Shopping
Sprulge on at Beverly Centre, the famous Rodeo Drive/ The Golden Triangle and at the seventh heaven of Melrose Avenue dotted with designer stores and LA fashion inspired boutiques for a stupendous bout of shopping. You’ll find Tiiffany’s, Cartier, Chanel, Bally, Gucci, Maxfield’s Blue, Georgio Armani, Hogan shoes, or Kitson’s, Storyopolis, Red Balls, Slow, Von Dutch, Fred Segal’s, Costume National, Forinara, Jonathan Adler’s, Beige, K. Bond and Only in L.A.” file, at Fifi and Romeo staring down at you from on both sides of the pavement as you go about your spree. Third Street, Montana Avenue, La Brea, Sunset Plaza and Santee Alley features lots of knockoffs in the designer arena of clothing and accessories comprise the high streets of the world fashion domain.
Los Angeles possesses one of the largest ports at Long Beach replenishing the constant supply of goods from across countries that its high streets of fashion feed on. Certain distinctly ethnic shopping areas are to be found on the LA map like Little India, Chinatown and Oliviera Street. Rodeo Street brings in instant images of Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, has a string of innumerous fine stores spread over a wide area catering to the truly rich and famous. Though Robertson Boulevard is a small street it brings out the exclusivity of Beverly Hills mainly for accessory items for all from 6 months to 60 years. The Melrose Avenue stores the coolest attire at the highest echleons of fashion housed in nearly a dozen blocks both brand new and second hand. A more sophisticated Beverly boulevard is among the quietest of streets, lining up the best boutiques in the city leaving the shopper delightful. Erewhon is an upscale health food store whose yummy food is served by extremely rude food jockeys. This is the only street where you can shop for sweaters for you and your dog!
Third Street is just right for walking through its antique stores and exclusive boutiques like Aero & Co and Polka Dots & Moonbeams while Zipper’s which is for modern home accessories. Real Food Daily, Who’s on Third or Cava are eateries to grab your bites while busy shopping. The much acclaimed A.O.C. restaurant has its own gala fares follows Lucques and Border Grill neighbours a much required famous store for guidebooks to anywhere, the Travel Bookstore. Montana Avenue is the shopping paradise in a Santa Monica enclave. Cafes find a host of clients either walking their spitz or poodles to cool off while deciding upon where to window shop and what to buy from Pearl. La Brea the imaginary dividing line between east-west LA, unveils exclusive pieces of hardware at Liz’s, LA’s best vintage store Jet Rag and Pink’s with the best hotdogs in the city. Santee Alley may be visited on the first Friday of every month for attending the California Mart sample sales. Tourist and Celebrities crowd Sunset Boulevard at Coffee Bean, Maddison, Chin Chin and Anna Sui to meet their needs for food and clothing. Westwood village is a small five-block retail village that throngs crowds of nearly a 100,000 a night; it was crowned as LA’s version of Times Square. The place determined the fate of many a Hollywood block busters which premiered here and were duly watched by ULCA students at capacity halls. A fatal gang shooting in 1988 changed all its status immediately turning the tables. Now it has become an uncomfortable connotation of a group of stores and eateries for students while elegant clothing stores brings in people from its upscale surroundings. You can mesh with the students for a donut offering rave reviews on its taste at Stan’s donut shop or at Shwarma King at the heart of the Village that houses the Eurochow restaurant.