Roman cuisine is a reflection of the city itself — layered, deeply rooted in tradition, and full of contrasts. After years of eating my way through Rome, I’ve found the best meals are shaped as much by history as the hands that prepare them. Family-run trattorias have served the city’s defining dishes for generations: cacio e pepe, carbonara, roasted lamb, and offal-based specialties, many of which trace their origins to Rome’s historic slaughterhouse economy. While these places remain essential, a wave of neo-trattorias constantly reinterprets the classics, and the broader dining scene continues to shift too. The influence of Rome’s immigrant communities and cuisines, from Ethiopian to Venezuelan, is stronger than ever.

The holiday season in Rome starts earlier than you might expect. By early November the streets glow with lights and shops lean into elaborate displays that stay put at least through the Epiphany on January 6. As temperatures drop, menus shift toward comfort dishes built on broth and winter produce. Puntarelle appears everywhere, crisp stalks of bolted chicory shredded and tossed with a punchy anchovy vinaigrette. Market stalls fill with heaps of bitter greens and artichokes, crates of citrus, and romanesco in tight chartreuse spirals.

Eating and drinking well in Rome isn’t just about knowing where to go; it’s about knowing how to navigate the city’s idiosyncratic dining culture. Travelers often book tables months in advance, making last-minute reservations tough. While online booking is becoming more common, many places still rely on the phone, and it’s best to call at the very start or very end of service, when the staff actually has time to pick up. Plan ahead — but leave some room for spontaneity too.

We update this list quarterly to make sure it reflects the ever-changing dining scene in Rome. Our write-ups include insider tips from our experienced writers and editors, as well as a rough range of pricing for each destination — ranging from $ for quick, inexpensive meals with dishes largely under $10 (or the equivalent in euros), to $$$$ for places where entrees exceed $30.

New to the map in November 2025: Near the Circo Massimo, Alessandro Ruver channels his years with Bonci into a tiny workshop turning out some of the city’s most expressive pizza in teglia at Ruver Teglia Frazionata. In Garbatella, Abruzzese chef Franco Franciosi brings the spirit of his mountain homeland to Stecca, shaping a Roman debut that feels both grounded and refreshingly personal. And a short walk from the Pantheon, Moriondo e Gariglio keeps a 19th century chocolate tradition alive with handmade chocolate and meticulous seasonal specialties.

Katie Parla is a Rome-based food and beverage journalist, culinary guide, and New York Times best-selling cookbook author. Her latest cookbook, Rome, is available now.

Growing up, I always envied the kids who built gingerbread houses at home. My family and I rarely baked together in Brooklyn: Like many Asian diaspora families, we stored pots and pans (and our rice cooker!) in the oven. 

When I became a mom, I made sure my son got to experience some holiday magic as defined by American culture. We started with store-bought kits from Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s. But after seeing the incredible from-scratch gingerbread houses made by members of Subtle Asian Baking — the online community I founded in 2020 — I set out to perfect the ultimate recipe for a gingerbread house, one even first-time bakers can master at home. 

What I discovered was that the process was harder than I expected — a true labor of love — but it’s worth every minute and so satisfying to complete. Even with lopsided walls and melty gummies, each house tells a story and holds precious memories. For me, finally building a gingerbread house from scratch created a new tradition for my son and me, as we both found a sense of belonging together as third-culture kids in America. Like our home, the sweetest gingerbread houses are the ones we build side by side. — Kat Lieu

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It’s immediately obvious when you walk in that Tamba is one of Las Vegas’s most ambitious new restaurants. Heavy double doors open to an arresting, high-ceilinged space that evokes a five-star hotel lobby. A DJ spins electro-Indian tunes that pulse out of invisible speakers hidden in the walls. 

Then comes the food: On the warm, rounded tables of thick slab oak, chef Anand Singh — who earned fine dining credentials at Rosewood Las Ventanas in Cabo San Lucas — serves folded raw hamachi slices topped with tiny dabs of curry and a maroon-colored pool of tamarind ponzu that wouldn’t feel out of place at a Nobu. A proper spoon swipe indents a celeriac puree topped with edamame and microgreens next to a portion of banana leaf-roasted Chilean sea bass. The expansive menu features Japanese and Chinese cooking techniques, a raw bar, Hakka-influenced wok dishes, and upscale takes on familiar curry dishes. The kitchen employs a Josper oven in place of a tandoor.

