City: Avon, NC

Category: Shopping

Address: NC 12

Description: This Avon plaza is anchored by Food Lion and an Ace Hardware store. Jewels By the Sea showcases local and Hawaiian jewelry. Jewels also carries sunglasses, Italian handbags, and designer perfumes. Ocean Threads and Surfside Casuals, right next door to each other, have similar offerings—surfwear by Billabong, Roxy, and others plus bathing suits, T-shirts, sandals, sunglasses, and stickers. On the other end of the plaza is Island Cycle, which rents, repairs, and sells bicycles. Beach Pharmacy sells an assortment of arts and crafts supplies besides the usual drugstore items. Try My Nuts has yummy treats of all types, including, of course, nuts. Chocolates, candy, popcorn, and even T-shirts are sold here. Dining choices include La Fogata Mexican Restaurant, Chinatown Chinese restaurant, and Cafe 12. Sweet N Simple Pleasures sells fudge alongside jewelry and gifts. ✵This Little Cottage has all the best for your home, like Pine Cone Hill, Matteo, and Serena and Lily. If you’d like to keep the rest of the family entertained while you shop, drop them off at RC Theaters. The theater has four showings daily of first-run films during summer.