Shopping in Scottsdale, decoded by a local

Fifth Avenue Shops

Fifth Avenue is the curving boutique street west of Scottsdale Road that has been Old Town's 'shopping street' since the early 1950s — Southwestern jewelry, western wear, galleries and gift shops along shaded courtyards, with Craftsman Court, a single mid-century lane off the curve, holding the best restaurants in the city. It never got redeveloped, which is the whole charm.

Bronze Horse Fountain · Craftsman Court · FnB · Citizen Public House · Berdena's · Cartel Roasting Co. · Zoolikins · Mini Social

Kierland Commons

Kierland Commons is the open-air 'main street' at Scottsdale Road and Greenway-Hayden Loop that taught the Valley a shopping center could feel like a neighborhood — tree-lined streets, angled parking, and a restaurant row that became north Scottsdale's de facto downtown. It carries a Scottsdale address and sits entirely inside Phoenix.

Crate & Barrel · Anthropologie · Tommy Bahama · North Italia · Zinc Bistro · Mastro's Ocean Club

Scottsdale Fashion Square

Scottsdale Fashion Square is roughly two million square feet at Scottsdale and Camelback — the largest mall in the Southwest, the only one in Arizona where Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom share a roof, and the place P.F. Chang's was invented. It is also, in July, the best air-conditioned walk in the city, which locals value more than the handbags.

Neiman Marcus · Nordstrom · Dillard's · Macy's · Harkins Camelview · Nobu

Los Arcos Mall

Los Arcos Mall opened in 1969 at Scottsdale and McDowell Roads as the city's first enclosed mall, anchored by Sears and The Broadway, and for a generation it was the retail heart of south Scottsdale — the birthday-at-Farrell's, back-to-school, air-conditioned downtown for the ranch-house grid around it. It lost its anchors and its customers through the 1990s, closed in 1999, and after a contentious arena fight the rubble became SkySong, ASU's innovation center, in 2008.

Sears · The Broadway

The Borgata of Scottsdale

The Borgata opened in 1981 on Scottsdale Road near Lincoln Drive as a replica of the Tuscan hill town of San Gimignano — brick towers, crenellations, cobbled courtyards — wrapped around boutiques, a farmers market and the celebration restaurants of a generation. It was beloved, endlessly photographed and chronically underperforming as retail, cycled through owners and reinvention schemes, and faded out as a shopping village in the 2010s before the towers found a second act as a dining destination.

Mancuso's · Cafe Terra Cotta · Frankie's Patio Cafe

Craftsman Court

Craftsman Court is the one-block cul-de-sac off the curve of Fifth Avenue that Scottsdale built in 1955 for the artisans burned out of the Arizona Craft Center — low mid-century storefronts around a shaded lane, meant for making things rather than merely selling them. Seventy years on it is the most important half-acre of dining in Arizona, home to FnB, and still the quietest place to sit down in Old Town.

FnB · Berdena's · Mid-century studio storefronts

Hilton Village

The Shops at Hilton Village is the low-key, upscale open-air center attached to the Hilton resort at Scottsdale Road and Lincoln Drive — AJ's Fine Foods, a Venetian trattoria that has not changed since 1997, and a bench of unflashy locals' spots at the corridor's busiest crossroads. It was one of the city's first experiments in giving a hotel its own walkable street, decades before Kierland made the idea fashionable.

AJ's Fine Foods · Veneto Trattoria

Lincoln Village

Lincoln Village is the unassuming strip center on the east side of Scottsdale Road just south of Lincoln Drive that, for a quarter century, held two of the most important restaurants in Arizona — Chrysa Robertson's Rancho Pinot and James McDevitt's Restaurant Hapa — behind a façade nobody would look at twice. It still serves the resort corridor with salons, services and small shops, and it is the best argument in the city for never judging a restaurant by its parking lot.

Chef-owned rooms (historically) · Neighborhood services · Boutiques

Main Street & Marshall Way Arts District

The blocks of Main Street west of Scottsdale Road and Marshall Way north toward the canal hold Scottsdale's gallery concentration — Western bronze and landscape painting on Main, contemporary work on Marshall — and every Thursday night since 1975 they open their doors for the oldest continuously running ArtWalk in the country. Galleries come and go; the ritual does not.

Scottsdale's Museum of the West · Thursday ArtWalk · Virtù Honest Craft · Sel

Market Street at DC Ranch

Market Street is the village center of DC Ranch — a few blocks of stone-and-stucco storefronts, a gourmet grocer, patios and a prime steakhouse laid out like a small-town main street at the foot of the McDowell Mountains. It opened in 2003 to give a master-planned community a heart, and it is the best example in Scottsdale of a shopping center that actually works as a neighborhood.

AJ's Fine Foods · Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar · Grimaldi's Pizzeria · Armitage Wine Lounge

Mercado at Scottsdale Ranch

The Mercado at Scottsdale Ranch is the Spanish-styled neighborhood center on Via Linda near 101st Street, planned into Scottsdale Ranch's 1980s master plan as the community's commercial heart — services, offices and small shops around a plaza, with a French bistro that gives the whole center a reason to exist after dark. It is a working neighborhood center in the Shea corridor's quietest master plan, and one of the better strip-mall dinners in the city.

Voilà French Bistro · Neighborhood services · Small shops around the plaza

Mercado del Lago

Mercado del Lago is the Spanish-styled neighborhood center on the west shore of McCormick Ranch's lake at Hayden Road and Via de Ventura — a courtyard of restaurants, services and small shops whose back patios look out over water, fountains and the ducks that the Ranch's 1970s planners put there on purpose. It is the only shopping center in Scottsdale where you eat pancakes on a lakefront, and the neighborhood's living room.

Butters Pancakes & Café · Lakeside restaurant patios · Neighborhood services

Scottsdale 101

Scottsdale 101 is the sprawling power center at the northwest corner of Scottsdale Road and the Loop 101 — Target, Best Buy, PetSmart, a Harkins multiplex and the rest of the national big-box roster on one enormous lot. It carries the Scottsdale name and sits west of Scottsdale Road, which puts it inside Phoenix, and it is where north Scottsdale actually shops on a Saturday when nobody is trying to impress anyone.