Owner Sunny Dhillon’s parents operated a version of Tamba for over two decades as a casual curry specialist in a bustling strip mall along the southern end of the Las Vegas Strip. The new Tamba, which opened in January 2025, is ambitious and luxurious. It joins a growing slate of upscale, modern Indian spots across the country that have opened over the last decade. But Tamba looks and feels significantly different from those restaurants. 

“We brought elements of the Nevada desert, Rajasthan desert in India, and Kyoto; it’s all there to give you a refined essence of India,” says Dhillon of the dining room. “There are 2,700 Kelvin lights to bring warmth, desert oak and white granite surfaces, and terrazzo floors — but it’s all simple because the food is loud.” Dhillon also took advantage of Vegas’s deep bench of seasoned hospitality veterans, bringing on staff from the Wynn Resort. 

Much of the attention on Indian fine dining has concentrated elsewhere in the country, in New York, Chicago, or Texas. However, restaurateurs like Dhillon have quietly laid the groundwork for a boom in the Southwest over the last few years. In some ways they resemble their counterparts out east, with menus that incorporate pan-regional Indian specialties in upscale, swanky rooms; in others, they adapt to their unique setting, embodying desert themes and occupying strip mall spaces more common on the West Coast.  

“People are loving the food here, and the clients are mostly Indian,” Singh says. While Indian fine dining attracts all sorts of customers, diasporic Indian and South Asian communities are driving much of the trend, often filling dining rooms. Among immigrant groups in the U.S., Indians have some of the highest median household income; they can now use that spending power at restaurants that vie for Michelin and 50 Best Restaurants accolades. 

About 20 percent of Tamba’s audience are locals of Indian descent. But, like many businesses in Vegas, Tamba also depends on tourists. The city welcomed 50,000 visitors from India in 2023, a 70 percent increase over the previous year. “Indians are now in every corporation, and with so many visitors here for conferences,” says Dhillon. “India is much more appealing globally.” 

The team at Tamba aren’t the only ones going after the market. London’s renowned JKS group just opened a new location of two-Michelin-starred Gymkhana in the Aria resort and casino just a few miles north of Tamba (alongside a new location of another of their restaurants, Ambassador’s Clubhouse, in New York).

“We see Vegas as the center of America, since it attracts people from all over the country,” says JKS CEO Pavan Pardasani. “We’re seeing a lot of excitement from Gymkhana fans and are currently booked until the end of January.” The new location evokes the brand’s original design language of elite social clubs, with colonial touches and splashes of grandma-chic, but it’s twice as large as the one in London’s Mayfair.

Elsewhere in the region, California is home to 20 percent of Indian immigrants in the U.S.; while much of that community lives in the Bay Area, over 150,000 live in Southern California, and some Indian restaurants from elsewhere in the country have targeted LA for expansion. Baar Baar, originally from New York, opened in Downtown Los Angeles in 2023, while San Jose import Fitoor arrived in Santa Monica in 2024 (both dwell more in an upper-mid-range price point versus something aspirational).

Down in Dana Point, the Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel resort became a destination for blowout, six-figure, multiday Indian weddings, in part thanks to chef Sanjay Rawat’s extravagant menus. The events proved so successful that the hotel asked Rawat to build out the experience into a full-time restaurant, Kahani, which opened in late 2023, allowing the Mumbai-trained chef to display his work on a more regular basis. Colorful Indian artwork now shrouds the remnants of the steakhouse that used to inhabit the space. 

The menu melds a seasonal California approach with familiar pan-Indian classics: Ahi tuna-studded bhel puri and spiced burrata with cherry tomatoes and strawberries work as lighter starters, while Chennai sea bass comes atop rounds of roasted delicata squash and a bean ragu.  

Most nights, the dining room is filled with Orange County South Asians celebrating special occasions, some venturing from as far as Los Angeles or San Diego. Rawat says only 20 percent of diners are hotel guests. The chef also says regulars like to bring family or friends visiting from India or other U.S. states, showing Kahani off as a standard-bearing Indian restaurant. 

