From designer boutiques and world-class cuisine to local curios and cosy coffee shops, this piazza encapsulates a lifestyle that takes good taste to new levels. Take in a show at the Liberty Theatre on the Square, cast your eye across works of art in one...
One of Rosebank's newest shopping centres, and a favourite weekend meeting place for teenagers, this entertainment centre is filled with coffee shops, pubs, restaurants, trendy clothing stores and movie theatres.
One of Johannesburg's original shops - 109 years old - A Portas offers great phyllo pastry and parma ham. But what's really unusual is that it doubles as a model train shop so while you sip your coffee, expect to overhear animated conversations...
Ricca Turgel has been in the designing business for 15 years. She designs and hand paints fabric, using classic African designs. She makes throws and cushion covers with ostrich feather trimming, beautiful velvet beaded cushion covers, soft mohair...
If you want your jaw to drop at the enormity of thousands of pieces of beautiful African artworks, take a trip to Bramley, and wander from room to room and out into the garden to marvel at the range of items. Outside there are magnificently carved...
Boekehuis has been open for four-and-a-half years and has established itself as the city's only "intellectual bookshop", specializing in South African and world literature, with an emphasis on Afrikaans authors. Described by manager Corina van der...
Got books at home that are badly in need of repair? Well, stop in at Bookbinding Creations and gets your book back a week later looking almost new, and without a huge hole in your wallet. Retired couple Andy and Denise Forbes, a structural engineer...
Botany offers only indigenous arrangements, although, admits owner Heather Thompson, she can organise a bunch of roses on Valentine’s Day if you simply can’t do without. Open for 18 months, Thompson says her flowers are competitively priced, and she...
All products at this Market are hand made locally by talented crafters, artists and jewelers or grown organically by small-scale farmers; paying them a visit in Jo’burg’s northern suburbs is a unique experience. Enjoy delicious cakes &...
This shopping centre is in the city's towering 50-storey skyscraper, one of the popular landmarks in Johannesburg. Most retail outlets and fast food chains can be found here.
This antique shop has won the Options Readers Choice of Best Antique Shop for the last five years. The shop has silverware, china, furniture, lamps, jewellery and mirrors. Two-thirds of the shop's books are Africana, plus modern first editions, and...
Wanna lose yourself in up to two million books? Head into the CBD, ring the bell and wander around this store gob smacked. There are books stacked everywhere, plus LP records, sheet music, maps, porcelain and postcards. One of the owners, Jonathan...
After eight refurbishments and extensions, Cresta is one of the city's largest shopping complexes, with a diversity of stores ranging from supermarkets and clothing to cosy coffee shops and movie theatres.