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i love this place..but i wish their prices were better!

I loved them on Broadway, I loved them on Broome St.
But 8th St....I hate the lighting in the store; makes me feel like I'm going to have a seizure.

Bright bluish lights above ceiling fans. Flickering blue light...
Have they changed this by any chance?

Broadway Panhandler's prices are significantly better than Sur La Table, but Amazon's prices are better than either of them - for small stuff, anyway. FYI.

However, I was agonizing over a Le Creuset pot during their last "big sale" on that equipment... Only that it wasn't really much of a sale. The list price for a 7.25 dutch oven is like $365, and the sale price was $219... which I ultimately could not justify. I was in the Panhandler just after the sale and their regular price was like $239... So the "$365" is like... a hoax. Only a crazy upscale place on Martha's Vineyard would charge that... and the sale price of $219 is actually not even 10% off their regular price. What's the big whoop there?

I dunno. I was very disillusioned.

Why is AT even featuring this place? AT has gotten so big that it makes me wonder if you're being paid to give a shout out to certain stores. Maybe I just don't know who your audience is anymore.

BTW - doesn't all clad have an annual sale around this time of year? AT usually makes a big notation of it... Did I miss it?

Love the store, despise one or two of the rude employees. Maybe they changed staff when they made the move to 8th street from Broome, but i still, to this day, remember the rudeness and attitude from my experience there.

Thankgod for amazon...

Fun, even thrilling, to shop at the Broadway & Broome Street locations. Have heard from many that the current store lacks charm and manners. Worst of all they are INSANELY, insultingly overpriced on virtually every item.

Love the store but had a very bad experience there this weekend. While browsing the store for about 20 minutes without interruption which by the way is how I like it, I had an employee approach me and ask me "could she help me with anything". On the face of it, that would seem like an innocent question except the tone of her voice and facial expression clearly indicated she was not really interested in helping me. I honestly think this idiot thought I wanted to steal something! If I wasn't so offended I would have laughed in her face. This shop girl that probably can't afford the merchandise she's hocking has the nerve to be condescending to me. Yes, times are rough but it will never be that bad that I need to steal kitchen supplies! They will never get my business again. SMDH....

"This shop girl that probably can't afford the merchandise she's hocking has the nerve to be condescending to me."

wow, missbynski, could you sound more snobbish?

Couldn't agree more with paul and AMNY. Staff is nasty, especially on the phone, and the prices are way high. It used to be difficult to source high quality kitchen/cookware and the nifty accoutrement, so NYers would put up with it. But with so many other resources, whether bricks&mortar or on-line, why would I fork over cash to the ANYONE who is condescending to me?
(I'm with you, missbynski! You're no snob.)

Funny -- was wandering about the neighborhood and passed, thought I'd check out the new location (to me -- hadn't visited the 8th Street store yet). When I popped in I saw the sign about checking bags, looked down at my mesh shopping sack with one item and a magazine in it, and then looked up at the meanest, nastiest face of the old guy behind the counter. I determined right then and there it wasn't worth my time, and old memories of previous unpleasant encounters at their earlier locations came to mind.

I'll stick with Zabar's 2nd level -- much, much better prices, and no attitude.