Print decisions

I'm still at the early development stage of this brief, but I really want to give the menu design a professional and expensive finish, and high end print processes are something I do not know a lot about and need to research into further. Suggestions at the last crit were to use spot varnish, embossing or foil blocking, none of which I have done before but I want to know how. Here are some examples of how I want my designs to end up looking like using these techniques.

Found on frankel.co.uk; a printer's in London that show these as examples: