Magnum Pr Corp

This haunt of chefs and culinary students is hidden from the casual shopper, but many dedicated amateur home cooks know it and are made welcome. And though the showroom is small and utilitarian, its shelves brim with inventiveness and beauty.
Visitors bend like acolytes over the knives, marshaled to order in glassed-in cases. J. B. Prince was an early importer of those handmade by Misono, one...

"If you're not a chef but want to pretend", this Murray Hill supplier to "professional" kitchens is the source for cutting-edge cookware à la imported cutlery, pots, pastry molds and other "quality restaurant stuff"; it's all presented in an industrial-style display "on the 11th floor of a nondescript building", but be ready to fork up since "the best" is "expensive."