I bought my 1-year-old (yes, I know she's young but she's spoiled) the Little Tykes 2-sided kitchen about 2 months ago. I can't remember the exact name, but it's at Toys R Us for $154.99 and on one side is your 'kid kitchen' and on the other is an outdoor grill set-up. In theory it's really cool, but:
1--I thought I was getting the "Intelli-cooker" set up where it interacts based on what the kid is making. Little Tykes makes a kitchen that's $99 that does this (which is super-cool by the way), but the expensive one I bought didn't have that feature. Not so cool.
2--This kitchen/grill takes up hella room. Imagine two kid kitchens back to back. You're looking at a 6-foot by 6-foot area, minimum. We have ours indoors in the playroom and it takes up way more room than I hoped/planned.
3--The dang thing took 3 hours to assemble. And if you mess up, you're SOL.
4--You need batteries for each side. And of course, you need different sizes for each side. AAs on one, Cs on another, naturally.
5--It doesn't come with much food. The only food you get is to cook on the grill, not to cook in the oven. So, I've had to spend more money on the big food sets so she'll have something in the oven if she wants.
Long story short, go with either the cheaper Little Tykes kitchen (the only drawback is that the oven and dishwasher open sideways, more like cabinets--this isn't like our house, so I didn't like it) or the Lifestyle kitchen (whose only drawback was that it didn't make sounds). All are good, but I don't know that I would make the same choice again.