Meanwhile, over in the Phoenix area, the Indian community is much smaller; even so, Jonathan Rodrigues, managing partner of Indibar, which opened in April 2025 in Scottsdale, convinced executive chef Nigel Lobo to bring his talents to Arizona with the aim of building an entire restaurant group, starting first with upscale Indian food. The two grew up together in Dubai and Lobo circulated through top Michelin kitchens in Europe before the duo arrived in Scottsdale. To complement his own talents, the chef brought on tandoor specialist Ajay Negi, who has over 20 years of experience cooking Indian cuisine in Dubai, India, and the Maldives. 

“There are a couple of other restaurants that have tried to do what we do, but I think there was still a gap that needed to be filled. No other places can do what we do with the attention to detail and two world-class chefs,” Lobo says. “We have so many different programs here, from dessert to tandoor to bread that we all make in-house, that it’s like having an entire culinary school here.”

Drawing from every possible regional Indian style, Indibar goes for a “greatest hits” menu. A sampler of tandoor-seared proteins includes a head-on tiger prawn, chicken touched with Afghan murgh spices, mint-covered lamb chop, and yuzu-tinged salmon, which all stride across the plate like the four Beatles across Abbey Road. Dots of beet chutney and curled garnishes look like they took 10 minutes to arrange.

Like Tamba, the restaurant evokes the desert; the interior design employs tasteful earth tones and jewelry-box lighting that glimmers like the sun setting over Arizona’s cactus-laden Sonoran Desert. Bartenders shake cocktails over a prominent counter, illuminated like a beauty boutique, against the far wall; a tiny window peeks into the kitchen, providing glimpses of the cooks inside. It’s ritzy enough to truly impress in a town like Scottsdale, which has the flash of Mastro’s, Maple & Ash, and Ocean 44 — big, brash steakhouses that tend to get the lion’s share of the area’s wealthy diners. 

You wouldn’t know that from the outside. Indibar hides in a corner spot in a strip mall between a consignment store and a skincare studio; a Fogo de Chão stands out more prominently to passersby. Lobo and Rodrigues are betting that they can make the restaurant a destination unto itself for diners in Scottsdale and across Phoenix.

Indibar isn’t the only Indian diamond in the rough. Tamba is situated in a near-suburban outdoor mall located on a highly trafficked highway intersection about 15 minutes from Vegas’s most affluent neighborhoods.  In the mostly quiet city of Hawaiian Gardens, just on the edge of Los Angeles and Orange counties, Shor Bazaar is in a similar situation.

The latter restaurant opened in February 2024 in a strip mall slot, wedged next to a Bank of America ATM that sits almost too close to the restaurant’s front doors. But walk inside to find an energetic room with strong blood orange and teal-painted walls, frosted windows that make it feel like golden hour in Lahore, and black-and-white photos of street food scenes from Pakistan and India. Founder and chef Imran “Ali” Mookhi, who also opened the Michelin-recognized Khan Saab Desi Craft Kitchen in Fullerton, might not have had the same budget for decor as Indibar and Tamba, but there’s a sumptuous feeling to the space. 

Mookhi takes a similar approach to nearby Pakistani restaurants like Zam Zam in Hawthorne or Al-Noor in Lawndale, which serve pan-regional Indian dishes punctuated with their own regional specialties. The halal menu at Shor Bazaar doesn’t pull any punches with regards to finesse, and it feels like a level up from Moohki’s experience at restaurants like the Michelin Bib Gourmand Tumbi in Santa Monica and the now-closed Tantra in Silver Lake. 

“There’s halal food out there, but nothing was trendy. Just a place you go [for a casual meal],” says Mookhi, who offers something completely different than any other restaurant in the area.

A shatteringly crisp dosa arrives redolent with ghee and fillings of masala potato and beef keema. Afghan mantu are mounted on an elevated ceramic plate resembling a cloud, just five dumplings to an order but delectable and precise. Tandoor-grilled beef sirloin arrives with a puff of smoke released from a glass enclosure at the table. Peshawari-style chicken karahi is loaded with enough spices, garlic, ginger, and minced chiles to make one forget about butter chicken. 

