Treat food lovers to Canadian gourmet gifts galore! Our Foodie Gift Guide includes artisan snacks, local delicacies, and sweet indulgences for every taste.
Sweet and savoury
tamaradates.ca
Pure, glorious decadence in food form! Tamara Dates takes soft, premium dates and turns them into luxurious, beautifully packaged gourmet treats. Picture this: silky Belgian chocolate on the outside with Knafeh (a traditional Arab pastry dessert) and pure pistachio butter filling. Start with their Signature Date set, indulge and enjoy!
thebuttertartlady.ca
When you have that unmistakable craving for sweet, gooey goodness, where do you go? Who do you call? Without sounding too obvious…you seek out The Butter Tart Lady. Her butter tarts feature a trademark ultra-flaky crust and an all-butter “liquid gold” sauce that causes reactions like happiness and bliss. We highly recommend ordering up some tarts…for science, of course.
pollipop.ca
Could a lollipop BE more Canadian? Probably not, to be honest. Pollipop is the New Brunswick-based creator of iconic maple leaf and moose head-shaped lollipops. Made with Grade A Amber maple syrup and pure berry juices, these fantastic true-north treats are easy to share and hard to put down.
silkroadspices.ca
Spice cabinet looking a little empty these days? Well, Alberta-based Silk Road can be your go-to for a staggering variety of spices, chiles, herbs and seasonings from around the world! The Silk Road aims to source only the finest ingredients possible—and in small batches—so that everything is as fresh and flavourful as possible.
ilikeitpicasso.ca
Here’s a truly unique treat concept: take the bold flavours of popular Asian and North American snacks and turn them into tasty, freeze-dried bites. The result is airy, crunchy, melt-in-your-mouth goodness. Our preferred Picasso bite: Freeze Dried Milk Candy—it’s light and creamy with notes of merengue and condensed milk.
awakechocolate.ca
When you need to eat your feelings, there’s really no substitute for chocolate. But what about chocolate that acts as a pick-me-up AND quick energy booster? That’s the idea behind Awake Chocolate. Ditch the awful energy drinks and indulge with Awake’s delicious, caffeinated chocolate bites and bars. Talk about a win-win!
lagrangefarm.ca
Hailing from a self-described “little farm” in Okanagan B.C., La Grange nurtures their home-grown herbs and creates hand-mixed small-batch spice blends aimed at bringing joy to everyday dishes. Start with their signature (and versatile) All Spice blend—it’s as incredible on pancakes as it is sprinkled over a perfectly cooked steak.
cocktailbombshop.ca
You’ve heard about bath bombs…but what about cocktail bombs? Drop a cocktail bomb into sparkling water or alcohol, watch it dissolve and then enjoy a whole range of flavours—from zesty margaritas to pina coladas! We recommend you go for the Cocktail Discovery Jar, which comes packed with 30 unique bombs to sip and sample.
greenbuffalofarms.ca
Inspired by the Indigenous practice of using the entire buffalo, Green Buffalo Farms uses zero-waste farming practices. Not only that, but every bit of their organic microgreens and edible flower produce is grown vertically in tall, stacked layers to maximize space and resources.
lostinthesauce.ca
Some hot sauces are all burn and zero taste. Which…doesn’t exactly add much to a meal. Lost in the Sauce is out to change all that with sauces that deliver unforgettable flavours with plenty of kick to spare. Start your sauce odyssey with their signature Malaysian Sambal chili sauce. Or – for serious scotch bonnet and habanero heat – go with the Trinidadian-inspired OG Boodoo pepper sauce.
questxo.ca
QUEST XO Chocolate is a local, female-owned small batch chocolate company serving up playful, handcrafted creations and workshops you won’t find anywhere else. From hand-painted chocolate art to charcuterie boards, tasting sessions, and edible painting parties, everything they do is bold, memorable, and made to be talked about long after.
atlanticmustard.ca
Can you really “master” mustard making? Husband-and-wife duo Sabine and Michael Schoenknecht think so! Through Atlantic Mustard Mill, they grow and locally source all their ingredients on their solar-powered homestead farm, creating the most unique mustard flavour combinations – like curry, stout and wild blueberry – to suit just about any taste, mood or meal. Consider us converted!
