destination store for home and professional cooks
La Cuisine-Alexandria, Virginia cooking retail store carrying Mauviel DeBuyer and Lodge cookware, Pillivuyt porcelain, Piral terra cotta, Hammersong Cutters, select and hard to find ingredients
Keywords: la cuisine, springerle molds, ceramic cookware, roger blachon, hammersong, copper molds
Interview Q&A
How long have you been in business?
La Cuisine has been in business since 1970
What is your primary product or service?
We sell top quality cookware, hard to find ingredients, topical cookbooks, excellent linens for kitchen use,
How did you first become interested in your line of business? (if owner) - What is your background? (If owner or store manager)
I loved to cook, but could not find really good quality cookware in the Washington area.
How do you differentiate yourself from other businesses in your category and area?
We all cook and we use our equipment, experiment with the cookbooks, in short, we know our stuff!
How many locations do you have and do you have plans to expand?
Just the one store in Alexandria's Old Town with a very engaged ecommerce site.
Provide detailed directions to your location
We are on mapquest and are right across from City Hall between Fairfax and Royal Streets.
What type of payments do you accept?
Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover
Which areas do you service?
The Washington DC metropolitan area primarily, although we are a destination shop for many tourists
Who owns your company or runs daily operations?
Nancy Purves Pollard is the owner
Larissa Avendano oversees daily operations
Stephanie Gorenflo handles product development and website management
What are your hours of operation?
10-5 Mon-Wed,Fri, 10-7pm Thu 10-6 Fri