Chef Tested — Working with Hospitality since 2013
UNIQUE, HANDCRAFTED CERAMICS FOR RESTAURANTS
Laima Ceramics creates contemporary, handcrafted tableware for restaurants, cafés, and hospitality spaces that value design, durability, and material integrity. Our collections are defined by minimalist, organic forms that highlight natural materials and the quiet individuality of handmade work.
A curated range of glaze finishes allows pieces to be mixed and matched, supporting table settings that feel considered, distinctive, and aligned with your kitchen and interior concept.
Alongside our core collections, we offer bespoke design solutions for custom hospitality projects, developed in close dialogue with chefs and restaurant teams.
All Laima Ceramics tableware is food-safe, dishwasher-safe, and highly durable, engineered for daily professional use while elevating both everyday service and fine dining experiences.
Curated for professional kitchens and culinary teams, we partner closely with chefs to shape tableware that supports creative cuisine and durable service.
Featured HOSPITALITY Partners
One of Laima Ceramics’ most significant restaurant partnerships to date was a bespoke tableware order of 1,500 pieces for Reethaus, the flagship cultural and hospitality space at the Slowness Flussbad campus in Berlin.
Reethaus is renowned for its immersive architecture and philosophy of intentional presence and calm — a hospitality concept that values thoughtful materials and mindful design.
For this project, we developed a custom stoneware dinnerware range, including plates, bowls, and serving pieces finished as well as wheel-thrown teaware, sake sets, wine carafes and vases.
The collaboration reflected a shared commitment to durable, tactile ceramics that elevate dining experiences in settings where both aesthetics and performance are essential.
This extensive production exemplifies Laima Ceramics’ capability not only to serve everyday restaurant needs but also to partner on large-scale, design-driven hospitality projects that embrace craft, materiality, and intentional experience.
REETHAUS Berlin
For Max Cekot Kitchen, we created a set of wheel-thrown stoneware urchin dishes finished in our signature lava glaze, developed specifically for the restaurant’s tasting menu.
Max Cekot Kitchen was the first restaurant in Latvia to receive a Michelin Star, awarded in late 2023 when the first-ever Michelin Guide Latvia was launched, making it a landmark moment for Latvian gastronomy.
This collaboration was deeply hands-on and precise: the chef sat beside Laima at the wheel as each form was shaped, refining proportions and curves in real time to achieve the exact vessel required for the dish.
Max Cekot
Jūrmala Golf Club represents another extensive hospitality collaboration for Laima Ceramics, developed for a refined dining environment where landscape, architecture, and cuisine meet.
For the venue, we created a bespoke porcelain tableware collection, including plates and bowls finished in crystalline and special-effect glazes, alongside wheel-thrown porcelain teaware and handcrafted teapots with wood handles.
The collection balances durability with elegance, supporting both contemporary food presentation and the calm, considered atmosphere of the club’s dining spaces.
HIORE RESTAURANT
One of our earliest restaurant collaborations was with MILDA, an authentic Baltic cuisine restaurant located in the very heart of Riga.
For MILDA, we created a bespoke selection of serving dishes and tapas plates, designed to complement traditional Baltic flavours while supporting contemporary food presentation. This collaboration marked an important beginning for Laima Ceramics in the hospitality world, grounding our work in local culinary culture, material honesty, and functional design made for everyday professional use.
Milda
ESPA SPA in Croatia
A large spa opening in Poreč, Croatia, chose a collection of handmade pieces for their treatment rooms, rituals, and entrance spaces — all made in our rural Latvian studio.
Each piece was thoughtfully adapted to support daily spa operations while maintaining a calm, tactile, and grounded aesthetic.
We make over 250 SKUs for the hospitality industry, carefully curated from our best-selling designs and developed for reliable professional use.
Not seeing what you’re looking for?
We work with restaurants, chefs and hospitality brands to develop custom ceramics for the table — from an initial idea or moodboard to a finished, reproducible collection.
From idea to finished plate
Our custom development process can include:
1. Concept & design
Send us your sketches, moodboards, reference images or simply describe what you are looking for. We can develop the shape and create a 3D model before production.
2. Material & glaze
We work with both high-fired stoneware in various colours and porcelain. Pieces are fired in electric kilns in oxidation, typically to 1260°C, with firing possible up to 1280°C.
3. Prototypes & development
We refine the proportions, thickness, rim, centre, texture and overall functionality before moving into making itself.
4. Small-series production
Once the design is approved, we produce the collection in small, reproducible series.
Our minimum order for custom production is 50 pieces per design.
5. Food safety certificate
For professional and commercial projects, food-contact compliance can be verified through laboratory testing of the finished ceramic product for lead and cadmium migration, in accordance with applicable EU food-contact requirements, including Directive 84/500/EEC and its amendments.
