Shop locally in Santa Fe to spruce up your cocina (aka kitchen), dress up your dinner table, and add some style to your entertaining arsenal.
Shop Locally for Your Kitchen in Santa Fe
High Noon General Store
We’re all for something that improves with age, whether it’s a bottle of red or these tanned leather coasters from California-based Olive N’ Suede, friends of High Noon General Store. Sold as a set of six, they come stamped with palms or their own High Noon horseshoe logo. Naturally darkening with each use, they’ll develop a rich, warm patina that only gets better with age.
Wild Life
Hand-thrown and hand-glazed, Bertozzi porcelain dinnerware is a thing of beauty. Turn a plate over and you might even find a fingerprint or two—a sign of the maker who lovingly created something that might appear delicate but is up for day-to-day use (and dishwasher safe too). Plates and bowls come in rich ochres, russets and other earth tones with a clear glaze finish on the interior and an unglazed bottom base. Pair with Wild Life’s traditional Italian block-printed linen for a table that serenades. Perfect for seasonal dining, whatever the occasion.
Santa Fe School of Cooking
Yes, these brightly patterned potholders are just the thing for Día de los Muertos baking or cooking. We wager they’ll be your new best kitchen companion all year round. Go for one with bright mango yellow edging or mandarina orange, or do as we do and nab one of each.
Modern Folk Ware
Inspired by the tail of a whale, these ebonized ash and walnut ‘whale bone cutting boards’ are perfectly balanced and just the thing for dramatically bringing food from the kitchen to the table. Pair them with hand-forged, stainless steel knives with handles in either black walnut, cherry, or maple. All from Modern Folk Ware, purveyors of exquisite handmade pottery and artisan pieces lovingly made by local and national craftspeople.
Kitchenality
Don’t bother going with a shopping list, just be open to the experience that is Kitchenality. Everything from gently used whole sets of china and crystal to retro jello and dessert molds. Shop with a clear conscience knowing proceeds go to Kitchen Angels. These saintly folk who provide meals to those in need in Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico.
Story by Julia Platt Leonard / Photography by Tira Howard
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