For dessert, airy foam daulat ki chaat with dried rose and crumbled pistachio doubles down on the whole “crazy rich” vibe with edible gold and a printed edible rice cracker in the form of a $100 bill. Ostentatiousness is part of the point.

“We keep our menu short and simple rather than having a bible menu like at ordinary desi restaurants.” Mookhi says. “Our focus was on how to make the food appealing; that’s why we incorporated flavors from Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan.” 

Like Indian restaurants in other markets, Shor Bazaar has to balance market demands with personal goals. Over at Tamba, Dhillon says the kitchen adapted food to be “non-abrasive and non-spicy so that everyone can be a client,” reflecting ongoing stigmas against Indian cuisine. At the same time, Singh says, the Tamba team is “already thinking about taking butter chicken off because we want to live up to a higher standard,” reflecting the backlash percolating against the popular dish among some chefs. 

These restaurateurs and chefs are part of a broader conversation about cuisine, class, and authenticity that continues to play out across the country. It’s too early to say how far ambitions will reach in the Southwest, but these restaurants have cemented Indian cuisine as a nationwide standard for fine dining. 
“It’s good to see people are taking initiative with doing Indian and Pakistani food and putting it into bigger scenes,” says Mookhi. “It’s finally time to step up and be proud of our own food and culture.”

An octopus tostada in Austin. A fried-to-order churro in LA. A plate of Bengali wedding chicken in Raleigh, North Carolina. These are just a few of the flavors that struck a chord with Eater editors in cities across the United States in 2025. The breadth and depth of this year’s Eater Award winners speaks not only to the individual talent found in these regions, but also to the trends and cuisines driving the hospitality industry forward. But what really makes these awards special is how they speak to the community; they’re designed for locals and written by the locals who spend all year reporting and keeping track of the food and drink stories that matter most to their cities.

Among those spots that can expect a custom-wrapped tomato can to arrive on their doorstep any day now: A blockbuster tavern-style pizzeria hailing a new era of Chicago slice conversations, a destination-worthy Seattle focaccia sandwich purveyor, and a bartender making the case for a celebratory sober culture in the Bay Area. Southern California restaurant Betsy, endured despite the surrounding destruction of the LA wildfires in January. Still more have reinvented themselves at new addresses and managed to not only recapture but captivate their clientele. From the Atlantic to the Pacific and into Central Texas, there are creative and resilient people making the case for folks to keep going out to eat. Join Eater’s editors in spotlighting those restaurants, bars, and cafes that really made this year one to remember.

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Special thanks to Nat Belkov, Terri Ciccone, Jess Mayhugh, Patty Diez, and the rest of the Eater team.

A holiday cookie swap is all about accessible abundance: For the price of entry (i.e., an afternoon spent baking one type of cookie to share), guests leave with full cookie tins erupting with biscuits, wafers, and bars, an assortment of treats displaying different colors, flavors, and provenances. It’s that promise of variety — and the suspense of what else you’ll find at the treat table — that makes a cookie-swap invitation so exciting. 

And for the party host, a cookie swap provides an easy-to-achieve framework for what’s essentially a dessert-only potluck. Let the guests bring their cookies and focus mostly on savory appetizers and snacks to counterbalance all that sugar — then roll out the butcher paper, put on the pot of coffee, and let the swapping begin.

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We like to think of Cyber Monday as the more tech-savvy sibling of Black Friday; it’s the swan song opportunity to find the last big, juicy deals. If you were too hung over from Uncle Kevin’s hot buttered rum to hit the Black Friday sale circuit, fear not — many of the deals today are even better.

Over at Walmart, certainly one of the undisputed retailer kings of BFCM deals, we’re seeing major discounts on countertop appliances (we’ve been clamoring for an ice maker…) and holiday presents that give the gift of mixing big batches of cookie dough, effortlessly whipping up homemade ice cream, and slicing vegetables for you so your meal prep is a breeze. 

Scoop the final dredges of pumpkin pie out of the tin, memorize your credit card’s expiration date once and for all, and tuck into some of our favorite Cyber Monday kitchen deals from Walmart. Whether you’re shopping for yourself or someone you love, these are the best big-savings buys for passionate home cooks that are actually worth adding-to-cart.  