Target · Best Buy · PetSmart · Michaels · Ross Dress for Less · Harkins Scottsdale 101

Scottsdale Promenade

Scottsdale Promenade is the big-box-and-restaurant hybrid at Scottsdale Road and Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard, a mile north of Kierland — Nordstrom Rack, Trader Joe's, a ring of chain restaurants and The Capital Grille, serving the Airpark's office parks by day and north Scottsdale's errand runs by night. Nobody plans a vacation around it; everybody who lives up here is in it once a week.

Nordstrom Rack · Trader Joe's · The Capital Grille

Scottsdale Quarter

Scottsdale Quarter is the mixed-use retail, office and residential district that opened in 2009 directly across Scottsdale Road from Kierland Commons — bigger, newer and louder than its neighbor, with a garage that never fills, a theater, a rooftop pool on a steakhouse and the original True Food Kitchen. Together the two centers are one district, and this is the half that is actually in Scottsdale.

Apple · RH · Pottery Barn · West Elm · iPic Theaters · True Food Kitchen

Scottsdale Seville

Scottsdale Seville is the 1980s Spanish-revival center at the southeast corner of Scottsdale Road and Indian Bend Road — tile roofs, arcades, a tower and a fountain courtyard wrapped around restaurants, salons and boutiques. It is the resort corridor's neighborhood center, halfway between the Lincoln Drive resorts and McCormick Ranch, and its patios do a quiet, steady business that the flashier centers to the north and south never notice.

Restaurant patios · Salons & studios · Boutiques around the courtyard

Scottsdale Waterfront

The Scottsdale Waterfront is the mid-2000s development that turned an 1885 irrigation canal into an address — condo towers, canal-side restaurant patios and the Soleri Bridge along Camelback Road, directly across from Fashion Square. It is Old Town's polished end, and for ten November nights during Canal Convergence it is the best free show in Arizona.

Olive & Ivy · P.F. Chang's flagship · Maple & Ash · Culinary Dropout · Soleri Bridge

Southbridge

Southbridge is the strip of Stetson Drive on the south bank of the Arizona Canal — a mid-2000s mixed-use development wrapped around the restaurant row that Cowboy Ciao and its siblings had already made famous, facing the Waterfront across the water. It is Old Town's best canal-side dining street, and the block whose proposed towers touched off the 2019–2020 referendum fight that decided how tall downtown would be allowed to grow.

Marcellino Ristorante · Barrio Queen · The Ends · Canal-bank patios

The Pavilions at Talking Stick

The Pavilions is where Scottsdale buys a television, a drill and a bag of dog food, then stays for the Saturday-night car show. It opened in 1989 as Scottsdale Pavilions on Salt River Pima-Maricopa land, one of the largest power centers in the country at the time and one of the first major shopping centers built on tribal land anywhere.

Target · The Home Depot · Best Buy · PetSmart · Ross Dress for Less

The Shops at Gainey Village

The Shops at Gainey Village is the upscale open-air center at Scottsdale Road and Doubletree Ranch Road, at the gates of Gainey Ranch — a strip of boutiques, salons and a big health club wrapped around one of the most heavily trafficked restaurant rows in the city. People who could not find the community's gates still say they are 'going to Gainey' on a Sunday morning, and this is what they mean.

Village Health Club & Spa · Hash Kitchen · Pomo Pizzeria Napoletana

Arizona Craft Center

The Arizona Craft Center was the cooperative workshop-and-showroom founded in 1947 that gathered Scottsdale's first colony of silversmiths, leather workers, potters, weavers and painters under one roof and gave a farm town of a few hundred people an arts economy. It burned in 1950, and the artisans it scattered along Fifth Avenue and Main Street became the reason downtown Scottsdale looks and sells the way it does. No building in the city's retail history lasted less time or mattered more.

Silversmiths · Leather workers · Potters · Weavers · Painters

Camelback Mall

Camelback Mall was the strip center that opened in 1963 on the south side of Camelback Road across from Fashion Square, with a grocery store, a row of shops and, from 1965, the Camelback Cinema I-II-III. In its last act it was Scottsdale's nightlife address, home to Jetz and Stixx, two of the hottest clubs in Arizona in the mid-1990s. Harkins closed the cinema in February 1998 and the site was razed for the Scottsdale Waterfront, the canal-side district that stands there now.

Camelback Cinema I-II-III · A grocery store · Jetz · Stixx

Camelview Plaza

Camelview Plaza was the 1970s open-air shopping center on the west side of Scottsdale Road at Camelback, directly across from Scottsdale Fashion Square, best remembered for the Harkins Camelview theater that showed the Valley its foreign and independent films. Fashion Square's late-1990s expansion absorbed the site, bridged Camelback Road to connect the two, and left the Camelview name alive only on a movie marquee.

Harkins Camelview

El Pedregal Festival Marketplace

El Pedregal was the festival marketplace built at the entrance to the Boulders resort in 1989 — a Moroccan-souk fantasy of pink stucco, arched walkways and galleries wrapped around a courtyard amphitheater at the foot of the granite piles, with a satellite of the Heard Museum for a decade. It gave far-north Scottsdale a bazaar, a concert venue and a place to be after dark, and then faded through the 2000s until the buildings came down in the late 2010s.

Heard Museum North (1996–2007) · Galleries & boutiques · The courtyard amphitheater

Kiva Craft Center

The Kiva Craft Center was the complex of studios and shops that Cherokee designer Lloyd Kiva New built on Fifth Avenue in the mid-1950s — his own fashion and handbag studio at its heart, with working artisans around it, most famously the Hopi jeweler Charles Loloma. It put Native design in Neiman Marcus and Vogue from a Scottsdale side street, and when New left in 1962 to co-found the Institute of American Indian Arts, the center's run as the most important craft address in the Southwest ended.

Kiva fashions & handbags · Charles Loloma jewelry · Artisan studios

Papago Plaza

Papago Plaza was the pueblo-style shopping center at Scottsdale Road and McDowell Road — a 1960s strip of adobe-look stucco, rounded parapets and faded signage that stood as south Scottsdale's gateway landmark for half a century and, from 2001, housed the Papago Brewing taproom that taught the Valley to drink craft beer. It was razed in 2019 for a mixed-use redevelopment that took the plaza's name and none of its soul.

Scottsdale Galleria

The Scottsdale Galleria opened in 1991 on Scottsdale Road in downtown as an upscale enclosed mall with a dramatic multi-story atrium, and it failed within about two years, closing in 1993. The building sat mostly empty for the rest of the decade before being converted into offices as the Galleria Corporate Centre — Scottsdale's most expensive retail lesson, and the one that proved downtown wanted galleries and bars, not a mall.

