16. Paul’S Fruit Market
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (502) 458-7641
Address: 4601 Jennings Lane
Description: Providing fruit baskets and food gifts since 1945, Paul’s Fruit Market is a local favorite when it comes to fresh produce and regional delicacies. Apart from whiskey-based condiments and sauces, the selection features fruitcakes and fudge from the Trappist monastery at Gethsemani, Bauer’s modjeskas, Happy Balls, Maker’s Mark bourbon chocolates, and more. Open daily, Paul’s Fruit Market carries a wide variety of goods with the Kentucky Proud label. There are additional shops on Shelbyville and Taylorsville Roads.
17. Regalo
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (502) 583-1798
Address: 980 Barret Ave.
Description: John Freels, J. D. Dotson and Laura Applegate operate this Louisville favorite. Voted the best place to buy a unique gift for six years in a row by readers of LEO magazine, Regalo features a lineup of contemporary, innovative items for the bar, home, or office. Featuring many products that are the work of local artists, Regalo opens seven days a week at 10 a.m. In addition to clocks, lamps, and frames, you’ll find a number of paper items and fashion accessories, as well as soy candles, handcrafted jewelry, local sculpture, in-house designed and printed T-shirts, baby gifts, and presents with a Louisville edge. Regalo also operates two shops in the Galt House Hotel (502-561-4024).
18. Taste Of Kentucky
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (800) 444-0552
Address: 11800 Shelbyville Rd.
Description: Traditional and contemporary Kentucky artisans are showcased in three Taste of Kentucky stores across Louisville; the others are located in the Mall St. Matthews and the AEGON Center downtown. Regional books and music are available for purchase, as are an assortment of Kentucky favorites like Kern’s Derby Pie, sourmash bread mixes, local honey, calendars, sauces, and stoneware. Popular sweets include Mom Blakeman’s pulled candy, Old Forester gourmet bourbon chocolates, and candies by Ruth Hunt.
19. Visitor Center In Historic Old Louisville
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (502) 637-2922
Address: 218 West Oak St.
Description: A small gift shop at the visitor center in Historic Old Louisville offers an assortment of Louisville-themed merchandise; however, their specialty is souvenirs and mementos touting the district’s rich Victorian past and ghostly reputation as the country’s most haunted neighborhood. Included are a selection of books, T-shirts, totes, postcards, craft items, and condiments from Bourbon Barrel Foods. Prints and cards from Paducah artist Tracey Buchanan are available, as are photographic designs from local artists Mark and Claudette Rego. This is also the place to stop for your two-packs, four-packs, or nine-packs of Happy Balls, the official candy of Old Louisville.
20. Why Louisville
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (502) 456-5400
Address: 1538 Bardstown Rd.
Description: Why Louisville (WHY = What-Have-You) opened in 2005 in the heart of the Highlands, Louisville’s main thoroughfare of local, independent businesses, and their lineup features souvenirs and curiosities such as shirts designed by local and regional artists, jewelry, books, paper goods, knickknacks, and—what-have-you. Located right next door to the Doo Wop Shop, Why Louisville is open seven days a week.
21. Antique Market At Distillery Commons
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (502) 583-5510
Address: 200 Distillery Commons, Suite 460
Description: Located at the corner of Lexington and Payne Streets, the Antique Market at Distillery Commons has over 50 merchants offering upscale items in an air-conditioned showroom with over 10,000 square feet of ground-level shopping. The vendors include collectors, antiques dealers, and designers from the surrounding region with a selection of fine art, porcelain, furniture, silver, glass, lighting, antique rugs, and accessories for every room. Excellent lighting and wonderful vignettes allow easy viewing of the selections. Closed on Monday.
22. Architectural Salvage
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (502) 589-0670
Address: 618 East Broadway
Description: Offering “the fashionable, the fascinating and the just plain fun,” Architectural Salvage has been a favorite stop for designers, collectors, and creative types in search of original and reproduction architectural antiques since the 1980s. Housed in an old building with 24,000 square feet and four architectural salvage yards in downtown Louisville, this collection of thousands of unusual and hard-to-find items attracts a steady stream of clientele from around the nation. Closed Sunday.
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Shopping
Address: 1430 Mellwood Avenue
24. David R. Friedlander Antiques
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (502) 893-3311
Address: 129 St. Matthews Ave.
Description: Specializing in collectibles, toys, and dolls, rare and out-of-print books, estate jewelry and furniture, this inviting St. Matthews shop has been around for more than 40 years. Aside from offering appraisal services, they also buy silver and other items, and deal in artifacts and primitive art. Open Monday through Saturday and by appointment.
25. Derby City Antique Mall
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (502) 459-5151
Address: 3819 Bardstown Rd.
Description: This family-owned and -operated antiques mall on the south end of Bardstown Road has more than 30,000 square feet of booth space and lighted showcases. Some 170 dealers offer a variety of hard-to-find items from the new to the old. Items on display include silver, flatware, glassware, furniture, jewelry, and collectibles. The air-conditioned facility is wheelchair accessible and has plenty of parking space. Gift certificates and layaway are available. Open daily.
26. Dover House Antiques & Mercantile
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (502) 899-1699
Address: 2000 Frankfort Ave.
Description: In addition to unusual and interesting gifts, shoppers will find quality home accessories and custom furnishings at this high-end location in the Crescent Hill neighborhood. Proprietors Kevin Wolfe and Clarence R. Smith are members of the Vermont Antique Dealers’ Association and make frequent buying trips to New England to stock their shelves with early English and Chinese export porcelains, period American country and formal furniture, and an impressive assortment of tole, mirrors, prints, silhouettes and samplers. Open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the shop also has a bridal registry with items from Simon Pearce.
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Shopping
Address: 933 Barret Ave.
28. Goss Avenue Antiques & Interiors
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (502) 637-4878
Address: 946 Goss Ave.
Description: Long one of the Derby City’s most-visited antiques malls, Goss Avenue Antiques is housed in a former textile mill from the 1880s. Scores of dealers offer a variety of fine antiques and interior accessories that include all types of furniture, lamps, mirrors, paintings, rugs, silver, glassware, collectibles, and more. Known for its well-trained and helpful staff, Goss Avenue Antiques is the largest antiques mall in the area. An on-site restaurant offers breakfast and lunch for those wanting a break from browsing. Open daily.
29. Isaacs Gallery
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (502) 425-2825
Address: 7807 Shelbyville Rd.
Description: The collection at this family-run business in St. Matthews includes antique and estate jewelry, 18th- and 19th-century antique silver hollowware, Faberge, and other Russian objects. They also have an exceptional collection of European, American, and Oriental furniture and accessories, antique walking sticks, oriental rugs, and export porcelain. In addition, Isaacs Gallery offers appraisal service for antiques and estate jewelry. Open Tuesday to Saturday.
30. Joe Ley Antiques
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (502) 583-4014
Address: 615 East Market St.
Description: “Part carnival, part museum, part treasure hunt,” Joe Ley’s has been a destination for antiquers and curiosity seekers for over 35 years. Housed in a schoolhouse from 1890, this must-see shop has two acres of goodies spread out over three floors. Joe Ley Antiques attracts people from all over the world with its constantly changing and colorful inventory. The shop has become a popular place for the filming of music videos and commercials, and has been written up in magazines like House Beautiful, Travel and Leisure, and Southern Living. Open daily.