The festive season is once again upon us and with it the delicate art of gifting. But what to give a business associate you barely know but want to impress? Or a family with disparate tastes? Enter, the hamper. Here is where to find the best Christmas food hampers in Singapore in 2024.
A good festive food hamper will have certain features. It has to match the season, so throw in festive treats like stollens, chocolates, fruit cakes, panettone, and gingerbread men. It should feel celebratory, which is why many of them come with champagne or wine. It also should have an identity, like items that reflect a restaurant’s concept, or a hotel hamper with signatures from its restaurants.
These 2024 Christmas hampers in Singapore demonstrate these qualities. Da Paolo Gastronomia showcases why it is a home of quality Italian produce with hampers featuring truffle risotto, organic pesto, and ancient grain linguine. Little Farms only stocks its festive food hampers with items free of harmful chemicals, artificial additives, and preservatives. Laderach presents its fresh chocolate in rustic wooden boxes. For Bacha Coffee, they created a special coffee for the season and bundled it with everything someone will need to start brewing.
Andaz has a Christmas hamper filled with items from its various restaurants, from a hot whiskey mustard to a Yunnan red wine bottled specially for the hotel. Colony Bakery includes the same champagne served during its popular Sunday brunch. Pan Pacific has a charcuterie and cheese board masquerading as a festive food hamper, and The Westin throws in a spa voucher to work away the excesses of Christmas. Discover them below.
(Hero and featured images credits: Pan Pacific Singapore; Laderach)
The best festive food hampers in Singapore
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Out of Andaz’s two festive hampers for 2024, the Sweet Jolly Hamper includes a traditional Christmas stollen, Woodford Whiskey Christmas cake, cookies, chocolates, TWG Joy of Christmas tea set and TWG Tea Teddies. The Santa’s Secret Hamper offers items such as an XO sauce and hot whiskey mustard made by the hotel’s restaurants 5 ON 25 and 665°F respectively, a Yunnan red wine bottled for the hotel, and the Andaz Lager created by the award-winning local brewery, Brewlander.
From S$98
Available until 31 December 2024
(Image credit: Andaz Singapore)
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For the coffee connoisseur in your life, Bacha Coffee’s Samba Nights Hamper showcases the Samba Nights Coffee, a 2024 festive creation made from 100% Arabica coffee beans from Brazil with a medium-dark roast and naturally flavoured with cacao nibs and cinnamon. The hamper also includes a gold French press, two coffee cups, a coffee-scented candle, dark chocolate-covered coffee beans, raw sugar sticks, a coffee scoop, and a box of 25 assorted coffee bag varieties.
S$595
Available now
(Image credit: Bacha Coffee)
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The Signature Colony Hamper includes festive treats such as gingerbread fruit cake and Christmas cookies, as well as popular condiments from The Ritz-Carlton’s restaurant like olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Go all out for your cherished ones with the Festive Colony Hamper, which offers spiced fruit stollen, panettone, and a bottle of Champagne Barons de Rothschild Ritz Reserve Brut NV, the same one served during the restuarant’s popular Sunday brunch.
From S$238
Available until 1 January 2025
(Image credit: The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore)
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Da Paolo Italian restaurant has 12 Christmas hampers for this year, such as the Sweet Treat Hamper with prosecco, chocolate truffles, Da Paolo’s mini panettone, and a homemade gingerbread man. For the truffle enthusiast, the Italian Truffle Hamper offers truffle risotto, white truffle honey, black truffle oil, and balsamic vinegar. The Luxury Italian Pantry Hamper contains some of the country’s finest ingredients, from ancient grain linguine to organic pesto.
From S$78
Available until 31 December 2024
(Image credit: Da Paolo Gastronomia)
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For Christmas 2024, luxury Swiss chocolate brand Laderach has crafted four festive hampers, each presented in a reusable wooden chest. They contain an assortment of seasonal treats from pralines and truffles to chocolate Santa Claus and reindeers. Every chest also comes with frischschoggi, Laderach’s signature fresh chocolate slabs with chunks of nuts.
From S$208
Available now
(Image credit: Laderach)
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Every product in Little Farms’ festive hampers is checked against a list of over 200 banned ingredients to ensure they do not contain harmful chemicals, artificial additives, and preservatives. What they do have is a commitment to high-quality, all-natural ingredients, such as the UK-made Cartwright & Butler shortbread biscuits and Bonifanti panettone from Italy. Other items in the festive hampers include Montezuma chocolates, Mondo nougat bars, giant Sevillana manzanilla olives, organic Demeter teas, nuts and a range of wines and champagne.
From S$80
Available until 28 December 2024
(Image credit: Little Farms)
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From Origin + Bloom at Marina Bay Sands, the Holiday Magic Hamper showcases a mini bottle of Piper-Heidsieck Cuvee Brut champagne with a chocolate bar and traditional Christmas goodies such as stollen, panettone, and spiced gingerbread men. For something grander, the Enchanting Celebrations Hamper adds on a full bottle of the same champagne, pesto from Italy, scallop rillette, duck foie gras with armagnac, duck rillettes, chestnuts, and gluten-free crackers.
From S$108+
Available until 25 December 2024
(Image credit: Marina Bay Sands)
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Pan Pacific’s Delicatessen Deluxe Hamper is begging to be a lavish charcuterie board with Christmas citron thyme bratwurst, baby honey ham, aged cheddar, redcurrant cheddar, almond oat cracker, quince fruit paste, red Bordeaux wine, and wholegrain mustard. The Pacific Festive Hamper is a box of sweet treats ranging from fruit cake, stollen and gingerbread cookies to truffle honey, panettone, and Taittinger Brut Reserve Champagne.
From S$280
Available until 26 December 2024
(Image credit: Pan Pacific Singapore)
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For Christmas 2024, Shangri-La’s festive bundles include the Season’s Treats Hamper featuring English fruit cake with drunken fruits, homemade panettone, chocolate pralines, cookies, and biscuits studded with dried figs and sultanas. The Santa’s Hamper adds to the holiday cheer with a red Bordeaux wine, German stollen, and chocolate fudge.
From S$178
Available until 23 December 2024
(Image credit: Shangri-La Singapore)
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The St. Regis Christmas Hamper is tailored to get your loved ones into the festive mood with an assortment of seasonal confections from gingerbread to panettone. The Epicurean Hamper brings together delicacies such as chestnut cream, Christmas pudding, and chocolate praline, while the Luxe Hamper is a full suite of indulgences like Ruinart champagne.
From S$198
Available until 31 December 2024
(Image credit: St. Regis Singapore)
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The Marmalade Pantry’s Sugar Plum Collection Christmas hamper bundles together biscotti, coffee beans, gingerbread cookies, truffle honey, and salted pretzels with a Marmalade Pantry-branded tumbler. The Christmas Tale Basket piles on the indulgence with champagne, candy cane, chocolates, and a peony and wild freesia candle.
From S$105
Available until 20 December 2024
(Image credit: The Marmalade Pantry)
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The Westin’s festive hamper for 2024 has all the essentials for a party: a bottle of Bottega Millesimato Brut prosecco. Olive oil infused with lemons from Nice, France. Cookies flavoured with kaya and gula melaka. White truffle honey. A Christmas stollen. The hamper also includes a S$100 voucher for the Heavenly Spa at the hotel, a fine way to balance out the indulgence. Order before 15 December 2024 to enjoy 15 percent off.
S$228+
Available until 25 December 2024
(Image credit: The Westin Singapore)
