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We offer cooking classes for adults and children in our beautiful demo kitchen upstairs in our store. These classes are led by local chefs and offer hands-on learning.

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Carefully Curated Wines

We offer wines from vintners from Willamette Valley to across the globe. We love our small batch producers and have wine dinners to highlight their varietals.

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Private Events

Host your private event here in our state of the art private kitchen.

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We are a local kitchenware store located in the heart of Bend, Oregon ~ in the Old Mill District

Formerly Ginger’s Kitchenware

Potato Gnocchi with a Creamy Wild Mushroom Sauce with Chef Candy

September 27th | Learn to make Chef Candy’s Ethereal Potato Gnocchi with a Creamy Wild Mushroom Sauce!

Traditional Italian Menu with Chef Candy

October 11th | Join Chef Candy as she recreates the tastes and smells of her Italian grandmother’s cooking!

Beef Wellington with Chef Candy

October 25th | Chef Candy will show you how to make her most requested classic – Beef Wellington!

We’re Here For You

We provide a shopping experience to satisfy all of your kitchen-related needs. From home cook to executive chef, we have a little of everything!

Our experienced staff is here to help you find the exact tool you need to succeed in the kitchen or give as a wonderful gift.

We carry a wide range of high quality kitchen products.

We carry many well known, quality brands of kitchen tools, gadgets and utensils.

Le Creuset, Jura / Capresso Coffee, Skyros Designs, Riedel Glassware, All Clad Cookware, Scanpan, Gozney Outdoor Ovens and Wüsthof & Shun Knives just to name a few.

Specialty olive oils and flavored vinegars

Our olive oils and vinegars are produced in small batches by a mother-daughter team in Bozeman, Montana. Olivelle produces high quality olive oils and vinegars. Built around their motto “The Art of Flavor”, their goal is to evoke a passion for great tasting food that is approachable and easy. Each purchase comes with a recipe card with suggestions on how to use the oil and vinegar.

Specialty Foods and Local Products

We have a large selection of unique specialty foods including spices, sauces, tomatoes and more.

We also support items made in Bend by carrying Farewell & Bonsai Bean Coffees, Black Sheep Chocolate, and Broadus Bees Honey just to name a few.

We sell wines from across the globe including some amazing producers from Willamette Valley

We sell wine! Come see the selection of wines hand picked by our staff and chefs. We highlight small batch producers from the PNW as well as California and across the globe.

We carefully curate the wines we sell, working with the vintners to make sure we are offering the highest quality, special wines available.

We also host wine dinners, wine pairing nights and wine tastings.

“Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors—it’s how you combine them that sets you apart.”

–Wolfgang Puck