15 Best Food Gifts, as Tested by Our Tastebuds (2025)

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• Best Panettone

  

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  Olivieri 1882

  Classic Panettone

  Panettone, the celebrated domed Italian fruitcake bread, is simply a time-honored portion of galore people’s vacation celebrations. Sure, you tin bargain 1 for astir 10 bucks astatine the market store, but it volition not beryllium a panettone similar this, flown successful caller from Olivieri 1882 bakery and café successful Arzignano, Italy. Handmade with sourdough and a four-day treble fermentation (which makes it easier to digest for the gluten-sensitive), this accepted loaf is preservative-free and redolent with candied oranges. The Classic mentation besides features raisins, Bourbon vanilla, and a texture dissimilar immoderate panettone I’ve tried; silken, yet inactive satisfyingly chewy.

  If you oregon a giftee likes panettone, this is the award-winning Final Boss of panettone that volition ruin each different brands for them forever. (“If you don’t cognize what you’re missing, possibly it’s champion it stays that way,” my hubby noted.) If they don’t similar panettone, good … they’ll astir apt inactive similar this one. If you’re feeling adventurous, Olivieri offers astir 15 spirit options, from staples similar Chocolate to unsocial finds similar Limoncello, Gin, and Apricot–Salted Caramel. —Kat Merck

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  Gift Options	Gift messaging is available, successful the signifier of a greeting paper for an other $4.

• Best Cookies

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  Last Crumb

  Core Collection

  Last Crumb's cookies are expensive. But they're truthful damn delicious. I emotion the luxe gift-box packaging and cheeky branding (for example, a 24-pack is called a DiCaprio), but I emotion the cookies adjacent more. There are 12 flavors successful the Core Collection, with further flavors coming astir arsenic limited-edition offerings. They tin beryllium microwaved oregon heated successful the oven earlier eating, and the individually wrapped, sealed cookies tin beryllium kept connected the antagonistic for 2 weeks oregon successful the freezer for 2 months.

  I tried Last Crumb cookies successful Everything but the Candles (a day barroom spirit bursting with affluent vanilla icing and tons of sprinkles); The Floor is Lava (a cocoa lava barroom that's saccharine but cocoa-forward, somewhat bitter, and champion enjoyed implicit the people of a fewer hours, 1 wound astatine a time); and What the Velvet, which was my favourite of the bunch. The reddish velvet confection was sticky, gooey, chewy, chocolatey goodness, implicit with a pick food halfway that elicited noises I won't picture here. The cookies are heavy and decadent, and they're made with high-quality ingredients similar slow-churned Plugrà food with an 82 percent butterfat content, premium cocoa from Barry Callebaut, and freshly crushed Tahitian vanilla beans. I've eaten a batch of cookies successful my life. I've ne'er eaten a cooky similar this before.

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• Best Brownies

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  Killer Brownies

  Best Seller 8-Pack

  Killer Brownies are, successful a word, scrumptious. They've got layers and layers of flavor—yes, they're sweet, but they've besides got a small footwear of salt; rich, nutty, toasted butter; adjacent the floury, breadlike notes are delicious. The brownies are thick, soft, chewy, and melt-in-your-mouth. They're disposable successful a myriad of styles, including layered with buttery, salty caramel oregon paired with an M&M-studded blondie barroom that encompasses everything bully astir vanilla. Depending connected the enactment you choose, they'll get successful a acquisition tin oregon a acquisition box.

  You tin vigor them oregon frost them—mine thawed perfectly aft being frozen for 2 weeks, though they tin support for up to a period if stored properly. The idiosyncratic brownies are besides massive. Each 1 weighs astir a 3rd of a pound. Smaller, bite-size desserts are available, too. Word to the wise: Don't look astatine the calorie counts. Just bask the brownie, preferably with a solid of milk.

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  Gift Options	Gift options and messaging are available. Arrives successful a acquisition box.

• Best Tinned Fish

  

  There's a bully accidental each tinned food enthusiast has heard of Fishwife, but I'd beryllium remiss not to see it successful this delicious list. These are not your grandpa's sardines. Or mackerel filets. Or juicy, smoky hunks of salmon. Fishwife gets it right, down to the smallest details, similar the gorgeous packaging. (Ordering via the Fishwife website gets you the enactment to snag gift tins, which look perfectly adorable). The tinned food flavors are to dice for. My favourite is the Smoked Salmon with Fly by Jing Sichuan Chili Oil—the spicy, somewhat crunchy chili crisp complements the food perfectly. The Sardines with Preserved Lemon are besides scrumptious, with a sour wound that elevates the acquisition to thing special—even if you're inactive conscionable pairing the food with a saltine cracker.

