Lola of North Beach Review

Definitely  a charming place to find greeting cards, baby gifts (Onesies with headphones and SF themes such as the I dig Marina Chicks onesie, baby shoes, baby socks), tasteful journals, thank you cards, candles, gift bags, calendars, ornaments, erasers, magnets, rubber stamps, etc.  The Japanese food erasers that I like so much (the ones that look like sushi and cake) are sprinkled throughout the store.  Custom printing services are available.  

Things I spotted and liked:
* Mini tubes of Lollia hand creams, perfect stocking stuffers
* Sushi calendar in sticker form - each month is printed on a different piece of sushi
* Cupcake greeting cards
* Carrot & Stick Press and Snow & Graham letterpress notecards
* Metal paper clips in various animal shapes like ducks, penguins and cows
* Tiny Japanese super strong sushi magnets
* Moleskin notebooks

My greeting card standards are high and I noticed that Lola's carries greeting card lines that aren't commonly found elsewhere.  I'm constantly looking for unique cards so that's a plus.  For the type of girly store that it is, they have a surprising number of humorous and irreverent cards.  That's a minus.  I never feel comfortable giving those types of cards and would rather see more of the pretty letterpress cards.

1415 Grant Ave
(between Green St & Union St)
San Francisco, CA 94133
Neighborhood: North Beach/Telegraph Hill

(415) 781-1817