I have several pasta plates bought at various places. You could try a restaurant supply house, dollar stores, TJMaxx/HomeGoods, Ross or thrift shops. There are any number of places that stock them for very reasonable prices.

I use rimmed soup plates....I have 5 ion the Mason's pink Vista, and 8 in my mikasa llado blue which I use for every day....and a couple antique white ironstone ones.....which are my favorites!
Linda C

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I need to understand what you mean by pasta "plates". I recently purchased pasta "bowls", after a lengthy search. These are wide, low bowls. Is that what you are looking for? I did find some in sets of 4 at Bed Bath & Beyond, but finally discovered worldkitchen.com. We have an old set of corelle and lo and behold, they had pasta bowls to match, at a very reasonable price, and reasonable shipping too. They have some with a lip and some without. Are these what you are looking for?

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I generally have seen lots of enticing ones at both Pier One and Crate and Barrel. Good luck!

I bought a set at Pier 1 not too long ago as a wedding gift. If you have Home Goods stores near you they may carry them as well.

Good luck!

Linda

There is a Home Goods store near me, but I've never been there - I'll have to check it out. I'll also check Pier 1. I bought previous ones at a thrift store, but now I want to get a whole set, which I haven't seen in thrift stores.

Pasta plates are generally larger in diameter than pasta bowls, have a smaller rim than the bowls, and are a bit shallower - at least the ones I've had. I prefer ones that have a flat (not slanted) rim. I'll look for a picture of mine when I get home. Pasta bowls can generally double as soup bowls, but pasta plates (the ones I've had) cannot, and they're bigger than salad plates.

Thanks for the suggestions!

Lars

ebay?

I have several designs of pasta plates, bowls, and platters. All are imported from Italy and I bought them at small Italian neighborhood groceries or "pork stores". I looked on line and didn't see anything similar.

So that's where I would look first. If they don't have them on display, ask and they'll probably produce a catalog in Italian of a large selection and be able to order them for you.

Williams Sonoma usually has some pattern of pasta bowls. I'm like Linda, I just use my wide soup bowls.

Right: Try Ebay. I found dishes to match mine.
You could find a whole set.

Thought I saw dishes in Walmart's, cheap !!!
Lou

I will use wide soup bowls for salads and cold soup, but I don't like using them for pasta. However, I did find what I want on eBay - thanks for the tip! Walmart is not a consideration. I would consider Williams Sonoma, however, and I'll check the Italian delis. I really haven't noticed much in the way of dinnerware at either of the ones I go to, but the neighborhood where I live now used to have a lot of Italians, although that was back in the 1950s and 60s. There are still quite a few Italian restaurants here, but not so many delis. I could ask at the restaurants, however, and also at the delis that are still here, although the closest one is in Culver City, I think.

Lars

I really like the pasta bowls from Williams Sonoma. Ebay usually has quite the range of them but they tend to be popular items and sometimes go higher than they were originally in the store.
I am a dedicated Marshall's, TJ maxx, Tuesday Morinig shopper and have been looking for some pasta bowls for YEARS and have not seem them there.

I bought a new sets of dishes from Pfaltzgraf about 18 months ago, and I have been pleased with the quality. I was also pleased with their customer service - a couple of the pieces arrived broken, and I thought the embossed pattern on some looked odd and they sent me replacements with no questions asked at no charge. After I bought the place settings I also purchased the pasta/dinner bowls when they went on sale, and they're great - they hold a nice amount and the rims are wide enough to hold bread so you really don't need a separate bread plate. They also make a smaller size specifically for soup (at least in my pattern, which is Filigree).

Becky

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Becky, the Pflatzgraf that you linked to looks very much like the shape I wanted - especially the Yorktown. For me, all of the ones shown in semi-profile I would simply call soup/salad bowls, and I would not put hot soup in them. In fact, I would use them mostly for salad, but seldom for pasta. Of the others, I would call the ones with rather narrow rims pasta plates, and the ones with wide rims I would call pasta bowls - and I like both! I agree that the rims are perfect for holding bread, which is how I use them as well. Without the rim, I would not call them pasta plates/bowls. The Ocean Breeze plate is nice also, but DB already ordered a set from eBay, which I think I will like. Here's what he ordered - you'll have to scroll down for the photo. The Pfaltzgraf does seem a bit expensive, but I do like it. I plan on going to Home Goods today to check out their store, since it's close to the grocery market that I go to.

