Sur La Table

Sleek, industrial design elements lend this elegant, thoughtfully merchandised corporate store a serious tone, appealing to accomplished cooks with limitless budgets. Want the best coffee or espresso maker money can buy? Sur La Table probably stocks it -- as well as other fancy appliances, premium cookware, tools, bake-ware, cutlery (including a handful of top-notch Japanese brands), housewares, dinnerware, bar-ware, glass-ware and linens. And food. Did we mention food? Like alder-smoked sea salt from Alaska? It's all here -- a little cook's paradise, complemented by cooking classes in a swanky separate room. Not to worry if you don't drive a Mercedes. SLT runs plenty of good sales too