What’s on the menu? A curated selection of food-and-beverage treats and homewares from local shops around town. From kitchen essentials and charming table pieces to the perfect happies to gift, this guide highlights good taste.
Artist Tennyson Corley memorializes the “Girl Dinner” with her ceramic pieces, found locally at Heirloom House. She uses vintage dinnerware to present equal servings of nostalgia, indulgence and playfulness. Use for a decorative plate wall or a vignette grouping. The perfect gift for those who like to make reservations.
Paradox at PeCo has the perfect topper for a red blend: add a billiards ball wine stopper. When you are headed to watch the game in a pal’s new man cave, grab a coaster set made from vintage vinyls. An alternative to a candle – and we mean it – these incense sets are elevated with minimal smoke and a clean burn. Warm scents like Bare Lait and Burnt Clementine are sophisticated and not so hippy dippy. For takeout and sushi dinners at home, pick up lacquered chopsticks. If you don’t buy it for the fun fall flavors, add a Maeve chocolate for a Halloween treat- just for the packaging.
You have been feeding your starter, but what about the tidying the flour? Ménage Fine Stationery & Gifts carries counter brooms and even a smaller version to properly scrub vegetables. A rolling pin petite enough for easy storage works for baked goods or pounding chicken cutlets. For those cutlets, you’ll want the tinned garleek for a sheet pan dinner. It’s not too early to tuck away stocking stuffers - corndog holders, spreader knives and purse salt. Because the right kitchen additions look as good as they work.
For the youngest shoppers, Cooper-Young Gallery + Gift Shop delivers an ideal kid’s section—equal parts kitsch, function and pure fantastical fun. Playful culinary treasures that feel like collectible art and yet actually work for busy hands. Ahh yes, squishies are currency to a certain age—so stock up while you can. We plan on personalizing plain tees with iron-on foodie stickers that look like hand embroidery. Don’t forget the little add-ons: stickers, paper products and bright wrap-worthy goodies that turn “just a toy” into a full-on moment.
Flashback, a vintage department store, offers housewares that bring character and some history. If your tablescape is feeling tired with the china you registered for, refresh it with something made prior to your wedding date. Their selections are in pristine condition. Crystal and silverplate wine coasters, punchy cloth napkins or a ceramic pitcher that nods to your colors make a styled table. These amethyst cordial glasses are designed to serve just enough. And if no one is imbibing, use as a bud vase for each place setting. Cheers to a collected and crowded table.