JB Prince Company

What a delightful place! I needed to buy little canisters to redistribute pepper I brought back as souvenirs from abroad and they had them in the most perfect little sizes. This place must be a chef’s paradise!

OMG! I used to come here All. The. Time. back in the early 2000’s to get my cooking and baking supplies.
Bought the best 12 inch sautee pan that I have ever owned here and it didn’t cost an arm and a leg. Wonderful service. Wonderful products.
Bought an off-​set icing spatula here that I still own and use to this day — it’s gotta be 15 years old and looks brand-​new.
I miss you JB Prince!!!

I am a line cook and always come here for any and all of my kitchen needs. The prices are reasonable and they have a wide selection of products to choose from. Most chefs will recommend JB Prince to their line cooks.

This place is the heaven for home cooks, professional chefs and restaurant owners. This place has almost everything you need for a kitchen, from tweezers to big cooking equipment’s. The staffs are super nice and friendly but also super knowledgeable in what they are selling in jb prince. The prices are fair but if you want high quality materials and equipment’s it can be very expensive.
overall this place is one of the best culinary supplies store in New York City. Will be back soon if i need anything.

Are you a chef? If so, then you don’t need this review, since you already know that JB Prince is the place to go for all your cooking needs. But if you’re an aspirational home cook, or a visitor, perhaps you do not know about it. As a NYC-​born chef now living in NZ I found about JB Prince on a NYC visit a few years ago and have made it a stop on every subsequent visit. If you are looking for anything at all that is used in a kitchen you will find it here, and at a very reasonable price, too. And the staff are very friendly and helpful, too. They have an interesting range of cookbooks, too, all sold below the list price. Definitely a must-​see.
I am not sure how to rate their price range, though, since they have reasonable prices, as mentioned above, but a lot of their stuff is high-​end and so not actually «cheap».

I almost fainted going into this store. This is the mecca of culinary equipment.
Not only did they have everything tool wise, but they have some of the best cookbooks in the game.
Experience with the workers were awesome.
They gave me time to browese, then asked if I needed help. Walked around a bit more, asked for help, and they were so attentive, they helped right away.
Bought two tweezers, this time around, and the price waz fair.
They dont over chsrge, they just carry high quality tools.
Def going back!

One sunny afternoon, I felt the sudden urge of wanting to grill Octopus. I had the octopus in my fridge and the spices to make the marinade but no grill. So onto the magical world of online shopping. First, I went on Amazon and Bed, Bath and Beyond — but I didn’t find anything I liked. So i decided to Unilocal kitchen supplies and came across JB Prince. :)
They have all sorts of kitchen supplies, I can’t say the place has everything, coz unfortunately, they don’t have cast iron griddles, but they have enough to keep someone busy! Prices can’t be beat, as they range from pocket friendly to «for the ballin’ only.»
The only downside to this wonderful store is that they’re only open till 5pm on weekdays and closed on weekends — but don’t fret, you can always order online. :)

I’ve come here a handful of times. Always had a great experience. I’ve found some great deals. The service is excellent. Granted sometimes you’ll find better pricing online or maybe even another shop but this place is certainly worth checking out.

The only saving grace of the skyscraper-​heavy landscape that is midtown is little joints like JB Prince tucked away on non-​ground floors. A well-​laid out space with an excellent selection and friendly staff.

It’s like being in a candy shop, staff is helpful and you always leave with something even if stopping by with a friend

Amazing little spot for all your cooking needs. From books to knives to knife accessories, to baking needs, they got it all. The place isn’t that big, so you can pretty much see everything. It is very well organized. The staffs are extremely friendly and helpful. They will be more than happy to recommend places to you if they don’t have the things that you are looking for.
Love this place.

Best spot to go for chefs. Being in the physical just makes you want to buy. As some other reviewers have mentioned it is a smaller room but it is is packed full of goods. Even tho you could get some things cheaper online or in other stores the knowledgeable staff and organization pull your wallet out. Many things a reasonably priced and a lot of tools and small wares you couldn’t get from the Chinatown kitchen stores. A must visit for chefs, culinary students and home cooks alike.

Great source for hard to find cooking tools. I went there on a very hot day in late June and one of the employees immediately offered me a bottle of cold water and asked if I needed any help. The store isn’t large, but they have all kinds of high quality cooking tools, pans, knives, molds, serving dishes, etc. I was able to find a chocolate mold I’ve been looking for, as well as some tasting dishes, a ring and pyramid mold, and an oval server. The staff are very friendly and helpful.
It is in an odd location with no signs except their name on the elevator directory. Walk down E. 31^st street and look for the double glass doors with the number 36 on top. It’s right next door to the Athena Spa. Take the elevator to the 11^th floor and you’re there. Well worth a visit.

