1200 S. Coast Highway (The Old Pottery Place), Laguna Beach, California
ABODE Bodega + Goods is a Laguna Beach home and lifestyle shop formerly known as The Garage Collective. Its selection includes textiles and home objects alongside gifts and seasonal provisions, with local makers among the contributors. Kristin Miracle-Lewis and Jaime Saunders are the partners described by the business, which lists its shop at 1200 South Coast Highway.
Best for Home textiles, decorative objects and gifts in Laguna Beach
ABODE Bodega + Goods is a home and lifestyle shop at 1200 South Coast Highway in Laguna Beach, California. Its founder biography dates Kristin Miracle-Lewis’s Garage Collective pop-up to 2015, before the business adopted its current name. Jaime Saunders, an interior designer, later joined her, bringing another perspective to the shop's selection and presentation.
Textiles and home objects form part of a selection that extends to gifts and seasonal provisions for everyday use. The business describes working with local artists and makers, while its broader influences include travel and coastal living. These influences help explain the assortment without proving that every object was manufactured in California.
For a purchase, start with the room or recipient rather than expecting all pieces to suit the same interior. Compare the dimensions and materials of a home object with the space where it will be used. Ask about the maker of the specific item if origin matters, and distinguish a finished retail purchase from any separate interior-design enquiry.
Gemologist and goldsmith Adam Neeley designs award-winning fine jewelry from his North Coast Highway studio-gallery, working in proprietary alloys like SpectraGold and RevaGold alongside traditional precious metals and gems. His one-of-a-kind and limited-edition pieces, including the Dali's Garden collection, have entered museum exhibitions and drawn collectors beyond Orange County.
Jedidiah Coffee is a family-owned Laguna Beach roaster built around the Munsey family's small-batch blends, including its house Coffeehouse Blend and Decaf Colombia. It also offers Mobile Coffee catering and packages its beans with a No Issue eco-alliance badge.
Best for Small-batch Munsey coffee and mobile catering
Jedidiah Coffee runs from North Coast Highway in Laguna Beach as a family-owned roaster and coffeehouse built around the Munsey family's small-batch blends, among them a house Coffeehouse Blend and a Decaf Colombia, both sold in bagged retail formats starting at $23. The shop's own tagline, "Supporting Small & Giving Back," pairs with a stated eco-conscious streak — its packaging carries a No Issue eco-alliance badge, tying its small-batch roasting to a stated sustainability commitment rather than leaving it as an unsupported claim. Beyond the café counter, Jedidiah offers Mobile Coffee catering for local events, extending the family business past a fixed storefront into pop-up service. Branded merchandise — tumblers, cold cups, hoodies, and canisters — rounds out the retail side. The company markets itself explicitly on staying small and independent rather than expanding into a multi-location chain, a positioning that shows up concretely in the named, limited blend lineup rather than a large rotating specialty-coffee menu. For a single-location Laguna Beach roaster, the combination of a named house blend, an eco-packaging badge, and mobile catering gives Jedidiah a slightly wider footprint than its one-storefront presence alone would suggest.
La Bottega Gallery grew out of a private collection of Italian etchings assembled over more than forty years, and still centers its inventory on master engravings alongside contemporary painting, photography, and sculpture. The family-run gallery represents Italian etcher Andre Beuchat along with guest artists from West Africa, Argentina, and Turkey.
Laguna Coffee Company roasts its beans on-site at its South Coast Highway café, opening daily at 5:30am. Its signature Laguna Blend, a medium roast with notes of cherry and floral, is sold whole bean, ground, or by subscription.
Best for Laguna Blend and early-morning Coast Highway coffee
Laguna Coffee Company roasts on-site at its South Coast Highway café, keeping the process bean-to-cup rather than sourcing pre-roasted stock from an outside supplier, with a stated emphasis on fair-trade and locally sourced lots. Its signature offering, the Laguna Blend, is a medium roast the company describes as carrying "notes of cherry and floral," sold as whole bean or ground in 12-ounce bags. The shop opens early — 5:30am daily — positioning itself as a working coffee stop for regulars rather than a late-morning café, and it runs a coffee subscription program alongside its café drink menu for customers who want the roast delivered on a schedule rather than bought bag by bag. The company sums up its process plainly: "hand-picked, Laguna-roasted, and ready for your brew," tying the in-house roasting directly to the beach town it's named after.
Laguna Surf & Sport has outfitted surfers, skaters, and skimboarders from its South Coast Highway storefront since 1982, selling its own house lines such as Circle Roots and Brooks Street alongside board-sport gear. The shop also runs private and group surf lessons taught by local instructors.
Lu Martin Galleries has represented mostly Orange County and Southern California painters from its large North Coast Highway storefront since 1988, favoring oversized coastal, landscape, and figure work. The gallery joins the town's First Thursdays Artwalk each month.
Best for Large-scale Southern California paintings
Sandstone Gallery has held the same spot on Gallery Row since opening in 1981, making it the longest-running gallery in town, and shows original oils, ceramics, and sculpture from nineteen resident artists. Ten of those artists have also exhibited at Laguna Beach's Festival of Arts.
Sue Greenwood Fine Art has spent more than two decades on North Coast Highway building a roster of realist and figurative painters working in oil and acrylic, including Jason Kowalski and Dave Lefner. The gallery publishes its own exhibition catalogs and rotates shows regularly.
Best for Contemporary realism and figurative painting
Thalia Surf Shop has stocked handcrafted boards from shapers like Alex Knost, Gato Heroi, and Liddle Surfboards since 2001, alongside a curated run of vintage-inflected apparel, vinyl, and surf ephemera. The shop leans into a retro, artistic aesthetic that sets it apart from mass-market surf retail.
The Bead Shop has sold beads, gemstones, and finished jewelry from its South Coast Highway location since 1973, with a workbench area where customers can string their own pieces from house supplies. It also offers permanent-jewelry welding, repairs, and private jewelry-making classes.
Best for Bead jewelry-making and permanent jewelry
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