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Oct 29, 2024

63 Expensive Gifts For Food Lovers

Paramount Caviar limited edition gift set This curated collection of luxurious artisan gifts elevates culinary experiences, featuring everything from sustainable sea salts harvested in the pristine

Paramount Caviar limited edition gift set

This curated collection of luxurious artisan gifts elevates culinary experiences, featuring everything from sustainable sea salts harvested in the pristine waters of Tasmania to handcrafted chocolate ganache and gourmet meal kits by renowned chefs. Whether it’s exploring exotic flavors, mastering cooking techniques, or hosting dinner parties, each item has been selected for its quality, creativity, and craftsmanship. From bespoke cheese grottos and outdoor pizza ovens to limited edition caviar sets and an entire organic cow share, these gifts are the ultimate culinary gift-giving experience.

Soba making kit

This soba-making kit provides everything needed to prepare and serve soba and is sourced from small-batch artisans. Besides ingredients, the kit includes Gifu-made ceramic cups and a Tsuboe Irogami grater for wasabi and ginger. You can also wrap the gift in furoshiki, a traditional Japanese wrapping cloth, for an additional $20 charge.

Big Picture Farm's goat chocolates

These 50 individually wrapped caramels come in Big Picture Farm’s classic flavors: maple and cocoa, sea salt vanilla, chai, maple and cocoa. They also include 20 caramels dipped in dark chocolate. Big Picture Farm is a small goat dairy and farmstead confectionery and creamery in Vermont that creates award-winning goat milk caramels and chocolate.

Sip Herbals gift box

Sip Herbals is a WOC-owned brand that offers a tea with the body of coffee called Faux Joe—a gut-friendly, caffeine-free coffee alternative. Their Holiday Sip gift box includes their loose-leaf tea blends, mug, cozy socks, peppermint lip balm, and a stainless steel strainer or reusable pod.

Cheeky Cocktails sampler

Cheeky Cocktails features premium 100% juice that is stable for up to two years without preservatives and artificial flavors. This set includes nine bottles from Cheeky Cocktails’ assortment of bar syrups and juices, including cranberry syrup, mint syrup, honey ginger syrup, agave syrup, espresso syrup, simple syrup, honey syrup, and 100% lemon and lime juices.

Giadzy Best of Italy

Giadzy features curated selections from Giada De Laurentiis. This best of Italy box includes casarecce pasta, extra virgin olive oil, Italian spices, assorted Amaretti cookies, spicy seasoned salt, lemon and oregano salt, Tuscan grill herb blend and whole peeled tomatoes.

Melting Pot fondue set

This fondue set from melting creates restaurant quality fondue at home. It includes a $10 Melting Pot gift card, six fondue forks and a fondue pot with liner. Pick up one of the brand’s fondue at home meal kits for a complete dinner.

Bamboozle baking set

Sustainability meets style with this mixing bowl set from Bamboozle. These durable, eco-friendly products are made with plant-based materials. “Being sustainable has never been so delicious," says The Kitchn publisher Maxwell Ryan.

Tasman Sea Salt wakame flavor

Sustainably harvested from one of the world's most pristine natural environments. Tasman sea salt pairs innovative new clean energy technologies with traditional salt harvesting techniques. Their wakame flavored sea salt packs an umami flavor that adds depth to vegetable dishes and always pairs well with seafood and meat.

Lady M's Signature Mille Crêpes

Lady M's signature mille crêpes are famous worldwide, and this nine-inch cake features paper-thin handmade cakes layered with delicate pastry cream. The top is golden caramelized and serves ten to fourteen people.

Heatonist hot sauce

This hot sauce kit from Heatonist includes every flavor from season 24's viral online celebrity interview show Hot Ones. It’s a ten-sauce challenge, giving you all the sauces needed to create the show’s wings of doom. Pair your favorite wings with Fresno chilis, habaneros, or Pepper X.

Runamok Maple coffee flavoring

Runamok Maple is an artisan brand crafting maple syrup infused with barrel-aged and smoky flavors. The Coffee Lovers Gift Box includes five fan favorites for coffee sweeteners: sugarmaker’s wood-fired dark Vermont maple syrup, coffee-infused, and salted caramel-infused. It includes their autumn honey and a mini set of four specialty-flavored maple syrups.

