mother will disown you until you to go to church and repent for your sins.

Pricing depends on where your order comes from, but the average BBQ order is about $90.

Beef

Well prepared beef meals are a favorite of our team of taste testers and Goldbelly delivers with some of the best prepared options our country has to offer. You can order:

• Italian meats
• Corned beef
• Mexican beef
• Kansas City Beef Burnt Ends
• And many other favorites

The price of the beef ranges from $60 to $100. Enjoy free shipping as you wait to enjoy your beef order.

Deli Items

Goldbelly has some of the savoriest deli offerings in the U.S. It sources its deli products from some of the most reputable providers and delivers it to your table in record time. You can choose from several deli packages, including:

• The Complete Jewish Deli Brunch
• Complete Deli Dinner
• Carnegie Deli and Cookie-Dough Cheesecake

The price range for a deli item or package is between $120 and $250.

Bacon

Who doesn’t love bacon? And what’s better than bacon delivered to your doorstep? Goldbelly offers monthly subscriptions where you can enjoy a discount for placing an order.

Some of the most popular bacon options include:

• Blackberry Farm bacon
• Mild End bacon slab
• Spanish Iberico bacon
• Artisan Dry-cured Bacon
• Double-smoked bacon.

There is no fixed price for the bacon, but prices range from $50 to $100.

Poultry

Goldbelly delivers some seriously scrumptious poultry – well-marinated, with just the right amount of spice.

You can order any of the following poultry products to enjoy at home Choose from world-famous:

• Chicken Pot Pie
• Fried Chicken Biscuit Sandwich
• The All-Madden Turducken
• Stuffed Chicken
• Country Chicken Hand Pies
• Chicken Pot Pie
• Slow Smoked Chicken Wings

Depending on your preparation preferences and the size of your bird, prices can range from $75 to $140.

Ham

Renowned chefs prepare Goldbelly’s ham offerings and deliver them to your doorstep. All you have to do is cook it! The company also offers a special discount to its customers.

The delectable offerings include:

• Taylor Ham Pork Roll
• Large Turducken and Ham
• Smoked Berkshire Ham
• Sally’s Chipped Chopped Ham
• Landrauchschinken (Swiss Country Ham)
• City ham
• Kurobuta half bone-in ham
• Boneless Pit Ham

Prices range from $40 to $200, depending on the preparation.

Fried Chicken

Goldbelly orders the most flavorsome chicken for its customers—and if you subscribe, you get a discount!

Some Goldbelly chicken favorites include:

• Fried Chicken Biscuit Sandwich
• 50 medium buffalo wings
• 50 hot buffalo wings
• 50 suicide buffalo wings
• Nashville Hot Chicken

Prices range from $80 to $200.

Seafood

Imagine being in the middle of the country but still having access to top rated coastal seafood. Some of the favorite Goldbelly seafood items include:

• Lobster Rolls
• Seafood Chowders
• Crawfish
• Crab
• Shrimp

Prices range from $50to $200, depending on the type of meal.

Desserts

There are such a wide range of desserts on the website it’s impossible for us to do them justice.

You can get anything from chocolate chip cookies to vanilla ice cream. Using the subscription feature you can have your favorite dessert delivered on regular intervals.

Some of our favorites include:

• Key Lime Pie
• Cupcakes
• Pies
• Brownies

Imagine having a gormet ice cream subscription from your favorite ice cream shop half way across the country. Amazing!!

Free Shipping

Given the nature of Goldbelly’s system, subscription boxes do vary over time as new companies join their partnership. Most boxes offer discounts for longer subscriptions along with free shipping.

The site makes identifying boxes with free shipping easy with a convenient free-shipping label atop product photos on the main page. You can also filter results for those with free shipping.

If you find items in your subscription that you really enjoy or in larger quantities, you can buy them stand-alone from the storefront at any time.

Gifts

If you have someone in your life who loves to receive a unique gift, Goldbelly can be a great option.

The gifts section of the Goldbelly site gives you some perfect gift options. They have it split up into options like the most popular, corporate gifts, and care pacakges.

Our favorite is the iconic gifts section. This section has a seleciton of food gifts from the most well known restaurants and world-renowned chefs in the country.

You can go down as the person who found the utlimate gift when your friend or family member opens a cheese steak from Philadelphia or seafood gumbo from New Orleans.

You can even order a special birthday cake, like JFK’s wedding cake from Montillo’s Baking Company in Boston, MA.

Best Goldbelly Items

This is going to be highly subjective but our favorite items from the Goldbelly site are:

• Joe’s Pizza
• Pat Lafrieda Meats
• Gormet Vanilla Ice Cream
• Key Lime Pie
• Deep-Dish Pizza

Yes, I know pizza is on there twice but Joe’s is very different from deep dish and both are at the top of the Goldbelly reviews.

Company History

Joe Ariel established Goldbelly in 2013 to supply food to consumers in the San Francisco area. It later grew to a flourishing organization and took its offerings online.

Goldbelly networks with restaurants and delis to source its meat, repackage it, and deliver it to you. Company agents are spread throughout the country to select your order and deliver it to you as quickly as possible, thus reducing operating costs significantly.

At the end of 2013, Intel Capital raised $3 million to fund Goldbelly’s digital company, making it one of the biggest in the U.S. The company appeared in Time Magazine among the Top 50 e-commerce websites of 2013.

Alternatives

The following are some of the fiercest competitors to Goldbelly:

• Vital Choice Seafood provides fast fresh-seafood delivery, which makes it an excellent alternative to Goldbelly.
• Porter Road is a monthly subscription meat service that delivers pasture-fed meats, poultry, and sustainable seafood to your door. It emphasizes quality service from an online ordering platform.
• Greensbury offers a wide variety of meats online, from sustainable seafood to grass-fed beef, pastured bison, and antibiotic-free poultry.

Pros

• Fast delivery.
• Operates across the entire United States
• Large selection of meals and gifts
• Mobile-friendly
• Supports small businesses
• Customer service is responsive

Cons

• The meat arrives frozen and require heating
• Like most meal kits that are delivered to your home, incorrect orders are very inconvenient.
• Devlery date and time depends on the package carrier and can be between 8 AM and 10 PM.

Our Verdict

In today’s fast-paced society, online shopping is a norm rather than an exception. Consumers purchase everything from furniture to household appliances and even food via the internet.

If you’re looking for a gourmet meals, unique food items, or gifts, Goldbelly is the real deal and one of the best websites to visit. It offers meals, meats, baked goods, and candy, which provide for a versatile, one-stop “foodie’s” paradise.