There’s something so exciting about receiving a hamper as a gift – opening it up and rummaging inside to unearth not one, but a whole host of goodies, all selected to complement each other. A carefully chosen hamper makes a great Christmas gift, whether its filled with festive treats for sharing or focused on food you know they’ll love.
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Show some love and send an extra-special gift hamper to the foodie in your life. We have plenty of fantastic options perfect for foodies, from indulgent chocolate and cheese to top-quality wine and global delicacies. We’ve picked some of the best hampers from our favourite foodie stores with options for home cooks, budding chefs, and everyone who loves to celebrate with great food.
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Best Christmas hampers at a glance
- Best classic Christmas hamper under £100: Prestige Hampers Traditional Gift Basket, £99.99
- Best classic Christmas hamper for a sweet tooth: Bettys Christmas Classics Gift Box, £85
- Best small classic Christmas hamper: The British Hamper Company Christmas Treats Hamper, £59.97
- Best sweet Christmas hamper under £50: Cartwright & Butler Cosy Christmas Collection, £40
- Best Italian Christmas hamper: Eataly The Tavola Delle Feste, £55
- Best Christmas hamper for a drinks party: Ottolenghi Festive Champagne Hamper, £80
- Best chocolate hamper: The British Hamper Company Divinely Decadent Chocolate Hamper, £79.97
- Best hamper for birthdays: Cutter & Squidge birthday hamper, £49.99
- Best hamper for stocking the cupboards: wrap’t Pantry Goals, £63
- Best for adventurous cheese lovers: The Pong Cheese Explorer Box, £24.95
- Best hamper to bring as a guest: Fitzbillies The Cambridge hamper, £90
- Best Spanish hamper: hampers.com Spanish Tapas Food & Wine Hamper, £84
- Best for Mediterranean food lovers: Odysea Classic Greek Hamper, £55
- Best hamper for a pasta lover: Lina Stores La Pasta Hamper, £55
- Best for trying new ingredients: Lebnani The Luxe Beirut Box, £49
- Best hamper for lovers of authentic Chinese cuisine: Poon’s London heritage gift hamper, £70
- Best cheese hamper: Paxton & Whitfield The Clarence cheese and wine hamper, £100
- Best build your own hamper: Guzzl hampers, from £40
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Prestige Hampers Traditional Gift Basket
Best classic Christmas hamper under £100
For a Christmas hamper full of treats at a great price point, this certainly delivers. In a classic wicker basket for a luxe feel, there’s impressively two bottles of wine in here (one red, one white, so everyone is covered) alongside a range of sweet and savoury treats. Our highlights were the squidgy Christmas cake, punchy cheddar crackers, and a moreish tin of Yorkshire crisps. Next day delivery is available across the UK, and there’s even delivery right up until Christmas Eve, if you need a last minute gift.
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Prestige Hampers (£99.99)
Bettys Christmas Classics Gift Box
Best classic Christmas hamper for a sweet tooth
This smart gift box showcases the best of Bettys (the iconic Yorkshire tearoom), with bakes and biscuits galore. There’s a focus on festive ginger as a hero flavour – with Yorkshire gingerbread, dark-chocolate-coated ginger biscuits, and ginger shortbread. But there’s plenty more too – the box of decadent salted caramel chocolates make a smart post-dinner treat to pair with the spiced Christmas tea or coffee, and the snappy mint thins are a real treat. It’s the perfect hamper to keep dipping into over the festive season.
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Bettys (£85)
The British Hamper Company Christmas Treats Hamper
Best small classic Christmas hamper
If you’re looking for a Christmas hamper that brings plenty of festive joy without needing to spend hundreds of pounds, this smart offering from the British Hamper Company is ideal. We love the signature blue and red packaging that makes everything stand out in your cupboards.
Inside, there’s a mix of sweet and savoury snacks to enjoy over Christmas, with several Great Taste Award-winning products inside – the punchy cheddar nibbles would be brilliant with Christmas drinks, while the box of mince pies were delicious both hot and cold. Buttery sea salt fudge, festive spiced cookies and a couple of bars of chocolate complete the charming offering.
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The British Hamper Company (£59.97)
Cartwright & Butler Cosy Christmas Collection
Best sweet Christmas hamper under £50
Everything you need for a cosy festive night in delivered in a smart, compact gold tin – a change from wicker baskets and much more reusable for years to come than cardboard boxes. Cartwright & Butler is known for its biscuits, and we love the buttery salted caramel ones in this hamper. Take your pick of the rich sea salted fudge bar or the box of more grown-up whisky fudge, ready to be washed down with an English breakfast tea, along with a hot chocolate stirrer on the side.
