Pure Pampering
Pure Pampering & Gifts
Spend the day gift shopping and be sure to pamper yourself in between, going crazy for designer jewellery, affordable artworks, unique gifts, fabulous spa therapies and exclusive health and foodstores.
It's time to discover York's creative soul beginning at York Art Gallery on Exhibition Square.
From here you can choose to go right, onto Museum Street to visit Corky's perfect for children's quirky gifts, or you can turn left round past Bootham Bar and onto Gillygate to Bubbles a proper Aladdin's cave with inspirational gifts for children. Treat yourself to the best in shoes at Exclusive Footwear.
Back down through Bootham Bar onto High Petergate to peruse the handmade contemporary jewellery and gifts at Porta Dextra and Monkey Puzzle.
High Petergate continues to the corner of Minster Gates where Minerva herself perches high on the wall opposite Links of London.
Turn right onto Stonegate for antique English jewellery in Barbara Cattle or the Pyramid Gallery for something a little more contemporary. For a limited Steiff teddy bear for your collection, it has to be Stonegate Teddy Bears. There is also Peter Rabbit and Friends for a range of collectables.
Don't forget to call into the Visitor Information Centre for quality locally sourced merchandise and gifts and much more.
At St Helen's Square experience the renowned Betty's Café Tea Rooms for a sumptuous lunch.
Molton Brown on Davygate is sure to inspire you for gifts to adorn even the most stylish of bathrooms with names to match from the glorious aromas of heavenly gingerlily to celestial maracuja.
Discover what is known as the Quarter area on a short cut through Finkle Street off St Sampson's Square, to Swinegate and onto Grape Lane. For a pamper stop call into Nail Bar One or Beauty Bar One.
Right into Low Petergate, visiting Neal's Yard and L'Occitane where you'll find the most desirable perfumes and other products evoking the colours and scents of Provence.
Here you'll also find Bradley's Jewellers and Christmas Angels where every day is Christmas day .... plus Palenque for stunning, silver jewellery.
Into Goodramgate for Rafi's Spice Box where a delicious combination of spices is tailor-made to make the perfect curry. Double back up the street to call into R A Braithwaites for fine jewellery. Next turn left into Kings Square, great for street entertainment or Daisy Taylor's for the perfect gift.
Continue onto Colliergate and Tullivers for an amazing range of wholefoods, herbs and health items and Azendi to find something to suit all avid jewellery fans.
Round the corner to the right and you'll find yourself in the medieval Shambles, voted UK's most picturesque street with aromas from the Monkbar Chocolatier and John Bull Fudge Shop or the heady smell of leather from Cox of Yorkshire. Be photographed as a Viking or Victorian lady at Past Images, treat yourself to some contemporary jewellery from Lily Shambles and then for a quick energy boost call into Xing Smoothies or nip to Henshelwoods award-winning delicatessen on Newgate.
Into Fossgate where Give the Dog a Bone has fun and funky gifts and Miniature Scene for the ultimate dolls house. Into the Hairy Fig for a glimpse at one of the tiniest, but best stocked deli's you'll find. Cross the pretty cobbled bridge and turn right over the River Foss, through the walkway to Coppergate for the wide variety of shops.
*Please note shops that appear in italic are only to be found in York.
