Must-see shopping in North Beach & Chinatown

  • Golden Gate Fortune Cookies

    North Beach & Chinatown

    Find your fortune at this bakery, where cookies are stamped from vintage presses – just as they were in 1909, when fortune cookies were invented for SF's…

  • San Francisco Rock Posters & Collectibles

    North Beach & Chinatown

    Are you ready to rock?! Enter this trippy temple to classic rock gods – but leave your lighters at home because these concert posters are valuable. Expect…

  • Red Blossom Tea Company

    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…

  • Al's Attire

    North Beach & Chinatown

    Hepcats and slick chicks get their handmade threads at Al's, where vintage styles are reinvented in noir-novel twill, dandy high-sheen cotton and mid…

  • Lyle Tuttle Tattoo Art Museum & Shop

    North Beach & Chinatown

    Tattooed ladies are the life's work of icon Lyle Tuttle, who inked women across seven continents – including Janis Joplin, Cher and Joan Baez. Since the…

  • Artist & Craftsman Supply

    North Beach & Chinatown

    Ditch your day job and take up painting at this employee-owned art-supply store, housed in the former Hippodrome burlesque theater. This Barbary Coast hot…

  • Kim + Ono

    North Beach & Chinatown

    Hollywood pinups borrowed their slinky silk-robe style from Chinatown burlesque stars back in the '30s – and now you can rock that retro hottie look in…

  • Eden & Eden

    North Beach & Chinatown

    Detour from reality at Eden & Eden, a Dadaist design boutique where espresso cups give you side-eye, lightning strikes on dresses, shaggy tea cozies make…

  • Real Old Paper

    North Beach & Chinatown

    See the world from the comfort of your living room with a wall of Real Old Paper finds: vintage travel posters, Dutch Star Wars promotions, Pacific WWII…

  • 101 Music

    North Beach & Chinatown

    You'll have to bend over those earthquake-defying bins to let DJs and hard-core collectors pass (hey, wasn't that Tom Waits?!), but among the $5–25 discs…

  • Chinatown Kite Shop

    North Beach & Chinatown

    Be the star of Crissy Field and wow any kids in your life with a fierce 9ft-long flying dragon, a pirate-worthy wild parrot (SF's city bird), surreal…

  • Gypsy Rosalie's

    North Beach & Chinatown

    Costuming is a competitive sport in SF, and Rosalie's will help you find a head-to-toe ensemble that will have the whole city gagging on your glamour…