Sometimes shopping feels like a chore, but sometimes, with the right environment, it becomes an experience ripe with possibility. Enter Kitchen & Market. This is the corner store reinvented to make the shopping experience beautiful, fun, and easy.
Expanding on the success of their Pike Place Market store, which opened in 2021, Kitchen & Market has quickly grown to five locations: Pike Place Market, Medina (2023), Madison Valley (March 2024), Yarrow Bay (August 2024), and Eastlake (October 2024).
Macrina pastries and coffee in the morning give way to wine and beer in the late afternoon and evening. “It’s the coolest, most beautiful seating area in a grocery store you’ve ever seen.”
At heart, the stores help busy people eat well. Owner and founder Stephanie King is the creative force behind Kitchen & Market and its popular meal kits. Six rotating meal kits are available at any given time, offerings include Thai Green Curry, Mediterranean Falafel Salad, Chicken Parmesan, and Beef Barbacoa, among others.
Cooking from one of their locally sourced meal kits with step-by-step instructions is like having a chef guiding you with all your ingredients readied by a sous-chef. In less than 30 minutes, you have a tasty family meal that would impress dinner party guests.
The stores also feature many grab-and-go options, curated grocery staples such as milk and eggs, and some produce. You won’t find an aisle with 60 types of cereal, but you’ll likely find something that excites you for every meal of the day.
“We know you’re not coming here for butter,” says Stephanie. “But we have one butter — good butter — because we don’t want you to have to make another stop.”
The recently opened Yarrow Bay store in Kirkland includes a café and wine bar with indoor and outdoor patio seating. Macrina pastries and coffee in the morning give way to wine and beer in the late afternoon and evening. “It’s the coolest, most beautiful seating area in a grocery store you’ve ever seen,” says Stephanie. “You can grab a beer and go sit with your friends. You can buy a picnic and go sit at the outdoor tables.”
Kitchen & Market has been consistently impressed by Macrina’s reliability, timely daily deliveries, and the exceptional quality of its products.
Every Kitchen & Market store has a neighborhood feeling, the corner store re-envisioned for contemporary times. It’s the kind of place where you see neighbors bumping into each other, conversations sparking naturally, future gatherings planned, and the latest news exchanged.
“Another community I love is the one that exists among women in business,” says Stephanie. “Everybody is so supportive. There’s a camaraderie.”