Kitchen Stores
A list of the coolest kitchen shops around.
A Cook's Companion
Cobble Hill - Brooklyn, NY United StatesThe kitchen rivals the workshop in the amount of tools, equipment and gadgets available to consumers. Nowhere is this more apparent than at A Cook's Companion, or as we like to call it A Cook's Ten Thousand Companions. The kitchen store...
Broadway Panhandler
West Village - New York, NY United StatesThere may not be many real panhandlers left in New York City (thanks Rudy), but the Broadway Panhandler is still around to fulfill all your kitchen equipment needs. The large, tightly packed space carries a wide variety of cookware, cutlery and...
City Kitchens
Downtown - Seattle, WA United StatesCity Kitchens feels about as cramped as the typical city kitchen, but thankfully that's not as much because of the dearth of space as it is because of the abundance of product. The store carries colorful home kitchen trinkets, strictly...
Eclectisaurus
Cabbagetown - Toronto, ON CanadaReader Suggested: Eclectisaurus sells great Brocante (French for vintage goods). An unusually wide selection of really cool things, from Furnishings to Lighting, Kitchen stuff, Art, even Clothing & Jewelry. Very friendly staff and fair prices make Eclectisaurus one of the best stores in Toronto.
Fitzsu
Palm Springs - Palm Springs, CA United StatesWhen you happen upon a design store and the salesperson (adorned in all black of course) encourages you to pick up items and fiddle with them you know you're on to something. This was exactly our experience at Fitzsu. The sanitary appearing...
Fitzsu
Melrose Heights - Los Angeles, CA United StatesWhen you happen upon a design store and the salesperson (adorned in all black of course) encourages you to pick up items and fiddle with them you know you're on to something. This was exactly our experience at Fitzsu. The sanitary appearing...
Foster's Gourmet Cookware
Center City - Philadelphia, PA United StatesFoster's Gourmet Cookware does for the kitchen what Foster's Urban Homeware did for the rest of the house. That is, provide all the accessories you need for a fully operational urban kitchen. Start with the basics: bowls, measuring spoons, tongs and baking sheets. Pick up a few...
Harvest Bath & Kitchen
Greektown - Toronto, ON CanadaOn a scale of 0 to Martha Stewart, Harvest Bath & Kitchen gets pretty near a perfect score in its execution of luxurious home lifestyle store. What's advertised on the windows as "A Touch of France" is really an unabashed grope...
Home Rule
Cardozo Shaw - Washington, DC United StatesA temple to practical contemporary design, Home Rule is all about replacing your mundane household items with cool, modern versions of the same. Its long, tall shelves are stacked with trashcans, coffee makers, martinis shakers, picture frames, plates--everything you need to add a little spark...
JB Prince
Murray Hill - New York, NY United StatesIt is common for every high-end kitchen store to claim that they are the professional's choice for kitchen equipment. But really, if they wanted to be honest, they should really say they are "the yuppy couples with too much money on their hands" choice for kitchenware. On the...
Kitchen Arts
Back Bay - Boston, MA United StatesHow does a small kitchen store compete with the gargantuan chains that are now entrenched in every city center? Well, Kitchen Arts does it by stocking items that you still cannot find in all 5 million square feet of joe-suburbian-superstore....
Kitchen Arts & Letters
Upper East Side - New York, NY United StatesAvid cooks know that you can never have enough cookbooks. Luckily, that's all Kitchen Arts and Letters carries. All the standards are there, from restaurant cookbooks like The French Laundry Cookbook to classics like La Rousse Gastronomique...
La Cuisine
Old Town - Alexandria, VA United StatesDon't let the small space fool you, La Cuisine is better stocked than many large kitchen chains we've seen. The store specializes in cookware and baking supplies for the discerning cook and is particularly well stocked in high-end...
Le Sanctuaire
Union Square - San Francisco, CA United StatesFor quite literally a taste of the good life, try Le Sanctuaire. The foodie haven stocks the absolute finest spices and specialty food products (Iranian caviar, French salt, premium olive oil), hard-to-find cutlery, European cookbooks not widely...
Powell's Books for Home and Garden
Sunnyside - Portland, OR United StatesReader Suggested: This is the first place out-of-towners go after getting off the airport. Powell's is said to be the largest bookstore in the US, maybe in the world. It sells both new and used books, so one can find almost everything desired. Browsing is encouraged and they have a nice coffee shop.
The Cook's Library
Third Street - Los Angeles, CA United StatesWhen attempting a gourmet meal you're likely to rely on cookbooks. Unfortunately, it's next to impossible to find just the right cookbook, especially since the staff at the mega-stores barely know Salinger from King much less Walker or...