Gambero Rosso Shrimp

These shrimp are caught in Sicily's Mediterranean waters with an intense, rich flavor and sweet notes. They're one of European restaurants' most sought-after shrimp and the culinary pride of Southern Italy. This two-pound box has about 9-10 shrimp per pound.

The Mala Market Chinese cooking essentials

Get started quickly with Chinese cooking with this complete Chinese pantry collection from The Mala Market featuring the best Chinese regional heritage products. This kit includes nine full-sized sauces and spices used in everyday Chinese cooking.

Fly by Jing hotpot gift

This kit from Fly by Jing includes all the tools needed for a hot pot meal, including the hot pot, two sets of silver chopsticks and slotted spoons and one signature hot pot base. The hot pot feeds up to six people, and the base is spicy and tingly, using the brand’s Sichuan Pepper extract.

A-Sha and Hot Ones pack

These instant ramen noodles are a collaboration between A-Sha and Hot Ones, the internet’s top celebrity interview show. These spicy ramen noodles come in a 36-pack sampler of all the available flavors: sweet chili, Taiwanese tingly pepper, garlic chili, sizzling chili garlic, smoky chili, and fiery hot tonkatsu.

H&H Bagels kit

Founded in 1972, H&H Bagels has become synonymous with the quintessential New York City bagel, seen on classic New York television series such as Seinfeld and Sex and the City. This bagel kit comes with twelve bagels, cream cheese, and one pound of Nova Scotia smoked salmon.

Cowgirl Creamery's ultimate experience

This gift box includes all six of Cowgirl Creamery's cheeses, including their rich and buttery signature cheese, which has notes of earthy white mushrooms. “Cowgirl Creamery’s award-winning cheeses are farm-to-table and delicious,” says marketing manager Kaya Freiman over email.

Tropical Fruit Box

This fruit box from Tropical Fruit Box features exotic fruits from around the world, sourced from farmer families producing the same product for generations. The item selection changes seasonally, but some fruits that may appear include: pinkglow pink pineapple, cherimoya, mangosteen, mango, red dragon, kumquat and TFB flower honey.

ESPRO P7 French press

The P7 French press from ESPRO serves three to four people with 32 ounces and comes in multiple finishes: stainless steel, Aegean blue and matte black. Its insulated design keeps coffee hot, and the double micro-filter delivers a smooth, grit-free cup.

COSPRO 5-in-1 Salt & Pepper Grinder Set

These five elegant grinders from COSPRO grind red pepper, salt, white pepper, black pepper, and green pepper. Designed for restaurants and catering but also great for home use, they're a high-performance set with powerful rechargeable batteries.

Merry Mornings coffee club

This gift from Merry Mornings includes five curated holiday specialty coffees delivered from Thanksgiving to Christmas morning. Each delivery arrives in a Santa sack with a postcard from Santa, and coffee has taken notes like figgy pudding, roasted chestnut and spicy gingerbread. “We are proud to say that Bean Box supports over 50+ independent roasters year-round, and every purchase supports premium wages for farmers and diversity in coffee," says co-founder Ryan Fritzky over email.

L.A. Burdick Chocolates everyday assortment box

This luxurious Connoisseur’s Collection from L.A. Burdick Chocolates includes chocolate-dipped mangoes and apricots, a box of chocolate-covered marzipan, single source dark chocolate bar sampler set, a quarter pound of everyday chocolate assortment, a box of four chocolate mice and two chocolate cigars.

Sakuraco advent calendar

This fourteen-day Japanese advent calendar comes from Sakuraco and celebrates the ryokan (traditional Japanese inn). The package includes seven traditional Japanese treats, seven Japanese-made keepsakes and homeware items, and seven hidden paper figures to create a ryokan scene.

The Paper Store serving tray

Made of acacia hardwood and eco-friendly epoxy, this serving tray from The Paper Store is perfect for breakfast in bed, a charcuterie board, or a dining accent piece. It elevates any gathering and is ideal for summer snacks on the patio or cozy winter spreads.