  Every tin has thought and attraction down it, from the hand-packed albacore tuna, which is packaged astatine a accepted Spanish cannery, to the Cantabrian anchovies, which are sourced from an MSC-certified sustainable fishery. Fishwife adjacent offers recipes to assistance you usage its tinned food successful imaginative caller ways. If you're buying for idiosyncratic who prefers savory implicit sweet, Fishwife is worthy checking out.

  Shipping Speeds and Costs	Standard crushed shipping costs $10. UPS 2nd Day Air shipping costs $19. Shipping is escaped connected orders implicit $75.
  Additional Shipping Details	Most products bash not necessitate refrigeration and don't get successful a cooler box. If refrigeration is required, crystal packs volition beryllium included.
  Gift Options	Gift tins are available. Gift notes are disposable for an further dollar.

• Best Caviar

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    Courtesy of Imperia Caviar

  Imperia Caviar

  Kaluga Hybrid Reserve Caviar

  I admit that I was influenced to effort this by TikTok. And I regret nothing. Caviar has this aura of enigma and intrigue, and Imperia leans into this portion besides making caviar consciousness much accessible than it would if you ordered it astatine a edifice with a snooty waiter peering down their chemoreceptor astatine you. Case successful point: I ate excavation with crème fraîche, chives, and kettle murphy chips. While wearing pajamas. In bed. And each azygous mouthful was fantastic, and cipher was judging maine based connected my quality to pronounce things oregon whether oregon not I knew however to unfastened the tin (which I didn't until I googled it). This small instrumentality of food eggs is sourced from stream beluga, oregon kaluga, astatine sustainable sportfishing farms.

  It tin beryllium kept successful the fridge for up to 3 weeks, unopened, though the institution recommends consuming it wrong a week of purchase; It should beryllium consumed wrong 48 hours erstwhile opened. You tin store add-ons, too, specified arsenic a mother-of-pearl spoon, which doesn't impart immoderate flavors that could change the experience. And the acquisition is downright fantastic. The caviar is pleasing to look at, with a dark-brown and amber hue, and the spirit is similar the water concentrated into a tiny drop—in the precise champion way. The eggs are ample and mild, with a buttery, nutty flavor, a salty kick, and a velvety texture that pairs good with blini. Or murphy chips. You bash you.

  Shipping Speeds and Costs	Custom transportation dates tin beryllium chosen astatine checkout. Flat-rate overnight shipping costs $30. Shipping is escaped connected orders implicit $300.
  Additional Shipping Details	Caviar is shipped with cooling packs and a FreshTag which indicates whether oregon not the items stayed chill during transit.
  Gift Options	Gift sets are available. Gift messaging is disposable astatine checkout.

• Best Charcuterie Board

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  Boarderie

  Classic Cheese & Charcuterie Board

  This committee is simply a grazer's imagination travel true. I volition admit that aft trying this committee for the archetypal time, I earnestly considered forgoing groceries and conscionable keeping a moving banal of them coming. Every clip I walked past my fridge, I was tempted to scope successful and drawback different cleanable bite. The boards get prearranged and acceptable to eat—you mightiness conscionable person to unwrap immoderate integrative bits and pieces from the trays. The tiny committee serves 2 to 3 and comes with 17 hand-selected cheeses, meats, fruits, nuts, chocolates, and olives; There's besides a mean committee that serves 4 to 5 and a ample committee that serves 9 to 10. Gift options are disposable arsenic well—you prime the board, and the recipient picks the transportation day.

  Every point connected the committee is yummy, but my favorites were the creamy, savory Gouda; fruity and salty blueberry Wensleydale; earthy achromatic truffle salami; and the pairings of dried cherries and seasoned olives. My rima is watering conscionable reasoning astir it. You'll besides get bamboo forks, spreaders, and tongs to assistance with serving everything up. This would marque a fabulous acquisition for a hostess oregon your favourite charcuterie enthusiast.

  Note: Holiday boards, including Christmas, Hanukkah (no meat), and New Year's themes, are disposable for pre-order now.

  Shipping Speeds and Costs	All orders are shipped utilizing FedEx Priority Overnight shipping and are delivered Tuesday done Saturday. You volition take the transportation date. Shipping is free.
  Additional Shipping Details	Boards are shipped with insulated liners and crystal packs.
  Gift Options	Gifting options are disposable (you prime the board, the recipient picks the transportation date). Gift messages are disposable during checkout.

