Dining & Serveware
Thalis, katoris, serving bowls, trays and chai sets for the Indian dining table, whether it is a weekday dinner or a houseful of guests at Diwali.
Plates & Bowls
Thalis, quarter plates, katoris and deep bowls sized for roti-sabzi lunches, rice and dal dinners…
Serving Trays
Flat and handled trays for carrying tea, sherbet and mithai, from small two-cup trays to wide one…
Serving Dishes
Dongas, casseroles, platters and rice servers that take food from stove to table and keep it look…
Tea & Snack Serveware
Cups, kettles, chai glasses and namkeen bowls for the five o'clock break, for neighbours who drop…
Indian meals are rarely served one plate at a time. Dal, two sabzis, rice, rotis, raita and pickle arrive together, and dining and serveware has to hold that spread without crowding the table.
Plates and bowls are the personal pieces: the thali with its raised rim, the katori for dal and curd, the quarter plate for a snack. Serving dishes are the shared ones placed in the middle, from deep bowls for gravies to flat platters for pulao. Trays do the carrying, from kitchen to drawing room or from one guest to the next.
Tea and snack serveware has its own place in our routine. Evening chai with namkeen, and the plate of mithai handed out when someone visits, call for cups, small plates and kettles that feel a little more special.
Think about how you wash up before you choose dining and serveware. Steel survives any sink and any child, ceramic and melamine look softer but need gentler handling, and polished or plated metal is better saved for occasions.
Mixing materials is perfectly normal; plenty of homes use steel katoris inside a ceramic set. Buy in sixes or twelves if you entertain often.