5 Best Places to Shop in North Central Washington, Washington

Located in a renovated warehouse along the Columbia River, this market offers specialty food products, fresh produce from nearby farms, artisanal cheeses, seafood, coffee, gelato, and charcuterie, as well as a few restaurants and gift shops. It's been likened to an eastern Washington version of the much larger and older Pike Place Market in Seattle.

Pick up a snack or the makings of a picnic at this lively basement-level cheese shop that stocks both domestic and imported cheeses, along with German sausages, other meats, and all the accoutrements for a picture-perfect charcuterie board. There's also a shop at the Pybus Market in Wenatchee.

In this basement-level specialty shop, you can sample gourmet salts; aged balsamic vinegars in flavors like fig, lemon lavender, pecan praline, and garlic cilantro; and infused olive oils such as basil, habanero, garlic mushroom, and rosemary.

Tucked in the back of the high-end home-decor and gourmet-kitchen store Ganz Klasse!, which offers wooden cutting boards, table linens, and porcelain pieces, Schocolate sells fine handcrafted chocolates in flavors like brandied pear, burnt-caramel–salted almond ganache, and Earl Grey.

Tucked into this Wild West–style clapboard building is a haven of treats: myriad candy bins, boxes of chocolate bars, and—behind the glass case—all kinds of house-made chocolates and fudge. Choose from more than a dozen flavors of homemade ice cream in the summer. Shady tables on the patio provide respite for grown-ups, and there are saddle-topped stools for the kids. Hot dogs, curly fries, and milk shakes are also available.