Ready-made meals · Frozen
Gourmet Dinner Service review: prices, menu and delivery
A long-running frozen meal service that suits households wanting restaurant style comfort food without a subscription, and it is particularly well set up for Support at Home and NDIS funded customers. The lack of upfront per-meal pricing and the $75 minimum order make it harder to compare on cost.
Best for
- Aged care and NDIS funded frozen meals with no subscription
Gourmet Dinner Service pros and cons
Pros
- No subscription or lock-in contract: order only when you want
- Snap frozen with no preservatives or additives, so meals keep for up to 4 months in the freezer
- Over 100 dishes spanning single serves, mains for two, family sizes, sides and desserts
- Set up for Support at Home and NDIS funding, with a 30% co-payment option and phone ordering
Cons
- No published per-meal price list, so you need to browse the menu or enter a postcode to work out costs
- $75 minimum food order plus a delivery fee on top
- Delivery limited to NSW, VIC, QLD, ACT and SA, with no WA, TAS or NT coverage
- Meals cannot be customised, and dietary options are limited to filters rather than dedicated plans
How much Gourmet Dinner Service costs
- Ongoing price per meal
- Price not published
- First order offer
- Free Intro Pack for new Support at Home customers: $100 retail value of meals with the usual $30 co-payment waived. (New Support at Home customers with an approved provider only. The provider is charged $70 plus delivery, offer applies to the first order only, and it must be claimed by phone.)
- Minimum order
- $75 minimum order value for delivery
- Delivery fee
- Delivery pricing varies by postcode and is shown after entering your postcode. Minimum food order value of $75 applies, plus a delivery fee. Free pick up from the Sydney and Brisbane kitchens.
Prices checked 24 August 2026. First order offers are not included in the ongoing price. Confirm at checkout.
Gourmet Dinner Service meals and menu
- Menu size
- 140+ meals
- Format
- Frozen
- Preparation
- Heat & Eat
- Full macros published
- Yes
Diets Gourmet Dinner Service lists
- Vegan
- Vegetarian or vegan
- Gluten free
- Diabetic friendly
- Dairy free
What customers say about Gourmet Dinner Service
- 3.8/5Gourmet Dinner Service on ProductReview.com.au20 reviewsChecked 24 August 2026
Ratings from ProductReview.com.au. They are those platforms' customer ratings, not ours.
Gourmet Dinner Service delivery and ordering
- Delivery area
- NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, ACT
- Order cut-off
- 11am, two business days before your delivery day (Melbourne example: 11am Thursday for Monday delivery)
- Delivery days
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday to Saturday
- Lead time
- Each area has a set delivery day, with orders placed about two business days ahead. Same day pick up from the Sydney or Brisbane kitchens if ordered before 12 noon.
- Regional delivery
- Beyond Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra and Adelaide, courier partners cover many regional areas of NSW, VIC, QLD and SA, including the Sunshine Coast, Toowoomba, Gympie, Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, Gippsland and northern NSW down to Ballina, Byron Bay and Lismore. Express and weekend delivery are available in limited areas only.
- One-off orders
- Yes, no subscription needed
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Ongoing prices exclude first order offers. Ratings come from different platforms, so they are not directly comparable.
Does Gourmet Dinner Service deliver to your postcode?
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How this page works
- Prices
- Prices and delivery details checked 24 August 2026. First order offers are listed separately from the ongoing price. Confirm at checkout.
- Customer ratings
- From ProductReview.com.au. These are third-party customer ratings, not ours, shown with the review count and the date they were checked.
- Comparison score
- Out of 100, calculated from published data only: customer rating weighted by review volume (35 points), whether macros, calories and a clear price are published (20), price against services of the same type (15), menu size (10), ordering flexibility (10) and delivery reach (10). Where a criterion cannot be scored it is left out and the rest are rescaled to 100. Price is left out of Gourmet Dinner Service's score. It is a comparison aid, not a test result. Paid placement does not change it.