We moved from California to New York last week and had all of our things shipped with a moving/​shipping company. Unfortunately, not all of our things made it. A few boxes got «lost» and of course, my toolbox of my professional Chef tools was in one of them. With a trail/​interview the next day and an urgent need to replace all of my tools, JB Prince came to the rescue!
I found everything I was looking for here, from knives to whisks, thermometers to microplanes, peelers to spatulas. Besides anything a professional chef might need, the home cook could definitely find some things to make at-​home cooking much easier, and even much more fun.
Sure, you can get these things online for cheaper, but I was under time restraint, and from researching other stores, JB Prince seemed to have the best prices. My Wustof knives were decently priced. When I worked in California, we ordered chocolate molds from them, and they had a nice variety in-​store as well.
This store makes any foodie, chef or passionate home-​cook feel like a kid in a candy store! Oh and when entering the building, you need to take the elevator up to the 11^th Floor.

I been waited to go here ever since I hear of this place from my old chef. It a culinary store that have everything that u would want to enhance your cooking from cooking tools to pots and everything in the middle. First of all, I order a global paring knife last week and the prices wasn’t bad at all. Then this week, I want inside the store to see it for myself and got a few things for my work. The place was on the 11^th floor of a building and i was picturing something big but this place was quite small. Yes they have cool things but I was somewhat surprise that it isn’t more things. Anyway this place is cool if i was cool by but no way I would make a effort to go here again. I know alot of cooks and chef goes here but I rather goes to Korin for my knife and go to chinese town for the rest of the things.

Only in New York: enter a nondescript midtown office building, take the elevator up to the 11^th floor, and behold JB Prince. You might not need anything as specific as some of their items, if you’re not a professional cook; on the other hand, you might not realize you needed it until you visited JB Prince.
Besides the ChefWear and knife rolls that only someone in the business would really have much use for, they’ve got a ton of pastry/​baking stuff (who doesn’t want Silpat, chocolate molds, every size of ice cream/​dough scoops under the sun?), knives (you know you want a chef’s knife, even if you’re not a chef) and the gamut of kitchen necessities and frivolities (peelers, chinoises, whisks, zesters, spoons, steamers, oyster forks, and so on).
Plus this place is worth a visit just for the vestibule outside the elevator, the walls of which are papered with hundreds (thousands?) of business cards from area restaurants.
If you go real soon, you can win a $ 100 gift certificate if you can guess how many small chocolate eggs are in the giant plastic egg mold. There must be hundreds (thousands?)

This will now be the place where I want to spend all of my money. I have to say that there prices seem pretty competitive to where I usually do all my online shopping.
I’m not a pro chef, but am an extremely interested home chef. I keep trying to figure out ways to justify needing a knife roll, but just can’t quite seem to think of one.
I’ve got to say that the staff is so helpful that I didn’t believe I was actually shopping in a store. Also its worth pointing out that this store is located inside an office building on the 11^th floor so it might be a little difficult to find w/​o that knowledge. I was pacing back and forth on the street scratching my head for a second…

You can find some similar, maybe exactly the same implements elsewhere for a lot cheaper, but I think you’d be hard pressed to find so many cooking tools in one place/​website. In a few cases you can only get items from JB Prince. I probably won’t ever need a Grant Achatz designed bacon hanger but if I did, it’s a JBP exclusive. For cooking toys that you just can’t find locally, JB Prince probably has what you want.

There should be a sign on the door to Jb Prince that says: «Turn your Head and Cough Upon Entering,» because you can leave there feeling a bit… shall we say, wobbly.
Great selection. Hell, amazing selection. But at prices that would make Malfunctioning Eddie’s head explode.
$ 30 bucks for a spring-​loaded 1-​ounce ice cream scoop?
$ 90 bucks for a Jose Andres picture boo – , er, cookbook?
$ 65 bucks for an 18-​pocket knife bag?
If you’ve got the money, hell, go there and spend it. But for my money, I’d rather shop around.
Dude…

JB Prince is the «king of kitchen toy stores» for professional chefs. Imagine a kitchen version of Brad Pitt’s and Angelina Jolie’s hidden weapons room in Mr and Mrs Smith.
Every imaginable kitchen tool can be found here. More importantly, JB Prince carries top of the line brands: Misono Knives, Japanese Mandolines, Silpats, Robot Coupe Hand blenders, Commercial Induction Stoves, Thermal Circulators, Digital Sous-​Vide Thermometers, Gray Kunz Kitchen Spoons, and Cuisinart Spice Grinders.
Basically, you can supply your home kitchen with enough firepower and gadgetery to serve a full scale restaurant. If you purchase enough stuff here, then the cost will approach that of opening a tiny restaurant! The bill can easily reach $ 500 or more.
JB Prince is not visible by street. It is located on the 11^th floor of an office building. That’s partially what’s very cool about this gem. It’s only well-​known within the industry.
I highly recommend you buy a $ 200 Misono Chef Slicer/​Knife here. Buy a ceramic wet stone for keeping your knives sharp. It’s the best investment a budding young cook can make!