Get cooking with a visit to these kitchen stores in Calgary

Whether you're an experienced home chef or a kitchen novice, cooking requires equipment from turkey basters and casserole dishes to frying pans and butcher knives. In aid of these culinary needs, a number of Calgary stores carry all the gear you’ll require to chef up a storm.

By Ian Doig

The Cookbook Co

1

722 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0E4

• Phone Number
  • 403-265-6066Primary
• Directions

Carrying more than 2,000 cookbooks, this top-notch cuisine shop also stocks its shelves with the cooking devices the recipes within may require – cookware, knives, utensils as well as Euro-cool gadgetry.

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Kitchen Boutique

2

212 1st St W, Cochrane, AB T4C 1A9

• Phone Number
  • 403-932-1175Primary
• Directions

Upgrade your cooking and baking arsenal at Kitchen Boutique in Cochrane and Airdrie. A country shore that carries some seriously sophisticated culinary apparatus, merely browsing here will inspire an appetite. From mashers to ricers to perogy and pasta makers, its gadgets are nice and numerous. Also: mixers and milk frothers, hand blenders and electric meat carvers.

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Zest Kitchenware

3

131-5005 Dalhousie Dr NW, Calgary, AB T3A 5R8

• Phone Number
  • 403-286-5220Primary
• Directions

Dalhousie Station’s Zest stocks some of the best names in kitchen gadgets and appliances – everything from espresso makers to waffle irons to blenders and mixers will aid you in applying your culinary ambitions. Gadgets? Got ‘em! Here you’ll find ham holders, smoothie spatulas as well as a wild assortment of whisks.

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