The Marina, Fisherman’s Wharf & the Piers
Tucked in a courtyard, this design showcase is like a museum store for exceptional, artistic household items – to wit, a mirrored coat rack, a…
Must-see shopping in The Bay Area
Marin County
Corte Madera is home to one of the Bay Area's best bookstores. In the Marketplace shopping center, it has a strong travel section and frequently hosts big…
Oakland
Urban fashions for anyone who 'hella' loves Oaktown are sold downtown at this signature shop. T-shirts, hats and stickers make a statement with original…
The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill
Get back to the land and in touch with California's roots without leaving sight of a Mission sidewalk. Gravel & Gold celebrates California's hippie…
The Haight & Hayes Valley
Everything you always wanted to know about mushroom foraging, worm composting and running for office on an environmental platform – plus poetry and…
Japantown, Fillmore & Pacific Heights
A three-story emporium devoted to Japanese pop culture, New People brings Tokyo style to SF. Get dolled up in Lolita petticoat dresses at 2nd-floor Baby…
The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill
Get a streetwise Mission edge with Nooworks' locally designed, US-made fashions, most under $100. Nooworks' open-mouth shirts are ideal for Pancho-Villa…
The Marina, Fisherman’s Wharf & the Piers
A must-visit for discerning bartenders and fans of the artisanal foods movement, this grocery, liquor store and deli carries only small-batch products,…
The Haight & Hayes Valley
Get instant California cool without getting the shivers in Marine Layer's 'absurdly soft' tees, which this clever SF company makes by blending cotton and…
The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill
People who swear they're not into dessert can't get enough Poco Dolce, San Francisco's award-winning, sustainably sourced chocolates with a touch of sea…
The Haight & Hayes Valley
Enter the well-traveled wardrobe of Leah Bershad, a former Gap designer whose folksy jet-set aesthetic is SF's antidote to khaki-and-fleece global…
The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill
Street cred comes easy with locally designed Mission decks, custom tees to kick-flip over and cult skate shoes at this shop owned by SF street-skate…
North Beach & Chinatown
Crook your pinky: it's always teatime at Red Blossom, featuring 100-plus specialty teas imported by second-generation tea merchants Alice and Peter Luong…
The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill
Cottage industry is alive at Workshop Residence, where artists and designers collaborate with Bay Area fabricators to produce limited-edition designs –…
Downtown, Civic Center & SoMa
Wild beading ambitions strike suddenly within these walls lined with bulk beads, inducing visions of DIY drag and handmade holiday gifts like sparkling…
Downtown, Civic Center & SoMa
On the cutting edge of the Tenderloin, Hero transforms casual browsers into SF fashionistas with statement pieces by rising-star local designers: Stevie…
The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill
Crowdsource fashion choices at Betabrand, where experimental designs are put to an online vote and winners produced in limited editions. Recent approved…
The Marina, Fisherman’s Wharf & the Piers
Specializing in odd lots of sporting goods at closeout prices, this 80,000-sq-ft sports-and-camping emporium is also the best place to rent wet suits for…
San Francisco
Spiff up your pad with original Bay Area art at great prices. Featured works show a strong sense of place, including Michael Reardon's lightwashed…
The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill
Salvador Dalí probably would've shopped here for all his taxidermy and gardening needs. Get a surrealist home makeover with animal-skull puppets,…
The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill
Post-apocalyptic art-school surf shack is the vibe inside this curated storefront, featuring the work of sundry indie makers on plywood planks. Items for…
The Haight & Hayes Valley
If you see chic California-made leather clutches in your future, you must be ClareV-oyant. Buttery Italian leather gets splashes of California color – a…
The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill
Whether you're a social-media millionaire who runs Parkour or you just rock that look, Triple Aught has your back, with zip-up urban sweaters and multi…
San Francisco
This indie art and craft gallery may be off the beaten path, but its fans are legion. Curator-owners bring California's outlandish outlooks indoors with…
The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill
This women-owned tattoo parlor gets it in ink with designs ranging from honeycomb-pattern bicep graphics to shoulder-to-shoulder Golden Gate Bridge spans…
San Francisco
Emerge with confidence from this men's designer resale boutique, sure that nobody but you will be working your look. The well-curated collection of…
San Francisco
You can't take Golden Gate Park home with you – the city would seem naked without it – but Foggy Notion specializes in sense memories of SF's urban…
The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill
No local artisan SF restaurant decor is complete without earthy Heath stoneware, including the hand-glazed tiles found at this Mission studio-showroom…
San Francisco
Like a movie set in progress circa 1963, Molte Cose is an obsessively researched collection of one-off gifts and vintage finds artfully displayed on glove…
The Haight & Hayes Valley
Take center stage in this converted-cinema vintage superstore in barely worn designer rompers, vintage concert tees and a steady supply of go-go boots…
The Haight & Hayes Valley
Blend into the SF scenery with a locally designed 'Golden State of Mind' hoodie, tectonic-plate map tee, Bay Bridge smartphone case, and SF snap-back caps…
The Haight & Hayes Valley
'No food, no photos, no playing in the boas,' says the sign inside the door – but that last rule is gleefully ignored by drag stars, pageant dropouts,…
The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill
This legendary cooperative attracts crowds to buy eco/organic/fair-trade products in bulk, sample the bounty of local cheeses and flirt in the artisan…
The Haight & Hayes Valley
Sand-cast cocktail rings, succulents dripping from sea-urchin shells, scented candles in the shape of a doll's hand: such unique gifts lead grateful…
The Marina, Fisherman’s Wharf & the Piers
An essential stop on a Union St shopping raid, Anomie carries multiple small-production, independent designers of casual women's clothing, all subtly…
Downtown, Civic Center & SoMa
Since 1952, runways can't compete with Britex' fashion drama. Designers bicker over dibs on caution-orange chiffon, glam rockers dig through velvet…
Japantown, Fillmore & Pacific Heights
At her flagship store, San Francisco designer Margaret O'Leary showcases whisper-light cardigans of Scottish cashmere and organic cotton ideal for year…
Japantown, Fillmore & Pacific Heights
Small wonders are the specialty of Katsura Garden, bonsai garden masters. Years of training go into each tiny tree gracing these shelves, from the…
San Francisco
Modern gifts for modern women and the people they love – bold, unique, price-savvy. Gift yourself and others with picnic-ready multitools, versatile…
Japantown, Fillmore & Pacific Heights
Vases with handlebar mustaches and cookie jars labeled "LSD" may seem like holdovers from a Big Sur bachelor pad c 1974, but they're snappy interior…
