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4 Tips to Choose a Dinner Set for Your Wedding Registry
Choosing the best dinner set or kitchenware to include in your wedding registry can be a daunting task. Let us help you with useful advices that will make your friends and relatives eager to contribute to your happiness! 1) Think Long Term Your wedding registry represents a once-in-a-lifetime occasion to treat yourself and your partner. Thanks to your wedding registry you will finally have that elegant and exclusive dinner set you have been dreaming about for so long! When you choose a dinner set for your wedding registry, bear in mind that it is meant to last in time. A quality dinner set will not only amaze your guests but also last much longer than cheaper ones. Imagine passing on to your children your beautiful wedding dinner set that they loved so much when they were kids! 2) Materials & Sizes The most common materials you can choose for your dishes are ceramic, glass and porcelain. Ceramic, being strong and durable, is ideal for your everyday needs; indeed it is the most popular material in dinnerware. Smooth ceramics are also suitable for fancy dinner sets. Porcelain is a bit more expensive than regular ceramic but given the glaze treatment it is more durable and precious. Its smooth look makes it perfect for elegant gatherings. Glass dishes are lightweight and add freshness to your tablediscape. They may be transparent, colored or opaque and come in a variety of patterns and decorations, either painted, printed or hand blown. Dinnerware usually comes in 6-piece, 8-piece, 12-piece or 24-piece sets. A typical place setting consists of 2 or 3 dishes per person: a dinner plate, a soup & pasta bowl and a side plate. Serving bowls, platters, side bowls,...
Dordas Flower: an address not to miss in Rome.
Some weeks ago, a friend of mine asked me a curious question, “Where can I find these beautiful dishes that I see on dishesonly.com?” I then started thinking of locations that would be suitable to accommodate our products. After some searching, my dearest friends, I am happy to inform you that, starting today, you can find some of our most elegant and exclusive dinner sets at Dordas Flowers, a charming shop in the center of Rome. If some of you don’t know Dordas yet, let me introduce him. Mr. Dordas is one of the very few top floral designers in Rome. He makes gorgeous floral displays, unique bouquets, innovative centrepieces, and unforgettable tablescapes and event arrangements. We are proud to collaborate with him and have such a wonderful space to display our collections. Flowers and porcelain get along perfectly. Better yet! Dordas’ taste is unique and matches our passion for exclusivity and elegance. The next time you’re in the city centre, or if you need flowers for a special occasion, make sure to check out the shop located at Largo del Teatro Valle 5, a stone’s throw from Piazza Navona. It’s a truly a magical setting full of color and magnificent flowers. ...
Pantone Color of the Year 2015: amazing Marsala Tableware.
Everybody knows Marsala has been selected as Pantone Color of the Year 2015. The choice of this color is motivated by Leitrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute as following: “Marsala enriches our mind, body and soul, exuding confidence and stability. It is a subtly seductive shade that draws us into its embracing warmth”. Let’s discover together this beautiful color and some tips in order to create the perfect match with your tableware! Marsala is a red vinous color that can be declined in many nuances: bordeaux, burgundy, grenade, pomegranate. It has an intense range of attributes that all together determine a strong personality: full-bodied, vibrant, velvety, warm, elegant. Marsala adds a “natural soul” to Pantone color chips by creating a synesthesia, a strong sensorial contamination: the color takes its name from real objects, from food and in this case from a Sicilian local vine. It inspires a sensorial mix that involves at the same time sight and taste, boosting the communicative power of the color. We can easily say that Marsala is a stylish as well as tasty color. And in the year of the Milan Expo that celebrates food and wine we wonder if that can be just a coincidence! Versatility is another strong quality of this color. Thanks to its earthy yet stylish tones, Marsala has an impressive allure and it can be easily used in beauty, home interiors, design, furnishing and fashion. Appealing both to women and men, it perfectly matches for accessories and apparels. Marsala is a great “ready to use” color for beauty, giving a special highlight for cheeks and a captivating pop of color...
Mini Casserole Dishes: the New Worldwide Trend
The new trend among food-enthusiasts and design-lovers is “cook & serve”. Many top restaurants worldwide cook & serve their specialties using mini casserole dishes. Mini casserole dishes allow chefs to serve their delicacies in a practical yet classy way. Whatever the material (usually enamel porcelain, ceramic and cast iron) mini casserole dishes will allow you to amaze your guests by serving them straight out of the kitchen. This is the cook-and-serve philosophy! We at DishesOnly have compiled a list of the trendiest restaurants that appreciate the cook & serve trend. Give a look at their table setting ideas! Cocotte in New York Cocotte, one of the most famous restaurants in Manhattan, proposes a cuisine inspired by the gastronomy of South-West France. Its chef is renowned worldwide for his original and refined style of cooking of French and Basque specialties. Its cozy and romantic atmosphere makes Cocotte the perfect place for a dinner for two. The name of this trendy restaurant, cocotte, is the French word for casserole; it is no surprise that many of their delicacies are served in fancy mini casserole dishes! Grand Hyatt in Tokio In the center of the ultra-modern Rappongi, a district known for its business, culture and leisure lures, Grand Hyatt offers a luxurious food experience. Choose among French cuisine, dishes of the Italian tradition or Oriental cookery, both Japanese and Chinese. Each cuisine has its own furnished & decorated theme room. Their selection of delicacies served in mini casseroles combine innovative cooking techniques with refined tastes from the tradition, such as truffles and prime quality meats. Le Procope in Paris Le Procope was founded in 1686 and is therefore one of the oldest restaurants in Paris. For more than two centuries it...