Omaha Steaks festive feast

Omaha Steaks is an esteemed meat purveyor. Their festive feast gift collection includes two porterhouse steaks, four ground porterhouse burgers, four rustic hash browns, four baguettes with garlic butter, one package of butcher's steak butter, and Omaha Steaks seasoning.

Pat LaFrieda engraved steak

Custom engrave the bone of this Pat LaFrieda 40-oz., 30-day dry-aged prime USDA tomahawk steak. This rib steak is beautifully marbled, richly flavored, and hand-sliced. Center-cut steaks are used to make an impression.

Hammacher Schlemmer Maine feast

Caught off the coast of Maine, this lobster bake from Hammacher Schlemmer comes with two of Maine’s famed lobster tails. Also included: eight shrimp, eight sea scallops, a dozen mussels, and two servings of corn on the cob drenched in herbed lemon butter sauce.

Chef Amy's pasta kit

Created by six-time James Beard nominee Amy Brandwein, this make-at-home pasta kit requires minimal prep but is highly rewarding. The kit includes eight artisan kinds of pasta, five sauces and Parmigiano. Pastas include potato gnocchi, ricotta cavatelli, hand rolled pici, pistachio fettuccine, red wine & truffle tagliolini and scallop & calamari spaghetti "bianca." Sauces include white and black truffle butter, forest mushroom ragu,and white bolognese.

Horl2 Knife Sharpener

Horl is a family-owned company that created the rolling knife sharpener. Its two-piece sharpener holds the knife in place with a magnet and sharpens the blade with a diamond-sharpening surface. It's crafted by German artisans and made of stainless steel and aluminum.

Boston lobster kit

Pick up this lobster roll kit from Legal Sea Foods for the seafood connoisseur. It’s a classic New England meal with the most sweet and tender Gulf of Maine lobster meat. The kit includes two lbs of lobster meat, a half pint of Legal’s special lemon-infused mayo, eight Legal’s artisan lobster roll buns, and butter. Serves up to eight.

Eataly love for limone kit

For the lemon enthusiast, pick up Eataly's curated pick of artisanal favorites and lemon infused specialties. Items include lemon-pepper linguine, lemon cookies and a variety of other citrusy treats and sweets.

Teakhaus butcher block

The extra-thick Teakhaus butcher block is made from 100 percent teak and is designed to last a lifetime. It's produced using a 100% sustainable zero-waste process and is a stunning addition to any luxe kitchen.

iQ Cooker

With a 6-quart capacity, this intelligent Chef IQ cooker has a built-in scale, eliminating the use of measuring cups, and uses pressure cooking technology to cook food 70% faster. It has over 300 cooking presets, including pressure cooking, sous vide, slow cook, sear and sauté,

Smith & Wollensky steak knives

These are the same steak knives used at Smith & Wollensky restaurants, made with high-end steel, durable stabilized wood and bespoke shape and design. This is a set of four knives and a two knife option for $120.

Goldilocks cookware

This award-winning cookware set from Goldilocks includes eight pieces, including two sizes of skillets, two sizes of saucepans, a stock pot and three lids. The steel handles are riveted "stay-cool," and all pieces are oven-safe, dishwater-safe and induction-ready.

ProTemp thermometer

Herd & Grace meat box

These seven favorite curated cuts from Herd & Grace are raised in Tasmania and South Australia. Raised with the cleanest air, open meadows and in a peaceful environment, the flavors of these cuts are incomparable.

Essential for checking the perfect turkey temperature and for holiday meals, this 100% wireless thermometer has digital and thermocouple sensors and a dual-screen temperature display. This package includes the thermometer, regular and mini probes and the protective case.

Spoonful of Comfort soup kit

This complete soup dinner comes with a class Dutch oven. It serves four to six people, including soup or mac and cheese, bread rolls, and cookies. Also included is a matching set of 100% cotton kitchen accessories: an apron, kitchen towel, pot holder and oven mitt.

