A new name, but same sharp service

When KitchenArts closed this spring after 30 years on Newbury Street, customers didn’t have to wait long for a replacement to supply cookwares, kitchen gadgets, and offer the shop’s famous knife-sharpening services. Jennifer Hill, co-owner of the gift shop Blackstone’s of Beacon Hill, and her husband, Jim (pictured) — self-described “lifelong foodies’’ — have opened KitchenWares by Blackstones in the same space, with all new inventory but the same sort of eclectic mix, including cookie cutters in dozens of shapes, Swiss Diamond nonstick pans, colorful ceramic Le Creuset stoneware, small appliances, and handy gadgets by the score. Owen Mack, formerly of KitchenArts, is still the person behind the knife-sharpening tradition. An in-store kitchen, to be built in the fall, will host cooking demos by local chefs. On a recent sunny weekday, the sign out front still read KitchenArts. Jim Hill was busy painting its replacement, which he hoped to hang later that day. KitchenWares by Blackstones, 215 Newbury St., Boston, 857-366-4237.