This classic KitchenAid stand mixer is $160 off

The Platonic ideal of stand mixers is on sale this Cyber Monday in KitchenAid’s iconic Empire Red colorway, and at a 5-quart capacity it can handle plenty of cookie dough.

KitchenAid Artisan Series Tilt-Head Stand Mixer (5-Quart)

Where to Buy:

• $499.99 $339.99 at Walmart

Give the gift of making ice cream at home any time with the TikTok-viral Ninja Creami

Eater staffers have tested Ninja’s ice cream makers before, and the iconic Creami does not disappoint when it comes to making endless varieties of scoopable ice cream worthy of its namesake. This extra-large model comes with two 24-ounce pints and all kinds of bells and whistles; the mix-in feature is ideal for adding in chocolate, nuts, Swedish fish, and whatever other clever toppings you desire.

Ninja CREAMi Deluxe 11-in-1 XL Ice Cream Maker

Where to Buy:

• $249.99 $199.99 at Walmart

This sleek santoku knife is under $25 

A santoku knife for less than the cost of brunch? Quite the stocking stuffer. This Japanese blade comes with huge savings — it’s more than half off.

Hecef Japanese Santoku Knife (7-inch)

Where to Buy:

• $54.99 $22.99 at Walmart

Save $250 on this powerful ice maker

Ah, to live with the luxury of having nugget-size ice on demand. This powerful GE Opal ice maker is a whopping $250 off for Cyber Monday, and it’s designed to keep up to a pound of ice continuously fresh by automatically cycling any melted ice back through its reservoir.

GE Profile Opal Nugget Ice Maker

Where to Buy:

• $548 $298 at Walmart

Breville’s countertop flex espresso machine is on sale

Iced coffee? In this economy? Breville’s countertop espresso machine is definitely an investment appliance, but one that will pay off for years to come once you start making trendy-cafe-level lattes from home.

Breville BES8 Series Infuser Espresso Machine

Where to Buy:

• $569.99 $529.99 at Walmart

The iconic Zojirushi rice cooker is $64 off 

The final boss of rice cookies is undoubtedly the Zojirushi, which is beloved for its non-fussy approach to cooking large quantities of fluffy, perfectly cooked rice to precision, every time. Beloved by home cooks, it’s a must-have if you eat a lot of rice.

Zojirushi NS-TSC18XJ Micom Rice Cooker (10 Cup)

Where to Buy:

• $278.08 $213.95 at Walmart

Check out even more Eater coverage of Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals here.

Alright, friends — we made it through the gauntlet of cooking green bean casserole in Mom’s chaotic kitchen, enduring Thanksgiving dinner when seated next to Uncle Bert, and surviving the shopathon hysteria of Black Friday, meaning that it’s time to wake up, log on, and smell the coffee Cyber Monday deals. This is the final countdown for Extreme Serious Big Time Holiday Shopping Deals of 2025 — and in many cases, today is the day that you’ll actually get the biggest discounts. Many of the best kitchen, lifestyle, and home goods brands make one more slash today on prices — meaning this is truly when the iron is hot for scooping cookware you’ll own forever, appliances that will upgrade your morning routine, chic food-world staples (we guarantee that buying caviar today is smart), and giftable treasures with real staying power. Yearning for a beautiful hand-dyed linen tablecloth? How about a countertop ice cream maker? An immersion blender? Tinned trout? Today, they’re all very likely at their lowest prices of the year. We did the scrolling (and curating) so you can snag the Cyber Monday sales that actually deserve a place in your kitchen or under someone’s tree.

Cyber Monday Sales to Shop:

