Nothing says I love you like flowers, but nothing says I get you like an artisan cheese hamper. We’re always looking for gifts to send our fellow food-obsessed mates, whether the occasion is a birthday, a new baby, an engagement or a breakup, so we did some digging on the best places to order seasonal patisserie, Irish craft beer, and extraordinary tinned fish, and they're all just a click away from landing on someone you love’s doorstep.
Toonsbridge
Initially known for their cheeses, Toonsbridge branched out into provisions with their offshoot The Real Olive Company, and it's hard to think of a more perfect housewarming gift than their Food Box to Fill Your Pantry (€88.00). We’ve all had that moment late in the move where you’re faced with empty cupboards and not a huge amount of will to live - here's the antidote. Good tinned fish, pickled Cippolini onions, mustards, olive oil and balsamic vinegar, a cloth shopping bag, and even a bar of Provencal soap for beside your new sink - check out their hampers here.
Toonsbridge deliver all over Ireland from Monday to Wednesday, with shipping free on orders over €85.00.
Le Patissier
We discovered Le Patissier during the pandemic, when staying indoors and eating became an international pastime. Their selection of seasonal patisserie can be ordered for delivery in most areas of Co. Dublin for a flat rate of €10.00, arriving as a box of perfectly rendered jewel-like cakes, tarts and mousses. Their current spring collection (€50.00) features an Alphonso mango mousse with a passion fruit curd centre; a pistachio tart; and a milk chocolate tonka bean cremeux with cherry gel; all as beautiful as they are delicious.
Dublin delivery costs €10.
Sheridan's
Sheridan’s are the OG of Irish cheesemongers, their green and white striped branding recognisable the country over, signifying delicious things within. Their website is a wonderland for gifting, featuring old world wines, tinned seafood, jams, chutneys, and of course, cheese. We love the straight to the point Cheese, Chutney and Wine Hamper (€80), but for very special occasions there’s the Luxury Hamper (€250.00), full of characteristically assertive cheeses, wines, Pedro Ximenez sherry, aged balsamic vinegar, acacia honey and smoked almonds.
Delivery anywhere in Ireland is €10.00, or €50.00 to anywhere in the EU. Check out their gifts here.
Laudurée
One for the bougiest amongst us, Ladurée’s distinctive pastel boxes of macarons can be delivered nationwide for €10.00, along with bottles of Rosé Champagne, chocolates and teas. Available in boxes of eight (€33.00) to thirty five (€120.00) macarons, the website has a very cute feature allowing you to click on various flavours to populate your virtual box before adding it to your cart. Another adorable option is a mixed box of langue du chat biscuits (€24.00) with a charming cat illustration on the box which is giving both Wes Anderson and Marie Antoinette. Who doesn’t want to feel like an indie princess on their birthday?
Nationwide delivery is €10.
Gannet Fishmongers / eatmorefish.ie
Gannet Fishmongers through their Eat More Fish website are on a mission to supply Ireland with sustainable seafood, and both their ethos and taste in gifts are excellent. They have one of the best selections of tinned fish we've ever seen, from Nazarena sardines in spicy olive oil (beyond good on sourdough toast) and hot smoked anchovies (ditto), to cockles with ginger and kombu and jarred sea spaghetti. Putting together your own selection to send to your seafood obsessed friend is the move here - maybe adding in one of their wooden handled oyster knives for good measure.
Home delivery is only available for orders over €35.00 and it's a flat rate of €8.50.
Indie Füde
Indie Füde are going well beyond the typical wine-chocolate-teddy bear hampers with their range of lovingly sourced Irish-food-forward hampers delivering all over the country. Featuring producers like Burren Balsamics, Monto chocolates and Broighter Gold oils, they have a brilliantly curated hamper for every occasion. We love The Weekender (£58.95), full of biscuits, coffee and charcuterie for a relaxing weekend in, or the Incredible Irish Indulgence box (£169.95), featuring some of the best and brightest producers from across the country.
Delivery costs £12.95 to the Republic of Ireland (£16.90 for chilled products), or £6.95 (£10.90) up North. Check out their hampers here.
Naomi's Kitchen
Sometimes it’s not always possible to find the time to cook, and it tends to be at those times when you most need a nourishing meal. The meals from Naomi’s Kitchen are pure comfort, exactly what you might need in challenging times, with wholesome dinners like beef bourguignon, lasagne, and chicken and broccoli crumble. Everything is handmade from scratch by Naomi and her team, and everything freezes, ready to be heated up as needed. An ideal and possibly sanity preserving gift for new parents, a friend going through a bereavement, or someone recovering from an illness.
Naomi’s Kitchen is currently only delivering within Dublin for orders over €50.00, but collection is available Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from their Glenageary kitchen.
Ardkeen
Ardkeen specialise in artisan Irish foods and their gift section showcases all that expertise in a thoughtful range of hampers. We particularly like the Craft Beer and Snack selection (€59.00), with everything you might need for an evening in with friends - a selection of Irish IPAs, ales and stout with snacks like Keogh’s crisps and Blanco Nino tortilla chips. Some of their hampers are available for international delivery, like the Love Irish Food Favourites hamper (€50.00). Full of tayto crisps, Club Orange and even a soda bread mix, it’s an ideal gift for someone missing home.
Hampers can be shipped throughout Ireland from €8.50, or over to the States from €25.30.
Fallon & Byrne
Most people will be familiar with Fallon & Byrne, but not everyone is aware that they deliver their range of food and wine hampers nationwide. We love their Ultimate Vegan hamper (€100.00), made to spoil the vegan in your life with Harry’s Nut Butter, Nobó Chocolate and Plaza Del Sol black truffle crisps - delicious products that are incidentally vegan without carrying the yoke of virtuousness that can too often tar the lifestyle.
Nationwide delivery is free for orders over €100.00, or €10.00 for orders under.
Urru
Urru don’t do hampers, they do “Urruboxes” - a limited and thoughtful range of curated food gifts. Their taste of the year Urrbox (€170.00) is a round up of the Irish food products that have impressed them most throughout the year, with the 2024/25 edition showcasing Filligan’s Fiery Pepper Relish and Whisky Marmalade, Seymour’s Chilli Sable crackers and Shine’s Lobster Pate, among many other brilliant small producers.
Send it to someone lucky nationwide for €10.00 (or free within Bandon town).
On The Pig's Back
Cork based On The Pig’s Back carries the best Irish and French charcuterie, and you can bless your friends with it via their seasonal gift store. This is one for meat lovers - whether you want to send one of their pre-made hampers or build your own selection, they're laden down with pork rillettes, Jack McCarthy’s pastrami, chicken liver pate with smoked bacon and port, and all of the extra bits to enjoy them with (Okina savoury biscuits, pickled gherkins, and red onion marmalade to name a few).
Nationwide shipping is free on orders over €120. Otherwise it's €15 for orders under €50, or €10 for orders over €50.
