Top 10 Top 10 Shopping Areas
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1. Union Square
Traditionally the focal point of all the best stores, including Tiffany & Co, Armani, Prada, Cartier, Yves St Laurent, Chanel, and more.
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2. Union Street
Converted Victorian homes house a charming assortment of boutiques, bookstores, antiques shops, restaurants, and a cinema.
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3. Grant Avenue
The southernmost four blocks are chic shopping off Union Square; then you enter eight blocks of exotic Chinatown emporiums; finally, Upper Grant is all about North Beach hangouts.
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4. Upper Fillmore Street
A colorful choice of cafés, restaurants, and boutiques, all geared to a high-end Pacific Heights clientele.
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5. Market Street
A good place to find cut-rate electronics shops, as well as outlet shops like Old Navy clothing store.
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6. Hayes Valley
These blocks offer shopping with an avant garde feel.
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7. Chestnut Street
Clothing boutiques, health-food shops, and an old-fashioned cinema.
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8. The Mission
Plenty of super-discount stores and funky home furnishing shops (see Mission District).
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9. Castro District
Fine shops, gay bookstores and erotic boutiques.
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10. Haight Street
This is still hippie-central – secondhand clothing and esoteric emporiums (see Haight-Ashbury).
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