Sur La Table to open first Mississippi location. See where and when
Kitchen and culinary retailer Sur La Table will open its first location of 2024 in Mississippi at Highland Village in Jackson.
The upscale kitchenware company will be next to Aplos Simple Mediterranean.
Known for its selection of premium-quality goods for the kitchen and dining room, Sur La Table also offers cooking classes, in-store events and demonstrations. Class themes include French heritage macarons, Parisian restaurant favorites, breakfast baking, delicious Dim Sum, summer Thai kitchen and pasta from scratch. Also available are cooking lessons catered specifically to children and teens.
Highland Village is owned by WS Development and company officials are happy to welcome the latest outlet to the shopping development.
“We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Sur La Table and their culinary expertise to Highland Village,” said Alexandra Clark, WS Development's senior vice president, asset strategy and experience . “We are always looking for new ways to provide fresh experiences for our guests, and we are confident that our community will love Sur La Table’s interactive cooking classes as well as their top-of-the-line kitchenware.”
Since debuting its first shop at Seattle’s famous Pike Place Market in 1972, Sur La Table has become an experiential destination. The retailer specializes in sales of quality cookware and tabletop entertaining products, while offering a robust cooking-class program tailored to adults as well offerings for younger cooks. It will host frequent in-store events and demonstrations.
The retailer struggled at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July 2020 and closed nearly half of its stores across the U.S.
According to industry reporting, three years after a joint venture of Marquee Brands and CSC Generation bought Sur La Table for nearly $90 million, the culinary retailer has continued its resurgence.
Now, Sur La Table operates about 60 store locations in 22 states.
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“We couldn’t think of a better home to begin sharing our love for all things culinary within our first Mississippi location,” Sur La Table CEO Jordan Voloshin said in a statement. “Bringing our culinary expertise to Highland Village, we’re able to join a rich history in Jackson within a community featuring some of the nation’s top retailers as well as a thriving network of local shops and restaurants. We are so excited to join this community and can’t wait to collaborate with the surrounding businesses to guide the people of Jackson in their cooking journey.”
It is expected to open in April.
Ross Reily can be reached by email at rreily@gannett.com or 601-573-2952. You can follow him on the X platform, formerly known as Twitter @GreenOkra1.
This article originally appeared on Mississippi Clarion Ledger: Sur La Table to open first MS location in Highland Village in Jackson