• All-Clad: Black Friday savings are still live site-wide for Cyber Monday.
• Amazon: Amazon has lots of savings on small kitchen appliances, home and grocery items, and more.
• Areaware: Save 30% off site-wide.
• Ban.do: Take 35% off most items with code ITSHERE.
• Boy Smells: 30% off almost everything for Cyber Monday.
• Bloomingdale’s: Take 25% off on select items.
• Caraway: Up to 48% off site-wide at Caraway.
• Cosori: The Black Friday sale is still live at Cosori through Cyber Monday.
• Crate & Barrel: Save up to 50% on Cyber Monday deals at Crate & Barrel.
• Goldbelly: 20% off site-wide with code BITEWIDE20.
• Le Creuset: Shop the Le Creuset Colorful Monday sale.
• Fellow: Save 25% on Fellow’s products for coffee-lovers.
• Fishwife: Save 20% off almost everything.
• Flamingo Estate: Save up to 20% off at Flamingo Estate. Members get 25% off.
• Fly By Jing: Save up to 50% off during the Cyber Monday sale.
• Food52: 50% off Dansk & up to 30% off everything else at Food52.
• Goodee: Save up to 65% off select items.
• Great Jones: Save up to 50% off.
• Haand: Save up to 20% off select items.
• Heraclea: Save 25% off sitewide at Heraclea.
• Heritage Steel: Select sales site-wide, including the Eater x Heritage Steel line.
• Home Depot: Cyber Monday deals are live.
• KitchenAid: Save up to 30% on countertop appliances.
• Lowe’s: The Cyber Monday sale is live.
• Macy’s: Up to 70% off Cyber Monday deals.
• Maison Balzac: Save 20% off site-wide.
• Material: Save up to 35% off at Material.
• MìLà: Save 30% off site-wide.
• Misen: Save up to 25% off at Misen site-wide with the code MISENSEASON.
• Nguyen Coffee Supply: Save 15% off orders under $75, 20% off orders over $75 and free shipping, and 25% off orders over $120 at Nguyen Coffee Supply.
• Nordstrom: Save up to 60% off selected home items.
• Ooni: Save 20% off almost everything.
• Our Place: Cyber Monday deals are live.
• Rocco: Save $400 on Rocco’s luxury wine fridge. The first 100 orders also receive free shipping.
• Samsung: Save on home appliance and smart home offers for Cyber Monday.
• Sears: Save up to 50% off small appliances and 30% off select appliances like refrigerators.
• Solo Stove: Save up to 20% off select items for Cyber Monday.
• Sur La Table: Save up to 50% off.
• Target: Deals are live on the for Cyber Monday.
• Trade: Save 25% on gift subscriptions at Trade.
• Urban Outfitters: Save up to 40% off site-wide, including home items.
• Walmart: Cyber Monday deals are live.
• Wayfair: Save up to 60% off cookware and bakeware, plus 50% off small appliances.
• West Elm: Cyber Monday deals are live.
• Williams Sonoma: Save up to 55% off select items, plus an additional 20% off clearance items.
• Zwilling: Save up to 59% on dutch ovens, chef’s knives, and more.

Eater’s On-Sale Cyber Monday Picks

Breville Convection Oven

Where to Buy:

• $399.95 $299.95 at Amazon

Instant Pot 6-in-1 Pizza and Toaster Oven

Instant Pot 6-in-1 Pizza and Toaster Oven CM 2025

Where to Buy:

• $166.66 $84 at Amazon

Ninja CREAMi Scoop & Swirl Ice Cream and Soft Serve Maker

Ninja CREAMi Scoop & Swirl Ice Cream and Soft Serve Maker BFCM 2025

Where to Buy:

• $349.99 $279.99 at Amazon

Eater x Heritage Steel 12” Fry Pan

Where to Buy:

• $129.95 $99.95 at Heritage Steel
• $129.95 $99.95 at Amazon

White Vetiver Liquid Soap

Take 25% off with code HOLIDAYGLOW25

Where to Buy:

• $20 $15 at APOTHEKE

Wishbone Chair

Where to Buy:

• Check price at 305

GIR: Get It Right 5-Piece Silicone Essentials Kitchen Utensils Set

Where to Buy:

• $24.99 $20.99 at Amazon

KitchenAid Artisan Mini 3.5 Quart Tilt-Head Stand Mixer

Where to Buy:

• $449.99 $299.95 at Amazon

Heirloom Tomato Hand Soap

Heirloom Tomato Hand Soap BFCM 2025

Where to Buy:

• $50 $40 at Flamingo Estate

Breville Barista Express Impress Espresso Machine

Where to Buy:

• $799.95 $649.95 at Amazon
• $799.95 $649.95 at Williams Sonoma

Nextmug Temperature-Controlled, Self-Heating Coffee Mug

Ina’s Coconut Cake

Use code BITEWIDE20

Where to Buy:

• $99.95 $79.96 at Ina’s Coconut Cake

Eater x Heritage Steel 8-Piece Core Set

Where to Buy:

