Gift baskets are perfect for the holiday season, birthdays, or and are a unique gift your part host. However, finding the perfect gift basket that will wow the food enthusiast while staying within your budget can be challenging. Fortunately, we have done all of that groundwork on your behalf.
We’ve selected an extensive variety of gift sets from our favorite specialty food and beverage makers and compiled this list with something for everyone, right in time for the approaching holiday season.
Our selection of the best gift baskets features exquisite chocolate treats from supermarket Italy that are (nearly) too beautiful to consume, meat subscription boxes for the meat lover in your world, cheeses, fruit baskets, and additional options.
Keep reading for our top gourmet gift basket options that will make a thoughtful and delicious gift for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, or any celebration.
Beautifully Curated Gift Baskets from Supermarket Italy
Supermarket Italy, a leading online destination for authentic imported gourmet products since 2009, is making the holidays extra special with a new lineup of curated gift baskets. Perfect for sharing festive cheer with friends and family, these baskets feature delicacies from Italy and beyond, offering a world of flavors sourced from 44 countries across Europe, Africa, North America, the Caribbean Australia, the Middle East, and South America.
This year, surprise your loved ones with Beautifully Curated Gift Baskets from Supermarket Italy that embody the spirit of the season.
Supermarket Italy’s Holiday Spirit Gift Basket – $79.99
Savor a lavish assortment of delightful Italian sweets, ideal for sharing festive joy. This basket includes:
- A bag of Baci Perugina Dark Chocolate Truffles, 4.4 oz
- La Florentine Soft Nougat Almonds and Pistachios Torrone, 5.3 oz
- La Florentine Assorted Torrone, 7.62 oz
- Toschi Baba in Rum Jars, 14.11 oz
- Mini Waffle Cones Just The Fun Part with Peppermint Dark Chocolate, 4.23 oz
- Niederegger Classic Marzipan Dark Chocolate Bar, 3.88 oz
- Niederegger Milk Chocolate Covered Marzipan Loaf, 4.4 oz
- Borgo de' Medici Soft Nougat with Limoncello, 3.5 oz
Taste of Italian Holiday Gift Basket – $79.99
Celebrate this holiday season with this rich assortment of Italian holiday favorites, including:
- Toschi Baba in Rum Jars, 14.11 oz
- Baci Perugina Bag of Dark Chocolate Truffles, 4.4 oz
- La Florentine Assorted Torrone, 7.62 oz
- Tost Non-Alcoholic Sparkling Cranberry White Tea Drink, 25.4 oz
- Lazzaroni Amaretti Di Saronno Tin, 1 lb
- Baci Perugina Christmas Tree Holiday Edition, 3.53 oz
- Fiasconaro Cioccolato (Chocolate) Panettone, 2.2 lbs
Supermarket Italy’s Games and Snacks Holiday Gift Basket – $79.99
Ideal for a snug holiday get-together, this basket combines treats with classic Italian games for endless enjoyment. It includes:
- Tombola della Smorfia Modiano, 48 Cards
- 1 Deck Modiano Italian Napoletane 97/25 Red Playing Cards,
- Modiano 96 Italian Siciliane Playing Cards,
- 1 Deck Modiano 89/20 Italian Trevigiane Playing Cards
- Modiano 51 Italian Romagnole Bordo Playing Cards
- Baci Perugina Christmas Tree Holiday Edition, 3.53 oz
- Lazzaroni Amaretti Di Saronno Tin, 1 lb
- Ferrara Assorted Torrone, 7.62 oz
Established in 2009, Supermarket Italy has been grounded in a family heritage of both Italian and global culinary practices. Serving chefs, restaurants, and food enthusiasts, the company provides imported ingredients, wholesale selections, and distinctive gifts.
Here are more gift baskets from other brands.
Murray’s Cheese La Dolce Vita
Follow the Italians’ lead and request this La Dolce Vita collection from Murray’s Cheese. This gift box contains all the essentials for a delightful aperitivo experience: Prosciutto, sopressata, Castlevetrano olives, crunchy taralli crackers, and four types of cheese, featuring a wheel of the incredibly creamy La Tur from Piedmont.
Simply mix in some Aperol spritzes or your preferred non-alcoholic spritz and get cocktail hour started. It includes:
- 2 pounds of cheese (Taleggio,
- La Tur, Piave Vecchio, and Mountain Gorgonzola)
- about 9 ounces of meat (Murray’s Soppressata,
- Murray’s Prosciutto di Parma,
- Murray’s Castelvetrano Olives
- Mitica Taralli Classic.
Levain Bakery Signature Cookie Assortment Gift Box
No need to stand in line for Levain Bakery’s delicious chocolate chip cookies — you can now have them sent straight to friends, family, or even yourself. The renowned bakery in NYC is recognized for its massive cookies featuring soft, buttery centers and delightfully chewy edges.
They’ve operated in the cookie industry for 25 years, growing from their store in the Upper West Side to multiple new outlets and currently (even better) offering home delivery. Its distinctive gift box contains four, six, or eight 6-ounce cookies featuring all of its most popular flavors, with each cookie baked fresh upon request. It includes:
- 1 walnut chocolate chip cookie,
- 1 dark chocolate chip cookie,
- 1 dark chocolate peanut butter cookie,
- 1 oatmeal raisin cookie.
Melissa’s Deluxe Exotic and Tropical Fruit Basket
Melissa’s is an outstanding online source for exquisite, rare fruits, vegetables, herbs, and microgreens. There are countless fruit gift basket delivery choices, but this one from Melissa’s features unique items like baby pineapples, Asian pears, lychee, kumquats, persimmons, rambutans, tamarillos, and feijoas (a type of South American guava).
This gift is excellent for daring food lovers, smoothie enthusiasts, or those seeking a tropical escape from the depths of winter, along with motivation to create recipes featuring passion fruit, for instance.
Please be aware that Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, and Hawaii prohibit shipments of citrus fruits into the state; therefore, Melissa’s will replace them with another seasonal fruit type.
It includes:
- 7-8 pounds of Asian pears,
- baby pineapple,
- blood oranges,
- cherimoyas,
- feijoas,
- kiwis,
- kumquats,
- lychees,
- mangoes,
- papayas,
- passion fruits,
- persimmons,
- pomegranates,
- rambutans
- specialty bananas,
- star fruits,
- tamarillos
Porter Road Best of Porter Road Box
Orter Road was founded by two chefs from Nashville facing challenges in locating fresh, ethically sourced meat nearby. Their store quickly gained a devoted following for its premium meats, butchered in-house and sourced from pasture-raised animals from nearby farms.
In 2019, they initiated their online store enabling individuals nationwide to experience the unique quality of their products. Their specially selected “Best of” box features a selection of their top products, ranging from dry-aged steaks to fresh chorizo. It includes:
- 2 dry-aged steaks,
- 2 pork chops,
- 2 lbs. of dry-aged ground beef,
- 1 lb. bacon,
- 1 lb. of country sausage,
- 1 lb. chorizo sausage.
