Must-see shopping in Europe

  • Daily Day exterior

    Daily Day

    Aliados & Bolhão

    Daily Day is a groovy concept store predominantly stocking ‘Made in Portugal’ products. You’ll find clothing, shoes and accessories for men, women and…

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    Laboratorio Jane Harman

    Oltrarno

    Florence resident since the '80s, British-born Jane Harman is an antiques restorer with more than 30 years' experience. She's opened this quaint store by…

  • Art Store Podval

    Kyiv

    This is an apparel and crafts store where everything sold is of 100% Ukrainian origin. Most notable is the clothing, including some highly original…

  • Tools and objects at Objects of Use

    Objects of Use

    Oxford

    The name says it all: this fascinating and quaint shop is piled high with useful household objects and tools to make each day easier. Everything is…

  • Valencian beers for sale in La Boutique de la Cerveza.

    La Boutique de la Cerveza

    Valencia

    A welcome surprise in lager-dominant Spain, this beer-lover’s boutique sells hundreds of bottles from more than 30 countries, including a good range from…

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    Chök

    El Raval

    Set inside an old chocolate-maker's store, with original wooden shelving and stained glass, Chök specialises in all things sweet, but especially doughnuts…

  • Kolonaki Weekly Market

    Athens

    Most Athens neighbourhoods have a weekly laïki agora, a street market for fruit, veg and household miscellany, and Kolonaki's is a good one. Leafy…

  • Wok shop entrance

    Wok

    Milan

    This is where the hip and affluent crowd of Milan go to maintain their on-trend wardrobes. It has an eclectic selection that mixes up avant-garde,…

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    Vienna

    Sandra Haischberger's exquisite handmade porcelain reveals a clean, modern aesthetic. Her range of home accessories, tableware and lighting is minimalist,…

  • The entrance to Mori & Bozzi on the busy Strada Nuova

    Mori & Bozzi

    Venice

    Mori & Bozzi has been a beacon of light for Venetian shoe lovers for decades. Its fantastic collection of high-quality, funky footwear includes brands…

  • The window of 21 Shop boutique in St Petersburg.

    21 Shop

    St Petersburg

    Pick up a locally designed T-shirt, sweatshirt, bag or other item of streetwear or accessory at this large unisex boutique with its entrance just off…

  • Politikens Boghal

    Copenhagen

    Copenhagen's biggest Danish- and English-language bookshop has been nourishing minds for over a century. Complete with sofas for browsing, it has a…

  • Malt window

    Malt

    Marseille

    This artisanal beer shop sells a top notch selection of ales, IPAs, lagers, stouts and the like from across France as well as Canada, Italy, the UK, the…

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    Galerija Idrijske Čipke

    Ljubljana

    If Idrija in Primorska is not on your itinerary but you hanker for some of the fine lace for which that town is renowned, visit this shop. It has a large…

  • Exterior of the Tenoha concept space

    Tenoha

    Milan

    Direct from Tokyo comes Milan’s one and only Japanese concept space. Combining a sleek cafe with a homewares and design shop, a co-working area and a…

  • Stiu shopfront

    Stiù

    Milan

    Billed as a creative lab for emerging designers, Stiù stocks shoes that are often bold and always on trend. Along with the likes of Swedish Vagabond and…

  • Annie Smith jewellery studio on Raeburn Place, Stockbridge.

    Annie Smith

    Edinburgh

    Annie Smith’s back-of-the-shop studio creates beautiful and original contemporary jewellery in silver and 18-carat gold, with beaten and worked surfaces…

  • Portuguese products at Mercearia do Poço dos Negros

    Mercearia Poço dos Negros

    Bairro Alto, Chiado & Cais do Sodré

    This grocery store mixes corner-shop familiarity with the atmosphere of a gourmet grocery store selling only high-quality Portuguese products, without the…

  • Welsh gifts at Bodlon

    Bodlon

    Cardiff

    If you're after a properly Welsh souvenir that isn't too cheesy, this shop in the Welsh cultural centre is a great place to look. Named for the Welsh for …

  • Marché Forville

    Cannes

    For local culture, head to Cannes' busy food market, a couple of blocks back from the port. In the biz since 1934, it is one of the most important markets…

  • De Revolutionibus, at the end of Bracka by St. Francis Church is this popular bookshop

    De Revolutionibus

    Kraków

    You can peruse books and sample cake and coffee in this combo bookshop/coffeehouse. There's a small English-language section and a quaint selection of…

  • Venini artistic glass.

