The 2024 Eater Vegas Holiday Gift Guide

Gifts for food lovers made with love in Las Vegas

’Tis the season for gathering around holiday tables with plates full of food and arms full of presents. Las Vegas’s vibrant dining scene means there is no shortage of ways to keep loved one well-fed with food and drink that can only be found in Southern Nevada. And whether your intended gift recipient is hosting or indulging, it’s easy to find a local goodie just right for them. Home cooks will love kitchen equipment or a new bottle to stock their bar cart. Snack obsessives will delight in a new pantry novelty. And the born-and-raised gourmand will relish in shouting their local pride from their lapel. Eater rounded up some of the best food-adjacent gifts that celebrate what it means to eat and drink in Las Vegas.

Ethel M Chocolates

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This Henderson chocolate factory creates small batches of milk chocolate bars, creamy truffles, and samplers filled with fruit, nuts, and creamy caramels. Just for the holiday season, Ethel M is packaging selections of chocolates in ultra cute tins decorated with gingerbread homes. They’re packed with bites of chocolates that are filled with flavors like pecan pie, pumpkin spice, maple walnut satin cream, and peanut butter. It can be ordered online, but if you choose to pick it up at the factory, treat yourself to a stroll through the holiday light takeover of the botanical cactus garden.

Custom Chefs’ Knives from Todd Harrington

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Whoever is doing the cooking this holiday season could probably use some new kitchen knives. Treat them to a set customized just for them. Las Vegas local Todd Harrington started forging his own kitchen knives nearly five years ago while working as culinary director for the hospitality group behind restaurants like Honey Salt and Buddy V’s Ristorante. He still cuts, sands, and sharpens high-carbon or Damascus steel into cleavers, paring knives, and other styles, made specifically to the user’s preferred size and length. Starting at around $300, they’re solid enough to stand up to daily use in restaurant kitchens and also beautiful — with stylized wooden handles and steel that develops a brown and almost bluish patina with use.

Las Vegas Distillery Coffee Liqueur

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The cocktail fiend in your life will seriously step up their espresso martini with a coffee liqueur from Las Vegas Distillery. Located in the Henderson Booze District, the distillery uses small-batch processes to produce vodka, whiskey, and gin. The coffee liqueur combines a rum base with cold brew from Dark Moon Coffee Roasters, cacao, vanilla, and cane sugar. Make the gift extra special by including a handwritten note to your recipient with a recipe to make a stellar cocktail: 1 ounce of vodka, 1.5 ounces of coffee liqueur, .75 ounces espresso, and a .25 ounces of simple syrup.

Monthly Tinned Fish Subscription Box from the Tinned Fishionado

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Grazers, snackers, and professional noshers can really take things up a notch with a monthly subscription of tinned fish from this Las Vegas fish-obsessed business. Recipients can join Tinned Fish Club meet-ups at the Sliver Stamp in Downtown Las Vegas — or crack open a tin of Basque-style anchovies, chargrilled octopus, or smoked trout and serve it up with crispy saltines, a pat of butter, and a little lemon zest.

Coffee Beans from Vesta Coffee Roasters

Vesta Coffee Roasters

With coffee beans roasted, ground, and brewed into lattes and Americanos right at its downtown location, Vesta Coffee Roasters’s bags of beans are just right for treating coffee snobs to a blend that they’ll eagerly grind at home. With notes of “sweet plum, cordial cherry, and hugs,” the sugar plum is exclusive for winter, primed for brewing into a holiday morning cuppa. But the Monte Alban roast also makes a great year-round brew.

A Growler Gift Set from Big Dog’s Brew House

Big Dog’s Brew House

This dog-themed brewpub in Las Vegas has earned more major brewing competition medals than any other Southern Nevada brewery, and its head brewer Dave Pascual more than any other brewer in Nevada. Craft beer enthusiasts will love the Tail Wagger Wheat or Black Lab Stout. Or, for the holiday season, surprise them with the limited-edition Mexican Hot Chocolate Stout. But the real treat is the Christmas gift set that comes with Big Dog’s single-wall 64-ounce growler, a certificate to fill the growler with any signature brew, and a sticker, for the collectors.

Tamrah Premium Quality Dates

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When she moved to the U.S. from Qatar, Yara El-Ghazal wanted to bring a piece of home with her. From her kitchen in Las Vegas, Tamrah Dates blends dates with fillings of semisweet dark chocolate, nutty halva, and salty pistachios. While cookies and chocolates might make for more customary holiday desserts, flavored and stuffed Medjool dates are supple and more subtly sweet — while still nutritious enough to make the indulgence feel like a health food. Order ornate boxes of dates filled with cashew butter and matcha, with hazelnut and dark chocolate, or delightfully earthy sesame halva.

Vintage Vegas Cocktail Collection Pins from Battle Born Pins

Battle Born Pins

With sparkling enamel pins that depict iconography specific to Las Vegas, Battle Born pins is just right for born-and-raised locals or for anyone who longs for the Las Vegas of yesteryear. Pins from this retailer include designs that depict since-imploded casinos like the Stardust and the Tropicana. Others illustrate the state flower (sagebrush) or the state bird (the blue bird). But a trio of cocktails that celebrates Las Vegas magnates — an Aviation for Howard Hughes, a Rusty Nail for Frank Sinatra, and Oscar Goodman’s standby martini — will earn a “cheers” from Las Vegas history buffs or anyone hankering for a fun conversation starter.