If you can afford it, granite top is the best, being stain, scratch, heat resistant. I had mine done for the cabinet top and wall cladding. To give u an idea how durable it is, it took me 45mins and 4 tungsten carbide drills to drill through 2 screw holes.

Granite is non-porous. Marble is. I have granite top and cladding for my kitchen and I feel it is the material to use for kitchen top, being stain, heat and scratch proof! If you have big enough budget, go for synthetic granite sink, eg Silgranit by Blanco.

This post has been edited by newbie99: Apr 14 2010, 09:18 PM

From what i have seen, the granite slab comes in 10ft by 4ft plus. I had my table top custom cut to 6ft x 3ft. They still charge u per sf.