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HANDMADE IN LONDON

From our kiln to your table.

Durable, beautiful and timeless, our plates are functional works of art used for every meal in the busiest restaurants or on your own table at home daily!

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We offer nine different glaze & clay combinations.

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DESIGNED & HANDCRAFTED IN OUR POTTERY STUDIO

All of our dinnerware is handmade by a small team of potters in our studio in London. We design, create, fire and pack everything here and every piece has been touched many times before it reaches your restaurant or your home.

Starting from raw clay we use our hands, patience, experience and knowledge to create dinnerware that is beautiful, durable and will last in time.

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COUPE

Soft curve and rounded with a stylish simplicity. Plates and bowls that stack beautifully. A perfect way to showcase you delicious creations

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SQUARE SIDED

A minimal industrial style that is exceptionally elegant and stylish. Featuring flat plates with a lip or a vertical wall, this collection is ideal for plating.

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SOMETHING FOR EVERY SPACE

Are you a chef or opening a restaurant?

We’d love to help! Explore our fantastic variety of shapes, glazes, and customizations.

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We began crafting plates as functional products, and now Sofia Ceramics proudly supplies numerous restaurants and hotels worldwide. The challenges and needs of bustling kitchens have greatly influenced our design process. We’ve collaborated with award-winning restaurants, chefs, and hotels to create custom plates or provide items from our existing collection.

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Trimming. Essentially removing extra clay to get to the desired shape or form. We have been doing a lot of trimming lately and not only on pots and plates as a business in the UK we have also been hit with increased expenses since April and we need to trim costs.
Over the past few years we have kept our prices pretty much the same and the way we achieved that is by working hard and changing our production way to become more efficient. That has helped us stay afloat and brought in new customers that in turn brought more new customers. We have managed to have great lead times for small and large projects varying from 2 to 6 weeks and we are able to produce thousands of new bespoke plates monthly and still we are not some big rich corporation though it feels that the government might see it that way.
We don’t have a big following and very few people will read this but if you are one of them, first of all thank you, secondly we will be making some changes on our website and our hospitality catalogue to reflect the increases in materials, labour, business rates and utilities. Not something we really want to do but something we have to.
To leave it with a positive note we will very soon start having stock ready to ship from our online shop and will also be available during our open days. So we will be cutting our waiting time and shifting to in/out of stock way of doing sales on our website. Finally a new collection will be introduced and new colours!
Thank you all that read this and thank you to the ones that just saw the nice photo and scrolled by.

Tuba or trumpet bowls. We call them Dutch bowls for some reason. They got many names and come in many colours and clays.

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We couldn’t resist reposting this photo from @ottolenghi_geneva. Our little Koko bowl looks so beautiful!

Open Studio Sale Sunday 4th of May from 11am to 4pm. Our studio will be open for a sale of discounted seconds and restaurant overstock this May. Both home cooks and chefs will have the opportunity to purchase items in person at our most reduced prices.

No need for reservations but make sure you come early as there are some unique pieces that are exclusively available during open studio sale days.

Details:
Location: our studio 23 Alphabet Mews, SW90FN, London
Date: Sunday May 4th
Time: from 11am to 4pm

See you on Sunday! BYO tote bags!

@bubala_london has opened a third location in King’s X in a beautiful space full of style, light, tasty food and great vibes!
We were recently invited at the soft launch of Bubala in King’s Cross. It was a night to remember, beautiful decor and tasty food! Plus the service couldn’t have been more amazing! A big thank you to all the team, it is really a pleasure to work with you and we wish you all the best!
Reservations are open go and book a table!

Glazing a couple of last pieces and we will be out of the studio to enjoy some time off. We will back on Tuesday so hold your emails till then. Have a nice long weekend and happy Easter!

Be sure to check the recently opened @ara.ldn
We will be visiting in the coming days and we honestly can’t wait! Visit them to try their food and follow them on instagram. They have some beautiful photos of our plates served with delicious food!

Making cups for @bubala_london new restaurant in King’s Cross!

Just a reminder for our open studio sale this Sunday at 11.

A small part of the glazing process of our wavy rim bowls.

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Don’t forget our studio open sale this Sunday. Get your salad bowls and get ready for summer gatherings or even a gift for your mother if you forgot about Mother’s Day last Sunday.
Open studio sale this Sunday 6th of April from 11 to 4. More info in our bio!

