Top Choice Clothing in Uptown & Riverbend
Yvonne La Fleur
They don’t make them like this anymore – neither the clothes, millinery, lingerie nor Yvonne herself, a businesswoman who has outfitted generations of local ladies for weddings, debuts and race days. She makes her o…
Top Choice Music in Uptown & Riverbend
Peaches Records & Tapes
Peaches has been around since 1975, doing the holy work of promoting, cataloging and marketing the best in local New Orleans music. Once in the French Quarter and now on Magazine St, it's a must-see for anyone who w…
Top Choice Arts & Crafts in Uptown & Riverbend
Potsalot
Owners Alex and Cindy Williams, who have made and sold pottery from their Magazine St shop since 1993, call their exquisite creations functional art. Their unique, personally tested pieces, made for use in the kitch…
Books in Uptown & Riverbend
French Library
This place is so cute – or should that be mignon? Or joli? We haven't taken French in a few years, but we could brush up here – the largest French children's bookstore in the country. There are all kinds of lovingly…
Art in Uptown & Riverbend
Berta’s & Mina’s Antiquities
This painting-cluttered gallery specializes in regional folk art, especially the works of the late Nilo Lanzas, whose daughter operates the shop. Lanzas began painting at 63 and produced an impressive body of work, …
Homewares in Uptown & Riverbend
Hazelnut
Actor Bryan Batt of Mad Men fame (he played art director Salvatore Romano) co-owns this elegant, pleasantly eclectic gift and homewares shop. In addition to classically cool New Orleans–print toile, the shop sells g…
Clothing in Uptown & Riverbend
Uptown Costume & Dancewear
Fashion & Accessories in Uptown & Riverbend
Pied Nu
If you need a hand-poured candle that lasts 60 hours, try one of the sweet-smelling Diptyques on sale here. As you soak up that vanilla-scented goodness, browse elephant-printed cotton T-shirt dresses, cinched poet-…
Clothing in Uptown & Riverbend
Dirty Coast
You’re not a cool new New Orleanian if you haven’t picked up one of the clever T-shirts or bumper stickers (eg 'make wetlands, not war'), all related to local issues, inside jokes and neighborhood happenings, in thi…
Art in Uptown & Riverbend
Cole Pratt Gallery
This fine-art gallery showcases the work of 42 contemporary Gulf Coast and Southern artists. The works here include Susan Downing-White’s Gulf Coast landscapes and David Armentor’s haunting black-and-white photos of…