Best Secret Santa Gifts for Foodies
by Holly Thomson
Browse hundreds of extraordinary Christmas food gifts at Sous Chef. Or for the foodie Christmas gift that every food-lover is hoping for, see our finest Italian panettone.
Whether you are doing a Secret Santa in your workplace, with your friends or just for fun with family, the excitement of a mystery gift is one of the joys of this modern Christmas tradition. But what gift to buy your Secret Santa can be the more difficult part.
We’ve collated some our favourite gifts for under £20 that will delight any food lover. No matter your recipient, these are gifts they will enjoy, and use well into 2023.
From the finest confectionary and chocolate producers to existing Italian twists on pantry essentials. Tableware to treasure and novelty food-themed gift classics to put a smile on anyone’s face. Whoever and however well you know your lucky Secret Santa, make your gift the one everyone wish they received!
Shop more Food & Cooking gifts
Find our pick of the best Christmas food gifts here, or browse hundreds of gifts for chefs and food-lovers.We're busy planning Christmas 2025 - check back for product arrivals and new launches closer to the time. It's going to be a good one!
Francois Doucet Chocolate Selection
Francois Doucet are world-renowned chocolate and confectionery producers and this Christmas selection box is a treat for any chocolate love. Filled with chocolate covered roasted nuts, they combine rich chocolate with French flavours of nougat and vanilla, to coffee and almond.
Shop more of the finest confectionary from Francois Doucet
Leone's chocolate coffee beans make a wonderful gift for chocolate lovers who like a bittersweet edge to their sweets and dessert. They won’t be able to stop picking at these individually foil-wrapped beans. Plus they come in a beautiful vintage-inspired tin to treasure and reuse long after the chocolate is gone.
Secret Santa gifts are perfect for something fun and unique you may not always treat yourself too - and none do beautiful and charming better than Ichendorf Milano. Their glassware features cute and delightful blown glass characters both in and outside you beverage. A squirrel sits on top of the handle of this mug, to crack a smile every time you sip.
A tin of biscuits is a classic that everyone loves so you can’t go wrong with a box of Loison’s finest French selection. This Biscuit tin contains chocolate and coffee biscuits, buttery shortbreads and crumbly polenta biscuits. Each one is rich with butter and melts in the mouth for a luxurious accompaniment to any afternoon tea or coffee.
This Ravioli stamp set is perfect to get anyone started making their own homemade pasta from scratch. Delicate ravioli parcels are a past dish sure to impress, and these stamps make them in perfect uniform shapes for all your guests (and yourself) to be delighted buy. This set includes a square, a circle and heart.
The Alpenzu cheese fondue set is the perfect way to gift more than just a product, but a memory. This cheese fondue and burner makes a wonderful date or dinner party treat, or is perfect for a cosy night in. The cheese fondue sauce is made with Fontina PDO cheese, with a sweet, mellow and exclusively produced in the Alpine mountains.
Use these lucky cat rice bowls to serve Japanese dishes in style! The set includes two bowls, one black and one white, both featuring a cheerful cat design. Each bowl comes with a set of wooden chopsticks so you can tuck into tempura or tackle a bowl of slippery udon noodles.
Measuring 15cm in diameter, these bowls are the perfect size for donburi - a Japanese rice dish topped with meat, fish or vegetables. Popular toppings include pork tonkatsu, salmon teriyaki and crispy chicken karaage.
The lucky cat is considered a lucky charm in Japanese culture. Known as maneki-neko (literally ‘beckoning cat’), the waving cat figurine is thought to bring good fortune to its owner.
A fun foodie bauble with a charming message of affection makes a heart-warming secret Santa gift.
This trio of luxury breakfast baubles will add a touch of foodie fun to your festive decorations. These beautifully crafted glass ornaments are ideal for anyone who loves to linger over an indulgent breakfast. They are designed to look like a juicy strawberry, a golden croissant and a chilled bottle of your favourite fizz. Hang them from your tree or from coloured ribbon in your window.
This set of breakfast baubles is a fun gift or festive stocking filler. Mix and match with other food-themed decorations to celebrate all your favourites.
From unusual ingredients from far-flung places, to stunning cookware used in some of the world’s top kitchens – there’s something for all tastes and techniques at Sous Chef.
The gift card is available in denominations of £25, £50, £100 and £200. The voucher works like shop credit so you don't have to use it all in one go. The voucher is valid for a year after purchase.