Messermeister outdoor knife kit

Messermeister is a woman-owned brand based in Ojai, California, handcrafting chef’s knives, cutlery, and cooking tools. This six-piece set reinvents campsite cooking, including full-sized knives that are foldable, portable, and chef-grade quality. It includes a canvas case, chef's knife, fillet knife, folding fork, knife, spoon, peeler/parer, and cutting board.

MarieBelle chocolate ganache

MarieBelle is a world-renowned luxury chocolate company is woman-owned and produced in Brookyln. This artisanal collection of handcrafted chocolate ganache includes 100 pieces in flavors from espresso to passion fruit. Crafted with culinary artistry, it's packaged in a signature blue MarieBelle New York box.

Holzer Handcrafted

This utilitarian and luxurious dough press from Holzer Handcrafted makes tortillas, naan, pizza, ravioli, siu mai and more. It features handcrafted hardwood, mixing elegance with everyday practicality from a husband and wife team crafting premium wood products.

Ratio Six coffee machine

With just a push of the button, the Ratio Six coffee machine delivers world-class coffee. Its automated pour-over serves a perfect carafe of coffee consistently. It's built to last and provides precise heat and water flow, making up to eight cups of coffee.

Sunshine Provisions premium box

Sunshine Provisions created hand-selected premium gift sets, including its finest products, Wagyu, foie gras, and truffle salami. Their Living the Gourmet Life gift box includes eight cuts of meat, including beef tenderloin prime, porterhouse steaks, and Wagyu beef burgers.

Olive & Cocoa gift box

This over the top gourmet collection from Olive & Cocoa® makes an impression arriving in a over two feet wide wooden crate. Some of the treats include farmstead cheeses, dried apricots and figs, salted pistachios, handmade sea salt caramels, Swedish fish and artisan cacao chocolate bars.

Tiger edge blender

The Tiger Edge blender has a 45-degree diagonal blade that powerfully crushes whole ingredients, including ice and frozen fruit. There are ten speed settings, including plus, which delivers a smooth finish that preserves the flavor of the ingredients.

Aiden’s coffee maker

Aiden’s coffee maker brews pour-over quality coffee with one button. It can brew up to ten cups and is built for precision, control and speed. It acts like a personal barista, perfecting coffee-to-water ratios and temperature control. ‘Its intuitive yet stunning design allows you to truly experience coffee the way the roaster intended with the push of a button," says founder and CEO Jake Miller.

Cheese Grotto

This unique storage and serving device is perfect for the artisan cheese lover. The ancient European cheese-aging cave tradition inspires its design. The grotto can preserve cheeses up to three times longer by mimicking a cheese-aging cave’s microclimate. “Handcrafted of beautiful yet architecturally strong bamboo, our Cheese Grotto Classico makes a gorgeous tabletop display, perfect for entertaining and certainly a conversation piece!" says designer Jessica Sennett over email.

HALO outdoor pizza oven

For the home entertainer, the HALO outdoor pizza oven has pizza ready in five minutes using a patented dual burner and rolling stone. Besides pizza, it can also be used to make bread, desserts, and more. The product can also be found at Bass Pro Shop and Home Depot.

KellyBronze turkey

This 32-ounce turkey from KellyBronze comes with a thermometer and detailed cooking instructions. Its unsurpassed flavor, texture, and quality are due to the turkey’s age, free-range faring, and hand-picking. The brand also has temperature-controlled hanging methods, resulting in fast cooking times.

Dorasti omakase kit

For the high-end seafood fan, this omakase kit includes premium-grade one pound of otoro,seven pounds of Santa Barbara Uni, and 3.5 ounces of Dorasti caviar. The sea urchin is grade XA, the highest rating used widely by Michelin-starred chefs.

LIITON whiskey set

Packaged in an American dark walnut case, each luxury whiskey glass from LIITON contains a 1:1 scale replica of Everest. Made of 100% lead-free crystalline glass, the whiskey is chilled in no more than 20 seconds with its Chill Charge Exchange SystemTM.

Simon Pearce cake stand

This Hartland glass-blown cake stand is hand-blown by multiple glassblowers using traditional techniques. It includes the cake plate and the dome for an elegant kitchen display.

