My 2 year old certainly likes her Little Tikes Kitchen and often just potters around it playing by herself quite contentedly.
In terms of value-for-money, I wonder why a few pieces of injection moulded plastic should cost sixty pounds, but I guess it's a captive market as all the manufacturers seem to charge roughly the same.
A few points that parents should know before buying:
1. When we bought ours from Amazon, it arrived by courier in just its normal display box (i.e. no extra packaging). As a result, it was filthy, badly bashed up, and had a rather large hole gouged in the cardboard at one end. Not something you could wrap to pass on as a present ! Thankfully nothing was missing from inside the box. (Amazon, get the packaging sorted).
2. When assembling it, the table that connects onto the back of the kitchen requires 2 very long screws to be screwed in at either side. Trust me, I had to revert to my power screwdriver to get these 2 screws driven into the plastic. It really shouldn't be that difficult.
3. The kitchen does make 3 or 4 cooking noises, but the Amazon description is wrong, because the supplied play-phone does not require batteries and nor does it make any noise either (!).
Overall, an ok toy,but it just seems expensive for what it is and what it offers. Sorry Little Tikes.