Holiday Shopping - Keeping it local!

As you do your holiday shopping, CWE Families & Friends wants to remind you of all the wonderful gifts available right here in the neighborhood - and feel free to add others that we haven't thought of yet (think of all the gas you'll save!):

*Businesses in bold made a contribution to the CWE Families & Friends Silent Auction at the Fall Picnic, for which we are truly grateful!

Jewelry: Gretchen P, McGinty Jewelers on the Plaza, The Silver Lady

Books: Left Bank Books, Big Sleep Books

Pampered gifts for him & her: La Petit Spa, The Color Bar, Cutters & Co., Cassie's, Lemon Spalon

Entertainment: Chase Park Plaza Cinemas, Science Center Imax, Gaslight Theater / St. Louis Actors' Studio, Bob Kramer's Marionettes

To start on healthier new year's resolutions: Sante, The Boxing Gym, St. Louis Workout

Framing, flowers & fine wine: The Great Frame-Up/Relish, Pick Flowers, Bowood Farms Nursery, Brennan's Tobacco and wine

Practical gifts: Sho-Off Car Wash, Straub's gift certificates, Wolfgang's, New Market Hardware

Desserts: The Cupcakery, Gelato di Riso, Bissinger's Chocolate Bar

Taking the kids out: Pasta House, Companion Baking Co., Duff's, The Fountain on Locust, The Boathouse, Crepes Etc., Banh mi boba

Got a sitter: Sapphire Pan Asian, The Grind/Sol Lounge, West End Grill and Pub, Chi Sushi Sake, Bar Italia, Terrene, India's Rasoi, SubZero, Scape, Scottish Arms, Dressel's, Liluma, Wildflower, Herbie's

Note: The listing of restaurants in this fashion is in no way meant to establish a hard and fast rule about where children are allowed to dine - it was just a simple way of breaking up the list.

Coffee Gifts: Companion, Starbuck's, Coffee Cartel, Einstein's, Northwest Coffee, 6 North

Apparel: Mezzanine, Mary Jane's, Moris, Adriano Goldschmeid

Art & Antiques: Atrium Gallery, Shelton Davis, Third Degree Glass Factory, Rothschild Antiques, William Shearburn Gallery


And don't forget memberships to the Zoo, the History Museum, Art Museum, Forest Park Forever, and other neighborhood institutions make great gifts for kids of ALL ages!