Thanksgiving Special: Best Luxury Kitchens in Center City

Everyone’s thinking about cooking this week. Well, not everyone. Not people like me, who wouldn’t know how to make stuffing even if you paid me to, and whose entire Thanksgiving crew includes a very cranky, just-neutered cat who’s wandering through the house uttering nonstop plaintive cries I can only interpret as, “Why? Why?”

But. There are many other people who cook, and for them — and even for me — it’s nice to dream of a phenomenal kitchen in which to whip up, over eight hours or so, a hearty Thanksgiving meal.

We’ve chosen six kitchens in luxury homes that are currently for sale in Center City that we think are tops — either because the equipment is terrific or because the design is lovely. Half of them are on Delancey Street (or Delancey Place, if you’re being grand about it).

1813 Delancey / 4 bedrooms / $2.8 million
What the listing says about the kitchen [sic]: “A cook’s kitchen with oversized island and professional grade appliances.”

2036 Delancey / 5 bedrooms / $3.95 million
What the listing says about the kitchen [sic]: “Gorgeous”

1817 Delancey / 5 bedrooms / $5.2 million
What the listing says about the kitchen [sic]: “breathtaking gourmet eat-in Kitchen”

250 S 18th #201/ 3 bedrooms / $1.45 million
What the listing says about the kitchen [sic]: “Explore your cooking creativity in the Chef’s kitchen on a 48″ wolf stove and custom hood. Enjoy a glass of your favorite wine from the under cabinet wine cooler.”

1615 Spruce #100 / 3 bedrooms / $1,675,000
What the listing says about the kitchen [sic]: “Granite, Stainless & Glass kichen overlooking garden with island, wine bar, commercial range, desk, French doors.”

Bonus! We couldn’t resist including this non-Center City house designed by I.M. Pei and with a kitchen by lauded kitchen designer Joanne Hudson.

251 S 3rd / 4 bedrooms / $1.15 million
What the listing says about the kitchen [sic]: “Chef’s kitchen which includes Wolf, Sub Zero, Gaggenau, Thermador and Miele Appliances.”