The Citadel

The Citadel was the adobe-styled retail, dining and lodging complex that Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice Vern Swaback designed at Pinnacle Peak Road and Pima Road in 1985, when the corner was still open desert — a fortress of boutiques and galleries around a waterfall courtyard, with an inn and two of north Scottsdale's landmark restaurants, 8700 and later Michael's. It was the far north's first taste of luxury before Troon and DC Ranch existed, and its era as a shopping village ended in the 2000s as the neighborhood it had pioneered outgrew it.

8700 at the Citadel · Michael's at the Citadel · Inn at the Citadel · Galleries & boutiques

Cavalliere's Blacksmith Shop

George Cavalliere set up his forge in the Scottsdale townsite in 1910, built the adobe shop on Brown Avenue in 1920, and his family has run it ever since — Scottsdale's oldest continuously operating business, now making ornamental ironwork instead of horseshoes. It is the one building in Old Town that was authentically Western before anyone thought to sell the idea.

Custom ornamental ironwork — a gate, a railing, a fire screen — made by the family that shod the town's horses

Saba's Western Wear

The Saba family opened a dry-goods store on Main Street in 1921 and never left downtown, growing into the Valley's best-known Western-wear name with its flagship still in the heart of Old Town. It is the rare Scottsdale institution that predates the cowboy theming it now sells.

A pair of properly fitted boots, sized by someone who has done it for decades

The Poisoned Pen

Barbara Peters opened a mystery bookstore on Goldwater Boulevard in 1989 and turned it into one of the most famous independent bookshops in America, known for an author-event calendar that reads like a bestseller list and shelves of signed first editions. It is the one Old Town store that people fly in for.

A signed first edition from an author who stood in this room a week ago

AJ's Fine Foods

The Bashas' family's upscale Arizona grocer, and the Hilton Village store at Scottsdale Road and Lincoln Drive is the flagship of the resort corridor — prepared foods, a real wine cellar, a bakery, a flower shop and the aisles locals use to stock a casita or a Paradise Valley dinner party. It is the grocery store as a resort amenity.

The prepared-foods counter and a bottle from the wine cellar for a casita dinner you didn't cook

Alixandra

Alixandra is the Old Town store of SHOPALIX, the women's boutique group that began as Alixandra Collections, a home-based business in Hinsdale, Illinois, in 2004, founded by a former touring tennis professional. It has since grown to eight stores in two states with its corporate and buying offices in Scottsdale. The Marshall Way shop sells clothing, shoes, bags, jewelry, hats and sport apparel, with brands such as MZ Wallace, Hammitt, Smith & Quinn, Golftini and IBKUL, and keeps seven-day hours.

A resort-ready outfit with the bag and the visor to match, or a golf or tennis look from the sport racks

Altamira Fine Art

Altamira is the Scottsdale outpost of a Jackson Hole gallery, opened on Main Street in 2013 to sell the West the way it is painted now: big, bright, abstracted, in oil and acrylic and bronze and glass and light. If the traditional cowboy canvases a few doors down are the district's past tense, Altamira is its present, and it is the room to see how far Western art has travelled from the campfire.

A contemporary Western canvas that would look wrong above a cowhide sofa and right in a glass house

American Fine Art

American Fine Art, Inc. is the big blue-chip showroom on the southwest corner of Scottsdale Road and Main Street: 12,000 square feet of 19th- to 21st-century European and American art, from Andrew Wyeth and LeRoy Neiman, whose work it says it holds in greater depth than anyone, to Warhol, Lichtenstein, Picasso, Chagall, Miró and Dalí. It is also an art publisher, the exclusive representative of street artist AtZ, and home to a glass studio with live glassblowing. It runs themed exhibitions through the season and keeps longer hours than almost any gallery in the district.

A LeRoy Neiman original or an Andrew Wyeth work on paper, shown in a 12,000-square-foot room on the arts district's front corner

American Leather Company

American Leather Company is the belt-and-buckle shop on the north side of First Avenue, beside Cien Agaves, that by its own account has spent thirty years on the same street. Belts in alligator, crocodile, ostrich, python, lizard, stingray, American bison, bullhide and Italian calf are measured and cut in the shop, then paired with sterling, gold-plated, two-tone or stone-inlaid buckles. Wallets, handbags, vests, jackets and knives fill out the room. It is the Old Town stop for a Western belt that actually fits.

A belt in alligator, ostrich, stingray or bison, measured and cut in the shop, with an inlaid or sterling buckle chosen from the case

Amery Bohling Fine Art

Amery Bohling Fine Art is a painter's own gallery: a small space on First Avenue where Amery Bohling shows and sells her paintings of the American West, above all the Grand Canyon, in a style she calls Romantic Naturalism, with sunlight, cloud and color keyed up past the literal. Open Tuesday through Saturday afternoons, it is one of the few rooms in the arts district where the person who made the work is often the person who sells it, and her paintings also hang in galleries in Taos and Tucson.

A Grand Canyon canvas, light raking across the layers, bought from the painter in her own gallery

AMY Atelier

AMY Atelier is a locally owned contemporary women's boutique that first opened in Phoenix in 2005 and now holds Suite 100 at 7144 East Stetson Drive, on the Southbridge stretch of Old Town. The racks run from Agolde and Frame denim to Veronica Beard, Ulla Johnson, Self-Portrait and party dresses from labels such as Bronx and Banco, and the house pitch is styling: tell them the occasion and they dress you for it. Ranking Arizona put it in the state's top ten women's boutiques for 2026.

A head-to-toe look pulled by the staff from Veronica Beard, Ulla Johnson, Frame or Agolde, finished with a Clare V. bag

Anticus

Anticus is the arts district's hybrid: a fine-art gallery, a boutique bookstore and an artful-living shop under one roof on Scottsdale Road at Main Street. Owner Phillip Payne, an artist from a family of artists, built it around contemporary oils, palette-knife and abstract canvases, bronze figurative sculpture, artisan jewelry, rare and luxury books and three monthly book clubs. It is open seven days a week, stays open into the evening for Thursday ArtWalk, and is the least gallery-like gallery in the district on purpose.

