Best Shopping Center: Manhattan Village Mall
Featuring more than 80 establishments – ranging from large department stores and small boutiques to restaurants and electronics stores – the Manhattan Village Mall has it all.
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Best of the Beach: Shopping
Best Flower Shop: Growing Wild
This family owned shop, run by twin sisters Lee and Lisa Hoven (twin sisters), has been here over 20 years.
Best Major Shopping Center: Manhattan Village Mall
Featuring more than 80 establishments – ranging from large department stores and small boutiques to restaurants and electronics stores – the Manhattan Village Mall has it all.
Best Neighborhood Shopping: Riviera Village
For the best neighborhood shopping center, Riviera Village wins by a landslide because of its local flavor and variety.
Best Supermarket: Vons
Our readers flipped out over the crispy produce, wide grocery selection and friendly service at Vons.
Best Vintage Clothing: Aardvark
For 40 years this South Bay mainstay has provided our readers with the best in vintage clothing and a wide selection of wigs, jewelry, accessories, hosiery, and shoes.
Best Camera Store: Paul’s Photo
“I’ve been coming here since the ‘60s,” said Glen Combs who no longer lives in the area, but still drives to Torrance to get his cameras fixed.
Best Jewelry Store: Seymour Jewelers
Seymour Jewelers has been in business in downtown Hermosa Beach since 1950, when a young World War II veteran from Brooklyn named Seymour Bilowit walked by an empty storefront and decided to start his own full-service jewelry store.
Best Furniture: Curious…
Bryce Toney knows his audience. The environmentally conscious entrepreneur, tastemaker and self-taught furniture craftsman, opened his home décor boutique in the dire 2009 economy and managed to not only stay afloat, but to actually expand his business twofold.
Best Independent Book Store: {pages} a bookstore
At any given moment, the ladies of Pages are each reading about 10 different books.
Best Swap Meet: Roadium Open Air Market
Located on the hallowed grounds of an old outdoor movie theater and open 365 days a year; the Roadium’s 15 acres of shopping offer customers new and used merchandise from clothes and shoes to spools of thread and fishing gear.
Best Antiquees and Collectibles: Stars Antique Market
A look inside the 7,000 square-foot showroom quickly reveals why Stars is our reader’s first choice.
Best Gift Shop: Gum Tree
This darling shop, inside a 1911 craftsman bungalow with an adjoining café, invites visitors to stroll the wooden floors and admire an eclectic style that is chic yet laid back, with jewelry, scarves and accessories from designers such as Chan Luu, Catherine Weitzman, Wendy Mink and Dogeared.
Best Surf Shop and Men’s Clothing: Spyder Surf
Nothing influences the way beach people dress more than the sport of surfing, which helps explain why our readers named Spyder Surf the Best of the Beach men’s clothing store.
Best Women’s Boutique: Bella Beach
Kris Mackerer D’Errico, South Bay native and owner of Bella Beach and Bella Beach Kids, said the women’s boutique really has something for everyone.