Mikasa Italian Countryside 16-Piece Dinnerware Set, Service for 4

I love them… only one little problem

I loved my Italian Countryside set when it arrived, the neutral color without being totally plain was exactly what I wanted, having gotten tired of blue stoneware that clashed dreadfully at the holidays. I unpacked them and washed them and got ready to put them away… and HELLO… the dinner plate won’t fit in my older style 12″ upper cabinet!! I was standing in the kitchen ready to cry because I thought I was going to have to send them back until my handy husband was able to rout out the back of the cabinet door enough to let them fit. The plates stick out just far enough that the door wasn’t closing, so measure your cupboards before ordering. Other than that I like the set very much. A few small flaws in the glaze on the back of the dinner and salad plates but none on the upper surface. I also love having so many other pieces available in the pattern. I am also quite happy that my very hard on the dinnerware husband has not broken or chipped a single dish yet. That is testament to…

Beautiful but need better packing…

I love the dishes and posted a positive review on the 45-piece set. With this particular item I ordered two sets. The sets were shipped separately and oddly the top salad plate in EACH BOX was broken. Seems like Mikasa needs to re-think the packing for this configuration. (Amazon’s outside packaging was good with those air-bubble spacers in the box.)

I will add one comment about the size of these dishes. Both the plates and the cereal bowls are OVERSIZED. I was really surprised at the size of the cereal/salad bowls.

We like the dishes

We are very pleased with our purchase, we were able to get them much cheeper through amazon than anywhere else. It pays to shop around! as some items that amazon had were more or the same as in the department stoeres.

We purchased these dishes for their durability.

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