    Venini

    Murano, Burano & the Northern Islands

    Even if you don't have the cash to buy a Venini, pop into this gallery to see Murano glass at its finest. Of the big houses, Venini remains the most chic,…

  • Vintage joy at Lucy's Lounge

    Lucy's Lounge

    Temple Bar

    Go through the upstairs boutique and you’ll find a staircase to an Aladdin’s basement of vintage goodies. You can easily while away an hour or two here…

  • Bontonland exterior

    Bontonland

    Prague

    Claiming to be the biggest music megastore in Czechia, this huge, multi-level store stocks pretty much everything, including Western chart music,…

  • YLKA Design Studio

    Budapest

    Home to a half-dozen young local designers, YLKA Design Studio is a workshop and a showroom. Its eclectic collection includes fashion, leather goods as…

  • Palmetta Design

    Budapest

    Although Palmetta Design has its home in the town of Szentendre, this small boutique in Budapest’s XI District is worth a visit as it showcases a range of…

  • Pinocchio's wooden mascot., Pinocchio's Toys & Gifts

    Pinocchio's Toys & Gifts

    Cork City

    Forget your plastic playthings, explore this little gem full of ethically sourced and good quality toys. Most are traditional creations made of wood and…

  • Ciasmo shop front

    Ciasmo

    Milan

    With two nimble-fingered seamstresses for grandmothers, it's unsurprising that Sara Scaramuzza’s fashion and homewares showroom is full of colourful,…

  • Mercearia Criativa in Lisbon

    Mercearia Criativa

    Lisbon

    There is hardly an empty space inside this cosy grocery store with its red-and-white-striped canopy and baskets of colourful fresh vegetables on the…

  • pgi Pagani

    Athens

    The Pagani family selects all the unique decorative items, handmade jewellery, ceramics and art featured in their shop in Monastiraki’s buzzing shopping…

  • The pink hues of et Moi et Moi

    et Moi et Moi

    Marseille

    Quirky and stylish homewares, kids' toys, patisseries, fine chocolate and even a small contemporary art gallery: there's a surprising variety of delights…

  • Mauro Leone entrance

    Mauro Leone

    Milan

    A firm favourite with fashionistas on a budget, Mauro Leone's handmade-in-Italy footwear offers style for between €50 and €80 per pair. Pick from a range…

  • One of the vendors at the historic Mercato Testaccio, Cesare the butcher (he's the fourth generation in his family to run the business).

    Nuovo Mercato di Testaccio

    San Giovanni & Testaccio

    Occupying a modern, purpose-built site, Testaccio's neighbourhood market hums with activity as locals go about their daily shopping, picking, prodding and…

  • Manner

    Vienna

    Austrian favourite Manner – a glorious concoction of wafers and hazelnut cream – has its own concept store decked out in its signature peachy-pink. Buy…

  • Unity Concept Store exterior.

    Unity Conceptstore

    Marseille

    Owned by a designer and an architect, Unity has plenty of suitcase-fillers for the modern aesthete. Painted skateboards by Boom-Art, Pantone coffee mugs,…

  • DMagazine shop front

    DMagazine

    Milan

    Given you usually have to schlep out of town for deeply discounted designer threads, what’s up with this oddly central outlet? Yes, all the major labels…

  • Le Nou, store merchandise.

    Le Nou

    Monti, Esquilino & San Lorenzo

    This clothing store in Monti is run by the startlingly talented Eugenia Barbati, who graduated from fashion school and promptly opened up her own place…

  • Botas 66 Store exterior

    Botas 66 Store

    Staré Město

    Get a souvenir in the way of a modern remake of the legendary Czech Botas sneakers from 1966. The sneakers were long forgotten in history, until two young…

  • UJE front facade seen from Stradun

    Uje

    Dubrovnik

    Uje specialises in olive oils, along with a wide range of other locally produced epicurean delights, including some excellent jams, pickled capers, local…

  • Respublika

    Moscow

    It’s a bookstore, but it’s also a gift shop, a music shop and a cafe. This is the place to shop for a quirky gift for your friend who (you think) has…

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