40 Best Gourmet Food Gifts To Send In 2023

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From the perfect corporate present to a feast for your favorite cheese-lover, we have it all.

When it comes to gift-giving, you can never go wrong with a food basket. Whether you want to share your city's best bites with a faraway loved one, earn the title of "Guest of the Year" by impressing your hostess with an assortment of sweet eats, or display a selection of the finest cheeses at your next get-together, a beautifully wrapped bundle of treats and goodies are always sure to delight. From five-star beef and DIY at-home cooking kits to mouth-watering cakes and cookies, here are the best gourmet food gifts for everyone on your list.

What's better than a surf and turf dinner on the town? A ready-to-grill dinner of Premium Angus Beef filet mignons, sirloins, or New York strip steaks paired with 6 oz lobster tails ready to grill up in the privacy of your own home.

You can never go wrong with bacon. Or, in this case, a bacon flight, featuring three different types of everybody's favorite salty treat: applewood and hickory smoked bacons made from heritage breed pork, and D'Artagnan's signature duck bacon.

A cocktail party in a box. This collection of four cheeses (creamy brie, nutty gruyere, subtle manchego, and tangy English cheddar) chosen by the experts at the famed New York cheese shop pair perfectly with their spiced cherry preserves, olive oil crackers with sea salt, and marcona almonds.

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Nothing will delight your favorite chocolate fiend more than this collection of sweets including everything from decadent chocolate cake to truffles, malt balls, and even chocolate covered pretzels.

A perfect bite-sized treat, these miniature versions of this South Carolina bakery's pink champagne cake features decadent champagne-infused cake dipped in white chocolate for easy eating. You'll never go back to cupcakes again.

Your snack-loving deskmate will adore this mix of healthy (and less healthy) bites including triple ginger cookies, white cheddar popcorn, handmade NYC pretzels, peanut butter puffs, sea salt and pepper pistachios, and much more.

Expand your gift recipient's palate with a monthly selection of snacks made in different regions of the U.S.

If you're looking to gift a sweet treat, look no further than this curated set of pints from San Fransisco's famed Humphry Slocombe. The pints include six fan favorites like their Blue Bottle Vietnamese Coffee (a blend of Blue Bottle organic coffee, sweetened condensed milk, and chicory), Malted Milk Chocolate, Salted Caramel Cocoa Nib, and perennial favorite Secret Breakfast (bourbon ice cream studded with cornflake cookies).

Imagine someone who wouldn't be delighted to open up a box of these decadent chocolates filled with worldly flavors like dulce de leche, olive oil, and pasilla chiles. We'll wait.

Sending someone nice caviar is like giving them a party in a (very chic) tin. Chef Thomas Keller developed this caviar with his chefs at The French Laundry, which is to say it is delicious. Don't forget to include potato chips and crème fraîche for the full experience.

For a gift that truly takes the cake, order one of these specialties, made with delicate, paper-thin crepes and pastry cream, and caramelized until it gleams like the top of a great creme brûlée.

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For the giftee who doesn't believe in "carb-free." Each month for 3 months or 6 months, your lucky gift recipient will get one box of this Brooklyn brand's signature pasta as well as one box of an unexpected seasonal variety like fennel, chili, or mint.

In 2019, for the first time ever, an American-made cheese took home the top honors at the World Cheese Awards in Bergamo, Italy. That cheese? Rogue Creamery's Rogue River Blue Cheese. For a patriotic cheese aficionado, what could be better than a sampler of the creamery's beloved blues?

We all have someone on our list who puts hot sauce on everything, and now you can make sure they always have something new to try with this year-long subscription that delivers the tastiest hot sauces (12 in all) from small-batch purveyors all over the country right to their door.

For the serious coffee fiend, five packets of freshly roasted whole coffee beans from unique growing regions around the world offer the opportunity to really expand their palette.

For the home cook looking to expand their repertoire or simplify their daily prep, these sauce starters will kickstart any dish. Available in a range of authentic East Asian and Southeast Asian flavors like Thai Larb, Vietnamese Lemongrass BBQ, and Filipino Sisig, they're the easiest way to bring your favorite flavors home.

New Yorkers have long been obsessed with these mega-sized, meal-worthy cookies, and now they're available in giftable packs featuring their signature flavors Chocolate Chip Walnut, Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip, Oatmeal Raisin, and Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip. (Local shipping in NYC is available through Caviar, and nationwide through levainbakery.com.)

Even if you can't make it to New Orleans, you can still eat like it with a three course meal from this iconic NOLA institution including garlic bread, turtle soup or seafood gumbo, wild shrimp and cognac with creole cream cheese grits, and a whole pecan pie.

Nothing goes better with a luxe brunch than a good Bloody Mary, and these artisan blends made from fresh produce from this family-owned Alabama brand (plus pickled okra for garnish) definitely qualify.

Could there be a gift more magical than waking up in the morning to a hot, freshly-baked croissant that tastes like it came straight from a Parisian bakery? With this set of 15 frozen croissants, the dream can become a reality, and you can earn the title of the ultimate gift giver.

Lauren Hubbard is a freelance writer and Town & Country contributor who covers beauty, shopping, entertainment, travel, home decor, wine, and cocktails.

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