1. Oakville Grocery Co.
City: Healdsburg, CA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (707) 433-3200
Address: 124 Matheson Street
Description: The Healdsburg location is a branch of the same wonderful gourmet grocery store whose jam-packed shelves in the Napa Valley have attracted passersby for decades. The Healdsburg location has metamorphosed into a gentrified, glossy emporium of most everything gourmet and delicious. Here you can stock your kitchen pantry with exotic mustards, duck pâté, caviar, Greek olives, and more. You can eat lunch here too, selecting salads, sandwiches, and yummy desserts to be eaten under umbrellas on the sun-drenched patio.
2. Saint Dizier Home Furnishings
City: Healdsburg, CA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (707) 473-0980
Address: 259 Center Street
Description: Please, honey, can I buy that gorgeous wood chandelier? I bet the staff behind the counter at this store hears pleas of that nature all the time. Besides a large assortment of Ralph Lauren fabrics and that designer’s home collection, this beautiful showroom has furniture and decorative accessories made locally, as well as antiques from faraway places. The tableware is lovely, too.
3. Fabrications & Wine Country Fabrics
City: Healdsburg, CA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (707) 433-6243
Address: 116 Matheson Street
Description: I used to sew, once upon a time, so I still get a little thrill when I first walk into a fabric store, even a tiny one such as Fabrications, in this same spot since 1981. It may be small but the bolts of fabric are stacked into every crevice and high up on the walls. It’s a great place for quilters looking for unusual small pieces of fabric at reasonable prices.
4. Vignettes
City: Healdsburg, CA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (707) 433-8552
Address: 110 Matheson Street
Description: Vignettes is a combination gallery/gift shop with plenty of collectible pieces, such as local artist Gail Packer’s multiplate etchings and the watercolors of Douglas Chun. Owner Dyanne Celi has also stocked her store with whimsical wire sculptures, and regionally produced arts and crafts of all kinds: jewelry, photographs, illustrations, pottery, ceramics, and tilework.
5. Seasons Of The Vineyard
City: Healdsburg, CA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (707) 431-2222
Address: 113 Plaza Street
Description: Here’s a store that embodies all the gifts and decorative objects that can turn a house into a home. Owned by Rhonda Carano, of Ferrari-Carano Vineyards, it’s a cornucopia of fabulous table settings, wreaths, furniture, linens, and other home accents. And don’t forget to look up—the ornate tin ceiling dates from 1883.
6. Art And All That Jazz
City: Healdsburg, CA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (707) 433-7900
Address: 119 Plaza Street
Description: Jessica Felix, whose works have been shown at the Smithsonian Institution as well as prominent galleries across the country, has been designing spirited jewelry since 1970. Her shop serves as a gallery that includes the work of others in art glass, ceramics, photography, and collage, and it offers an eclectic selection of jazz and Brazilian music.
7. Powell’S Sweet Shoppe
City: Healdsburg, CA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (707) 431-2784
Address: 322 Center Street
Description: The comparisons to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory are unavoidable, because the movie and its music are in fact playing while you shop. But this store is really about rekindling fond memories of childhood and favorite sweets. The first store opened in Windsor in 2003, followed soon by many others in the region as its popularity reached far and wide. I guarantee you will find candy you once coveted but haven’t seen in years. Maybe that’s not such a good thing for your dental work, but your heart will leap with joy.
8. Jimtown Store
City: Healdsburg, CA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (707) 433-1212
Address: 6706 Highway 128
Description: Not only can you find American antiques, folk art, and primitives here, you can also have some “real food” (as they advertise) and a truly good cup of coffee. Owner/artist Carrie Brown started this store in 1989 with her late husband, John, and it’s only gotten more popular with time. Built more than 100 years ago, the building was once a general store and post office. Carrie makes her own line of condiments, and the lunch selections are terrific, and reasonable, too. Look for the yellow building with one or two vintage automobiles parked outside.
9. Mill Street Antiques
City: Healdsburg, CA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (707) 433-8409
Address: 44 Mill Street
Description: Inside a big orange building, approximately 38 dealers showcase their wares in 10,000 square feet of space. You’ll find furniture—classic to country—glass, china, silver, fine oil paintings by listed artists, plus some eccentric goodies that need a home, such as gas station collectibles, metal signs, and 1950s memorabilia.
10. Healdsburg Classics
City: Healdsburg, CA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (707) 433-4315
Address: 226 Healdsburg Avenue
Description: This is an enormous warehouse with a roster of some 20 dealers. It would be difficult to name something that isn’t here, rather than what is. However, anyone looking for indoor-outdoor furniture or yard pieces will not be disappointed.
11. Antique Harvest
City: Healdsburg, CA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (707) 433-0223
Address: 225 Healdsburg Avenue
Description: Items range from country pine to Victorian, with lamps, brass, art deco furnishings, and Maxfield Parrish prints to boot. Meander through and check out the wares of more than 25 dealers.
12. Levin & Company
City: Healdsburg, CA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (707) 433-1118
Address: 306 Center Street
Description: It would be hard to find a more appealing bookstore—a large, airy room displays books on three large islands in the center of the store. Beyond that there’s a cozy room with a comfortable couch in the mystery novel section, and a children’s room. Levin & Company offers primarily new books—quality fiction, interior design, and garden titles. Upstairs in the loft you’ll find an art gallery displaying the works of local artists.