Outdoor shopping, dining, and night life

Blocks of people watching, shopping, dining. a million places to eat, all different kinds.

Shop and eat at Los Angeles' largest outdoor mall!

Third Street Promenade is a fantastic outdoor mall that spans a few city blocks. The walking streets are lined with every shop you can think of, along with plenty of restaurants- check out the website for details.

Seeing Stars: Where the Stars Shop 3rd Street (between Broadway & Wilshire), Santa Monica, CA. / (310) 393-7593 or (310) 393-9825 The West Side has a new place to see and be seen, attracting throngs of happy shoppers and more than the occasional celebrity. A three-block stretch of 3rd Street in Santa Monica has been sealed off from traffic, turning it into a pedestrian shopping and dining mecca, which was re-christianed "The Third Street Promenade." L.A. is the land of the automobile and the mall, and as the old saying goes: "nobody walks in L.A.." But here on the Promenade you can always find a crowd of happy pedestrians enjoying the sunshine (or the moonlight), along with the movies and restaurants. And it's free - there is no admission charge. The new shopping area begins where the Santa Monica Place mall ends (anchoring the Promenade's southern end) and runs north for three long outdoor blocks to Wilshire Blvd. Until just a few years ago, this was a rather shabby part of town, filled with vacant, dilapidated storefronts. But very little of that sad history remains today; it is rapidly being swept away by the onslaught of new money and new faces, and by a deluge of multiscreen movie theatres, upscale boutiques, and trendy sidewalk caf

This is a great area to go strolling. It is only 2 blocks to a nice walking path on the bluffs overlooking the ocean. There is also food, shopping and entertainment a plenty.

Shopping, dining, street performers