A heavy-impasto palette-knife painting, a rare coffee-table book and a piece of handmade jewelry, bought in one stop

Antique Trove

A big multi-dealer antiques mall on Scottsdale Road south of Old Town that has been a weekend habit for Valley collectors for decades, with booth after booth of mid-century furniture, Western and Native collectibles, vintage jewelry and the accumulated attic of the Sunbelt. It is where the contents of Scottsdale's older houses go when their owners move on, and where the next generation buys them back.

Mid-century Arizona — a Frankoma platter, a cowboy-motif lamp, a Valley souvenir from the resort era

AzTex Hat Company

AzTex Hat Company is the working hatter on Scottsdale Road at Main Street: a shop that started in Phoenix more than a quarter century ago, builds custom fur-felt Western and dress hats, sells Stetson, Resistol, Bailey and a long list of other makers, and is an approved renovator for Stetson, Resistol, Charlie 1-Horse and Dobbs. It will measure your head properly for free, even if you buy nothing. In a district now full of hat bars, it is the place that makes and repairs hats rather than decorating them.

A custom fur-felt cowboy hat built to your measured head, or a beloved old hat cleaned and reblocked

Baluchi Rug Gallery

Baluchi Rug Gallery is the Momeni family's rug business, family-owned since 1990 and now based in Suite B at 7155 East Fifth Avenue. It carries more than 7,000 handmade rugs: Persian, Afghan, Turkish, tribal, kilim, silk, modern and Navajo, from 2x3 accent rugs up to palace sizes, and nothing machine-made. The family imports directly and runs its own loom in Afghanistan. It also cleans, repairs, appraises and custom-makes rugs, and it will lend you a rug to try at home before you buy, which is the reason to shop here rather than online.

A hand-knotted rug from a gallery stock of more than 7,000, tried on your own floor before you pay for it

Bella Fine Art Gallery

Bella Fine Art Gallery is a contemporary art gallery and private-event venue at 7137 East Main Street, founded by Reginald Dunlop after a 35-year career as an international captain for United Airlines. It shows established and emerging artists across figurative, abstract, sculpture and a dedicated Black Artists Collection, frames in-house, and rents its walls out for receptions, corporate gatherings and philanthropic events — a gallery built as much for gathering as for buying.

A contemporary figurative canvas, or a piece from the Black Artists Collection, framed in-house and hung in a room that doubles as an event venue

Bischoff's Shades of the West

The largest Southwestern store in Old Town, sprawling across the Main Street and Brown Avenue corner with Native American jewelry, pottery, kachinas, Western décor and everything a visitor imagines when they hear the word Scottsdale. Its more serious sibling, Bischoff's Gallery, sits nearby for the collector end of the same trade.

A piece of Native American silver or a kachina you'll still be explaining to guests in twenty years

Bobbles & Lace

Bobbles & Lace is the Scottsdale outpost of a women's boutique brand that Lindsay Rando founded in Marblehead, Massachusetts, in April 2008 after selling clothes from a sidewalk cart in Los Angeles. It grew to eight company-run stores across the Northeast before franchising in 2022, and the Fifth Avenue shop, in Suite D of the courtyard at 7051 East Fifth, is part of the national expansion that followed. The format is styling: clothing, shoes and accessories in the mid-price range, with staff who build the outfit with you.

A complete outfit, top, bottom and shoes, pulled together by a stylist on the floor, with a pair of JBD jeans as the anchor

Bonner David Galleries

Bonner David Galleries is the dual gallery space at the west end of Main Street that Clark David Olson, a gallerist and collector, and Christi Bonner Manuelito, an artist, founded in 2002 — one of the largest galleries in Scottsdale, representing nearly fifty traditional and contemporary artists from around the world. In 2020 it opened a second gallery on Manhattan's Upper East Side, on Museum Mile, which tells you the level the Scottsdale rooms operate at.

A traditional realist canvas from a dual gallery that also shows the contemporary work it argues with

Bronson Guitar Works

Bronson Guitar Works is the repair bench at the quiet west end of Fifth Avenue where John Bronson, a luthier who also works as a musician and soundman, has been fixing the Valley's guitars, basses and amplifiers for more than twenty-five years. It is an authorized service center for Fender, Taylor, Marshall, Korg, Ibanez, Line 6 and most major brands, and Phoenix New Times named it Best Guitar Repair in its 2025 Best of Phoenix. Come with a problem, not a shopping list.

A proper setup on the guitar you already own, played back to you by the luthier who did it

Buffalo Collection

Buffalo Collection is the flagship showroom of a furniture maker that started on a Colorado bison ranch, where founder Julie Littlefield, a botanist, began turning the herd's hides into furniture tough enough for cowboys, hunters and dogs. The Fifth Avenue store, just west of the Bronze Horse Fountain, sells sofas, chairs, recliners and ottomans in genuine American buffalo leather, plus bison robes, skulls, fur pillows, lighting and Western art. It is the most Western room on the avenue and one of the most expensive.

A buffalo leather club chair on a hardwood frame with hand-tied springs, built to outlast the house it goes into

Carine

Carine is the family-owned Scottsdale women's label of certified master tailor Carine Wang, and its Fifth Avenue store, opened in the fall of 2014 and remodeled and expanded in 2019, is the downtown showroom for her colorful, comfortable clothes. The fabric is a lightweight cotton and rayon blend that breathes and does not need ironing, which makes it the rare boutique buy that is genuinely practical for a desert vacation. It is a small local chain, not a one-off, and the Fifth Avenue shop is one of its oldest doors.

A bright, no-iron cotton-and-rayon dress or top designed in Scottsdale by master tailor Carine Wang, the piece that rolls into a carry-on and comes out wearable

Carmen on 5th

Carmen on 5th is the Fifth Avenue women's boutique that its namesake owner opened in 2015 after twenty years in Scottsdale and more than thirty in fashion, most of it before she left Los Angeles in 1995. Every piece on the racks is hand-selected by Carmen: clothing, jewelry, local art, Arizona-made gifts and a corner of baby clothes. It is the small, personal, owner-on-the-floor boutique that Fifth Avenue was built for.

A dress or a piece of jewelry chosen by Carmen herself, plus an Arizona-made gift for whoever is minding the house

Change Clothes

Change Clothes is the streetwear shop on the gallery row: a Main Street storefront between Waddell Gallery's turquoise and the Legacy Gallery's Western oils, stocked with specialty brands and vintage selects. It opens at noon and stays open until eight most nights, runs a text-message club for drops, sourcing and styling, and is listed among the fashion boutiques of the Scottsdale Arts District. It is the one stop on the gallery row built around streetwear rather than the West.

