Where to Shop

The Shopping is Hopping!

The Walden Galleria is the largest shopping center in the Buffalo Niagara region. Comprising 1,600,000 square feet of retail space with more than 200 stores, services and restaurants, the mall is currently undergoing a $60 million renovation and expansion. The expansion has already brought in major retailers including Coach, Sephora, bebe, Lucky Brand Jeans, Aerie and Urban Outfitters; restaurants The Cheesecake Factory, Bar Louie, The Melting Pot, Hyde Park Steakhouse, and Bravo! Cucina Italiana and services including EFX Currency Exchange. The completed expansion also includes a 3000-person Regal Cinemas movie complex.

Other Buffalo shopping centers include the Boulevard Mall in nearby Amherst, McKinley Mall in Hamburg and Eastern Hills Mall in Williamsville. Outlet shopping at Fashion Outlets of Niagara Falls USA is second to none with a large variety of brand name retailers available.

The best of city shopping can be found in the Elmwood Village, a vibrant neighborhood that was recently voted one of ten great neighborhoods throughout the United States by the American Planning Association. The neighborhood’s main thoroughfare, Elmwood Avenue, is a funky but chic strip of shops, boutiques, restaurants and bars. Just a short ride or walk from downtown, the Elmwood Village is a charming slice of city life.

Or sample the shops in the quaint village of East Aurora, home of the National Historic Landmark Roycroft Campus. Here you'll find antique dealers, art galleries, an old-fashioned five and dime, ice cream shop, toy store and much more along a charming Main Street that recalls an era of simple pleasures and genteel pastimes.

If treasure hunting interests you, peruse the antique stores and furniture galleries of the city's Allentown neighborhood, along Hertel Avenue in North Buffalo and on Main Street in nearby Clarence. Click here for a map of some of Buffalo’s antiquing hotspots.

And for an authentic taste of Old World charm and ethnic cuisine, check out the Broadway Market, one of the oldest continuously-operated public markets in the country, located on the city's East Side. Order pierogi, a Polish stuffed dumpling, for lunch and treat yourself to the powdered pastry known as chrusicki for dessert.