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February 2024 by Janet Livingston
Beautiful location to take a chocolate class! Plenty of shopping options along with delicious pastry from Flour Craft.
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February 2024 by Grant Ellis
Super neat spot for chill vibes. If you lack some cash. You won't fit in, this place demands a premium, but does offer a neat vide, good food and great small town feel
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January 2024 by Paris F.
Great use of space and dog friendly. Like the dog shop and outdoor seating. Thanks for trying to have parking even though hard. Thanks for supporting gluten free with flower craft
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January 2024 by Rebecca Castro
Really quaint shopping center in mill valley! Me and my bf stopped at the crepe shop. We got the butter, sugar and strawberry crepe. It was really yummy! We then continued shopping. Was a nice time. While the center is small, it had a lot going on!
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January 2024 by Jenny Wang
One of my favorite go tos in the bay. I order the Bridgeway Tartine and London Fog every time. All the pastries are divine. The gluten free focaccia bread they use for the tartines is perfection.
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January 2024 by Kelly Edwards
A quant food and retail experience that anyone would love.
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December 2023 by Amanda A.
Great spot to chill outside by the fire away from downtown crowds. Always a fun vibe.
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December 2023 by Ariane W.
Mill Valley and everything the town offers is lovely.
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November 2023 by Maria O.
This is our first time at the Lumberyard, my husband and I and we agree that so far, we have enjoyed our stay after our hike at Mt Tamalapais, it was indeed a wonderful find! We'll definitely come back soon!
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November 2023 by Russell Pencin
Nice fancy little shops. Food and drinks available. Restrooms accessable.
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October 2023 by Bob S.
perhaps this will provide some perspective that makes sense of what happened to the old Mill Valley Lumber Yard. it's been transformed from a functional building materials supplier of yesteryear into a venue created as yet another opportunity to exchange some of your discretionary income for more upscale stuff that will, someday and ultimately, make less and less sense to you, then you store it in your garage. i'm definitely jaded on this, having had more than enough of events that are little more than craft faires. this place is just a higher end version. that said, for years the lumber yard was losing ground as a business and actually seemed deserted at times. this new development of the property has a certain undeniable but somehow annoying appeal. to check it out i went for a stroll one recent fall evening down it's lighted ersatz "mainstreet", cool breeze blowing in off the coast, in this historic and beautiful location, "nestled" (hate that term) under mill valley redwoods. though the property deserved better i anyway enjoyed its terminally cozy transformation, accepting this kind of thing as an inevitable result of pricey marin real estate. the location is expensive and whatever is there has to be profitable enough to pay the rent better than did the sale of lumber. this is anyway better than ugly high-rise apartments mandated by our zeitgeist state housing requirements. so be it as it is. i won't list purveyors displaying their wares, go see for yourself. just know that next time you're here some will likely be gone as time separates winners from others. you realize there are no bargains in the lumber yard, right? just pricey items you can do without but for that mysterious urge to let go of some folding green and buy something while you're here, anything really. it's an urge that savvy marketers know so well how to stimulate. the market is composed of marinites, but likely many city dwellers as well, on a country excursion, ie this side of the bridge. these are surely not young hourly wage earners but people much like ourselves, middle+ incomers (enough to pay for elevated rent maybe mortgage, electric cars, dinner at overpriced / not great restaurants, etc) ie, professional salary mules. there is nothing new about this target market. an old socio-economic term, originally marxian and repurposed in the 60s/70s as both derisive and arrogant reference to the middling urban demographic. i hesitate to state such terms but... "boog" in the hip 60s, since re-named "bobo" by none other than journalist David Brook... they refer to the urban bourgeoisie (BOurgeois BOhemian). portals of entry for marketing to this sector of the middle class, employed as they are in stressful careers providing for a comfortable urban life but requiring a break from workweek monotony, are venues like "lumber yard". good workaday folks head for getaway places like this where surely enough, various curios and cuteness will be for sale in a setting that evokes a sense of an earlier, simpler era. one can wonder why people buy here, why they buy what they buy, but in the end macht nichts. others make a living selling them stuff here. the jaded view I describe is of likely but a few who make or sell this "stuff" today. back in the day i made festival wine, others crafted handmade artsy-fartsy kitsch (pottery, leather belts, woody things, candles, tie-dye, "art",...), generally living more by wits than job skill to escape the paycheck fray. products were an easy sell at craft markets and festivals to urbanite workers who for a time displayed, used in their kitchen, or whatever. you may still have some of these crafts somewhere in your garage ("look heather, here's that wooden beer mug i bought at the renaissance fair back in 1980!"). all much the same today, things sell to the same market, for the same reasons, in places like the lumber yard. to be sure, today's is a more polished presentation... imports from certain favored
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October 2023 by Steve Nguyen
Great place to hang out and grab a bite
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September 2023 by Sharine d.
Lovely little shopping/ dining area. On the way to Muir Woods made a small detour and found this gem. They have a pastry shop, jewelry shop, restaurant, electric bike shop, knick nack shop and ice cream.... Anchored by a nice area to sit and enjoy the sun. Great location to meet and greet and grab a snack. Favorite so we the nick nack shop..I think it had "makers"-artisan items. Today wasn't a day for shipping, but definately will come by again... Great, relaxing place. Caretaker also shared some history of the lumberyard... Beautiful location.
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August 2023 by Todd Mendez
Very nice place for shopping and eating. Easy access to restrooms and lots of outdoor seating available. Parking is sparse but we always found a spot.
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July 2023 by Tom Z.
Great place with diverse shops and shopping experience. Purchased a micro puzzle in the Tantrum toy store. Very elegant and busy for its third day debut since soft opening. Also found great stuff for my Dals, a rope toy and their color matched leashes. Then had lunch at the Watershed. Greater by service and promptly edited on. Food menu has a little of everything. I am sure there will be something appetizing.
