The Best Specialty Store in San Francisco

3Pillars

Located outside the Japan Center Malls, directly across from Hotel Kabuki, 3Pillars is Japantown's artist-run art & gift shop! Local art, small businesses & Bay Area nostalgia. more

826 Valencia - The Pirate Store

826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting under-resourced students ages six to eighteen with their creative and expository writing skills and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Our services are structured arou... more

Aegean Delights

Greek and Turkish sweets, coffee, tea, music, dance, cuisine, culture, life-style and travel. more

Aloha Warehouse

The Bay Area's Hawaiian Connection! Aloha Warehouse is your home for Ukuleles, Fresh Lei and Flower Arrangements, Hawaiian Music & DVDs, and more! We are located in San Francisco's Japantown in the Buchanan Shopping Center. more

Asian Renaissance

Asian Image's sister store, Asian Renaissance presents many possibilities for those of gift-giving sensibilities: ceramic tea and sake sets in traditional and contemporary glazes redefine stuffy notions of the classic accoutréments of tea and hospita... more

Atys

ATYS is a specialty shop that features products designed by visionary architects and industrial designers from around the world. We specialize in modern items from Scandinavia, Germany, Italy and France.  From fireplace tools to cufflinks, we... more

Autumn Express

Your fair trade and digital green printing shop in the heart of San Francisco. Autumn Express can print your business cards, postcards, flyers.....on recycled paper and same day. There’s an exciting new addition to the colorful culture of San F... more

Avenues Dry Goods

Useful, practical, and delightful goods for life on the edge of the continent. more

Bernal Cutlery Workshop

A Knife Shop & Sharpening Service. Bernal Cutlery specializes in handmade and small factory make Japanese knives: Akifusa, Ashi Hamono, Mutsumi Hinoura, Tsukasa Hinoura, Ohishi, Sakai Kikumori, Sakai Konosuke, MAC, Fujiwara Teruyasu, Yoshikane,... more

Botanica Yoruba

For your specialized spiritual needs, go to the beautiful Botanica Yoruba on Valencia Street, at 21st. Incense as soon as you walk in, but this is the good stuff: Frankincense, like they use in church. It's sold here in crystals and you need a disk o... more

Cliffs Variety

One of the classic hardware stores in San Francisco, Cliff's Variety is known for being a friendly service hardware store and for carrying unique items that cater to Victorian and Edwardian home owners. more

COLLAGE

COLLAGE in San Francisco features elegant home decor and art to beautify one's abode. Objects re-invented, recycled and given a new life, ready for your home. more

Crossroads Castro

One of the best used clothing stores in the city. Specializes in carrying quality used clothing and accessories for both men and women. Definitely one of the first places to check out when shopping for used clothing or trying to unload old threads. more

Crossroads Fillmore

Buy, Sell and Trade Fashionable, Gently Used Clothes In 1991, we opened our very first Crossroads on the corner of Fillmore & Bush in San Francisco. Since then, the neighborhood has blossomed into one of the top boutique shopping destinations... more

Crossroads Inner Sunset

One of the best used clothing stores in the city. Specializes in carrying quality used clothing and accessories for both men and women. Definitely one of the first places to check out when shopping for used clothing or trying to unload old threads. more

Distractions

This store is jam-packed with all the distractions you need to feed your head. The selection is floor-to-ceiling pipes, bongs, incense, postcards, clothing, black lights, spinning lights, psychedelic lights, stickers, perfume oils, temporary tattoos,... more

Earthen

Since 2012 we've been making ceramics that celebrate simple pleasures - cradling a warm cup of coffee, pausing to burn your favorite incense, vases full of fresh flowers, shared meals with friends. Our work is deeply inspired by nature, rooted in fol... more

elizabethW

Elizabeth Wightman was my great grand-mother. She founded a ranch in the Sierra Nevadas in the 1800's, when neither grace nor style were required or desired. Her spirit of determination and independence went hand in hand with her romantic nature and... more

Empress Vintage Studio

Empress Vintage is a vintage boutique store that carries high quality vintage clothing and accessories for both men and women, located in Berkeley. At Empress Vintage, you'll enter a space that caters to your unique taste and values our community.... more

Fiddlesticks

We believe that being a kid is fun and the clothes they wear while doing it should be fun too. There's no need to drag your littles through crowded stores where they get in trouble for exploring. Kids deserve funky, stylish clothes that can survive p... more

