Start your San Francisco shopping trip at Union Square for designer boutiques, shoe shops and fashion warehouses with Californian flair. Move on to bustling Chinatown for quirkier ethnic buys and bargains on your richly varied San Francisco shopping trip.
The heart of San Francisco shopping trips has to be Union Square’s fashion stores and stylish Downtown malls, but for original styles and ethnic shopping, take a trip to San Francisco’s Mission district. Pick up silks and scents in hectic Chinatown. Find the coolest clothes in Haight-Ashbury and budget buys in North Beach on your San Francisco shopping trips.
Join thousands of Chinese Americans on their daily shopping trips to San Francisco’s Stockton Street in Chinatown, where crowded stores put out street displays of Chinese specialities, candies and trinkets. Head to Embarcadero on Tuesdays and Saturdays for the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. Enjoy shopping here for fresh organic food, flowers and crafts, which you can buy directly from small farmers from around the Bay Area.
Are buying the latest fashions the highlight of your shopping trip to San Francisco? Seek out quirky styles from one-of-a-kind shops in the Mission or Haight. You’ll find authentic, inexpensive Chinese arts, colourful silks and carved jade jewellery in Chinatown. Take home a genuine flavour of San Francisco from your shopping trip, with some Ghirardelli Chocolate. They’ve been making these dark delicacies in San Francisco since 1852.
