Kitchen Basics

The roommate and I were walking around Pike Place on Tuesday, January 19^th and decided to check this place out.
They have a lot of random kitchen supplies. So random in fact, that the roommate ended up buying a Luchador bottle opener. His friend is a huge wrestling fan, so we figured this would be a great gift for him.
I’m not sure if I’d call this shop Kitchen Basics. It has a lot of random kitchen supplies, but I wouldn’t exactly call most of their items basic. The store is pretty unorganized and cluttered. There is some sense in the chaos as all the bottle openers were together, but you can’t really find anything without just roaming around.
Super random shop, but at least we found a good souvenir.

This place is crazy and random and great, and you will find the bizarre kitchen gadget of your dreams here, I guarantee it.
Need a melamine plastic spoon just like the one your mom had in the 1980’s? Yes, they have it. Need some specialty fondue equipment? They have it. Need twenty kinds of iron teapots? They have it.
As a Portland foodie, this was the perfect place for me to find a Seattle souvenir. (Yes, you guessed it – the melamine spoon.)

Wow. A shop I have loved for years greeted us with, «watch your kids so they don’t put stuff in their pockets»! I am so offended and taking all my dollars and my micro chef to sur la table. Wtf!?!

This store is a little hidden gem amongst all the rest of stores found in Seattle’s Pike Place Market. It is a bit on the small side, yet filled to the brim with great kitchen stuff. Whether you’re looking for a gurgle pot, Fiestaware or something to store half a banana in they have it!
I’m not sure what some of the other reviews are all about but I received great service last week and went home with new knives.
Kitchen Basics has got to be my favorite spot every time I visit the market.

I was visiting Seattle with my daughter, her first time staying in the city, and walking through Pikes Market. Stopped in this shop because I love Fiestaware and saw all the selection, which was awesome. No, the sales associates don’t offer any assistance, no acknowledgement, nothing. I’m in retail, I know the value of making our guests feel welcome, opportunity missed on their parts. I picked out several pieces, including a teapot in a retired color. It was rung up, $ 140. After leaving, I realized I should have shown my Oregon id to avoid the sales tax, would have saved $ 14. Went right back and they refused to re-​ring my purchase. Lame excuses, I do know it can be done but they were not willing to do it. It’s too bad because I had told my daughter that she and my son could buy from this store for future b-​day, m-​day, Christmas present for me. They lost at least 3 customers. I guess they don’t care. Too many tourists coming through the door each day, they don’t have put forth any customer service effort at all. Anyway, if you don’t care about attitude, they have a great selection of Fiestaware.

The girl who works at Kitchen Basics had terrible customer service. I didn’t get her name but she had dark long hair with armed tattoos. I was in there last year but it was an older woman behind the till; her customer service was just as bad. When I asked the young woman questions she answered reluctantly and took no initiative to help me find the things I was looking for. Having said that I did manage to find some tart moulds I’ve been looking for a while.

1. Despite three unoccupied salespeople at the cash register, if you wanted some customer service, you had to ask for it — they didn’t acknowledge me or any of the other customers who walked in while I was there unless the customer approached them with a question.
2. There’s a wide assortment of kitchen and house ware items ranging from junk to pricey ($ 100+ for a large, black, ceramic tea pot. No thanks). However, selection in types/​brands of each implement is extremely limited.
3. The store is so cramped and jam-​packed, you probably wouldn’t find anything right away without asking for help.
4. I didn’t see anything here I couldn’t get at another house wares supply store for likely equivalent prices and minus the hassle of cramped spaces and tourists.

90% of what is sold here is Fiesta Ware. Yawn.

Nice selection and quite reasonable prices, despite the touristland location. But the real reason to drop by is the staff, who might analyze your wardrobe or offer a horoscope along with purchase suggestions.

I’m giving this 5 stars because the story is nuts and has nothing at all to do with the champagne saber I was looking for.
I walk in, the guy at the front counter grabs (hard) my jacket and starts fondling it.
Guy: «What a wonderful jacket…»
Zakk: «uh, thanks. got it in BC»
Guy: «Capricorn?»
Zakk: «what!?»
Guy: «Taurus?»
Zakk: *blank stare*
Guy: «You’re really not a Capricorn?»
Zakk: «Pisces»
Guy: «Really…what time were you born?»
Zakk: «what?»
Then I get a lecture on what the time of day you were born has more to do with your sign than anything else, all this other crap as well. It was totally nucking futs, and the wife and I still laugh like school kids when we tell this story.
Still no champagne saber, either.

i think this place is great in terms of its selections, prices and location. On top of that, theres some friendly local atmosphere hovering the shop that i have never found elsewhere. The seller is very helpful and generous… so friendly to a stranger in town like me.