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Ming Wo Cookware
Category: Shopping Home & Garden Kitchen & Bath Kitchen & Bath [Edit]
2707 Granville StVancouver, BC V6H 3J1
Neighbourhoods: Fairview Slopes, South Granville
(604) 737-7885
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
8 reviews for Ming Wo Cookware
8 reviews in English
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Review from Andrea L.
Vancouver, BC
10/5/2011
It helps when you have done your homework, are really interested in cooking and not just buying cookware to make the house look colourful and full.
It's a small place, but they really fit quite a bit in that store! It's amazing!
I love that the girl that was helping was not crowding me while I was taking a quick look around. I bought a Le Creuset in the lovely Caribbean colour, I really love the colour although I really wish that Le Creuset made the newer ones with steel knobs instead of plastic. I left with a Le Creuset and a Bodum stainless travel press for my friend.
I'll be coming back to check out more Le Creuset, knives and the Gordon Ramsay for Royal Doulton cookware when I have more time. :) -
Review from Anne W.
Vancouver, BC
12/20/2009
In the South Granville area, we have a few kitchen shops from which to choose, including the highly regarded Williams-Sonoma and Cookworks. Of these shops, I prefer Ming Wo for it's casual atmosphere, numerous small, fun items, and great prices.
Sometimes I'll slip in to one of the more upscale kitchenware establishments. I'll partake of the free samples and watch a demo or two but, when it comes to making purchases, I'll always head back to Ming Wo.
Often, I will find the very same items available at a price point I can justify or something that is similar enough to fit the bill.
My favorite items? I love the clothespin styled chopstick sets, so colourful and whimsical and great for parties. My daughter is crazy about the Alessi items and I am continually adding to my collection of white everyday dishes and cutlery and red accessories.
If you like nice things for less, this is your kitchen store. -
Review from Chloë E.
Vancouver, BC
12/2/2008 1 photo
Ming Wo offers, what I've found, to be the best-priced stainless steel water bottles in Vancouver. They also offer a whole range of picture-perfect cookware that (warning issued) will prompt uncontrollable urges to spend money.
The store has a fantastic range of french presses (versus most stores which only have two or three models) and the cooking utensils are great gifts for any difficult-to-shop-for people in your life. On my last visit, I also discovered the little backroom of picture frames, soaps, and lamps for the first time. A nice little bonus and just another reason to spend time in this great cookware store. -
Review from Tim S.
5/22/2010
I went in to buy an inexpensive skillet with a lid and maybe one of the cheap industrial-strength-looking steel water bottles they'd had in their window for the last few months. To my regret, they had neither (! -- they had new, more "stylish" water bottles in, boo), but they DID have microplane graters, a silicone pastry brush, and a glass lunch dish, all of which became essential as soon as I saw them.
This location is small and maybe a little incomplete, but it's fun, surprising, and unpretentious, which is nice for the South Granville strip! -
Review from Sheila W.
BC
12/21/2008
This is a quality shop to find all sorts of kitchen gadgets, glassware and cookware. They carry Riedel Sommelier wine glasses (the good stuff) and Zwilling J.A. Henckels (German) knives and other kitchen tools (quality blades!).
In addition to sipping and chopping in fine style, they always seem to have interesting and colourful Asian-inspired dishes for noodle soup, cute mini-dishes for sauce or minced ginger and the like. They have what seems to be an entire wall of ramekins, the basic white (in all sizes) and other brighter colours.
They always have bright, fun patterned dishes that would be sure to impress your guests at any cocktail party. I'm not sure if they're that practical, but if you have money to burn on cute kitchen stuff, this is a great place for you!!
The shop is pretty narrow and so full of stuff that, although it's on street level, it would be difficult to take in a wheelchair or a baby carriage or anything like that ... it's hard to pass other people in the aisles on foot! So when it's busy, it's pretty cramped. -
Review from Reena M.
12/19/2009
Another store with tons of fun quirky stuff. Except this place also has more practical, not necessarily fun stuff, but stuff you need anyway for the kitchen. If I had more money and space in my kitchen I'd shop here more often. But the products are good quality for sure. I found the store layout a bit crowded.
Listed in: Give a *good* GIft!, Pimp My Kitchen
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Review from Tara T.
BC
11/14/2008 1 photo
Ming Wo is a cookware and home accessories store located on South Granville Street. Be warned: if you're a bit of a chef this place is dangerous and you may leave financially lighter than when you came in. From bamboo cheese platters, to dishwashing liquid, to pots, pans, mugs, cups and every utensil under the sun, Ming Wo has you covered. And if you meander toward the back of the shop and head down the stairs you'll find lamps, towels, frames, and bathroom accessories. This is a great place to come for gifts or if you're setting up house and needs the mandatory "bits and pieces".
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Review from J G.
Vancouver, BC
9/11/2008 1 photo
Ming Wo will meet almost all of your kitchen needs with style and without too much damage done to your pocket book. This store carries everything a well-stocked kitchen ought to have from appliances like waffle-makers and sandwich presses to cookware by Le Creuset and Emile Henri. They also carry a selection of sustainable dishes and serving ware made out of bamboo along with their porcelain dishes and stylish glassware. So, whatever you dream of having in your kitchen, Ming Wo will have it in a pretty colour or two.
