I love the look of these dishes.  They are also quite durable.  HOWEVER, they have a major flaw that makes me regret purchasing these:  They get VERY hot. We found this out the hard way.  After a nice meal of some kind of casserole, when we cleared the table there were marks from the plates left on the wood.  Apparently, just the heat from the food warmed up the plates enough to hurt the wood.....and don't even think about microwaving these plates.  They get so hot you cannot take the plate out of the microwave without oven mitts.