Food and drink Mother’s Day gift guide 2024

A small but truly perfectly formed present, Charbonnel et Walker’s classic truffles are never badly received. For Mother’s Day, choose this pink-and-gold packaged box of milk chocolates, which are lightly dusted in pink icing sugar and filled with a divine caramel and pink Himalayan salt centre. Any mum with a sweet tooth will be absolutely delighted.

Show your mother just how much you really love her with this supremely joyful linen tablecloth from cult brand Summerill & Bishop, printed with the label’s famous, multi-coloured hearts pattern. It’s the ideal base for springtime tablescapes and is sure to brighten any celebratory dinner party.

Breakfast in bed is a tried-and tested Mother’s Day treat, but what any mum really wants is the ability to make top-notch coffee for herself every day of the year. This limited edition Nespresso machine is covered in a Liberty print pattern, and makes the best brew around: there are over 30 coffee blends to chose from and five cup sizes, and the 30 second heat up time makes it ideal for busy mornings.

Mothers should really be celebrated all year round, so give her a present that will enable you to raise a glass to her often. Combining aesthetic beauty and functional design, this crystal ice bucket would make an exquisite gift for any woman who loves the odd cocktail. The ideal addition to a glamorous home bar (and there’s matching glassware available too, if you’re feeling especially generous).

Setting the scene when it comes to a good tablescape requires a lot – and we mean a lot – of candles. We can’t think of anyone who’s partial to dinner parties who wouldn’t love to receive a set of these tapers from Anthropologie, which are set apart from the rest by their unique, twisted shape. They come in three colour sets, with a range of hues in each – get a couple to really make a loved one’s table sparkle.

These elegant coupes are designed by Campbell-Rey in collaboration with Laguna B glassmakers – an Italian brand based on the Italian island of Murano, which has been famed for its glass wizardry since medieval times. In modern, whimsical hues of pale pink and yellow, these vessels are shaped from thermal, shock-resistant borosilicate glass (so they’re more robust than they look). Cin-cin!

If you’re the proud offspring of an extremely cool mother, consider giving her this absolute jaw-dropper of a china set from Villeroy & Boch. As much a sculpture as it is a piece of practical kitchen kit, this collection of black porcelain plates and bowls stacks cleverly together to form a perfect orb. It’s especially ideal if she has a small kitchen lacking in storage – after all, she won’t want to hide these beauties away in a cupboard.