Shopping List: Bloomingdale's is the New San Francisco Treat
10/10/2006 at 1:24 PM
Tags: Shopping List, San Francisco (all tags)
Before Bloomingdale's opened nearly two weeks ago in San Francisco, there was only one--count it--one Bloomingdale's in the entire Northern California region and that was out in Palo Alto. If you are a transplant from let's say oh New Jersey, this was a full-blown shopping mall travesty.
Luckily, Bloomingdale's righted this terrible wrong with their new West Coast headquarters and second largest Bloomie's after the NYC one. It has five floors of wonderful merchandise. Men, there's an entire floor for you! When has that ever happened? Usually you get the one corner near the really crappy mall entrance. But here you have your pick of designers.
Women of course, should find at least one or two things here to buy for yourself from the other four floors.
More on Bloomie's and the Insider Tip post-click.
The design is modern and sleek (no carpeting) and while there is no old department store charm, the newness of the place is quite exciting. Perhaps understanding that you may spend an entire day here exploring, the store has put bathrooms on each floor. And that's not all, there are small lounges just outside the restrooms that fit in with the floor's merchandise (the bottom floor has the kid's department so there are video games in the lounge; on the men's floor there's a huge flat-screen TV that was turned on to the day's football game.)
Aside from Bloomie's, the San Francisco Centre has been completely redone by the Westfield Shopping Center (it is connected to the other mall which houses the Nordstrom's) to include a Bristol Farms gourmet market, a spanking new food court, a movie theater and of course, cool stores like a Vans sneaker store, H&M and the new Gap spin-off, Forthe and Towne.
Insider Tip: Skip the Food Court. Even though its brand-new and full of "cool" food options (no Chik-Fil-A here), go next-door to Wichcraft, a sandwich restaurant. Like Bloomingdales, Wichcraft is a product of NYC with locations in Union Square, Tribeca, 5th Ave and West Chelsea.
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· Fashionable expansion: S.F. store marks big push in West by N.Y. retailer [SF Gate]
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