monstersauce.ca
Have a friend that’s no stranger to spicier flavours? Monster Sauce may be right up their alley! Their Monster Crunch Chili Crisp delivers just the right amount of bite, along with a bouquet of garlicky, roast-y and savoury flavour. We’ve tried it on everything from eggs to pizza and never had a bad time—ever.
geesbees.ca
This is one of the purest, honest-to-goodness honey experiences around! Gees Bees’ honey is flavoured by the wildflowers that their bees pollinate. Take their blueberry blossom honey, for example: It has a buttery texture, light blueberry flavour as well as violet and jasmine notes with every spoonful. Bee-licious.
whimsicalcrispie.ca
What if you could access a whole new dimension of rice crispie treats—far beyond your nostalgic dreams? The Whimsical Crispie make some of the most wonderfully over the top treats we’ve laid eyes on. Check out the Proudly Canadian Maple crispie, for starters—and then dive into the Chocolate Overload. Trust us—this is the way.
sweetimpressions.ca
This Winnipeg-based bakery has all your incurable cookie and cake-related cravings covered. For the ultimate sweet holiday treat, go with the Custom Sweets Gift Box, which comes loaded with delicious cookies (which can each be custom-designed), lolli-cakes, mini-brownies and more.
thetreatbombs.ca
Take tea-steeping and hot chocolate-making to exciting new places! Treat bombs are flavour-packed little balls that dissolve when dunked in hot water—leaving you with a lovely warm beverage. We’re big fans of the Milk Tea Collection, featuring London fog, chai and matcha latte flavours!
milleetunenoix.ca
Spread the holiday love—literally—with some of the most creamy-delicious, nut butters around! Sherbrook, Quebec’s Mille et une Noix—or 1,001 nuts—creates peanut, almond and hazelnut butters, along with their chocolate hazelnut spread, using simple, organic and natural ingredients. Go ahead—just skip the bread and dig in with a spoon. We won’t tell.
avanaa.ca
Using an old-school, painstaking process, Montreal-based Avanaa crafts award-winning dark chocolate that’s bursting with unique flavours. They use only the finest, hand-picked organic ingredients and source everything via direct trade with cacao producers and cooperatives. It’s true “bean-to-bar” chocolate!
chandlerhoney.ca
Chandler Honey, from small town Scandia, Alberta, has been in the beekeeping business for generations. So, you might say they’re experts on all things buzzy and sweet. They infuse their signature white, creamy honey with several mouth-watering flavours—like real vanilla bean, apples and orange zest. The end results? Decadent, rich…and unforgettable.
nanisachar.ca
If you’ve dabbled with kimchi or are passionate about pickled veggies then achar is a must-try. For the uninitiated, achar is a South Asian pickled food, made from a medley of fruits and veggies along with aromatic spices. Nani’s Achar hand crafts all their achars, using farm-fresh ingredients and traditional techniques. But the most important ingredient of all? Nani’s love.
cornpopper.ca
Ah, movie theatre popcorn. Often imitated, but never quite replicated in all its salty, buttery glory. Until now. Ditch the second-rate microwave stuff and get on the gourmet popcorn train with Corn Popper. This family-owned business supplies the killer kernels, seasonings and REAL movie theatre popcorn oil to help anyone achieve popped perfection. Perfect for all those holiday movie marathons.
theorganichouse.ca
The mother-daughter duo behind the Organic House creates artisanal gluten/dairy free, vegan chocolates that deliver all the same silky smoothness and richly satisfying flavour as conventional chocolate. Everything is hand crafted in small batches to ensure maximum, painstaking attention to quality, while all their cacao beans are ethically sourced, organic and fully traceable.
maplebluff.ca
Relive those childhood field trips to the sugar shack with treats from Maple Bluff Farms. Based in Huntsville, Ontario, they produce high quality maple syrup and sweets, along with maple-infused BBQ sauces, mustards and spice blends.
huckleberryhives.ca
The path from hive-to-plate doesn’t get any more direct than this! Huckleberry Hives produces raw, unfiltered small batch honey products from their 50 hives in Perth, Ontario.
madebybees.ca
With these stunning beeswax food wraps from Brockville, Ontario’s Made by Bees, you can finally cleanse your kitchen of single use food films. Not only do beeswax wraps keep your leftovers fresher, longer—they’re a completely natural and sustainable solution.
cheesemaker.ca
Bring the art of cheesemaking straight to your loved one’s kitchen. Cheesemaker’s DIY kits make it fun and easy to create gourmet cheese—from cheese curds to mozzarella and ricotta.
