Luxury Plates Now Officially More Trustworthy Than Your Cooking Skills

KEY POINTS

•Fortessa, a 1990s-founded US luxury tableware brand, serves 80% of North America's high-end hotels.
•In 2022, Fortessa merged with German crystal maker Zwiesel to expand offerings in glassware.
•Eater collaborated with Fortessa to curate a stylish, versatile tableware collection sold on Amazon.

Meet Fortessa, the hospitality industry's version of a glass-and-plate mafia, quietly supplying 80% of North America's posh hotels since the '90s — apparently your vacation included their bowls, whether you knew it or not. In 2022, they cozied up with the century-old Black Forest crystal gods Zwiesel, making a combo so potent it would make even the fanciest wine glasses blush. Out popped the Eater x Fortessa Amazon collection: $149.95 volcanic stoneware dinner sets that whisper 'I made this' while bellowing 'I bought this,' $59.95 cocktail glasses probably too elegant for that Tuesday night muggy martini, and pale green Seraphina glassware practically begging you to pretend you’re an heirloom tomato dynamics expert in Taos. Meanwhile, minimalistic flatware threatens your cutlery drawer's casual disarray with dangerously good looks. It’s not just a dinner set — Fortessa and Eater want you to build a tableware capsule wardrobe, because apparently plates need to suffer through 'trend cycles' too.