• Best Meats

  

  Overhead presumption of the Allure Beauty Box, an unfastened container with a pinkish interior containing a premix of cosmetic products

  Harry & David

  Fine Meats Steakhouse Club

  We person a full usher to the best nutrient subscription boxes, but this enactment from Harry & David is our favourite for gifting. It's expensive, but my workfellow Adrienne So says that her tester container inactive looms successful her memories. She says the New York portion steaks were finely marbled and perfectly trimmed, with the perfect magnitude of abdominous to lend a crispy wound to the edges without being excessively fatty overall. Each container comes with aged, hand-trimmed, premium meats similar filet mignon oregon lobster tails, and they'd marque fantastic gifts for anyone with a penchant for grilling.

  Shipping Speeds and Costs	Shipping outgo varies based connected bid subtotal and transportation date, which you tin take during checkout. Shipping costs scope from $9 to $26; Orders implicit $150 volition beryllium charged 17 percent of the subtotal for shipping.
  Additional Shipping Details	Steaks are shipped with adust crystal oregon gel packs.
  Gift Options	Gift messaging disposable astatine checkout.

• Best Cheese

  

  Being from Wisconsin, food is benignant of embedded into my DNA. (I'd similar to deliberation that I'm 1 portion burrata, 3 parts 12-year cheddar.) Trust maine erstwhile I accidental Curdbox is an fantabulous acquisition for your favourite food enthusiast. It's a monthly subscription that includes 3 artisan cheeses and 3 accompaniments. There's adjacent a Spotify playlist, and an accusation paper with further details and vino pairing suggestions.

  Mine included Miticrema by Mitica, a silky, creamy sheep's beverage food with a brushed texture and a mild finish; Cana de Cabra by Mitica, a soft-ripened goat food with conscionable the close magnitude of savory funk; and Truffle Brie by Point Reyes, a creaseless and earthy brie that was adjacent parts analyzable and comforting. I besides received spiced plum jam, a tiny jar of Greek honey, and a container of fig-and-honey crackers. This made a fantastic meal for myself and my partner, who oohed and aahed astatine the cheeses unsocial and with the included pairings. Curdbox says the container is simply a suitable meal for 2 oregon nibbles for 9 oregon 10. The container is thoughtfully packaged and the cheeses cautiously wrapped for preservation if your giftee isn't a Wisconsinite who would happily devour 3 blocks astatine once.

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  Additional Shipping Details	Orders see crystal packs.
  Gift Options	Gift subscriptions are available.

• Best Chocolate

  

  Photograph: Matthew Korfhage

  Richart

  Initiation Chocolate Box

  In his in-depth usher to the best cocoa transportation boxes, my workfellow Matthew Korfhage says this is the champion acquisition option. The container includes a enactment of 16 filled chocolates and 16 squares of acheronian and beverage chocolate. The filled flavors alteration often, but each wound is simply a delight, offering a sensation of thing unsocial and funny without forcing your giftee to devour an full bar's worthy of the stuff. They'll besides get a small booklet with much accusation astir each inclusion, and the treats themselves are cautiously nestled into a acquisition box. If you're buying for a chocoholic, look nary further.

  Shipping Speeds and Costs	Shipping costs $25. Shipping is escaped connected orders implicit $100.
  Additional Shipping Details	Ice packs are utilized for warm-weather deliveries.
  Gift Options	Arrives successful a acquisition box. Gift messaging is available.

• Best for All Occasions

  

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  Letterly

  Custom Gift Trays

  Letterly's customized acquisition trays are perfect for event-based gifting. Choose your operation of numbers, shapes, oregon phrases, and past take your filling. Options see artisan popcorn, flavored mixed nuts, dried fruit, candy, chocolate, and a fewer mixes of those options; determination are choices for vegan and Kosher diets arsenic well. Button the full happening up with an optional “Thank You” oregon “Happy Birthday” connection connected the outer cardboard sleeve. The trays are plastic-wrapped for harmless transport, and you tin see a acquisition connection arsenic well.

  My mixed effect and seed tray was filled with tasty treats, including pistachios, candied almonds, macadamia and Brazil nuts, dried kiwi, apricot, pineapples, apples, raisins … it was a smorgasbord of goodness. I deliberation a larger tray would beryllium a bully acquisition to bring to a party, but I was perfectly blessed to munch connected the “25” I received implicit the people of a fewer days. Is it the astir idiosyncratic acquisition successful the world? No. Is it perfectly acceptable for the bulk of occasions wherever you request to springiness idiosyncratic something? Absolutely, yes.

  Shipping Speeds and Costs	Gifts tin beryllium scheduled up to 3 months successful advance. All orders vessel via UPS 2-Day Air. Shipping costs betwixt $18 and $30.
  Additional Shipping Details	Ice packs are utilized for warm-weather deliveries.
  Gift Options	Gift messaging is disposable during checkout.

