Coffee specialist Cherizena has launched a range of coffee-based gifts for the festive season. Costing between £2.50 and £20, their gift range is very reasonably priced, will suit most budgets and would appeal to coffee lovers anywhere. You might just want to stock up your own store cupboard for the festive season and beyond, as well as finding that perfect gift.

I sampled several of Asda’s Extra Special range, following the instructions on the packaging to cook or reheat. These were all excellent quality dishes – I would hesitate to just call them ‘ready meals’ – for you to cook at home. They are competitively priced, quite substantial, easily big enough for two normal appetites.

O come all ye serious foodies, if you’re planning to be the host with the most this Christmas you need to be ordering your favourite feathered friend right now.

From 2nd December to 31st January the food, art and fashion worlds will be colliding at the Royal Academy of Arts with Sketch’s Parisian pop-up cafe.

We’ve had a lot of coffee makers in the office this year and not all have been interns. Some we have plugged into the electricity socket to see what would happen. In the case of the interns it was a lawsuit, but the machines weren’t so fussy. The last one we tried this year was the Nescafe Dolce Gusto Piccolo. If the Nespresso is the George Clooney of coffee machines, this is his younger, racier, brother.

When winter comes and the nights start to draw in there’s nothing quite like hearty comfort food. Sausages are a guaranteed winter time pleaser and Tracklements Onion Marmalade is the perfect accompaniment.

While their outlets are in London, the main one in Piccadilly, there are also concessions in Harrods and Selfridges, La Maison Du Chocolat products can also be ordered on line with guaranteed next day delivery anywhere in the country. These top quality chocolates would make excellent gifts at Christmas time or for any special occasion really.

Buying Christmas gifts for food lovers can be a minefield, especially when you enter the realm of kitchen gadgetry. This year get them something they’ll really use that’s not destined to build up cobwebs in the cupboard under the stairs. Here are our Top 5 gadgets to give this Christmas.

The big surprise is that these kippers are not made from herrings, as is traditional, but from sardines. Sainsbury’s is the first retailer to launch kippers made from sardine using the age-old smoking method, usually associated with herring.

As one of the country’s leading departmental stores, with food halls that are hard to walk around without drooling, it seemed only right that we should select a few of Harrods’ luxury goodies to sample for you on the run up to Christmas. We were impressed.