A century-old pear orchard and a five-year-old charcuterie kitchen, both shipping gourmet but very different gifts. When you're shopping for a premium food gift online, the heritage names and the newer makers sit side by side, and the right pick depends on the moment you're shopping for. Harry & David and Boarderie both ship gourmet food gifts nationwide, both carry serious brand recognition, and both have built loyal customers, but they are not the same category.
What's the actual difference between Boarderie and Harry & David?
Boarderie ships fresh, chef-arranged cheese and charcuterie boards overnight from our West Palm Beach kitchen. Harry & David ships pear gift baskets, fruit subscriptions, gourmet towers, and seasonal sweets from its Oregon orchards. Different food, different gifting tradition.
Harry & David is one of the oldest gourmet gift companies in the United States. The story starts in 1910 when Seattle hotelier Samuel Rosenberg traded the Hotel Sorrento for 240 acres of pear orchards in Oregon's Rogue River Valley. His sons Harry and David, both Cornell-educated agriculturalists, took over after his death in 1914 and built a luxury fruit business around the Comice pear they branded "Royal Riviera." They launched the Fruit-of-the-Month Club in 1936, the Tower of Treats in 1945, and by the time the brand was renamed from Bear Creek Orchards to Harry and David in 1946 it was a household name in business gifting. In 2014, Harry & David was acquired by 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc. for $142.5 million and is now part of that conglomerate's family of brands.
We started Boarderie in 2021 to answer a different question: what would it take to deliver a catering-quality cheese and charcuterie board, fully arranged, anywhere in the country, overnight, ready to serve? The answer became a new product category. Our boards are chef-made the day they ship, hand-arranged with 18 to 37+ artisan items sourced from 8 or more countries. We have been featured on ABC's Shark Tank (Season 14), selected for Oprah's Favorite Things in 2022 and 2023, and named a Food Network Editor's Pick in 2025.
The two brands sit in different categories of gourmet food gift. Below is how they stack up.
