Kitchen Essentials: La Bovida

La Bovida is an upmarket and expensive home kitchenware boutique where the emphasis is firmly on the aesthetic. The tantalizing vitrines showcasing designer toasters, state-of-the-art food processors and miniature Le Creuset casseroles will have kitchen fanatics drooling before they get through the front door. The store’s three neatly organized floors are divided into sections devoted to wine (professional corkscrews, soda fountains and tasting glasses), baking (tart molds and silicone cake trays by Fauchon) and food preparation (an impressive selection of kitchen knives and cutting-edge pepper grinders). After lingering at the spice wall debating whether or not it was worth paying a little extra to have my piments d’Espelette packaged with the stylish La Bovida logo, I eventually walked away with a satisfying €2 gadget that fries eggs in square shapes-the perfect topper for a croque madame.

36 rue Montmartre, 1st, 01.42.36.09.99