A hard-to-find streetwear piece or a vintage select, sourced by staff who will text you when the next one lands

Conscious Coterie

Conscious Coterie is the Fifth Avenue women's boutique built around breathable linens and cottons: wide-leg linen pants, jumpsuits, tops and, for the cool months, leather jackets. It describes itself as one of the few Scottsdale boutiques that dresses women over 50 well while staying ageless, and local roundups have named it among the city's best boutiques. There is a second store at High Street in Phoenix; the Old Town original shares an address with Carmen on 5th.

A pair of wide-leg linen pants and a leather jacket, the Scottsdale uniform for eight months of the year

Cornelis Hollander Jewelry

Cornelis Hollander is the jewelry studio on Marshall Way founded in 1984 by the Amsterdam-born designer whose name it carries, and run since his death in 2017 by his son Walter. It is known for sculptural, Art Deco-inspired engagement rings, especially split shanks set with distinctive colored gems and geometric cuts, all made by craftsmen in the Scottsdale studio. A family business for four decades, it keeps gallery hours and opens for the Thursday ArtWalk.

A bespoke engagement ring with a split shank and a geometric stone, made in the Scottsdale studio

DeRubeis Fine Art of Metal

DeRubeis Fine Art of Metal is the showroom for Chris DeRubeis, the artist who paints on metal by grinding, etching and chemically treating the surface in a style he calls Abstract Sensualism, and for a roster of a dozen-plus artists with the same taste for spectacle: Nano Lopez's whimsical bronzes, Dale Mathis's gear-and-piston sculpture, Michael Cheval's surrealism and Patrick Guyton's gold- and silver-leaf work. It has been on Main Street a few doors from Scottsdale Road since at least 2014, and it is the most playful room on the block.

A Chris DeRubeis painting on metal, worked with tools, chemicals and paint until the surface shimmers

Esses Rare Objects D'Art

Esses Rare Objects D'Art is the antiques room on Main Street's last block before Scottsdale Road, a dealer specializing in nineteenth-century European and Asian art: one-of-a-kind antiques, sculpture, oil paintings and objects d'art. Listed in the 2026 Scottsdale Arts District guide as Esses Rare Objects and D'art Antiques, it is the reminder that this street sold old things before it sold Western art, and the one door on the block where nothing on the shelves was made this century.

A nineteenth-century European or Asian piece — a sculpture, an oil, an object d'art — in a block otherwise given over to new art

Fashion by Robert Black

Fashion by Robert Black is the vintage couture house that Robert Black, former owner of the Ford Robert Black modeling agency, and Doreen Picerne run in the landmark White Hogan building on East First Avenue. Roughly 2,500 square feet, largely by appointment, it stocks red-carpet couture, special-occasion designer pieces, daywear, accessories and what the owners call historic treasures, all in like-new condition and dating from the 1940s to the present. Sources put the opening around 2008.

A 1960s couture gown in like-new condition, tried on in the building where modern Navajo silver was invented

Faust Gallery

Faust Gallery is where Main Street's Native art trade stops being about souvenirs and becomes about artists. Bill Faust founded it in 1996, carrying forward a family legacy that runs through his great-aunt Lovena Ohl, the Heard Museum gift-shop buyer who helped make that Phoenix institution a respected showcase for Indigenous fine art. The gallery shows contemporary Native American jewelry, sculpture, pottery and painting by top living artists, has a sister room in Santa Fe, and opens its doors on ArtWalk Thursdays.

A piece of contemporary Native jewelry or sculpture by a living master, bought from a gallery that treats it as fine art

Finer Custom Jewelry

Finer Custom Jewelry is a small Scottsdale diamond studio, founded in 2018, that designs custom engagement rings, sells GIA-certified diamonds and buys gold, diamonds and watches, all by private consultation. It works out of a showroom on Winfield Scott Plaza in downtown Scottsdale, minutes from Fashion Square.

A custom engagement ring designed from the first sketch around a GIA-certified diamond

Flower Bar

Flower Bar is the floral design studio in Craftsman Court that owner and lead designer Megan Carollo opened in 2012 after years apprenticing with florists around the country. It is a florist, a plant shop and a classroom at once: wrapped bouquets and arrangements to go, a terrarium bar, houseplants, pieces by Arizona artists, and since a 2017 expansion a workshop space for floral design classes and private events. In a lane built in 1955 for makers, it is one of the shops still doing the making on site.

A wrapped bouquet of seasonal novelty stems, or a seat at a floral workshop in the back room

Fox Cigar Bar

Fox Cigar Bar has kept a walk-in humidor and a long back bar on Sixth Avenue since 2015, at the edge of the Entertainment District but nothing like it in temperament. The retail is the humidor — a wide premium selection across the major houses — and the reason you stay is a lounge pouring more than four hundred spirits, over two hundred of them whiskies, bourbons and scotches. It is part of a small Arizona group of Fox Cigar Bars and as much lounge as shop.

A cigar pulled from the walk-in humidor and a pour from a back bar of two hundred whiskies

Gallery Andrea

Gallery Andrea is the Main Street room where two Andreas, the Hungarian-born painter Andrea de Kerpely-Zak and her daughter Andrea Zakrzewski, have shown their floral art together since 2004. The mother paints loose, bright impressionist flowers that she calls a symbol of freedom; the daughter turns them into scarves, dresses and bags; and the walls carry landscapes, abstracts and figurative work by other artists from Arizona and abroad. It is the friendliest, most personal room on its block, and giclée prints keep it within reach.

An impressionist wildflower bouquet by Andrea de Kerpely-Zak, painted free of any vase

Garage Boutique & Concept Store

Garage Boutique & Concept Store is the luxury children's boutique Katie Wilson has owned and run for more than twenty-five years, now in Suite 110 at 7144 East Stetson Drive on the Southbridge stretch of Old Town. It dresses boys and girls from baby to size 16 in pieces from Fendi, Stella McCartney, Dior, Lanvin, Balmain and Scotch & Soda, mixed with smaller domestic designers, and its pitch is high fashion with a rock-and-roll edge. Phoenix New Times gave it Best of Phoenix awards four years running in the late 2000s.

