City: Del Mar, CA
Category: Shopping
Address: 1555 Camino del Mar
2. Barnes & Noble
City: Del Mar, CA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (858) 481-4038
Address: 12835 El Camino Real
Description: The Barnes & Noble chain is justly proud of its commitment to customer service. If you need a book, they’ll help you find it, and if it’s not in the store, they’ll special-order it for you. Since the stores are open 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. daily, they’re convenient to visit, too. Both have large children’s departments and sometimes have story times or special kids’ events. In these locations there are more than 150,000 titles close to your book-loving fingertips.
3. Book Works
City: Del Mar, CA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (858) 755-3735
Address: 2670 Via de la Valle
Description: Book Works has been helping book lovers satisfy their reading needs since the late 1970s. Located at the Flower Hill Promenade, it offers new and best-selling books, as well as some used ones. The shop hosts several author discussions and book signings a month. It also offers magazines (both foreign and domestic), unusual cards and stationery, English garden statuary, and wonderful vintage decorative accessories. You can also get a cup of coffee or tea (or dessert and gelato) next door at an Insiders’ cafe paradise, the Pannikin Cafe.
4. Mary’S Tack & Feed
City: Del Mar, CA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (858) 755-2015
Address: 3675 Via De La Valle
Description: This is a horse lover’s and pet lover’s shopping heaven and the best place along the coast if you need a bale of hay or a new set of spurs. Frequented by the upscale residents of Rancho Santa Fe and Fairbanks Ranch, the store is a fun browse, and the staff is friendly and knowledgeable on pet-oriented topics.