Steal My Table Setting How 11 New Yorkers with particularly good taste set their tables. As told to Emma Wartzman , a senior kitchen and dining writer at the Strategist.

A kitchen table family describes a dynamic where moms, dads, and children come together to eat and connect over dinner — most often around the same time each day.

For many, that’s a classic kitchen table. Said design-firm principal Mélanie Cherrier of Blanc Marine Intérieurs in Montreal, “A giant island can remove all the soul from the kitchen.” ...