• $810 $649.95 at Heritage Steel

Vitamix Propel Series 510 Blender

Where to Buy:

• $499.95 $299.95 at Amazon

iRobot Roomba Plus

Where to Buy:

• $565.49 $329.99 at Amazon

Milk Frother Wand

Where to Buy:

• $17.99 $9.99 at Amazon

All-Clad Immersion Blender

Where to Buy:

• $149.95 $119.95 at Williams Sonoma

STANLEY Quencher H2.0 Tumbler

Where to Buy:

• $45 $27 at Amazon

The inescapable, highly anticipated Black Friday digital bazaar is underway, meaning that it’s prime time for scoring genuinely excellent discounts on small kitchen appliances. This year’s standout deals include markdowns on workhorse favorites — the Vitamix Propel blender, Breville’s Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro (an Eater editor fave), the Ninja Flip toaster/air fryer, and the endlessly hyped Ninja Creami ice cream maker, and many more — plus discounts on coveted coffee equipment like Moccamaster brewers and high-quality espresso grinders. We’ve rounded up the fancy, space-efficient appliances on sale for Black Friday that are actually worth your money, whether you’re upgrading your own kitchen or gifting someone else a daily dose of joy.

Coffee Deals

Technivorm Moccamaster 10-Cup Coffee Maker, Juniper

Where to Buy:

• $359 $179.5 at Amazon

Electric One-Touch Automatic Burr Coffee Grinder

Where to Buy:

• $74.95 $38.89 at Amazon

Nespresso Vertuo Pop+ Coffee and Espresso Machine by De’Longhi

Where to Buy:

• $129 $89 at Amazon

Technivorm Moccamaster Coffee Machine (10-Cup)

Where to Buy:

• $369 $240 at Amazon

Fellow Ode Brew Grinder

Where to Buy:

• $399.95 $319.95 at Amazon

Air Fryer Deals

Breville Convection Oven

Where to Buy:

• $399.95 $299.95 at Amazon

Our Place Wonder Oven

Where to Buy:

• $185 $155 at Our Place

Ninja Flip Toaster Oven & Air Fryer

Where to Buy:

• $249.99 $149.95 at Amazon

Ice Cream Makers

Ninja CREAMi Ice Cream Maker

Where to Buy:

• $229.99 $169 at Amazon
• $229.99 $179.99 at Ninja

Ninja Swirl by CREAMi

Where to Buy:

• $349.99 $297.49 at Amazon
• $349.99 $297.99 at Crate & Barrel

Ninja Creami Ice Cream Maker Bundle With 2 Pint Containers

Where to Buy:

• $254.98 $199.99 at Amazon

Rice Cookers

Toshiba Mini Rice Cooker

Where to Buy:

• $89.99 $76.49 at Amazon

Zojirushi 5.5-Cup Rice Cooker

Where to Buy:

• $226.58 $192.49 at Amazon

Stand Mixers

KitchenAid Artisan Stand Mixer, 5-qt

Not sure which stand mixer is right for you? Check out our guide on how to choose a KitchenAid mixer.

Where to Buy:

• $499.95 $349.95 at Crate&Barrel
• $499.95 $349.95 at Amazon
• $499.95 $349.95 at Williams Sonoma

SMEG 5 at Stand Mixer

SMEG 5 at Stand Mixer SMF03, 5-qt BFCM 2025

Where to Buy:

• $599.95 $399.95 at Williams Sonoma

Blenders

Vitamix Propel Series 510 Blender

Where to Buy:

• $499.95 $299.95 at Amazon

Breville Fresh & Furious Blender

Where to Buy:

• $199.95 $149.95 at Williams Sonoma

Cleaning Accessories

Bissell Little Green Mini Portable Carpet and Upholstery Deep Cleaner

Where to Buy:

• $94.99 $74.99 at Amazon

Novete Portable Countertop Dishwasher

Where to Buy:

• $339 $273.74 at Amazon

Dyson V11 Origin Cordless Vacuum

Where to Buy:

• $629.99 $399.99 at Amazon

Even More Appliances on Sale

Rocco Super Smart Fridge

Where to Buy:

• $1995 $1595 at Rocco