Chef's Warehouse in South San Francisco

Chef's Warehouse at 447 Canal St in South San Francisco is the retail arm of BIA Cordon Bleu, a porcelain company that sells in many retail stores and outlets. Their quality is excellent and you can find bakeware of almost any size and shape. But that's not all; the store also sells cookware and kitchenware from many other vendors such as All Clad, Le Creuset, Peugeot, Cuisinart, Zylis, Oxo, Lodge and Kitchen Aid to name but a few.

Many seasonal or specialty ceramics go on sale from 40% - 60% off regular retail prices. Each time I shop here, the selection has changed a bit and more items have been moved to the 60% off table as the numbers decrease and fewer pieces of a particular color or pattern are available.

Some of my best bargains have been culled from that sale table. For example the small rimmed soup bowl pictured in red was $1.29 after the discount was applied. It came in red or cobalt blue and there were matching salad plates. All worked well with a solid white dinner plates, also available in the store at normal discounted prices.

This bakeware was all located on the 40% off table and the prices so good, it would have been smart to pick up sets as gifts. Available colors at the time were aqua, pictured above, brown, curry, mint green, yellow, and pink. I suspect that colors will be changing seasonally as fall colors were coming in on my last visit .

Besides selling individual specialty ceramics, they also sell dish sets. But not as you might imagine. You can pick the particular salad plate or soup bowl to match the dinner plate which may be round or square, so mixing and matching allows for a unique set for each individual taste. The dishes pictured above came in patterned and plain forms, round and square in both black and white.

Chef's Warehouse also carries Stonewall Kitchen pantry products at about 20% less than other retailers. They have included small selections of cookbooks, dishtowels, oven mitts, silpat, and a broad range of baking supplies.

http://www.biaoutlet.com/

447 South Canal Street

South San Francisco CA 94080

(650) 553-4155

Open Tuesday thru Saturday 9am to 5pm