• Best Holiday Gift

  

  Milk Bar

  Gingerbread Cookie Truffles

  Milk Bar's desserts are ever good, but thing astir these Gingerbread Cookie Truffles conscionable checked each container for me. They're packaged good and delicious, with a satisfying chew that's packed afloat of gingerbread flavor. They're precise rich—I was good with conscionable one—which means a twelve are cleanable for vacation parties (or sampling implicit the people of respective days). They look appetizing, too. Many different flavors are disposable (including a Cider Donut one, which I'm precise funny about).

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  Additional Shipping Details	Orders are shipped with crystal packs.
  Gift Options	Gift messaging is disposable during checkout.

• Best Gift for No Guesswork

  

  Gifting nutrient tin beryllium difficult, but Sugarwish makes it truly easy. You prime the snack category, from candy and cookies to nuts and chips (or a variety), and acquisition a acquisition paper for that amount. Sugarwish volition interaction your recipient, who volition get to prime retired immoderate snacks they privation to receive. Maybe you wouldn't peg your giftee arsenic idiosyncratic who likes dill pickle cashews oregon achromatic licorice, but they'll beryllium capable to prime their favorites without the request for you to conjecture what snacks suit their fancy. Everything arrives successful a perfectly presentable acquisition box, and champion of all, your recipient is guaranteed to similar it.

  Shipping Speeds and Costs	Shipping is included successful the acquisition container price.
  Additional Shipping Details	Orders are shipped successful packaging according to the contents.
  Gift Options	Gift messaging is disposable during checkout.

• Best Ice Cream

  

  Graeter's

  Holiday Ice Cream Bundle

  Graeter's French cookware crystal pick is creamy, luscious, and thick. I tried its vacation flavors, which were each excellent. Peppermint Stick was similar Christmas greeting successful a pint, Spirited Eggnog was saccharine and spicy, and Toffee Chip felt similar I was sinking my teeth into sticky candy without having to floss instantly afterward. All told, six pints travel successful the bundle, and they would person lasted maine a agelong clip had my household members not instantly wolfed them down. But I can't blasted them, due to the fact that this worldly is good.

  Shipping Speeds and Costs	Shipping costs betwixt $10 and $50.
  Additional Shipping Details	Orders are shipped with crystal packs. Graeter's guarantees that crystal pick volition get frozen.
  Gift Options	Gift messaging is disposable during checkout.

• Best Pasta

  

  Rubirosa

  Pasta Sampler and Marinara Sauce Set

  Though possibly champion known for its thin-crust “tie-dye” pizza, Italian edifice Rubirosa successful Nolita is precisely the benignant of old-school, family-owned reddish condiment associated NYC is celebrated for. Even though it’s been successful concern since 1960, it inactive attracts personage fans similar Meghan Markle and Harry Styles. It also, to this day, makes its ain pasta and marinara sauce, which it sells in its shop.

  If idiosyncratic connected your acquisition database is simply a fanatic for either pasta oregon New York City—or both—they volition emotion this set. It includes a trio of Rubirosa’s dried pastas successful a holiday-popcorn-style tin (lumache, which is the restaurant’s signature shape; fusilli; and reginetti), arsenic good arsenic 3 jars of the classical Marinara, made with plum and pear tomatoes. The pasta shapes are ridged to clasp much of the sauce, which my household confirms is the champion jarred condiment we’ve ever had. —Kat Merck

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  Gift Options	Gift messaging is disposable during checkout.

• Best Marmalade

  

  Courtesy of Marmalade Grove

  Created erstwhile Ukrainian-born husbandman Peter Karpushin ended up with excessively galore pixie tangerines connected his Ojai, California, citrus workplace during the pandemic, Marmalade Grove is present a full-spectrum citrus virtuoso. The institution not lone sells a ample lineup of gourmet marmalades (cara cara and hibiscus tea, meyer citrus and honey, ruby valencia and apricot, grapefruit and agave), it ships fresh effect consecutive from its groves.

  These perfectly giftable jars of marmalade not lone look great, they’re immoderate of the champion spreads that I, a lifelong marmalade lover, person ever had, tasting afloat of the full effect and not conscionable bitter rind. A boxed acceptable would marque a large contiguous successful and of itself, but 1 jar paired with beverage oregon a caller loaf of artisanal breadstuff would marque a large vacation hosting gift. Marmalade connected toast is not the astir of filling breakfasts, but I person present tried them each and I really deliberation I mightiness bargain different container to disagreement up for gifts. —Kat Merck

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  Gift Options	Gift options are disposable during checkout.