Food Gifts

Take home the authentic tastes of the Asheville area

Chocolate Food Gift
Visit Chocolate Fetish to watch award-winning chocolates being made.
Sweet mountain honey, creamy grits and hot biscuits topped with spicy apple butter are just a few of the wonderful food memories you’ll have after a visit to Asheville.

Even if you can only stay a little while, you can take some of your favorite Asheville flavors back home with you as gifts for family and friends.

  • Cakes by Jane has been making authentic Southern cream cheese pound cakes for more than a decade. Flavors include chocolate, vanilla, lemon, orange, raspberry, turtle, cappuccino, almond, cinnamon spice and maple pecan.
  • Chocolate Fetish makes divine chocolates right at their downtown Asheville location, and visitors can witness the chocolate-making process before selecting an award-winning creation to sample or buy as a gift.
  • Imladris Farms makes jams, jellies and preserves out of freshly-picked, organic fruits grown on a generations-old family farm. They also offer gift baskets filled with mountain products.
  • The Western North Carolina Farmers Market showcases local country hams, stone ground grits, sourwood honey and freshly made jams, jellies and preserves. Next door to the farmers market, the Moose Cafe offers jars of their famous apple butter and hot, sweet chow chow relish.
  • Biltmore Winery offers a selection of red, white and sparkling wines to provide an elegant reminder of your visit. The winery gift shop also features a wide range of food gifts ranging from cooking kits to specialty ingredients.
  • Sunburst Trout Farm sells smoked mountain rainbow trout as well as their popular trout caviar, sought after by the nation’s top chefs.
  • The Asheville Independent Restaurant Association offers a giftcard for reduced rates at member restaurants restaurants.
  • Haw Creek Honey is available at many Asheville stores and makes a sweet gift.
  • Immaculate Consumption cookies baked just down the road in Flat Rock, are sold at many local markets. Apple Pie, Mojos and Sweet Georgia Brownies gourmet cookies come in collectable tins decorated with American Folk Art.

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