All In One CD Player and Speakers

Try to find a NIB Bose Wave (fine for a kitchen/what you describe).

If you can go with small mini and/or flat wall speakers then look for a low mileage Linn Classik.

DeKay

 

Try to find a NIB Bose Wave

Please don't, they are awful. My father had the large double stack one and some music was unintelligible. They lack a full frequency range so some music is missing so much information it is unlistenable. Buy the 99 buck system at Walmat and add two bookshelf speakers, 1000 % better. 

I would not buy anything remotely expensive, as it will become coated with cooking grease. I would just get a cheap boom box player from Amazon 

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I really dislike anything automated, streaming, etc. so unlike most folks am ACTUALLY looking for something that  plays CDs and makes them sound pretty good. A radio is unimportant since there are few stations with a signal we can pull in where we are living. Honestly, just a nice CD player with good quality speakers that doesn't look or sound like a cheap plastic boom box is what I am after. Maybe it doesn't exist in the 21st century--which is why I'm a fish out of water in this digitized world we occupy.

I recently got my wife a really nice CD Sony boombox, like stated above, from Amazon. Under a hundred bucks. Sounds perfect for what it is.