The best Christmas hampers to buy for 2025

Buy it for: Your most on-trend food friend 

Was it just us or did everyone we know go to San Sebastian this year? Well, if you weren’t lucky enough to see the Basque Country city for yourself, the Tinned Fish Market can bring it straight to you with this San Sebastian hamper – featuring such delights as Ramón Peña sardines, Pepus mussels in escabeche, and new fave tinned fish brand on the scene Carmelo, including their fabulous scallops in salsa. It’s not cheap, but you get your money’s worth: around 30 tins in total, each of them as beautifully packaged as the next. And it comes in a very nice little box too. 

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Price: £250 

Buy it for: Your pasta-loving bestie 

Everyone’s favourite London pasta chain is back with another banging hamper collection this year – and there’s no better gift for, well, anyone but the gluten free amongst us. The La Pasta hamper includes three pastas – oriecchiette, rigatoni and linguine – in Lina Stores’ signature (rather cute) blue-and-white-striped packaging. Then there’s three delightful tomato sauces, including a chilli and a tuna and capers. To finish, jarred cime di rapa (as close as the Italians get to a fresh vegetable), and a delightful artichoke pesto, as well as that incredibly cute pale blue bag, just begging to be taken for a spin at your local delicatessen. They’ve got other hampers with alcohol too, but really we’re here for the pasta, aren’t we? 

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Price: £55

Buy it for: Your family Christmas 

There’s something about that Panzer’s logo on its branded, navy-blue box that is just chic. And what’s inside their Christmas Connoisseur hamper is even chicer: two delicious cheeses (a hard and a soft), with a whole box of crackers, thick-cut smoked salmon, a pannetone, chocolates and a fabulous cabernet sauvignon. It’s pretty much a Christmas starter pack, and if you want your entire immediate family to love you, get it sent in in time for Christmas day – you’ve got your breakfast, elevenses and your pudding here. And it’s Panzers, so you know every element will be the best of the best. 

Delivery from: December 1 – available to pre-order now. 

Price: £169

Buy it for: the most hungover person in your life 

Hampers are mostly expensive as hell, but if you’re after a £30 gift, this Bloody Mary gift set is the one. The Pickle House was founded in Hackney and now scaled up in Suffolk, and they sell a fabulous curated Bloody Mary hamper with everything you need to wack that festive hangover right out of the park. We’re talking a bottled Bloody Mary mix with Sapling vodka, pickle juice, horseradish and Worcester, pack of super-cute snacking pickles, a tub of Bloody Mary salt (smoked salt, celery, cayenne and lemon – it slaps), a dehydrated lemon slice for garnish and an embroidered coaster that says Bloody Mary on it, funnily enough. 

Time Out tip: Got a £12 Secret Santa budget? The Pickle House’s Bloody Mary Festive Cracker is a perfectly cute gift and makes one fabulous Mary. 

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Price: £30 

Buy it for: Your mum, if you want her to love you 

Nothing says Christmas like eating an entire board of snacks before dinner every night. And with this Spanish snack collection named the Noche Buena hamper by José Pizarro (owner of London restaurants Lolo, Pizarro, José Pizarro at the RA and José by Pizarro at Broadgate Circle), you’ve got just the ticket. Find manchego, olives, incredibly rich Jamón, Membrillo quince and some incredibly cute festive crackers for an ultimate cheese board – with a Pizarro-branded cava to wash it all down with. 

Time Out tip: Know any keen cooks? Pizarro’s Spanish paella kit comes with paella rice, seafood stock, a sofrito mix, spices and peppers – and the paella pan to cook it all in. 

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Price: £91 (sale price)

Buy it for: Your sweet-toothed grandparents

Imagine every good stocking filler you’ve ever received in one box – that’s pretty much what you’re getting with this Christmas Indulgence hamper by Cartright and Butler. You’ve got posh chutney and a posh biscuit tin. You’ve got a hot choccy stirrer. You’ve got seeded crackers, florentines and mulled wine spice bags. You’ve got it all, and you’ve got a bottle of champers to wash it all down with. The best part? Pretty much everything in this hamper is long lasting – so you’re gifting treats for weeks (or even months). 

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Price: £175 

Buy it for: Your dad 

Buying a hamper for someone who you know won’t be into the whole biscuits and wine thing? May I present to you the pork pie hamper. After all, it’s not often someone gifts you a box full of meat. So why not start now? Ye Old Pork Pie Shop’s Tasty Tidings hamper has got your Christmas snacking sorted, with two pork pies, a Christmas pudding, cheese, crackers, mince pies and even good-quality pigs in blankets and stuffing balls for the big day. This hamper is stuffed full of Christmas classics, and it’s pretty affordable too for what’s included. Tradition, be gone – this one nails it. 

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Price: £57