Sur La Table comes to Manhattan

[bloviatrix]

Crain's reports that Sur La Table will be opening their first Manhattan store in July at 75 Spring Street.

The chain has one other NY outpost in Manhasset.

[Bux]

Across the street from the Museum of Modern Art SoHo store, diagonally across the street from Balthazar and two blocks away from Dean and Delucca.

[Pan]

Would anyone like to give some description of this establishment for those of us who know little or nothing about it?

[Bux]

Would anyone like to give some description of this establishment for those of us who know little or nothing about it?

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http://www.surlatable.com/

[alacarte]

It's akin to a Williams-Sonoma. Heavy on the cooking classes & demos.

[ghostrider]

They sell a set of cool little measuring spoons marked Dash, Pinch & Smidgen.

They're actually very handy if you're on a low-salt diet.

[Jen Keenan]

I've only been to the original in Seattle, but in my experience Sur La Table, if I may, is like the ABC Carpet of cooking stores. There's fabulous stuff EVERYWHERE, like a fairy wonderland for food people. If you don't get the ABC Carpet reference, though, I don't know if I can describe the magic

[robyn]

Would anyone like to give some description of this establishment for those of us who know little or nothing about it?

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If the store in New York is anything like the stores I've been to elsewhere - it's fabulous. Much more stuff than Williams Sonoma. Kind of like Broadway Panhandler - but a more spacious layout (although that might not be true in Manhattan). If - on your trips to Soho - you always have to allow 1 hour for poking through all the stuff at Broadway Panhandler - even if you don't need anything - you'll now have to allow 2 (one for Broadway Panhandler and 1 for Sur La Table).

By the way - I've been to a few commercial kitchen places in Manhattan - and they're better than the retail places - but the neighborhoods they're in are usually pretty dreary - no match for an afternoon shopping in Soho. Robyn

[JosephB]

Real Estate Weekly reports that the Sur La Tabla, the Seatlle-based culinary retailer, has signed a lease for 10,000 sq. ft of space at 75 Spring Street. This will be Sur La Table's first store in Manhattan.