Frolic ice cream maker

Easily make gourmet ice cream at home with Frolic—the Keurig of ice cream. Their easy-to-use ice cream pods and mix-in toppings allow you to create the most inventive flavors. Eight pods are delivered monthly for an additional monthly subscription of $64.99.

Citarella Seafood Tower for 2

With all the seafood needed to serve eight, Joe's raw bar from Citarella comes with a dozen shucked wellfleet oysters, a dozen shucked little neck clams, cooked shrimp, two steamed lobsters, kind grab, cocktail sauce, mignonette, white horseradish and lemons.

Brisk It Origin 580 A.I. grill

This Brisk It™grill is the first to leverage generative A.I. and advanced cooking automation. It's Vera A.I. will generate recipes and cook them. The technology monitors and controls the cooking process with one push of a button with its precise temperature control algorithm.

Middleton Made Knives set

African American bladesmith Quintin Middleton leads Middleton Made Knives and has celebrity fans like Bobby Flay. Also great for home cooks, this Pearl Echo set includes a chef knife, Santouku, and paring knife, each with white pearl handles and cerakoted blades.

Click & Grow smart garden

Salt & Straw pint club

Salt & Straw makes ice cream with care and uses it as a blank storytelling slate. This twelve month Pints Club subscription delivers a five-pack of ice cream for an entire year.

Click & Grow smart garden

Grow more vertically and save space with the smart garden 27 from Click & Grow. This garden doesn't require a green thumb because it automatically provides water, light, and nutrients as needed. It includes three gardens, a plant stand and 27 plant pods.

Monogram heated ice press

This ice press forms perfectly uniform ice spheres within one minute. The heated press shapes 2.5" spheres quickly and effortlessly for the ultimate in-home entertaining. Ideal for hosts looking to “wow” guests, it creates an unparalleled cocktail experience for the home spirits connoisseur.

Montaraz Iberico ham

This lush ham is from Montaraz, one of Spain’s top artisanal producers. This five-generation family business sustainability raises Iberian pigs free-range in Spain on a diet of wild herbs and acorns. This is 100% Pata Negra and aged up to four years.

SMEG compact countertop oven

This new compact countertop oven combines vintage vibes with modern functionality. It's available in white, cream, and black and has ten cooking functions: steam, grill, and air-fry. This oven also includes 33 automatic recipes, ensuring perfectly cooked meats, vegetables, pizzas, breads, and desserts every time.

Paramount Caviar set

This limited edition gift set from Paramount caviar is the ultimate indulgence. The star is the rare light golden Imperial hybrid caviar that has fruity and nutty notes. This set is packed in a leatherette box and includes: 8.8 ounces of imperial hybrid caviar, french blini crème fraîche, a paramount caviar tin opener and mother of pearl spoon.

Hexclad kitchenware

The total value of this Hexclad kitchenware set runs over $4000 and includes 24 pieces including Hexclad's hybrid cookware, Japanese Damascus steel knives, roasting pans and Bistecca plate set. Chefs belove this brand and is Gordon Ramsey's go-to kitchenware.

STEELPORT knife set

Handcrafted in Portland, Oregon, and made with U.S. sourced materials, this full knife set from STEELPORT includes a slicing knife, bread knife, chef knife, chef knife, boning knife, paring knife, an award-winning magnetic knife block, and two steak knife sets in custom Portland-handcrafted wooden boxes. "The STEELPORT Full Family Set is the ultimate gift for anyone passionate about cooking who would delight in elevating all aspects of their dining experience,” says founder and CEO Ron Khormaei.

Starwalker Organic Farms whole cow

This is a 400 pound certified organic whole beef share from Starwalker Organic Farms. These cows live on lush open pastures and have no antibiotics, added hormones. This includes 180 pounds of premium cuts like ribeye and filet mignon, hearty cuts and stew meat and ground beef. “Every box delivers the finest cuts straight from our farm, making it the perfect gift for those who value sustainability and unforgettable taste,” says co-founder Kristina Walker over email.

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