Victoria Gardens

Victoria Gardens Review

Classy Victoria Gardens feels a lot like downtown Disneyland with its vintage signs, antique lampposts, and colorful California-theme murals along its 12 city blocks. At this family-oriented shopping, dining, and entertainment complex, such stores as Banana Republic, Abercrombie & Fitch, Williams-Sonoma, and Pottery Barn are flanked by a Macy's and a 12-screen AMC movie theater. After you're finished shopping, grab an ice cream at the Ben & Jerry's shop and linger in the 1920s-style Town Square, a relaxing little park with fountains, grass, and an old-fashioned trolley ($2 per ride). Restaurants such as the Cheesecake Factory, Lucille's Smokehouse Bar-B-Que, P.F. Chang's China Bistro, and the Yard House often have lines out the door. The Victoria Gardens Cultural Center has a library and a 540-seat performing-arts center.