Coffee and tea
justthetea.ca
It’s totally fair to call Just the Tea true believers in the transformative power of a great cuppa. Not only do their organic and thoughtfully sourced blends elevate your tea-drinking experience, they also bring wellness benefits with every sip!
daymakercoffeeroasters.ca
Wakey, wakey—Daymaker Coffee Roasters is here with their fresh, full-bodied and flavourful medium-to-dark roasts. Not only is every bean direct traded and sustainably packaged, but 3.21% of every sale goes towards supporting people with Down syndrome. Start with their 21 Reasons Extra Special Blend that’s rich with cocoa, caramel and red fruit notes!
brightjenny.ca
This Kelowna-based coffee roaster started out in a backyard shed and has grown into a bona-fide specialty coffee supplier. You’ll dig their bright, light flavours and small-lot coffees sourced from all over the world. A great gift idea is their Roaster’s Choice Box subscription that comes with two bags of top-notch java each month!
dispatchcoffee.ca
Dispatch offers an always-interesting, rotating menu of sustainably sourced coffees from small scale farms around the globe. You’ll find no shortage of unique flavour profiles, like the ripe strawberry, peach tea and brown sugar combo found in their Colombian “Silvia Ordonez” coffee.
northroast.ca
Hailing from picturesque Prince George, BC, North Roast Coffee has found a way to make the coffee buying experience that much fresher. How? By cutting out the middleman. There are no warehouses to be found here, and certainly no mystery beans. All their coffee is roasted to order – so you’re guaranteed nothing but the freshest, boldest blends!
goldentrianglecoffee.ca
For the coffee lover in your life that’s craving a new twist on their daily cup of joe. Golden Triangle Coffee serves up unique and beautiful flavours from Southeast Asia. For instance, their super aromatic Thai “Nak” coffee gives off hints of caramel, orange and tangerine. Golden Triangle Coffee works directly with cooperatives to import fresh beans, then locally roasts them in Montreal.
borealheartland.ca
You’ve never sipped a cuppa quite like this! Boreal Heartland harvests their herbal teas right from the boreal forest of Northern Saskatchewan—and creates sustainable income for local Indigenous communities in the process. Check out their Energization tea, which blends notes of sarsaparilla root, rosehip, bearberry and birch leaf for a savoury, uplifting flavour experience.
eightouncecoffee.ca
Eight Ounce Coffee is Canada’s largest specialty coffee equipment distributor, which makes them a great source for everything you need to grind, brew and serve that perfect cup. They also offer a range of small-batch, fair-trade coffees from roasters across the globe.
premiumteas.ca
For the past 40 years, Premium Teas has been finding the finest flavours from around the world, then bringing them from tea garden to mug. Want to warm hearts this season? Go with their Harney & Sons Holiday Tea, which takes black tea and spices it with citrus, almond, clove and cinnamon. 100% Santa-approved.
roguewavecoffee.ca
Edmonton’s Rogue Wave Coffee not only roasts delicious, fresh and ethically sourced coffee, but they also supply all the gear needed (like, grinders, scales, etc.) to brew that perfect cuppa joe. You can also treat your coffee loving companion to one of Rogue Wave’s excellent monthly coffee subscriptions.
genuinetea.ca
Founders David O’Connor and Sarah Wilcox visited dozens of plantations across Asia and steeped themselves (pun intended) in the rich culture of artisan tea making. With that wealth of knowledge, they started Genuine Tea and now bring delicious, traditional flavours—like oolong, lemongrass, and jasmine green—to your mug. The best part? Every leaf of tea is directly traded, so you’re supporting farm
floem.ca
Floem’s (think “flora” and “poem,”) team of pickers scour Quebec and Labrador’s boreal forests to hand-harvest precious herbs for their bold, complex tea infusions. For an excellent introduction pick up Floem’s Discovery Set, which serves up flavour blends like spicy apple and meadowsweet and aronia and alder.
