Whether your bestie swoons over gourmet sea salts or goes nuts for exotic herbs and spices, there is an excellent gift waiting for them at Silk Road. For the beginner foodie, you can pick out a variety of curries, herbs and spices to fill their kitchen spice rack. For the advanced gourmand, grab a mortar and pestle, a grinder or a grater so they can concoct their own spice blends right at home. I suggest you avoid the ordinary, every day herbs and buy them something they wouldn’t normally have at home, like lavender sugar or fleur de sel.
This spice boutique is a feast for the senses, with colourful spices lining the shelves and savoury and sweet smells filling the air. The staff grind the spices in small batches to ensure freshness, so you don’t have to worry about fillers in your sea salt or garlic powder. You’ll also find plenty of stuff to use when baking, such as cloves, cinnamon sticks, cocoa nibs, lavender and vanilla beans. Those who love to barbecue will adore their selection of dry rubs. They also sell herbs, salt-free blends, powders, pastes, extracts and more.
This cute spice store is loaded with exotic spices, fragrant sea salts and everyday ingredients that we often find listed in cook books but never seem to have in our cupboard. Stock up on a few key spices and one or two unique ones, bundle them with a ribbon and present them to your overwhelmed hostess. They sell everything from cinnamon sticks and Chai baking spice to Inca fire salt and red alder smoked sea salt.