espresso cups

What does it take to buy an espresso cup around here? A lot, it turns out. After buying our new espresso machine we drove all over Santa Fe looking for some simple white espresso cups. We looked at Cookworks, but even their massively discounted cups were still way too expensive. Next stop Cost Plus World Market, which always comes through on the pottery front. They had very few espresso cups. One didn't have handles, and said Espresso on it in a silly font. The others had handles but had some ugly photo-design on them.

So onwards, to Tar-zhay. Target always has something trendy and cool these days. But alas, we could not find a single espresso cup in the store. Nathan was deeply disappointed in Isaac Mizrahi. As was I. Plus I couldn't even find the 300 count Egyptian cotton sheets that Consumer Reports raved about. I guess they sold out or something. As a final push to find an espresso cup at 6 pm on a Sunday, we stopped in at Starbucks in the same parking lot as Target. They do sell espresso cups, but 6.95 for a cup and saucer set. It seemed too expensive so we gave up for the night.

So last night, I finally ordered some cups from Crate and Barrel. They are squarish and 3.95 each. Of course, with shipping, they probably are more apiece than the Starbucks ones, but these have quite a bit of personality going for them.

This morning I realized that Ohori's probably has a good selection of cups - we'll have to check them out this weekend.