Looking for the best Father’s Day gifts 2020? Father’s Day is on Sunday 21 June 2020, and we’ve found the best presents for your foodie dad.
Check out our Father’s Day gift ideas here…
olive Magazine subscription
Of course, we think the best gift for a foodie is a year-long subscription (that’s 13 issues) to olive magazine. That’s a monthly dose of the best recipes, foodie weekend projects and virtual travel inspiration delivered through the letterbox, so your favourite food lovers can always stay ahead of the game. The food gift that keeps on giving – just £30.88 for 13 issues, saving 50%!
Subscribe today: buysubscriptions.com/OLFD20
On the Pass restaurant-grade meat
On the Pass is a website set up by Philip Warren Butchers and Matt Chatfield (The Cornwall Project), which allows us to get our hands on the top-drawer meat that’s been reared and aged for some of the country’s finest restaurants. This means you can gift the likes of 55-day aged Brat sirloin, whole beef fillet reared for Paul Ainsworth at No 6, The Ledbury’s English guinea fowl and Kiln’s hogget for Father’s Day this year. Winner.
Prices vary, warrens.on-the-pass.com
Nessie family gift set
Let Nessie help dad in the kitchen – this trio includes a soup ladle, a colander and the baby Nessie tea infuser. The family nestle into each other so they are easy to store, and they add a dash of colour to the kitchen. Dad will love them!
£19.99, lakeland.co.uk
Kiss The Hippo coffee subscription
Ocean Bottle
Ki No Bi Kyoto Dry Gin
Treat your gin-loving dad to this unique Japanese spirit, served in a stylish bottle, perfect for gifting. This Japanese creation is made using a rice spirit base distilled with regional botanicals including yuzu, hinoki wood chips (Japanese cyprus), sansho pepper and gyokuro green tea. A decidedly elegant gin, whose classic juniper notes match well with the unusual local ingredients.
£44.07, amazon.co.uk
The Cheese Shed subscription
The folk at The Cheese Shed have a flexible cheese subscription service, Culture. Showcasing artisan West Country cheeses – we’re talking everything from ewes’ milk to blue and soft cheeses – this is sure to put a smile on your dad’s face!
From £24.99 (per box), thecheeseshed.com
Eating for pleasure, people and planet cookbook
Hangry tea towel
Ross and Ross XL curing kit
This curing kit for making bacon at home will keep pork-loving dads happy at home this Father’s Day. It includes six different cures, ranging from Maple and Chipotle to Fennel and Juniper, as well as a DIY kit including curing bags, muslin and a butcher’s hook. Just add your own meat.
Gin jigsaw
Gourmet pasta gift subscription
Tonnarelli straight to your door? Bellissimo! Ideal for the dads who love their pasta.
From £51 for three months, pastaevangelists.com
Le Creuset signature cast iron shallow casserole dish in rosemary
We love Le Creuset’s shallow casserole dish, perfect for slow-cooked stews and one-pot pastas. Perfect for dads who like to cook, take this dish straight from oven-to-table for summer al fresco dining.
£210, lecreuset.co.uk
A guide to whiskies tea towel
From bourbons to ryes and malts, this tea towel covered with whisky trivia is perfect for those scotch loving dads. It’s almost too useful to use, so hang it on your wall and learn about the differences between Japanese and Canadian whisky before mixing a Manhattan cocktail.
£11, stuartgardiner.com
Cocoa Runners subscription
A chocolate subscription from Cocoa Runners – featuring small-batch, single-estate artisan chocolate from around the world – will earn you some serious brownie points with Dad. He’ll get to try four bars each month and share your tasting notes with other chocolate enthusiasts online. Choose between dark and milk, or a mixture.
£19.95 (per box), cocoarunners.com
Tarquin’s Cornish Dry Gin
This well-balanced gin, produced on the South West coast, is a great example of the fantastic regional spirits being made across the country right now. With all the classic botanicals coming through on both the nose and the palate, it keeps the juniper is prevalent (as it should be) and has a hint of lemony coriander which reminds us of a deep pine forest on a hot summer stroll.
£35 (Includes Fever-Tree Mediterranean tonic and hand sanitizer), tarquinsgin.com
Rooted Spices
Single-origin, hand-blended spices in beautiful tins? Fill a box with nine of your Dads favourite spices this Father’s Day.
Tins from £2.95, rootedspices.com
Listen to our podcast with Rooted Spices here
Bowmore’s Vault Edit1°n Atlantic Sea Salt
If you’re looking for a dram that’s a little different this Father’s Day, and have a generous budget to play with Bowmore’s Vault Edit1°n Atlantic Sea Salt is a good bet.
Aged in ex-bourbon casks in Bowmore’s No.1 Vaults (the oldest scotch maturation warehouse in the world) on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, this whisky highlights Bowmore’s distinctive salty flavour profile with notes of salted honeycomb and Atlantic sea spray balanced with sun-ripened fruits, zingy spiced cocoa and blood orange.
£69.95, thewhiskyexchange.com
The Snaffling Pig pork crackling
The epitome of melt-in-the-mouth, these jars of pork crackling are super moreish and are coated in flavours such as classic salt and vinegar and slighty spicy habanero. Paired with four bottles of The Snaffling Pig beer, this makes an ideal gift for your dad.
£27.50, snafflingpig.co.uk
HAY clip clip with spoon
Any coffee lover will love this two-in-one coffee scoop and bag clip to keep artisan coffee fresh. The brassy stainless steel will look super stylish in the kitchen, too.
£8.98, amazon.co.uk
Pop culture snack box
Get the best of kitsch Japanese snacks and quirky packaging delivered to dad’s door every month. You never know, he might share…
From £25, japancentre.com
BeerBods subscription
Now we really love this idea. Every three months the folks at BeerBods will send you 12 beers from small, independent breweries around the world, and the idea is to drink one a week. You’ll also get an email giving a little bit more information about that week’s beer – so it passes as an educational present, too!
In our first delivery we got everything from a London-brewed lime beer to a pilsner from Manchester and a sour gooseberry can from the Magic Rock brewers in Huddersfield. And the subscriptions, which start at six-weeks’ worth, work out at around £3 a beer.
From £20, beerbods.co.uk
Eat 17 chilli bacon jam
Yep, that’s right! Give dad the treat of adding smoky, spicy bacon to anything – it ramps up a bacon buttie, burger or sandwich, or is extremely indulgent straight from the jar.
£2.99, eat17baconjam.co.uk
Good grips 3-in-1 avocado slicer
This nifty gadget will have your dad’s avocado skinned and sliced, looking Instagram perfect in a flash and is much safer then digging out that stone yourself.
£7.49, lakeland.co.uk
Alessi savon du chef odour removing “soap”
A useful tool to grace any kitchen counter, simply use as a soap after preparing any strong-smelling foods. Perfect if your dad loves garlic.
£17, johnlewis.com
Luckies lid Sid
A useful kitchen gadget for the man who has it all. Prop “Sid” on the side of your pan and place the lid on top to allow your pan to simmer away and let off some steam.
£10, johnlewis.com
Best whiskies to buy for Father’s Day…
Homemade food gift ideas for Father’s Day…
Homemade charcuterie
Do you have a charcuterie-loving dad? Follow our simple step-by-step guide to make duck ham, beef jerky and bresaola for a homemade Father’s Day gift this year.
Clementine, ginger and bay gin
Make your own bottle of gin for a special gift for your dad this year. Our gin is infused with clementine, ginger and bay for a warming, slightly spicy gin.
