Like a well-tied scarf, a pair of adventurous pants, or a beautifully worn-in leather couch, the best dinnerware sets have the power to telegraph your taste to anyone lucky enough to see them.
Sure, any old thing can serve as a functional vessel for holding roast chicken/avocado toast/Frosted Flakes, but the best dinnerware sets do a lot more. Is the color not offensive to my eyes? Yes. Perhaps that’s why dinnerware sets tend not to elicit the kind of deep-dive, dark-corners-of-the-internet, sub-sub-Reddit research the way beds and vacuums do.
Sure, plates matter-you can’t eat cacio e pepe over the sink-but they aren’t as crucial to everyday life as your mattress. In the search for essential home furnishings, the quest for the best dinnerware sets falls somewhere in between a couch and a Spiralizer.