neighbourhoodcoffee.ca
Neighbourhood Coffee is made with the world’s finest beans, and handcrafted into blends to delight even the most discriminating coffee lover. They pride themselves on being local in every aspect, from roasting to the illustrations on their bags, which feature artists living in the GTA.
lvcoffee.ca
This small, independent, Ottawa-based roaster is all about igniting people’s passion for coffee. Little Victories ethically source their beans and focus on creating complex, balanced roasts for all to enjoy. Have their coffee creations delivered directly to your doorstep via their monthly or pay-as-you-go subscriptions.
Beer and cider
ironwoodcider.ca
Niagara-on-the-Lake's Ironwood Cider House lays claim to producing one of the first (and best) Ontario craft ciders. And we have to say—they make a strong case! See Exhibit A: “The OG.” It’s dry and tart with a crisp sparkling finish that leaves you wanting more. For a little summer-inspired refreshment, pick up the citrus-y, tangy “Aranciata.”
ravenmooncraftcider
Raven’s Moon farms the heirloom and heritage apples found in their small-batch ciders, and locally sources all their other fruit and botanicals. The result? Cider flavours that are totally unique to their Vancouver Island growing environment. We can heartily recommend gifting a cider six-pack this holiday season. Talk about making a delicious introduction!
drinkannapolis.ca
From the heart of Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley, comes premium, sophisticated cider! Annapolis Cider Company prides themselves on fresh, unique flavour combinations. One of their top ciders is the Earl Blue, which brings together earl grey tea and blueberry juice! For the more adventurous, check out their limited run Something Different offerings.
somethingbrewing.ca
Toronto-based Something in the Water Brewery prides itself on putting new, interesting twists on staple beers. Take, for instance, their Lee Valley Blackberry Vanilla sour beer, which beautifully balances tartness and creaminess. Don’t miss their limited–run seasonal beers, either! Read more about how Something in the Water went from a side-hustle to a full-fledged endeavour!
btpshop.ca
Being a beer connoisseur doesn’t need to be a deadly serious pursuit. Ottawa’s Beyond the Pale Brewing Company brings serious fun and tons of unique flavour to their lineup of lovingly crafted beers. Lead off with Clean Cut, their German-inspired, filtered Kolsch, for something that’s crisp, refreshing and oh-so-shareable!
beaus.ca
Since 2006, Beau’s has been brewing their collection of complex, tasty beers—like their flagship Lug Treat Lagered Ale—with simple, natural ingredients and local spring water.
perthbrewery.ca
Perth Brewery may be one of Canada’s original microbreweries, but there’s absolutely nothing stuck-in-the-past when it comes to their collection of eccentric, adventurous flavours. Try out their Calypso IPA, which brings together intense tropical aromas and citrus in an easy, breezy refreshing beer.
drinkpropeller.ca
In the beginning of Halifax’s craft beer scene, there was Propeller! Find out what’s kept Nova Scotians coming back for more brews all this time. Go with their classic Extra-Special Bitter, an English-style ale with a complex blend of caramel, toasted biscuit and orange citrus flavours.
leftfieldbrewery.ca
Batter up! Toronto’s Left Field Brewery produces baseball-inspired, unique, full-flavoured beers. Get started with their Moon Shot double IPA that features notes of white peach and cantaloupe.
quidividibrewery.ca
Named for their home village in St. John’s Newfoundland, Quidi Vidi Brewing Company produces 25 unique craft brews, including their Iceberg Beer made with 20,000-year-old water harvested from icebergs off the Newfoundland coast.
revelcider.ca
From Guelph, Ontario, Revel Cider combines farm-grown and foraged fruits with native yeast fermentations to produce small-batch ciders that are lively, distinctive and refreshing—with zero added sugar.
covertfarms.ca
This delectable Okanagan-valley wine is made using regenerative viticulture practices and certified organic grapes. To help your loved ones beat the winter blues, choose from one of Covert Farms’ beautifully curated gift boxes. They come packed with everything you need for the ideal evening in: two top-notch wine selections and plenty of other savoury goodies.
