Some people love presents.
Some people love experiences.
They don't want another candle, another beauty product or another thing they'll eventually have to find a home for.
They want dinner somewhere they've never been.
They want to learn how to make something.
They want to eat an unreasonable amount of cheese.
They want to try something they've never heard of before.
So we've skipped the stuff entirely.
Ten experiences. Varied price points. Nothing to dust.
Give them a Coffee Personality
Specialty Coffee Tasting - £50
Not "let's get coffee."
Let's learn why your coffee tastes like that.
Kiss the Hippo's 90-minute tasting takes you through different single-origin coffees, showing how origin, altitude, processing and roasting change the flavour.
They can choose from Soho, the City or Bloomsbury.
And yes, there is coffee to drink afterwards.
The gift for: the person who already has a very specific coffee order.
Book the Table
A restaurant gift voucher: Choose your amount
Forget trying to guess what they want for dinner.
Give them the gift of choosing the restaurant, the person they take and the occasion.
Because sometimes the best gift isn't what they get. It's having an excuse to go somewhere they haven't been yet.
The gift for: anyone who would choose a great dinner over another thing for the house.
Let them Break Something
Kintsugi Workshop - £39
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with gold.
You deliberately break something. Then you put it back together.
The cracks become part of the design.
It's creative, surprisingly meditative and leaves them with something they actually made - without adding another piece of mass-produced stuff to their house.
The gift for: someone who likes making beautiful things and gifts with a little more meaning.
Give Them a Day, Not a Thing
A Hampstead Day
This one isn't a voucher. It's an itinerary.
10:00 - Start with coffee at Gracie's, Hampstead
Start slowly at this lovely new independent café on Hampstead High Street. Light-filled, relaxed and very neighbourhood-y.
Order coffee. Get something good to eat.
Don't rush.
You're in Hampstead.
11:00 - Get lost around Flask Walk
Wander through one of Hampstead's prettiest little streets, ducking into the independent shops, galleries and tiny boutiques along the way.
Then stop at Boulangerie Bon Matin for something you absolutely did not need but will probably buy anyway.
The Hampstead branch sits on Flask Walk itself - a beautiful historic little street with a distinctly village feel.
12:00 - Buy a bunch of flowers
Pop into Sayeh & Galton Flowers, tucked away at 13 Flask Walk.
Pick something seasonal. It doesn't have to be for anyone.
It can just be because they're beautiful.
The Hampstead shop has been part of the neighbourhood for decades and specialises in distinctive, seasonal floral arrangements.
12:30 - One more book
Head to Daunt Books Hampstead on South End Road.
Browse slowly.
Buy something beautiful.
Or don't.
13:30 - Hampstead Heath
Leave the village behind and head into Hampstead Heath.
Take the long way.
Find the view.
Don't check the time.
15:00 - A very long lunch
Walk back towards The Holly Bush.
Tucked away on Holly Mount, this historic Hampstead pub is exactly where you want to end up after a walk through the Heath - cosy, old-world and properly atmospheric.
Order lunch.
Stay for another drink.
Stay a little longer.
17:00 - Take the scenic route home
And that's the gift.
No parcel.
No voucher.
No trying to guess what someone wants.
Just a really lovely day that someone else has already thought through.
The gift for: someone who'd rather be taken somewhere than given something.
Learn to Butcher a Steak
The Ginger Pig, Borough Market - £95
This is not the usual gift experience.
No pottery.
No perfume.
No cocktail shaking.
You're learning to butcher a steak.
At The Ginger Pig's Steak & Wine class, you'll get hands-on with the craft of butchery, learn about the different cuts and what makes great beef taste the way it does.
Then comes the best bit: sit down together for steak, wine and a proper meal.
It's part cooking class, part dinner, part "wait, did we really just spend our evening doing that?"
Which is exactly why we like it.
The gift for: the person who has tried every obvious London experience.
And if steak isn't your thing, The Ginger Pig also runs beef, pork, game, poultry, BBQ and sausage-making classes at Borough Market.
Paint Something You'll Actually Keep
Potato Pottery, Marylebone and other locations
There are pottery classes. And then there's spending an afternoon in Marylebone choosing a ceramic piece, painting it exactly how you want and leaving it to be fired.
Potato Pottery feels more like a creative little hangout than a serious ceramics school - which is exactly the point.
Choose from more than 50 ceramic pieces, make it your own and leave with something that has a story attached to it.
The gift for: someone who loves beautiful things but would rather make one than buy one.
FROM £30
Give Them Something to Laugh About
A comedy night
Two tickets.
One evening.
Absolutely no wrapping required.
Pick a night, tell them to keep the date free and make an evening of it.
And if the comedian is terrible, at least you've got something else to talk about afterwards.
The gift for: your funniest friend.
FROM £34
Go Somewhere for the Sake of Going Somewhere
The Wallace Collection, Marylebone
Sometimes the best experience is completely free.
The Wallace Collection is tucked behind Manchester Square and is one of those London places that feels almost too beautiful to be sitting quietly in the middle of the city.
Give someone an afternoon there - then send them around the corner for lunch.
No booking. No voucher. No physical gift.
Just a really good day.
The gift for: someone who'd rather discover a beautiful room than browse another shop.
FREE
Take Them Somewhere They'll Talk About Afterwards
Kinkally, Fitzrovia
Forget the restaurant voucher.
Just take them somewhere really good.
Kinkally brings Georgian food into a beautifully designed Charlotte Street setting, with colourful khinkali, small plates and Georgian wines. Sit at the chef's counter if you can, watch the kitchen at work, order things you've never tried before and let the evening unfold.
And when dinner's over, there's Bar Kinky downstairs - a dark, atmospheric cocktail bar with a completely different energy.
It's not just dinner.
It's a whole evening.
The gift for: someone who'd rather discover their new favourite restaurant than unwrap another present.
Take them Out for Cheese
The London Cheese Crawl - from £35
Because "I'll take you out for dinner" is lovely.
"I've booked us a cheese crawl" is considerably more interesting.
This guided London food adventure takes you around some of the city's best cheese spots, with plenty of tasting along the way.
It's part walking tour, part food discovery and, frankly, an excellent excuse to spend an afternoon eating cheese.
The gift for: the person whose answer to "what shall we do?" is usually "somewhere nice to eat."
The Unwrapd Edit
Nothing to unwrap. Everything to remember.
Your taste isn't just what you buy.
It's the places you save.
The restaurants you want to try.
The things you want to make.
The exhibitions you screenshot.
The little places you can't stop recommending.
Your taste. Beautifully understood.
Discover your taste
Unwrapd turns your taste into a guide the people buying for you can actually shop from - three questions, one shareable page. Free to start.
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