Plaza Center — Local services in Lafayette

A beautiful and relaxed little shopping center with Safeway, Whole Foods, McCullough's, a Sushi restaurant, Noah's Bagels, a barbershop, Jamba Juice, Chipotles, and other smaller restaurants and cool smaller shops to explore on the back side. Across the street is the Lafayette Commons with grass for picnics and for the kids to run around on and there is the classic old movie theater that is opening again, and the whole plaza is just a cool little relaxed downtown spot. There is plenty of parking always but it does get busy on weekends and there are some large roads surrounding the outside of the plaza so it's not extremely quiet sound-wise or peaceful on weekends, but still laid back. Hope that's...

Pleasant little shopping center. That a huge number of selection options but if you consider it part of that "Mt. Diablo Blvd drag", then there are plenty of options in this broader area -- from grocery, to coffee shops, to restaurants. The area is clean and safe and while traffic can be mildly irritating, it's not bad and you can usually find parking if not at the Plaza Center then at least...

There are a few different businesses in this plaza that I go to. It's always very busy and yet I can easily find parking and it's always clean. I'm also normally in this area sometime after 5:00 p.m., which is when I assume they are the busiest. I would say if anything the only difficult thing in this area is getting in and out of the plaza center as the traffic can...