HAUTE HERTEL
Queen City style expert Erin Habes sums up the shopping along North Buffalo’s Hertel Avenue:
MICHAEL HARGRAVE
West Side Bazaar
HOW BAZAAR!
How can you take a whirlwind trip to India, Burma, China, Ethiopia and Peru in just 30 minutes? By making a stop at the West Side Bazaar on Grant Street in Buffalo, where immigrants from around the world sell colorful wares and traditional foods from their home countries. Less than a half mile up Grant, browse the aisles of imported foods at Guercio & Sons, which serves as a produce wholesaler to some of Buffalo’s finest restaurants, or pick up a used book at West Side Stories to read with an omelette and coffee from Sweet_ness 7.
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TODD ZINTZ
Sweet_ness 7
A LITTLE SPRING IN OUR STEP Our cure for cabin fever? The sweet-smelling tulips, daffodils and hyacinths of the Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens’ Spring Flower Show. Add in the Gardens’ stunning building (see the cover of this magazine) and you’ve really brightened our spirits. buffalogardens.com
NANCY J. PARISI
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“ Hertel has become a veritable destination for every vintage lover, home décor gawker and ultimate boutique shopper. There’s nothing more satisfying than discovering the one-of-a-kind hot spots a city has to offer. Shop some of my go-to fashion faves: Moda Vintage, room, Blue Hill Kitchen & Home, Chic and Sweet, Modern/Nostalgia, P.S. Accessories and Hertel’s newest addition – Blue Collar men’s shop!”
KATIE AMBROSE
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ERIN HABES
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