Favorite Specialty Stores

[amaranth]

What non-major chain specialty stores do you enjoy shopping at, either in person or online? I have a couple I frequent, but I'm always interested in more.

-Penzeys Spices (Spices, duh)
-Olio (Oils & Vinegars)
-Modcloth (Vintage style clothes)
-Ruche (clothes)
-Lily Boutique (clothes)
-Home Goods (totally a chain, but I often find unique products there I can only re-find online. Especially teas)

[Deleted]

I never heard of those, with the exception of Modcloth and Home Goods! It seems that most of the things I buy are at mainstream stores or Amazon. There's a cheese shop I like nearby that has a huge variety of international cheeses, but it's a local store. H sometimes goes to a local beef jerky shop - it's seriously the most delicious jerky ever. Other than that, I get some dog things from Chewy.com.

[katespade]

I don't do much online shopping at non-major/chain stores. I do like to shop local whenever I can, though.

[Deleted]

I like to try and shop local. Obviously I like to go to wineries to buy wine. That's a given lol. I actually buy a lot of my specialty oils and vinegars at different wineries. I also buy a lot from the local farmers market.

I do love Home Goods though. I need to go there soon to get some stuff.

[amaranth]

I'm sad I didn't get any new recs. Not that I need to spend more money, but you never know what you're missing

[wanderingenough]

My friend introduced me to a great skin/body product store, called Sabon. I ordered an awesome salt scrub from there. It wasn't cheap, but I can see why she is addicted to their products.

[melsamoony]

All my fav specialty stores are DC area:
-Dawn price baby-great for kids/baby stuff especially showers
-capital area teas- great tea shop

Food:
-teds bulletin-dinner
-sweet green-salads
-Taylor gourmet-sammys/salads

HoneySpider have you tried any of these places to eat? They have several locations in the city.

[amaranth]

Sept 5, 2015 11:27:18 GMT -5 melsamoony said:

All my fav specialty stores are DC area:
-Dawn price baby-great for kids/baby stuff especially showers
-capital area teas- great tea shop

Food:
-teds bulletin-dinner
-sweet green-salads
-Taylor gourmet-sammys/salads

HoneySpider have you tried any of these places to eat? They have several locations in the city.

I had a very delicious salad at sweet green last summer. They also had strawberry basil lemonade. MMM.

[grover]

I dislike HomeGoods. MIL got us a giftcard there to get stuff for our new house and so far, all but one item was either damaged or broke on us. I landed up using the remaining balance on dog poop bags just to use up the remaining credit so we don't have to go back there.

[HoneySpider]

melsamoony We've been to Taylor Gourmet, yum! There's a sweetgreen not too far from us but haven't been there yet, I'll have to check it out at some point