Step into any successful restaurant kitchen, and the first thing that catches your eye is the distinctive metallic gleam of the equipment. Stainless steel has dominated professional cooking for over ...

The stainless-steel table found in many a restaurant kitchen resembles the appliances you and I might find in our dinky rental apartment kitchens: streamlined verging on sterile, harsh and metallic.

I spend a lot of time looking at beautiful kitchen designs, and if there's one feature I'm seeing more and more of, it's traditional work tables in the place of built-in island designs. Work tables ...