We can arrange the appropriate laboratory testing for your specific product. Testing is approximately €500 per product.
Pricing
As a guideline:
18 cm / 7.1" Starter Plate
50 pieces — €22 / $26 per piece
100 pieces — €20 / $23 per piece
300 pieces — €18 / $21 per piece
26 cm / 10.2" Main Course Plate
50 pieces — €34 / $40 per piece
100 pieces — €32 / $37 per piece
300 pieces — €30 / $35 per piece
18 cm / 7.1" Bowl
50 pieces — €25 / $29 per piece
100 pieces — €23 / $27 per piece
300 pieces — €21 / $25 per piece
Prices are EXW and exclude design development costs where applicable.
Development & lead time
For custom work: allow 4–8 weeks for sample design and development.
Once the design is approved, making itself is typically 6–8 weeks for 100-200 pieces.
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These organic, minimalist stoneware plates are finished in a layered taupe–beige–brown glaze, creating rich, earthy depth across the surface. The glaze breaks and settles differently with each firing, resulting in greater natural variation in tone and movement — from soft beige hues to deeper, warmer browns. Each plate carries its own quiet landscape.
The plates feature an irregular, gently inward-turned rim that adds movement and depth while remaining practical in daily use. The inward edge is thick and sturdy, allowing the plates to stack securely despite their organic shape. This thoughtful detail also makes it easy to scoop food against the rim, enhancing both serving and eating comfort.
Formed with a pleasantly rounded edge and balanced proportions, the plates feel substantial and grounded in the hands. High-fired at stoneware temperatures, they become non-porous, strong, and highly durable — designed for repeated use and long-term reliability.
Available Sizes
SMALL — Dessert Plate
• Diameter: 19 cm / 7.5"
LARGE — Main Dinner Plate
• Diameter: 28 cm / 11"
Height of the rim is 20-25mm ( 0.8"- 1”)
Due to the layered glaze application, colour variation is more pronounced across this finish. Shifts in tone, pooling, and subtle transitions are expected and celebrated — no two plates are ever exactly alike, while remaining cohesive as a set.
Listing for single plate in chosen size. See matching serving bowls, mugs with handles, and cups / dip bowls below to complete the set.
These organic, minimalist stoneware plates are finished in a matte black satin glaze with subtle glossy speckles, creating a quiet contrast between deep, velvety surfaces and gentle points of shimmer — refined, tactile, and quietly expressive.
The plates feature an irregular, gently inward-turned rim that adds movement and depth while remaining practical in daily use. The inward edge is thick and sturdy allowing the plates to stack securely despite their organic shape. This thoughtful detail also makes it easy to scoop food against the rim, enhancing both serving and eating comfort.
High-fired at stoneware temperatures, they become non-porous, strong, and highly durable — designed for repeated use and long-term reliability.
Available Sizes
SMALL — Dessert Plate
• Diameter: 19 cm / 7.5"
LARGE — Main Dinner Plate
• Diameter: 28 cm / 11"
Height of the rim is 20-25mm ( 0.8"- 1”)
Each plate shows gentle variation in speckle distribution and sheen, making every piece unique while remaining cohesive as a set.
Yutori Collection pieces are made using the slip-casting method with stoneware clay. High-fired at stoneware temperatures, they are non-porous, strong, and highly durable — suitable not only for everyday home rituals but also for cafés and hospitality environments where reliability is essential.
Listing for a single plate. See matching serving bowls, mugs with handles, and cups / dip bowls below to complete the set.
These organic, minimalist stoneware plates are finished in a white matte satin glaze with subtle speckles, reminiscent of a quail-egg surface — soft, tactile, and quietly expressive.
The plates feature an irregular, gently inward-turned rim that adds movement and depth while remaining practical in daily use. The inward edge is thick and sturdy, allowing the plates to stack neatly and securely despite their organic shape. This thoughtful detail also makes it easy to scoop food against the rim, enhancing both serving and eating comfort.
High-fired at stoneware temperatures, they become non-porous, strong, and highly durable — designed for repeated use and long-term reliability.
SMALL — Dessert Plate
• Diameter: 19 cm / 7.5"
LARGE — Main Dinner Plate
• Diameter: 28 cm / 11"
Height of the rim is 20-25mm ( 0.8"- 1”)
The speckled glaze settles differently in every firing, creating soft natural variation across the surface. Expect variation from delicate golden dots to larger, more pronounced specks in areas where the glaze has melted and flowed more fluidly.
Listing for a single plate.
