How are the stores and shops in San Miguel de Allende? How's the shopping in San Miguel de Allende?
Kat Ballou
If you're a shopper, San Miguel de Allende will be “Disneyland” for you.Like all tourist destinations, merchants are doing quite well due to the influx of people who visit from other cities in Mexico, as well as internationally. Handmade crafts; rugs, jewelry, pottery and leather, all things weaved and embroidered are plentiful.
Shops range from “hole in the wall” to “upscale” and it is fun to browse them all. For the art...
If you're a shopper, San Miguel de Allende will be “Disneyland” for you.Like all tourist destinations, merchants are doing quite well due to the influx of people who visit from other cities in Mexico, as well as internationally. Handmade crafts; rugs, jewelry, pottery and leather, all things weaved and embroidered are plentiful.
Shops range from “hole in the wall” to “upscale” and it is fun to browse them all. For the art collector, San Miguel de Allende is a mecca for artists from here as well as from Canada and the US.
(Store offerings in San Miguel Allende, Mexico pictured.)
Posted March 7, 2016
Maria Mazarro - Kika's Botique
The shopping in San Miguel de Allende is great. We have lots of high quality handcrafts and artwork sold downtown. We also have nice clothing boutiques but there are not a lot of clothing stores for men. We have a bunch of Mexican shops. If you come here to shop, it would be because you want to buy good Mexican crafts. The prices are pretty good, but there are some stores that sell very expensive Mexican products. You can find the best embroidery here in...
The shopping in San Miguel de Allende is great. We have lots of high quality handcrafts and artwork sold downtown. We also have nice clothing boutiques but there are not a lot of clothing stores for men. We have a bunch of Mexican shops. If you come here to shop, it would be because you want to buy good Mexican crafts. The prices are pretty good, but there are some stores that sell very expensive Mexican products. You can find the best embroidery here in San Miguel de Allende. They have embroidery on clothing, things for the house, etc. Some of them are very expensive because of the craftsmanship but most other items such as clothes, handcrafts, paintings, or art are not very expensive.
In general, I don’t feel the need to leave San Miguel de Allende if I want to go shopping unless I need to go to a Home Depot. Then you need to go to Queretaro, which is about an hour away from San Miguel de Allende. But for the most part, you could find everything here.
(Rugs, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, pictured.)
Posted August 11, 2016
Nancy Howze - CDR Bienes Raices San Miguel, SC
If you are a shopper, the stores and shops in San Miguel de Allende are heaven. If you are a designer, the stores and shops are better than heaven. Mexico is truly a “can do” country. For the first house I built in San Miguel de Allende from scratch, I ripped out of a magazine a picture of a four-corner poster bed. I had a carpenter make the bed and add a particular light fixture that I liked, and then I had a local artist paint it. That bed would have cost about US $6,000...If you are a shopper, the stores and shops in San Miguel de Allende are heaven. If you are a designer, the stores and shops are better than heaven. Mexico is truly a “can do” country. For the first house I built in San Miguel de Allende from scratch, I ripped out of a magazine a picture of a four-corner poster bed. I had a carpenter make the bed and add a particular light fixture that I liked, and then I had a local artist paint it. That bed would have cost about US $6,000 if you ordered it, but I got it for $1,500, made and painted in San Miguel de Allende. I ripped pictures of light fixtures out of magazines and had them copied here in San Miguel de Allende. If you’re a designer, you’ll find that the ironwork, the woodwork, and the skillsets are just incredible here in San Miguel de Allende. You can have all kinds of things made, from lamps, to other items to personalize your house. Your imagination is your limitation.
If you want to go shopping for clothes, there are some great designer clothes here in San Miguel de Allende. There’s a wonderful place called Hoja Santa where we do some partnership projects. Hoja Santa has great style, with most of their clothes ranging from European, Mexican, and other similar designs. There are lots of jewelry stores in Recreo, which is a town right up the street from my office. A couple, Lisa and Michael Coleman, moved to San Miguel de Allende from Chicago a couple of years ago and reinvented the poncho. They also have fabulous designer fabrics and new designs for men and women that are wonderful.
The chandelier that hangs in my foyer is an official Weisman (where they actually make the base and where the iron guy would deliberately make your lamp) design, and they own a property in San Miguel de Allende. Fisher-Weisman are well-known designers out of San Francisco, and a lot of their work is actually done here in Mexico.
Another popular designer in San Miguel de Allende is Anne Marie Witty, a great European designer who lives in Brussels but also owns a house here in San Miguel de Allende. Maureen has a lot of design works here, mostly with European themes.
In San Miguel de Allende, if you just want to pick up trinkets at the market and walk through the stalls of the market, that’s a great fun thing to do. There’s a market here in San Miguel de Allende where they just have little stalls where you might find little tin things, hand stitched pillowcases, purses, etc.
(Racks of clothes in the courtyard for Hoja Santa boutique, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, pictured.)
Posted January 15, 2017