Carmel Plaza
High fashion and a community gathering place
IN THE HEART of Carmel-by-the-sea, Carmel Plaza offers the village’s largest concentration of luxury and name brand retailers. Fine stores and boutiques stand within three levels, including Tiffany & Co., Bottega Veneta and Anthropologie. Specialty retailers include Cos Bar, a luxury cosmetics and skin care boutique, and popular Janie and Jack for upscale children’s apparel. For Bohemian style, check out Roller Rabbit’s travel clothing and home goods.
Carmel Plaza’s newest boutiques include Sugarfarm Marketplace for artisan crafts, Cariloha, for ultra-soft, comfortable bamboo clothing and bedding, and Seabags, for totes and accessories crafted from recycled sails. Within House of Cardoon’s color-splashed world of global art and interiors, discover accessories and furniture, textiles and leather goods in an exclusive range of ten colors. Lovers of the links can supply themselves with golf apparel and accessories at Land and Sea Golf or experience an upscale golf simulation at Links Club.
And in dog-friendly Carmel, shops often set out water bowls for pups; stop at The Dog House for toys and custom-made doggie outfits.
Courtyard Gathering Place
In The Courtyard, locals and visitors alike gather around several custom fire pits on comfortable furnishings amid landscaping to relax between shopping and dining. Or take in a California moment during a class at the Seaside Yoga Sanctuary.
In food-centric Carmel Plaza, sample fine, rare cheeses in the internationally renowned The Cheese Shop or enjoy breakfast or lunch at Café Luna. There’s pizza at Rise & Roam, a Roman-style pizzeria, and French bistro fare at the Patisserie Boissiere, which offers lunch and dinner inside an inspired cottage. Also, a Zagat-rated dinner house, The Flying Fish Grill, features Asian-influenced fresh fish fare.
Carmel’s only restaurant and microbrewery, Yeast of Eden, purveys terroir-driven beers paired with a global, street food-inspired menu. Take a (wine) break at the Hahn Family Wines Tasting Room to sip California’s best, one of three Carmel Plaza wine-tasting rooms. Finally, catch a cooking class at the state-of-the-art cooking school at Sur La Table.
Great Customer Service
Since visitors come to Carmel Plaza from the world over, many store employees speak other languages, use phone apps for translation or subscribe to We Chat (the Chinese payment system).
To learn about seasonal sales, promotions, new store openings and special events, such as Carmel Plaza’s annual Summer Live Music Series, check out the center’s Facebook page at Facebook.com/ Shopcarmelplaza. Parking is convenient in space-deficient downtown Carmel; enter the center’s parking garage at Mission Street and 7th Avenue.