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Cartwright & Butler (£40)
Fenwick (£40)
Moonpig (£39.99)
Eataly La Tavola Delle Feste
Best Italian Christmas hamper
Bring a taste of Italy to your Christmas celebrations with an Eataly hamper. We love the glossy red box which is tied with a bow – a vibrant alternative to wicker hampers. Your storecupboard will be stocked with nine gourmet treats in the form of pasta, La Valletta lentils and tomato sauce (perfect for elevating pasta or spreading on bruschetta). There’s also a jar of indulgent pistachio cream, nougat, amaretto biscuits and chocolate. The added bottle of fizz makes this feel like great value at just over £50.
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Eataly (£55)
Ottolenghi Festive Champagne Hamper
Best Christmas hamper for a drinks party
This elegant hamper has everything you need for the most chic Christmas party of the year. It’s filled with stylish snacks that will bring a touch of Ottolenghi flair to any gathering (or simply a delicious festive night in) – plus a special bottle of champagne to kick things off.
The cheesy snacks were our highlight. First, thin, crisp golden grissini breadsticks which are fragrant with cheese, rosemary, chives and a touch of chilli and have the perfect thin snap, then the rich and buttery cheddar and pistachio biscuits. Both packets are generous yet moreish enough they’ll be gone in minutes. A jar of rosemary spiced nuts is another crowdpleaser, whilst for the sweet tooth there is soft set panettone fudge, loaded with festive flavours.
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Ottolenghi (£80)
The British Hamper Company Divinely Decadent Chocolate Hamper
Best chocolate hamper
This is our new favourite pick for a hamper for a sweet tooth. It’s filled with a variety of chocolate treats in all forms – from a trio of mini bars to chocolate-dipped almonds, truffles and drinking chocolate. Our favourite was the smart box of dark chocolate mint creams. The signature British Hamper Company packaging is chic throughout, with the hamper arriving in a smart reusable navy box and everything inside in matching speckled tins or boxes – lots of which you could easily reuse, too. Perfect for a Valentines’s Day gift or special treat to indulge a chocolate lover.
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Cutter & Squidge birthday hamper
Best hamper for birthdays
This fun hamper is guaranteed to raise a smile from the lucky recipient on their birthday. Everything is impressively and colourfully packaged for a fun birthday unboxing, and arrived unscathed. The centrepiece Victoria strawberry sponge cake is the highlight: nostalgically sweet with fluffy cake, creamy icing and a sweet strawberry jam filling. The box of salted caramel brownies are perfect for sharing and the unusual carrot cake cookie bites were crunchy and addictive – like moreish mini Hobnobs. Overall it offers a great value birthday delivery for someone with a sweet tooth.
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wrap’t Pantry Goals
Best hamper for stocking the cupboards
We like this hamper because it will making cooking every day feel just a little extra special, with a gourmet upgrade to lots of storecupboard essentials. The hefty 750ml bottle of Glug olive oil is arguably the hero here and will keep the lucky recipient going well into 2027. The tin of Perello olives will always go down with a foodie, whilst the hot honey and chilli oil will be new go-to’s every time you’re having a pizza or need to spice up some roast veg. As wrap’t themselves say, this hamper offers ‘six good reasons to open the cupboard and make something’. On wrap’t, which aims to highlight independent makers in all its hampers, you can also build your own selection to box up from over 40 foodie products.
Available from:
wrap’t (£63)
The Pong Cheese Explorer Box
Best for adventurous cheese lovers
Want to venture beyond the supermarket cheese counter? This compact box from Pong is the perfect place to start. Four carefully chosen cheeses take you on a whistle-stop tour of British and French artisan cheesemaking for a very accessible £22.95. The Westcombe cheddar is a clothbound Somerset classic — earthy, powerful and worlds apart from its plastic-wrapped cousins. Le Trou de Cru, a washed-rind charmer from Burgundy’s Fromagerie Berthaut, brings a pungent, funky contrast, while the Péraïl offers a gentler introduction: a silky ewe’s milk cheese from the Aveyron with a delicate citrus freshness. Rounding things off is Blue Monday, the celebrated blue from Blur-star-turned-cheesemaker Alex James, rich and gloriously creamy.
At around 565g across four varieties, portions are tasting-sized rather than generous but that’s rather the point — the box is designed to educate and enjoy in equal measure. Pair with a good chutney, some Peter’s Yard crispbreads and a glass of something robust.
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Fitzbillies The Cambridge Hamper
Best hamper to bring as a guest
The Fitzbillies Cambridge Hamper offers a delicious array of treats. Fitzbillies’ Chelsea buns are a standout — decadent, sticky and even more irresistible when warmed and drizzled with their treacly syrup. The hamper also features a moist vanilla and raspberry cake in a collectible tin, ideal for sharing. Plus, there are six macarons in assorted flavours, buttery shortbreads (plain and chocolate chip) and crunchy chocolate honeycomb, alongside loose-leaf English breakfast tea, sweet raspberry jam and zesty marmalade. This hamper offers a cosy twist on a festive gift, making it a wonderful choice for those after something a little less traditional.
