Must see shopping in Seattle

This charming little nook is everything a neighborhood bookstore should be, with frequent poetry readings and book signings. The adjoining El Diablo…

Imagine a brick-and-mortar version of eBay with gear chosen by your ultimate personal shopper. This vintage/used clothes shop is far from being a dumping…

Doing a good impersonation of one of the magic shops in Diagon Alley from the Harry Potter books, Tenzing Momo is an old-school natural apothecary with…

The Seattle area is known for its Pilchuck School of glassblowing art, and this is the city’s oldest glassblowing studio. Stop by to watch the artists in…

Uncommon Cottage is a newer addition to Fremont's shopping scene, but one that harks back to the neighborhood's heyday as an offbeat trend setter. There's…

Come to this location of the popular vintage clothing chain to dig through the chic discarded threads of Ballard's trendsetters. The store is small, but…

As with other dispensaries in the city, you won't want for selection at Hashtag Cannabis. This bright and friendly shop does have a more robust selection…

Since the demise of Borders in 2011 and the relocation of Elliott Bay Book Company to Capitol Hill, Barnes & Noble remains downtown's main book emporium,…

Most dispensaries in Seattle have great customer service, but at this low-key West Seattle weed shop everyone is just an extra bit more friendly and…

Seattle’s first licensed ‘recreational’ weed dispensary opened in July 2014 to long queues. Since then it has been joined by quite a few more stores, but…

In an era when video stores appear to have befallen the same fate as the Tyrannosaurus rex, Scarecrow soldiers on. It's the largest video store in the…

Ganja Goddess is a popular weed dispensary known for its helpful and unpretentious staff and free shuttle service picking and dropping off clients in and…

Twice Sold Tales is a cozy den full of very-well-priced used books, stacked haphazardly along narrow aisles. A book ‘happy hour’ 25% discount kicks in…

Sonic Boom has a slightly less encyclopedic record collection than Bop Street Records across the street, but it does sell concert tickets for local venues…

Magus is a great used-book store, the kind of place where you can literally spend hours getting lost in the crooked, narrow aisles on the hunt for that…

Looking for a whoopee cushion? Some plastic bugs to scare a friend? How about a Halloween mask or a joke book? You'll find them all at Archie McPhee, a…

It’s hard to miss this gigantic cookware store. It’s a chain, but a good one, and it started here in Seattle. The rich supply of cookware, books, gear and…

This friendly antique mall wastes no space: there is stuff covering every surface and spilling out of every corner. Not all of it is worth your money, but…

Something of a record supermarket bivouacked out in SoDo offering CDs and vinyl with an expansive side trade in DVDs (movies mainly). The selection is…

This collective of more than 40 years displays zines in español, revolutionary pamphlets, essays by Chomsky and an inherent suspicion of authority. You're…