My favourite kitchenwares shop in London

There are prettier shops than Kitchen Ideas, I'm the first to admit. Shops with beautiful dishes, in-store cafes, cookbook aisles, demos and lots of staff. This place doesn't have any of that. However, if I need a mini whisk, an ice lolly mould, Cake Release and a slightly smaller casserole dish, they have it and for a price I will be unlikely to beat anywhere else. The staff do know their stock, to be fair – I've heard many an in-depth conversation about the specifics of certain brands of stock pots or whatever. That there always seems to be someone in kitchen whites in there with a list bodes well too. 

I love the piles of stuff lined up against the walls, pots hanging from the ceiling, piles on the ground against the shelves. Though my very favourite thing about these shops is there doesn't seem to be a dud in the whole place. It's stacked to the rafters with Useful Things. Whisks in every size, thimble-sized measuring cups, a glass two-person salad dressing jar that looks nice and costs £3, a sand castle cake mould, every size of milk-steaming jug you could ever conceivably need, cutting boards of all sizes and shapes and construction. Just, everything.

Kitchen Ideas
70 Westbourne Grove W2 5SH
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20 New Broadway W5 5AW