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Plant Shop
Niche
City dwellers can instantly add life to their digs with a visit to Niche, which offers a diverse selection of perennials, herbs, annuals and vegetables...
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Bookstore
Brookline Booksmith
This Coolidge Corner mainstay has been “dedicated to the fine art of browsing” for more than half a century...
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Children's Store
CouCou
When Barcelona-born Astrid Motsenigos realized she couldn’t find the same “beautiful, everyday items” for her daughter locally that she could while traveling...
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Floral Studio
Laura Jean Floral
No two posies are the same—and neither are the arrangements from this Cambridge studio, which sources from local farms and personalizes each design...
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Furniture Store
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams
From clean-lined dining tables and gleaming bar carts to curvy sectionals and tufted upholstered beds, the furnishings at this 10,000-square-foot Back Bay store are sleek...
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Gift Shop
Ouimillie
Browsing this Beacon Hill boutique feels like shopping the abode of your effortlessly stylish BFF—if your friend happened to be a European jet-setter...
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Green Team
Bootstrap Compost
It’s easy being green with a subscription to Bootstrap Compost, a Boston-based service that’s diverted nearly two million pounds of waste from landfills...
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Home Decor Store
Modern Relik
Modern Relik’s 5,000-square-foot showroom offers a “marriage of classic and avant-garde,” says owner Meg Kimball, a 20-year interior design specialist...
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Liquor Store
Gordon's Boston
Whether your go-to is liquor, wine or craft beer, you can drink in hundreds of options at Gordon’s new Downtown Crossing outpost...
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Local Flavor
1630
You won’t find plush lobsters or Boston baked beans at this charming shop, which stands out amid a sea of more tourist-focused options at Faneuil Hall...
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Meal Kit
Al FreshCo
This meal kit service blends a trifecta of feel-good ingredients: sustainable packaging, local produce and delivery via bicycle...
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Moving Company
Mozart Moving Company
Having your TV arrive on time—without any scratches—is usually enough to give a moving company a passing grade...
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Museum Shop
The ICA Store
Forget about merely exiting through the gift shop; the ICA Store is a destination in its own right...
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New Addition
The Local Fare
Gourmands should gravitate to this Arlington space co-founded by the ladies behind Nutty Life nut-based milks, Kitchen Millie two-bite cookies...
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One-Stop Shop
Boston Public Market
With more than 35 New England vendors, this market offers baked goods, coffee, tea, produce, seafood, cheese, cured meats and more to shoppers...
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Pet Resort
The Urban Hound
The Urban Hound has come a long way from its one-person dog-walking roots...
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Reason to Dabble in the Occult
HausWitch Home + Healing
Channeling Salem’s witchy spirit with a playful feminist flair, this sunlit shop stocks signature spell kits—like Open Window, for banishing negative energy...
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Running Store
Heartbreak Hill Running Company
Founded by former Boston College track and field captains, this “all things running” store offers personalized fittings with gait analysis...
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Stationery Shop
Calliope Paperie
The art of snail mail is alive and well in Natick thanks to this shop, which stocks stationery with a distinct attitude, much of it locally designed...
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Tattoo Parlor
Good Faith Tattoo
Fear not, first-timers: The name of this Allston shop says it all...