A designer-house piece in a child's size, from Fendi, Stella McCartney, Dior, Lanvin or Balmain, chosen with the owner's help

Gebert Contemporary

Gebert Contemporary is Main Street's contemporary abstract gallery: an open, pared-back room at 7160 East Main showing painting and sculpture by an international group of mostly mid-career and established artists from the United States, Germany, Belgium, Spain and Mexico. It has been on the street for about a quarter-century, has an affiliate gallery of the same name in Santa Fe, and runs a steady calendar of monthly solo and group shows.

A contemporary abstract painting or sculpture from an international roster, a few doors from the bronze cowboys

GemTime Watch & Jewelry Service

GemTime is the Fifth Avenue watch and jewelry repair shop where brothers George and John Danayan work at side-by-side benches, George on jewelry and John on watches. It is a fourth-generation family trade that their grandfather and father carried from Lebanon to Toronto and then to Michigan before the brothers brought it to Arizona, and it has been in business for more than twenty-five years. They fix everything from a Timex to a Rolex, reset and resize jewelry, rework heirlooms, make custom rings and buy old gold and watches.

A watch repair or a reset stone done at the bench in front of you, from a Timex battery to a vintage Rolex service

Gilbert Ortega Galleries

The Ortega family's Native American jewelry and art stores have been a fixture of Old Town's Western blocks for decades, at times occupying several storefronts at once, and the name is shorthand for turquoise-and-silver Scottsdale. It is the place visitors go to buy the real thing at a scale no small trading post can match.

A signed Navajo, Zuni or Hopi bracelet with the maker's hallmark inside the cuff

Giving Bracelets

Giving Bracelets is the small Fifth Avenue shop next door to Cartel Coffee where wrap bracelets of leather, natural stone and metal are made in-house and ten percent of every purchase goes to CASA programs for children in foster care. Arizona native Lesa Sawyer started it after the 2008 recession closed the door on her handbag business, turning the leftover leather into bracelets. It grew from farmers markets into wholesale and then into this storefront, and it is the easiest gift on the street to feel good about.

A handmade leather-and-stone wrap bracelet, finished in the shop, with ten percent of the price going to CASA programs for children in foster care

Gorgeous Things

Gorgeous Things is a Scottsdale custom studio that founder Sara started in 2017 to tell customers' stories in stitches, patches and embroidery, mostly on denim jackets, vintage or new, or on one you bring in. In 2024 it opened an Old Town storefront at 7088 East Fifth Avenue, where an in-house embroiderer works on custom orders and the racks hold ready-to-wear jackets, premium denim and basics. It is the most personal souvenir on the street and priced like a real piece of clothing.

A vintage denim jacket covered in custom patches and embroidery that spell out something only you would say

Grey Wolf Gallery

Grey Wolf Gallery has sold hand-crafted Navajo, Hopi and Zuni turquoise jewelry from First Avenue since 1985, along with pottery, kachina dolls, paintings, dream catchers and artifacts, at prices pitched well below the Main Street galleries. It sits between Scottsdale Road and Brown Avenue, a block from the Old Adobe Mission and the Western storefronts, and it is the shop for a first real piece rather than a museum one.

A hand-crafted Zuni inlay ring or Navajo turquoise cuff at a price that does not require a second mortgage

Guidon Books

A specialist bookshop devoted to Western Americana and the Civil War that has been a Scottsdale fixture since 1964, moving between Old Town addresses but never changing its subject. If it happened west of the Mississippi or between 1861 and 1865, Guidon probably has a book on it.

An out-of-print Arizona history you have been hunting for years

Iron Rose Boutique

Iron Rose is the small, woman-owned boutique in the courtyard at 7051 East Fifth Avenue, tucked behind The Herb Box where most visitors never look. The mix is wide for a small room: women's clothing with a leather-and-lace edge, jewelry, bags and purses, candles, bath products, home décor, baby and kids' things and Arizona souvenirs, all new merchandise and reasonably priced for Old Town. The owner is usually on the floor, and the courtyard it shares with Berdena's makes it an easy stop.

An edgy-meets-feminine top or a piece of jewelry, plus a candle or an Arizona souvenir, all at prices that undercut the avenue

J Klein Gallery

J Klein Gallery is a family-owned modern art gallery on Main Street built around the work of Jim Klein, a Colorado painter of bold, bright acrylic abstractions drawn from nature, agriculture, music and form, shown alongside two other family artists: Jeffrey Berryman, whose 'Surruralism' reworks rural Western themes, and wildlife sculptor Dan Ostermiller. A sister gallery is in Windsor, Colorado, and on Thursday nights Klein's Art Factory nearby turns painting into a spectator sport.

A bold acrylic abstract of fields, flowers or music by Jim Klein, bought from the family that hangs it

Jim Klein Art Factory

The Art Factory is Colorado painter Jim Klein's working studio on Main Street, a small storefront where he paints in view of the street and talks to whoever comes in. It is the sister space to the family's J Klein Gallery further east at 7136 East Main, and the second version of an experiment Klein first ran in a vacant space next to the gallery; the current studio is smaller, open on Thursday nights for the ArtWalk, and the place to see how his big, color-saturated abstracts of farms, nature and music actually get made.

A bold, bright Jim Klein acrylic, ideally one you watched him working on

Jules & JC

Jules & JC is a women's clothing boutique on the Fifth Avenue curve, with a men's corner and a shelf of gifts, run by owners whom customers describe as having an unusually good eye for what looks right on you. The racks carry designer and contemporary labels, Favorite Daughter, Desigual, Free People, Bishop + Young, Fifteen Twenty, DL1961 and Spanx among them, and the men's side adds Anatomie, 7Diamonds and Cuts. A second, larger store on Pinnacle Peak Road in North Scottsdale had opened by late 2025.

A Favorite Daughter blazer or a Desigual piece chosen with the owners' help, and a men's polo for whoever is waiting outside

Kactus Jock

Kactus Jock started as a cart selling t-shirts of a cactus character playing sports and grew into the two-store gift-and-apparel institution of downtown Scottsdale, one on Main Street's Western block and one on Fifth Avenue. It prints its own designs on site, stocks what it calls the largest selection of locally made hot sauces, sells licensed ASU gear and metal art, and runs guided Rydables scooter tours of Old Town from behind the Fifth Avenue store. It is the souvenir shop that actually makes its souvenirs.

