Seconding brickton and steff on the Daltile Asian Black tile. We laid about 150 sf of it in a hopscotch pattern with 6" and 12" tiles in our mudroom/laundry room. The tile is a pretty charcoal grey with just a hint of blue, which we chose to use as our wall color. The tile is very strong and definitely moppable. We used TEC grout in Platinum, although if I could do it over again I would go a shade or two darker. We don't have staining issues because we used a product called Grout Once instead of water in the grout mixture, but I've had to scrub spilled coffee and doggie fluids from the grout joints already. We used 1/4" grout joints to work with the hopscotch pattern, but the tile sizing seemed very uniform so I bet you could easily go smaller. Here's our tile right after we finished grouting...I still hadn't buffed all the haze off. That's pretty true to color if you look past the haze, though.

We also wanted a black granite that wasn't polished, but were deterred by the reports of honed AB being prone to grease stains, etc. After doing alot of reading on this forum, we chose cambrian black antique, which has a slightly uneven surface, but I think is smoother than the leathered finish (no problem writing on it). It's not installed yet (kitchen installation starts Monday!!!) but I have tested my sample with all oil, lemon juice etc. and it cleans easily, leaving no stains. According to what I read, it does not need to be sealed, although my fabricator does not agree. There are some good photos posted by nightowlrn -and also more info if you search under "cambrian black antique". The color is somewhat mottled - charcoal to black.

We have had our honed AB countertops in for about 18 months. We have a large island 10' and that limited our choices. I may have gone with a Nordic Black or something similar if that had been an option, but I am happy with my choice. We have four kids and our kitchen gets a lot of hard use. The honed AB does show water rings, fingerprint smudges and anything else left on the counter - crumbs, jelly smudges, etc, but I don't mind that a bit. I want to know if my counter is dirty so that I can wipe it clean. I mostly use a water/alcohol mix and it takes at most 2 minutes to wipe down all of the counters. I do not wipe them dry and they look great. As long as I do this, after each meal, they look great. When they are wet I can see rings and marks, but those disappear as it dries. We do not have direct sun light in our kitchen and that may make a difference. Just in the way that streams of light show every speck of dust on a piece of furniture that looked perfectly clean before - it may make the counters look smudged. We have quartz in our kids baths and I love it there, but it doesn't quite have the look I wanted for the kitchen. I attached a quick phone photo - sorry for the poor quality, but hope it helps. Good luck

I ended up using Mapei Timberwolf and it turned out really nice. It looks pretty light next to the almost black Nero Marquis’s but it is definitely more of a medium gray. I did Mapei warm gray on my white subway tiles which is a much lighter gray. I don’t have a photo at the moment but hopefully this video will load.