These organic, minimalist stoneware bowls are defined by their irregular, softly undulating edge — a quiet detail that brings warmth and movement to the table while remaining timeless and functional.
Each bowl is formed with a pleasantly rounded rim and balanced proportions, designed to feel comfortable in use and generous in presence. High-fired at stoneware temperatures, the pieces become non-porous, strong, and highly durable, making them well suited for both everyday home use and demanding hospitality environments.
The glaze surface shifts naturally from soft beige to deeper brown hues, settling differently with each firing. These variations are intentional and celebrated — a hallmark of handmade ceramics and the reason no two bowls are ever exactly alike.
Perfect for ramen, buddha bowls, ikebana and as serving bowl.
• Capacity: 1200 ml / 40 oz
• Diameter: 19 cm / 7.5"
• Height:. 9 cm / 3.54"
Food-safe • Dishwasher safe • Microwave safe
These organic, minimalist stoneware bowls are defined by their irregular, softly undulating edge — a quiet detail that brings warmth and movement to the table while remaining timeless and functional.
Each bowl is formed with a pleasantly rounded rim and balanced proportions, designed to feel comfortable in use and generous in presence. High-fired at stoneware temperatures, the pieces become non-porous, strong, and highly durable, making them well suited for both everyday home use and demanding hospitality environments.
The glaze surface shifts naturally from soft beige to deeper brown hues, settling differently with each firing. These variations are intentional and celebrated — a hallmark of handmade ceramics and the reason no two bowls are ever exactly alike.
Ideal for pasta dishes or as a serving bowl.
• Capacity: 1200 ml / 40 oz
• Diameter: 24 cm / 9.5"
• Height: 6.5 cm / 2.56"
Food-safe • Dishwasher safe • Microwave safe
These organic, minimalist stoneware bowls are finished in a matte black satin glaze with subtle glossy speckles, creating a quiet interplay between deep matte surfaces and gentle points of shimmer. The irregular edge adds soft movement and a natural, handmade presence while remaining clean and timeless on the table.
Each bowl is shaped with a pleasantly rounded rim and balanced proportions for comfort and everyday use.
Ideal for ramen, buddha bowls and serving.
• Capacity: 1200 ml / 40 oz
• Diameter: 19 cm / 7.5"
• Height: 9 cm / 3.54"
Made from high-quality stoneware using the slip-casting method, each piece is carefully finished and glazed by hand. High-fired stoneware makes each piece strong, non-porous, and ready for everyday use.
Food-safe • Dishwasher safe • Microwave safe
These organic, minimalist stoneware cups are finished in a soft matte beige brown glaze, offering a calm, earthy presence that feels quietly warm and timeless.
Compact yet substantial, the 100 ml (3.38 oz) size is intentionally versatile — ideal for espresso, tea ceremony servings, tapas or dips, or even as small candle holders that add a gentle glow to the table. Their scale invites slower moments and more mindful use.
The cups are thick, sturdy, and reassuringly weighted, with a pleasantly rounded rim that feels gentle against the lips. Designed for repeated use, they balance intimacy with durability — small vessels made to be reached for often.
The glaze surface varies naturally from beige to deeper brown hues, shifting subtly with each firing. These tonal variations are part of the material’s character, making every piece quietly unique.
Size & Capacity
• Capacity: 100 ml / 3.38 oz
• Height: 6 cm / 2.36"
• Diameter: 8 cm / 3.14"
A matching saucer is available:
• Diameter: 14 cm / 5.5"
• Height: approx. 3 cm
Please select items one by one.
This listing includes either:
• 1 cup, or
• 1 cup + 1 matching saucer
Material & Making
Made from high-quality stoneware using the slip-casting method, each bowl is carefully finished and glazed by hand. High-fired stoneware makes each piece strong, non-porous, and ready for everyday use.
Food-safe • Dishwasher safe •
These organic, minimalist stoneware cups with a handle feature a grounded, familiar form designed to feel reassuring and balanced.
Finished in a matte black satin glaze, the surface is softly velvety to the touch, punctuated by subtle shimmering glossy speckles that catch the light gently. The contrast between matte depth and quiet shine adds visual richness while keeping the overall presence calm and timeless.
With a 13.5 oz (400 ml) capacity, this cup is ideal for lattes, cappuccinos, mochas, and tea. The body is thick and sturdy, offering a comforting weight and excellent heat retention. A pleasantly rounded rim and well-balanced handle make the cup comfortable to hold and effortless to drink from.
• Capacity: 400 ml / 13.5 oz
• Diameter: 12 cm / 4.7"
• Height: 8 cm / 3.1"
Listing for a single mug. Find matching saucer plate in 19cm/11” linked below.
Food-safe • Dishwasher safe • Microwave safe