Lars

Yesterday I did a tour of duty at TJ MAxx, Marshalls and Target, and I didn't find what I think of as pasta bowls. I don't want a soup plate with a wide rim, and I do want a large shallow bowl. No luck.

Lots of deep cereal style bowls, some rimmed soup, but not with a very wide rim, and oodles of ugly Made in China for Christmas junk.

I've linked to the Denby, which is close, but not quite what I want.

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Lars - I agree that the Pfaltzgraf is kinda pricey, which is why I've only bought when it was BOGOF, free shipping, on sale, or some combination of those. Ikea has some bowls that are only $4 that look like they might work - check out the link :-)

Becky

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You can find these $1 pasta bowls at Dollar Tree!

Lars, good luck. I knew just the shape I wanted and I didn't want to spend a lot of money on them. I ended up at Marshall's and bought these, although I really wanted just plain white. Still, these were $4 each, and they are made in England, not China.

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Annie

I love Sur La Table. Here are some pasta plates/bowls they sell. And the first three pasta bowls I've listed are actually Italian:

Italian Apple Bowl

Deruta-style bowl (also has matching serving bowl)

Frutta Bowl

Revol White Bowls Made in France (But of course...)

Sur La Table Brand Bistro Bowls

Those to me are all soup plates. I googled around and found "coupe" pasta bowls. I've linked to Vietri, which I liked a lot.

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Lars, I am still howling that DB bought you something, knowing how particular you are (I understand!). Enjoy them in good health!

I'll skip Sur La Table (too expensive) and Vietri (I prefer rims), but Dollar Tree and Ikea look promising!

Jessica, I told Kevin to buy those plates for me - it wasn't his idea at all! I think we are going to wait a while before buying a whole set of dishes because when we went shopping, we saw too many sets for Halloween and Thanksgiving, and I don't like autumn colors for dishes. We'll probably shop again in February. In the meantime, we should have some nice Italian pasta plates from eBay, providing they arrive intact!

We did go to Home Goods (which is part of TJMaxx in our neighborhood), and we bought Margarita glasses, sheet sets, bed pillows, and towels there for half what they cost at BB&B. I wish I had known about that store before! We also went to the new Kohl's store that opened last month in the same strip mall (that also has Trader Joe's and our Ralphs marker), and I bought some steak knives there that I'd been wanting. I don't use them for steak - I wanted them to cut burritos, which I make fairly often, and which are too hot and/or awkward to pick up and eat. I made so-called breakfast burritos for dinner lately, and they seemed like a perfectly good dinner and didn't remind me of breakfast at all, even though they contained scrambled eggs, bacon, cheese, bean dip, and cooked potatoes. After I made them, I discovered that we needed sharp knives to cut them and eat them.

Thanks so much for the Home Goods tip - even though I didn't like their dishes! Their Margarita glasses were just $7.99 for a set of 4, but I'm going to have to take it easy on the Margaritas. Two was all we could handle, and they were fairly small glasses.

Lars

Lars, CostPlus World Bazzar usually does a big sale centered around pasta and Italian foods once or twice a year and has pasta plates on sale then. Marshall's will be hit or miss, but I know I've seen both plain white and ones with designs on the rims there several times.

Personally, my first trip would be to a larger restaurant supply store. Restaurant dishes tend to hold up to heavier use and be made to withstand temperature extremes better -- not so important in a cereal bowl, but helpful in a pasta plate.

Ikea?

I've bought a lot of dishes from Bryan China - these are heavy, restaurant quality (but not super thick like diner plates) foot totally glazed, you can buy just the quantity you want, and they have lots of things. I got some of the pasta bowls - 12" in diameter, $10.71 each. I got the bright white - just click on that and scroll down.

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