A Kactus tee printed in-house, a bottle of Arizona hot sauce and a 90-minute scooter tour from behind the Fifth Avenue store

King Galleries

King Galleries is Old Town's specialist in Native pottery, opened by Charles King in 1996 and now holding a string of suites in the Marshall Square courtyard on Main Street, with a second gallery in Santa Fe. King is an author of books on Margaret Tafoya, Tony Da and Virgil Ortiz and a past Santa Fe Indian Market judge, and the gallery covers signed historic Pueblo pottery from the 1920s onward alongside the leading contemporary potters.

A coil-built, stone-polished Pueblo pot, from a signed historic piece of the 1920s to the newest work of a potter the gallery has followed for years

Klingeler Gallery

Klingeler Gallery is the abstract-art room on Main Street's gallery row, showing the work of Christian Klingeler, a disabled Marine Corps veteran and former federal air marshal who turned to painting to manage anxiety and PTSD and donates part of every sale to research on both. It took over 7117 East Main from the Erin Hanson Gallery, and it doubles as a design studio: bring a floor plan and it will propose a commissioned piece with drawn elevations and a custom color guide.

A large abstract canvas by Christian Klingeler, or one commissioned to fit your wall and your palette

Larsen Gallery

The Larsen Gallery is downtown Scottsdale's fine-art resale house: a gallery on a short lane a block west of Scottsdale Road that has specialized for more than thirty years in consigning art for sale, and that turns into an auction room every April and October for the Larsen Art Auction. The inventory is contemporary and modern work by artists with established markets, from prints to major paintings and sculpture. The fall 2026 sale, set for October 17, is billed as the gallery's largest yet, with more than 400 works.

A secondary-market contemporary painting or print, bought at the April or October Larsen Art Auction or straight off the gallery wall

Leela Market

Leela Market is the lifestyle boutique on the Fifth Avenue curve that sells the whole look at once: trendy clothing, eclectic art, minimalist decor and home accents, arranged like the loft of a friend with better taste than you. The inventory changes constantly, which is why regulars drop in every few weeks. A second Leela Market operates at the Shops at Hilton Village on Scottsdale Road; the Fifth Avenue store is the walkable one.

A piece of eclectic art or a minimalist home accent you did not know you were shopping for, plus the dress you were

Lucky Rose Boutique

Lucky Rose began in 2023 as an online women's boutique run out of its founder's apartment garage, worked its way through pop-ups at Scottsdale Quarter and Fashion Square, and in March 2026 opened a rebuilt 1,800-square-foot storefront near Fifth Avenue and Marshall Way. The racks are trend-forward women's fashion; the draw is three bars in one room: a hat bar with custom patches, a charm bar and a permanent jewelry bar.

A trend-forward outfit off the rack, finished with a patched hat from the hat bar and a welded chain from the permanent jewelry bar

Luv Luxe

Luv Luxe is the pre-loved designer handbag boutique in Suite C at 7111 East Fifth Avenue, founded by Sydnie Cadenas and in the Valley for more than a decade. It buys bags outright rather than taking them on consignment, runs every piece through in-house and third-party authentication, and stocks Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Hermès and the rest of the top tier. In 2025 it expanded the Fifth Avenue store to hold more inventory and added a seating area for whoever came along for the ride.

A pre-owned Chanel, Louis Vuitton or Hermès bag that has been authenticated, condition-graded and hand-selected before it reaches the case

Main Dish

Main Dish is the tabletop and home-accessories shop on Marshall Way's gallery blocks: European porcelain, flatware, glassware, table linens, bar pieces and bedding, with a bridal registry that makes it a fixture of Valley wedding planning. It has carried more than sixty-five lines, from Hermès, Christofle and William Yeoward to Bernardaud and Augarten, and it is the kind of specialist store that department stores used to have and mostly no longer do.

A place setting of European porcelain, or a single hand-painted Augarten bowl as a hostess gift

Mainview Gallery

Mainview Gallery is one of the quieter rooms on Main Street's gallery row — a sequence of smaller spaces at 7120 East Main hung with landscape, figurative, still-life and Western painting and sculpture from a stable that includes Pino, Dale Terbush, Kent Wallis, J.D. Challenger, Alan Wolton and Elie Hazak. It is owned by David Guglielmo, an Arizona native and longtime Scottsdale art dealer, and run on the old Main Street model: open daily, call ahead, and talk to the person who chose the work.

A Dale Terbush or Kent Wallis landscape, or a Pino figure, chosen with the owner in one of the gallery's small rooms

Market by Modern Nest

Market by Modern Nest is the retail arm of the Modern Nest design studio: a curated boutique of furniture, lighting, home goods and art on the curve of Fifth Avenue, with an on-site gallery of art that is actually for sale. It is a recent arrival — a 2020s addition to the street, by most accounts — and one of the few places on the avenue where the merchandise is a room rather than a souvenir. Hours run Tuesday through Saturday, ten to five.

An original painting from the on-site gallery, hung the way it would be in a house

Mavericks of Scottsdale

Mavericks of Scottsdale is the luxury end of Old Town's Western trade: premium cowboy boots and hats, one-of-a-kind turquoise jewelry, leather jackets and apparel for men and women, plus an in-store Hat Bar for hand-burned branding, ribbons and feathers. It is related to a Mavericks store in Santa Fe and is, by most accounts, a 2020s arrival on the Main Street gallery row. Come with a budget; the boots are the real thing and priced accordingly.

A premium felt hat, hand-branded at the in-store Hat Bar, and a one-of-a-kind turquoise cuff to go with it

Mexican Imports

A Brown Avenue import shop from the mid-1950s that still sells Talavera, punched tin, blown glass and folk art out of one of Old Town's original Western storefronts, making it one of the oldest continuously operating stores in the district. It is what every 'Mexican imports' store in America is imitating, and it got here first.

Hand-painted Talavera — a platter, a set of tiles, or the sink you didn't know you wanted

Mini Social

Mini Social is the event room the Zoolikins family runs next door to their children's boutique on the Fifth Avenue curve: 2,700 square feet of white brick, polished concrete and big windows that seats up to fifty, rents by the hour from three-hour weekday blocks to whole weekends, and comes with a kitchen, a 70-inch television, speakers, a wall of furniture and two owners who will do the balloons, the florals and the bar if you ask. It opened in 2017 as a play café for parents with toddlers, closed in the pandemic, and came back in 2021 as the venue Old Town did not have for the baby shower, the first birthday, the bridal brunch, the thirty-guest wedding and the office off-site that are too big for a living room and too small for a resort.