Foggy Notion

Foggy Notion is a shop & studio in San Francisco's Inner Richmond. Alissa Anderson carries local, handmade, organic, and wildcrafted goods and makes her own line of recycled accessories, mittenmaker, right in the shop. more

Gump's

Your destination for luxury gifts, jewelry, artful objects and home decor. While Gump's has seen big changes over the years, our devotion to exquisite craftsmanship and international designers and artisans remains just as strong today as it did more... more

Held Over Vintage

One of the original thrift shops in Haight Ashbury. Held Over Vintage offers a wide selection of Bogart hats, leather jackets, and Levi's. more

Hungrybunny

Showcasing a bevy of delightful items for food lovers young and old, from toys, games, and gadgets to aprons, art, specialty finds, and beyond! more

Jeremiah's Pick Coffee Co.

What sets our coffees and our company apart? A simple concept: "Right Roast. Right Taste." Starting with the finest green coffee beans, selected by Jeremiah, each small batch is hand-roasted and married carefully to the right color profile to highlig... more

Just For Fun & Scribbledoodles - Artsake

Featuring the Bay Area's largest and most diverse collection of social stationery, gifts, toys, arts & crafts supplies, and even some home furnishings. more

Lehr's German Specialties

This one-of-a-kind store specializes in everything German, from chocolates to cosmetics to compact discs and videos. It's the perfect place to find a birthday present for your uncle Hans or to pick up an oom-pah-pah CD and start celebrating Oktoberfe... more

Life

A mystical place filled with scented candles, pure essential oils, body lotions, bath salts, hand-made soaps, incense, treasure boxes, silver jewelry, sarongs from Bali & India, tarot cards and much more for your senses. Life also offers the H... more

Local Craft- Cut*Sew

Local Craft, home of Cut•Sew, provides custom sewing services for residential and commercial clients. Specializing in custom slipcovers, prototypes and product development, we provide quality workmanship, comprehensive consultation and facilitat... more

localstrange

Buy Sell Trade. Unique items for your home or for gifts. We open only if you make an appointment. more

Love on Haight

Peace, Love, Kindness, Rainbows & Sparkles rule here and whatever the question … love is the answer. We are a family run establishment and everything in our shop is made by our family & friends. We are firm believers in the ideal of "Weara... more

Loved to Death

Established in 2008. Owned by Audra Kunkle.  Taxidermy Memento Mori Jewelry, Accessories, Curiosities, Oddities, Victorian Antiques and Art! more

Mad Moon Creations

Mad Moon Creations specialized in one-of-a-kind Celebration Books customized with stories and photographs from the recipient's closest friends and family. more

Miniso

What is this place? Speakers, kitchen knives, organizers, small appliances, We Bare Bears cups. Fun, kitchy and wacky. more

Molte Cose

Stocking new and vintage offerings, Molte Cose and adjoining Bella Cose carry specialty items so unique you'll swear they were picked out just for you and yours. With sunshine yellow walls and a friendly, helpful staff, Molte Cose is composed of trea... more

Out of the Closet - Polk

Out of the Closet Thrift Stores are your one-stop destination for thrift shopping near you. Browse a wide selection of second-hand clothes, vintage garments, and home decor. We offer convenient clothing and furniture donation drop-off services, as we... more

Out of the Closet - SoMa

Out of the Closet Thrift Stores are your one-stop destination for thrift shopping near you. Browse a wide selection of second-hand clothes, vintage garments, and home decor. We offer convenient clothing and furniture donation drop-off services, as we... more

Paxton Gate

The store that started it all, Paxton Gate in San Francisco contains 2000 square feet of vintage taxidermy, ethically-sourced skulls and bones, unique plant life, and an assortment of home goods for the curious collector. Originally opened in an alle... more

Perch SF

Perch – An eclectic collection of gifts & home accents influenced by our favorite mix of modern, vintage and international products. Perch offers an environment where we hope you feel welcome, want to stay, perch awhile and find something uniqu... more

Photoworks SF

Since 1987, Photoworks SF has continued to meet the needs of the Bay Area photo community and beyond. We like to think of ourselves as a shop in which photographers and artists of all skill levels can explore their creativity as we provide the necess... more

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