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Spanish Tapas Food & Wine Hamper
Best Spanish hamper
Channel a sunny Spanish holiday with this wicker hamper filled with treats to recreate a tapas feast at home. Alongside a standout bottle of garnacha are a range of savoury snacks to pair with your drink, from familiar brands like Torres crisps and Perello olives to new discoveries to try. Chorizo lovers will be happy with both crisp chorizo thins and a mild chorizo horseshoe that is perfect for cooking. The surprising highlight for us was the rosemary and sea salt regañás crackers – the ultimate moreish salty snack. We couldn’t put the bag down!
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Odysea Classic Greek Hamper
Best for Mediterranean food lovers
Bring the sunshine home with Odysea’s celebration of classic Greek flavours. This thoughtfully curated hamper captures the essence of the Mediterranean diet — rich olive oil, tangy vine leaves and sweet, floral honey. Inside, you’ll find PDO Kalamata extra virgin olive oil, plump Kalamata and Halkidiki olives, delicate balsamic vinegar from Messinia and hearty gigantes baked beans. Two varieties of raw honey (Spring Blossom and Pine & Fir Tree) add natural sweetness, while a reusable cotton tote completes the gift. Balanced, vibrant and full of Greek character, it’s a great choice for anyone dreaming of warmer days and relaxed feasting.
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Odysea (£55)
Lina Stores La Pasta Hamper
Best hamper for a pasta lover
The Lina Stores signature green and white packaging never fails to make us smile and this hamper makes the prettiest gift for any pasta lover. Arriving in a sturdy Lina Stores tote, dig inside and you’ll find elevated Italian store-cupboard staples that will make everyday cooking feel extra special. There are three pretty boxes of pasta plus a selection of tomato sauces, artichoke pesto and cime de rapa so you can build the ultimate bowl of pasta, hassle free.
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Lebnani The Luxe Beirut Box
This is a great gift option for a keen foodie, coming in at under £50. Whether they’re a seasoned chef or a keen newbie, the Lebnani hamper has everything they need to explore Lebanese cuisine and try some new ingredients. There’s generous jars of sumac and za’atar, a big tub of tahini (perfect for making hummus), fragrant rosewater and orange blossom water and more.
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Poon’s London heritage gift hamper
Best hamper for lovers of authentic Chinese cuisine
The Poon’s hamper celebrates Chinese culinary heritage in a striking box, featuring the brand’s signature artwork. Inside, you’ll find all four of Poon’s iconic sauces, including vibrant chilli vinegar dressing and smoky black bean-infused extraordinary chilli oil, plus its premium soy and umami-packed WO sauces. Accompanied by jasmine rice and noodles, the hamper also includes Poon’s wind-dried meats: mildly sweet lap cheong, duck liver sausage and richly flavoured Chinese bacon for enhancing stir-fries and rice dishes. Ideal for lovers of artisanal, authentic Chinese flavours.
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Poons (£70)
Paxton & Whitfield The Clarence cheese and wine hamper
Best cheese hamper
If you love an evening of cheese, wine and all the accompaniments, this is the hamper for you. It has three cheeses: a well-balanced and nutty hard goat’s cheese from Devon, an artisanal blue stilton with a deep, savoury flavour, and a smoked cheddar with complex, rich notes. To pair with these, a cheeseboard selection of biscuits, fruit preserve made with forged damson and crab apple, vibrant and spicy piccalilli, an impressively wrapped ball of baked figs, and an unusual yet incredibly moreish pear and vanilla confit spread are included. Enjoy the bottle of merlot with beautiful notes of soft plum and cassis on the nose and a deep garnet colour, and buttery, crumbly Scottish shortbread. Check out our full round up of the 25 best cheese hampers to buy.
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Guzzl hampers
Best build your own hamper
At Guzzl, flexibility is the name of the game. Y0u can build your own hamper and fill it with a range of contents so that the selection perfectly suits your lucky recipient. Choose an eco hamper box or different sizes of wicker baskets, then fill with all sorts of goodies from the site selection, from spirits and wine to confectionery, jams, chutney, pasta, vinegars, chilli sauces and much more. If you don’t have time for this, there are pre-made hampers to choose from too: we tried the ‘Chocolate In My Face’ hamper, filled with a selection of artisan chocolate bars, chocolate spread, hot chocolate and truffles. We particularly liked that every item inside came wrapped in bright red tissue paper, making the unboxing feel extra special.
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