If the kitchen is the heart of the home the table must be the lung. 

We use the dining table as a meeting place, a workspace, the breakfast bar, the formal dining area, the desk and (at least in our home) the laundry hamper!  Our lives demand durable, workable, functional tableware that can go from the after school snack: to the dishwasher, to the dining table: back to the dishwasher, and out again for that adult dinner party. 

The Essential Ingredient Newcastle stocks a range for every taste and budget. In addition to our own fabulous white ware range  we stock Pillivuyt Porcelain. 

Pillivuyt has been making beautiful quality porcelain since 1818 and is renowned for the tough, elegant oven to table porcelain still used in French restaurants today.  It is on the table at Neil Perry's Rockpool in Sydney as it has contemporary looks and is incredibly durable.