Here’s Why Palisades Village Is Your New Shopping Happy Place

From dramatic African fertility sculptures to cushy Bengalese bed covers, St. Frank is filled with responsibly sourced global finds in colors that suit every palette.

The Little Market has artisan-made gifts from around the world arranged in color stories on the shelves, so it’s easy to grab a few, say, pink felted animals or white-on-white tabletop pieces andthen hand them to a sales assistant to wrap in a cute tote. Plus, the whole enterprise is a nonprofit that benefits global makers.

Seattle-based James Beard Award–winning chef Renee Erickson, we salute you. Because when everything from global crises to shopping bags feels too heavy to bear, we can stop into General Porpoise coffee shop and have a vanilla custard or PB & J doughnut that makes it all better.

Beverly Hills barber-to-the-stars Gornik & Drucker has opened an outpost in the village, and we recommend wrapping up one of the house-brand pomades and enclosing a gift certificate for a $75 shave. Totally worth it for the whole hot-towel-and-straight-edge-razor shebang.

On weekends, Pali Petals Flower Truck sells $25 bouquets you’ll be reluctant to give away. 

Built in 1948 complete with a splashy marquee, the Bay Theatre by Cinépolis has been reconfigured into five screening rooms that have 60 seats or fewer, so the experience is more like hanging at a hotshot producer’s manse than a public theater. And the seats have call buttons so you can have dinner and drinks brought to you.