Heritage Culinary Artifacts

This is a great shop of cool obscure vintage items. The cutlery and pots/​pans is worth it alone. It’s just unfortunately out of my price range since I tend to buy these things more for utilitarian purposes. Would I love a mid century Favita espresso maker? Sure, but for $ 300 would I likely make coffee with it? Probably not.

Wonderfully picturesque and eclectic, but more of a show-​space than a selling space. Prices were far too high for the quality of the items, no matter how delightfully arranged they may have been. For example, the Fiesta chop plates they had for sale for $ 165 are not selling priced at $ 35 on eBay. And yes, they’re the same damn plates, I know my Fiesta.
If the owners wants to come redesign my apartment, I would be interested. But when I’m at Oxbow, I daresay I will only be window shopping here.

This boutique is a real delight and certainly a source for gifts to be cherished. The shop is carefully curated by Lisa Minucci, a world class sommelier and collector turned entrepreneur. Lisa’s eye for design, artistry and humor is a rare find. The selection ranges from paintings and sculpture to antique signage and naked lady corkscrews. (in other words, perhaps something for everyone!) It’s located in the Oxbow public market in Downtown Napa and very much worth the trip.

Charming stall. There were many items I’d like to have. Great collection of corkscrews. This months issue of Martha Stewart magazine had a great spread on collecting antique corkscrews and bottle openers. Wish I would have bought the naked lady bottle opener!

Slightly biased here since I know the owner, Lisa Minucci, for many many years. If the name is familiar to wine lovers in the Napa Valley, she’s cut her teeth very well here in the area with her expertise as a world class sommeler and proprietor. She’s taken her own love of food and wine and has parlayed it into this enterprise feature eclectic and nouveau food artifacts from around the world. What she displays in the «stall» within the Oxbow Public Market is more than just «antiques.» (Note to Unilocal: Get a better category here.) It shows how food and the utensils used to serve, display and cook everything edible have developed over time. An excellent stop on your journey through Napa. Despite the closing of Copia, Oxbow is a great stop. Not as touristy as say Boston’s Quincy Market (which as a transplanted New Englander I love), but it doesn’t need to be. It gives a taste of what the Napa Valley offers.