Shoppers Guide To Santa Monica's Montana Avenue

Santa Monica is a popular destination in the Los Angeles area. It is celebrated for its beautiful beach areas, the Promenade and other tourist spots. People gather and explore a variety of unique stores while enjoying the sunny skies of Southern California in this unique tourist spot. Montana Avenue is one street where you can spend the entire day going from one store to the next finding a wide range of products and service. The myriad of specialty stores lining Montana include restaurants, health food stores, clothing stores, designer services and more. Here are a few of the unique stores that make Montana Avenue a popular street for shopping, perusing and enjoying the day.

Bellacures Nail Salon
1609 Montana Ave.
Santa Monica, CA 90403
(310) 584-4584
www.bellacures.com

Bellacures Nail Salon is a designer nail salon with custom spa sessions that offer a relaxing journey through a broad range of options in nail spa services. The Gelicure offers a specialty service to remove nail polish through a cool gel treatment. It includes cuticle oil application and a brisk hand massage. Mini manis are short manicures for people in a hurry who want a quick service fitted into a busy schedule. Other manicure services include the sea salt scrub, the walnut scrub, and the Rock Star gelicure, which comes complete with a gel treatment, cuticle oil and glitter for a bright and shiny finish.

Greens Up
703 Montana Ave.
Santa Monica, CA 90403
(310) 394-1111
www.greensupsalads.com

Greens up offers a delightful array of healthy salads made from a variety of vegetable and fruit combinations with nutrition and delicious flavor being a part of each designer salad recipe. Turkey salad is a popular item at Greens Up. In addition to all natural turkey, the other ingredients are colorful and tasty and include romaine, spring mix, goat cheese, almonds, dates corn and croutons served with an apple vinaigrette.

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DiDios Italian Ice
1305 Montana Ave.
Santa Monica, CA 90403
(310) 393-2788
www.didiositalianices.com

Randy DiDio and Robert DiDio have a natural passion for serving customers with utmost hospitality when it comes to their store. They are the visionaries behind DiDios Italian Ice. This specialty store is home to  New York and Phillie style icies served up daily to happy patrons. Flavors include cotton candy, green apple, cranberry, grapefruit and vanilla. In addition to icies, they also serve up hand packed ice cream in a wide range of flavors including mint chocolate chip, banana caramel and hazelnut.

Stephanie Grace
912 Montana Ave.
Santa Monica, Ca 90403
(310) 458-6010
www.stephaniegrace.com

Chicago native, Stephanie Grace, presents a sophisticated, trendy store that offers specialty items that represent true quality in relation to event planning and home decor. A specialist in hospitality and event management, Grace brings an elegant option to decorating an event with lovely bouquets and creative vases. In addition to floral arrangements, the store carries colorful bedding, table accessories, lighting, bar tools and even designer jewelry.

Montana Natural
930 Montana Ave.
Santa Monica, CA 90403
(310) 395-2059
montanaave.com/shop/montana-natural

When you are looking to spend part of your day looking for the right vitamins in a local health food store, a visit to Montana Natural will catapult your day into the aesthetics of natural remedies and vitamins for health and endurance. Vitamins, herbal teas, natural oils, organic shampoos, homeopathic remedies, protein shakes and natural skin care are some of the items that they carry. The product lines in this store are designed to promote endurance and wellness all from nature's organic ingredients and extracts from plants including flowers and herbs.

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