Shopping reviews for USA

The remote end of the Hotel Nikko reception is filled with contemporarty art, and all the pieces are on sale -- in other words, art gallery Baxter Chang Patri has an outlet in the lobby.

The place is especially nice to visit when you are waiting your business acquitances to show up and you have a... More >

Bay Street Shops is a newly developed shopping center in Emeryville. The parking lots are hidden from the view behind the shops and there is no "mall" feeling. Instead, the street looks like any shopping street in central Europe.

The shopping area is not huge, one street and shops for two blocks ... More >

Bayside Marketplace is an open air shopping mall located near the seashore in Miami. The mall is a bit low-key in architecture, and it has a strange out-of-place feeling that I've never felt before in any shopping mall in the US. It felt like Asian mall, full of people and a lot of small vendor stal... More >

Bloomingdales is a huge shopping complex for a department store, located a few blocks away from the busiest hustle-bustle of New York's main shopping streets. It is worth the detour, as it conveniently enough collects a lot of interesting brands and items under a single roof.

All normal areas of ... More >

Books & Books is a small bookstore chain that has a few outlets in and around Miami region -- there's one also in the Caribbean... The store we visited is located on a nice shopping street in Miami Beach.

The store is not extremely big, but is has a wide variety of books and magazines, and some t... More >

Borders bookstore is a very well-stocked bookstore in the heart of San Francisco shopping area at Union Square.

The first floor of the store concentrates on literature with some fact book sections here and there. The second floor hosts a good selection of art and photography books and the top flo... More >

Borders bookstore on Santana Row has a wide selection of both fiction and non-fiction books. Especially the arts, design, photography and architecture section is good. Literature shelves are also good, but tilted towards American literature.

The upper floor has music collections that are okay, if... More >

Brooklyn Industries manufactures trendy garments that are somehow related to the neighbourhoods of Brooklyn. Usually it is an image on a t-shirt, but the connection can be more subtle.

The best way to buy Brooklyn Industries stuff is to go to Brooklyn. They have one outlet in Williamsburg on Bedf... More >

Independent book stores are far and between in the USA, as Borders and Barnes & Noble have almost saturated the market. Sometimes I happen to find such a store, and it has to be checked out, as usually they stock a bit different set of books than the chain stores.

Browser Books is a compact books... More >

Burberry has been quite chic for the past few years and the subdued British charm is still a big hit with fashion aficionados. I can heartily suggest to buy a few Burberry handbags or scarfs -- you can never have too many of them. Trenchcoats are another longtime favourite.

San Francisco store is... More >