Studio Open Sale Sunday 6th of April. Handmade dinnerware for chefs and serious home cooks!
Join us from 11.00 till 16.00 and find the dinnerware that some of your favourite restaurants use!
We got cup, mugs, bowls, plates, serving
platters and so much more! Plenty of seconds and samples up to 50% off!
All handmade here at our studio. Come and visit for a peek behind the curtain where all of our production happens.
📍23 Alphabet Mews, SW9 0FN, London
🗓️ Sunday 6th of April
🕰️ From 11.00 to 16.00
See you then. Save the date!

Darling! One of our most popular bowls is the 19cm coupe open bowl or what we call the Darling bowl! Available only for restaurants and during our open studio sale 😉
Here photographed and served at @ottolenghi_geneva

Our newest addition of glazes. A chocolatey matte brown with a satin smooth finish. Food really pops on this glaze!

We might have only 3 clays on our website and to be honest these are the basic ones that we get by the tone. But we also have another 6 or 7 more types of clay that we use depending on the project at hand. Not all of them are for throwing or jiggering and a few of them are just for hand building and working on hump moulds.
Here is one of rougher clays that contains small black stones, these are the speckles that you see.
The beautiful photo is from @ottolenghi_geneva

Quite an interesting result don’t you think.
Fluted carving. Almost all of our shapes and forms can be carved and decorated and our restaurant clients are creating some beautiful combinations!
This one is heading to @kinhousewiltshire next week!

We just love it when we see many of our forms served together. Coupe, square sided and rim collection all in one photo! Find them served with delicious food @ottolenghi_geneva!

Is it the season to start having ice cream? One would argue that it is always the season for ice cream but these past couple of weeks have been really summery! Fingers crossed 🤞that the weather will stay nice and we can enjoy some bbq next week… we got the perfect ovals for that occasion 😎

It wouldn’t be Sofia Ceramics without Sofia! She might be the only woman (for now) at Sofia Ceramics but she is the one with her name on the door!
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Part of the morning routine.
Every morning we open our kiln that has bisque fired dinnerware. These are pieces that have been through the first firing to make them hard and porous so we can then glaze them.
Before we apply glaze we check each one of them for any imperfections that would affect them during the glaze firing and we lightly sand them if needed. We then wash them, stamp them and finally the glazing process can begin.
This just one of the many steps that it takes for our dinnerware to be made.

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Our rim shallow bowl has become a very popular item, so popular that we are thinking of introducing it to our website collection.
What do you think? What would you use it for?

Our dinnerware is handmade! There are so many steps and factors that we take into consideration when making our dinnerware and one item will always have a difference from the other. We have put in place guides and we measure things to be as consistent as possible, but our items are still handmade and there are things that you just can’t control, we are not machines, but we use equipment to make production easier and cost effective.
The beauty of the handmade is that you get something unique something that an individual has spent hours creating and years mastering the techniques needed and chosen.
We are trying to communicate as much possible that our dinnerware is handmade and the differences between each item to the next one is the reason that you are choosing to buy handmade. This and the fact that you like the colour the shape and the durability.
In this photo you can see Sofia’s hands wedging clay. Although we have 2 pugmills to help us with this difficult and exhausting process, sometimes you need to feel the clay and understand the material, something that a machine can’t offer.
Keep buying handmade and items that will last for long and you will love. Thank you to all of you that support us and all the potters out there!

Our shallow Fido bowl served and beautifully photographed at the recently opened @horarestaurantldn
This is a restaurant like no other!

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Open Studio Sale this Sunday March 2nd from 11.00 to 16.00 at 23 Alphabet Mews, SW90FN.
Unique handmade dinnerware, seconds and samples, and many plates, bowls, cups and mugs up to 50% off.
Start your dinnerware collection or grab a gift for a loved one.
Come and see how a studio that produces thousands of handmade dinnerware each year for some of the best restaurants in town looks like.
See you all on Sunday!

Our rim plate served @oma.london. Simple and beautiful.

Open Studio Sale Sunday March 2nd from 11am to 4pm. Handmade dinnerware for everyone that loves pottery and wants something unique.
Piles of plates and stacks of cups, mugs, bowls and more. Search through our seconds and samples and find dinnerware that some of the most awarded restaurants use.
Durable and beautiful and all handmade in our studio in London!
📍23 Alphabet Mews, SW90FN, London, UK
Sunday 2nd of March from 11.00 to 16.00
See you there!

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