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Half Moon Bay Shops Guide

Who says that quiet Half Moon Bay shops aren’t for the fashionistas of this world? Try your hand here at Bay Area shopping and find yourself immersed in a mini-Mecca of good taste and affordable chic. When it comes to shopping in the Bay Area, look no further than where the locals go.

Bay Area Shopping Hotspots:

Maya Devi Imports
501 San Mateo Road
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
(650) 712-1298

Here you’ll find exotic imports from South Asia and the Far East: bone elephants and handmade porcelain, bronze horse sculptures and beautifully gilded conch shells, just to name a few of the items. It’s the perfect memory from a perfect vacation.

Luna’s Memories
455 Avenue Alhambra
El Granada, CA 94018
(650) 726-1444

The go-to store for art supplies in the greater Half Moon Bay vicinity, Luna’s Memories specializes in inks, canvases, painting supplies, rubber stamps, and papers. It’s a handy shop to have on the California Coast. You never know when the inspiration will strike you while standing on a bluff or a beach.

The Music Hut
329 Main Street
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
(650) 726-8742

The Music Hut is an independently owned music store that packs a wallop in its music selection. Whether it’s the latest indie records or top 20 hits you want to look at, or whether it’s something older and more vintage, The Music Hut has got your ears covered.

Bay Book Company
80-F N. Cabrillo Highway
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
(650) 726-3488

Located at the Strawflower Shopping Center at the intersection of Highways 1 and 92, the Bay Book Company offers a comprehensive array of over 30,000 books, audio books, and videos. A fixture of the Half Moon Bay community for over 30 years, the store stocks everything, and then everything in-between, from crime thrillers to high literature. There’s room at the table here for both lowbrows and highbrows to find concord.

Half to Have It
131 California Avenue
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
(650) 712-5995

A store specializing in all kinds of antiques and curios, Half to Have It is crammed with 10,000 square feet of items for home, yard, and elsewhere. Here is a roof for the eccentric collector and the professional designer to feel equally at home under.

Half Moon Bay Wine & Cheese
421 Main Street
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
(650) 726-1520

What would a quiet weekend getaway to the Coast be without the wine and the cheese? Save your appetite, because Half Moon Bay Wine & Cheese is here to save your day. They carry well over 800 boutique and specialty wines from around the globe, as well as featuring local and imported exotic cheeses that will inaugurate your taste-buds into rarefied company indeed.