A 2,700-square-foot white room on the Fifth Avenue curve that seats fifty, lets you bring your own food and bottles, and will hang the balloon garland for you

Modern Bride

Modern Bride is a small, appointment-only bridal boutique on the gallery blocks of Marshall Way, owned by Julie Hurt, a former wedding planner and floral event designer with more than two decades in the wedding business. It sells wedding gowns, bridal mini dresses, veils, shoes and accessories for every event of the wedding weekend, and its specialty is personalization: custom gowns under Hurt's private label, DiKaSa Couture, one of which a Real Housewives of Orange County alum wore at her 2025 wedding.

A custom DiKaSa Couture gown, or a bridal mini for the rehearsal, reception or after party

Native Art Market

Native Art Market is the one Native-owned store on a street that has sold Native art for seventy years. Denise Rosales and her daughters Heather Tracy and Devin Shea Tunney, Navajo women from Cameron, Arizona, started it in 2018 as a market program giving Native artists a safe, affordable way to sell directly to the public, and opened the Main Street storefront in November 2020. It carries work from 300-plus artists of 28-plus tribes, all dealt with directly, and every purchase comes with an authenticity certificate.

A piece bought with a certificate of authenticity, from a store where the artist and the owner are both Native

Niki Woehler Studio & Gallery

Niki Woehler's studio and gallery is a working painter's space on Main Street: about 3,000 square feet where the Scottsdale abstract artist makes her large textured canvases and glossy resin pieces and shows them to whoever walks in. She opened it in late 2020 as her first gallery, after a career in advertising, and rigged it with a motorized harness, installed by Hollywood studio riggers, that lets her hover over canvases too big to reach. It is a one-artist room, and the artist is often there.

A large textured abstract or a high-gloss resin piece that looks like mineral-veined stone

Noir Blanc Candle Company

Noir Blanc is a luxury candle maker with its own boutique in Suite 15 at 7121 East Fifth Avenue. Its two founders split the work: Walter develops every fragrance from scratch as the house nose, and Nick runs the brand, the shop and the packaging. Every candle is hand-poured in small batches in Scottsdale from a botanical wax blend. The scents run from cigar-lounge leather and tobacco to citrus, florals and sea air, and you smell them in person before you buy, which is the reason to come.

A Noir Blanc house candle, smoky or citrus or coastal, developed by the shop's own nose and hand-poured in small batches in Scottsdale

Norde Scottsdale

Norde Scottsdale is the Western fashion boutique that sisters Faith and Julia Ballor opened on Main Street in 2021, in the wake of the pandemic, with a specific idea of the West: sequins, feathers, fringe, cowgirl boots, dresses and the graphic tees the sisters design themselves. Next door is their Turquoise Candy Hat Bar for custom cowboy hats. It is the glamorous end of Old Town's Western trade and one of the youngest businesses on the gallery row.

A fringed, sequined Western jacket and a pair of cowgirl boots, then a custom hat from the sister shop next door

Old Town Candy & Toys

Old Town Candy & Toys is the retro candy counter on Scottsdale Road that Steve and Jeanine Rometty opened in 2011, modeled on a shop they loved in Old Town San Diego and on the old-fashioned candy stores of Steve's Michigan childhood. It is 144 baskets and bins of mix-and-match candy, a row of theater boxes, lollipops with real scorpions inside and a back stretch of classic toys, and it is the cheapest happy stop in downtown Scottsdale.

A clear lollipop with a real scorpion inside, plus a bag of mix-and-match retro candy

Old Town Jewels

Old Town Jewels is the big Native jewelry store on Brown Avenue that started as two cases of jewelry on Fifth Avenue in 1984, when owner Kelly opened Jewels of the West. Old Town Trading Company and Old Town Jewels followed, and the stores have since combined into one large Brown Avenue location with much of the same staff. The thing that sets it apart is the bench: Native American silversmiths on staff take custom orders and do repairs and restoration on the spot.

A custom piece or a repair done by a Native American silversmith at the bench in the back

On The Edge Gallery

On The Edge is the Arts District's artists' cooperative: a nonprofit gallery run by its own members, more than forty juried Arizona artists who staff the floor, set their own prices and often work in the room. It opened on Fifth Avenue in 2012, at the edge of the district that gave it its name, and moved to a 2,400-square-foot space on Main Street in February 2020. Nothing here is hushed or forbidding, and the prices start where a first purchase should.

A piece of fused glass, jewelry or a painting bought from the member artist who is minding the floor that day

Open Range Gallery

Open Range is a small gallery in the Marshall Square courtyard that bills itself as the only 100 percent Western art gallery on Main Street. It is run by the painter Sherry Blanchard Stuart, an award-winning traditional Western and equine artist, and shows her oils alongside Roger Archibald's precise graphite drawings and a secondary market of established Western painters and sculptors. If you came to Scottsdale for cowboys, horses and the old West, this is the room that never changed the subject.

A traditional Western oil by owner Sherry Blanchard Stuart, or a secondary-market canvas by a name from the Cowboy Artists era

Over the Top Consignment Shoppe

Over the Top Consignment Shoppe, established in 2011, is the Fifth Avenue store where the contents of Scottsdale's grander dining rooms come back onto the market: the world's better names in crystal and porcelain, designer fine jewelry, sterling flatware and art by listed artists, priced at 35 to 75 percent off retail. It is a small, dense room near the Marshall Way corner, it also sells on eBay, and it rewards patience more than any other shop on the street.

A boxed Lalique figure or a Herend porcelain piece at a fraction of retail, from a Scottsdale estate that no longer had room for it

Paris Optique

Paris Optique is the family-owned independent eyewear boutique that opened in Tempe in 1986, added a Scottsdale store in 1989 and today has its Old Town shop in Suite 152 at the Scottsdale Waterfront, with a second store at Scottsdale Quarter since 2017. The frame wall runs from Lindberg, Cartier, Matsuda and Anna-Karin Karlsson to Dior, Celine, Cazal and Dita, and an on-site lab finishes lenses in-house, makes Chemistrie clip-ons and does the custom work, from faceted edges to diamond-set frames, that chain opticians send out.

A Lindberg, Cartier or Anna-Karin Karlsson frame, fitted by an optician and finished in the shop's own lab