Hi everyone. I'll be in Paris for 9 days in April. I am excited to do some unique shopping while in the city. I like housewares, and unique items, as well as kitchen gear. I understand that I cannot buy something large, etc., without making some shipping arrangements. I'd love some of your recommendations. The one store I already have on my list is E.DEHILLERIN, but I'd love some help beyond that.
Thanks in advance!
Dehillerin is hard to beat. They have the classic molds, copper pots, wonderful knives etc. They are basically a restaurant supply place. We have some very cheap steak knives with little bees on the back that work just fine -- they cost about 2.50 and work as well as those with hand carved wood handles that cost 20 times that. We also have several expensive kitchen knives that are terrific. For years we rented random apartments and invariably they had terrible knives, so we would buy a good knife at Dehillerin and use it and take it home. We have half a dozen wonderful mismatched knives in our kitchen and love using them. There are a number of other stores in the general area; we bought opinel type folding knives last time we wandered the area in one of them but don't remember the name.
Here is what I came up when I googled:
https://www.thekitchn.com/best-places-to-buy-kitchenware-paris-254957
I will try a couple on our next trip.
Some Wpeople recommend BHV but in my experience they have the exact same stuff you can buy in the US in any department store cookware department but it costs much more due to VAT.
Thank you so much for that link! Those are really great suggestions.
Our granddaughters took cooking classes this summer and one cooking school listed 3 recommended shops for tools/ingredients. I can only remember the 2 that we visited, E. Dehillerin and Bon Marche les grand Epicurie. The third shop specialized in ingredients for bakers and people making macarones.
The serious young chef granddaughter spent 1+ hour in each of the 2 cookware stores we visited.
As noted, you can't go wrong with e.Dehillerin. They will also packup and ship your purchases back to the US, for the appropriate fee. Nearby are more consumer oriented stores like La Bovida (they just remodeled that store), A. Simon, and Mora (plus la Verrerie). David Lebowitz has you covered with a much better complete guide (some parts are a bit outdated). LINK
For vintage, go to the Marche Aux Puches Saint-Ouen, aka Clignancourt. Batchelier Antiquites is close to Marche Paul Bert Serpette. There were also great stalls/shops in Marche Dauphine (ground floor for housewares). Plan your day in advance, for the days certain shops are open.
I like the housewares, linens, dishes, towels, & kitchen supplies at BHV.
Hello from Wisconisin,
A huge shopping store that fills an entire block can be found in the Marias. It is called LE BHV Marais. It has everything. And I loved the basement.
wayne iNWI
BHV has many virtues although its quirky hardware area is now pretty much ordinary stuff -- the unique Paris things they once had are no longer profitable. In kitchen wares though, it is literally like walking through any US kitchen store with the same brands, except they are about 20% more expensive. The virtue of Dehillerin and similar stores is that they are full of things that are harder to come by in the US. I wish I could remember the name of the store in the same area where I got the classic opinel 'titti' folding knives which we use as steak knives when we have guests -- I have never seen those at US stores.
The link to E Dehillerin given in the story by David Lebowitz linked by Gooster is wrong. Good David Lebowitz story though.
The correct website is https://www.edehillerin.fr/en/ and it is in English.
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Oh how I love BHV in the Marais!
This store is on my wish list for my next trip to Paris… G Detou. David Lebovitz wrote about it a while back, and here’s a link from a Bon Appétit article.
https://www.bonappetit.com/city-guides/paris/venue/g-detou
Laurie
jeanpaulhebert, Are you thinking of Verrerie des Halles at 15 rue du Louvre (in the arcade)? All my pottery kougloff molds came from there. Good suggestion!
And since G.Detou came up, I can’t resist mentioning Épices Roellinger for spices and especially their assortment of exotic peppercorns. https://www.epices-roellinger.com/en/taxons/tous-les-poivres
Janet, I love Opinel knives. What is a opinel “titti”?
Ina Garten mentions this housewares store too! Good article in Fodor’s written 8 years ago about her favorite spots. https://www.fodors.com/news/barefoot-contessaan-insiders-guide-to-paris-2159
