- Of a kind or standard suitable for a gourmet
- Gourmet is a cultural ideal associated with the culinary arts of fine food and drink, or haute cuisine, which is characterised by elaborate preparations and presentations of large meals of small, often quite rich courses.
- A connoisseur of good food; a person with a discerning palate
- Gourmet magazine was a monthly publication of Condé Nast Publications and the first U.S. magazine devoted to food and wine. Founded by Earle R. MacAusland (1891-1980) and first published in 1941, Gourmet also covered "good living" on a wider scale.
- epicure: a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)