Old Town La Quinta

Old Town! More like «Walking Dead Town.» Crowd, if you can call 3 people a «crowd,» is about 100 years old! What a waste of space. Only a few boutiques. Restaurants are mostly gone! No shade to keep you cool in the summer (which is most of the time in the desert). Had a concert called «Block Party,» a few weeks ago, and the place was hopping. Should do that more often. Really disappointing.

It is a small town but, it’s clean, safe, kid & dog friendly, There’s hardly any traffic and the parking is free plus the walk is enjoyable. There are no nightclubs but there’s great music and dancing. It’s a nice mix of tourists and locals.
The most recent review was over a year old and thankfully things have changed for the better. Art under the umbrellas on Saturdays in season, the Farmer’s market on Sunday mornings, family/​health fairs, a taste of La Quinta, Christmas tree lighting, etc., and lots more different types of new shops.
Must do’s -* Old town Coffee, Nitroinfusions, Le Château, H20 Apothecary, La Quinta Oil, Art Under the Umbrellas, Farmer’s market, LQ Art festival.
Restaurants/​Bars — * The Grill on Main, La Rue, Solano’s Stuft Pizza, Wine Bar Bistro, Café Mendoza, Lavenders, Arnold Palmers.
Because it’s not on Highway 111 or Washington Street, lots of people haven’t discovered it yet. But they will. It just keeps getting better and better as more businesses move in and more community events grow.

Old Town is just this small shopping area — there are a couple of clothing stores, restaurants, beauty places as well as one really good coffee shop.
It’s just a central area of the majority of the restaurants in the cove.
There are a few things to do here besides walk and window shop — they have a farmers market and also I believe an art thing.
The parking isn’t too bad, there are parking lots on the «outside» of the area.
I don’t know if this is a «must» to see — but it’s an area where most of the locals frequent (for the restaurants).

Old Town is more like dead town, go there 9 pm and all is closed… fails for diversity and originality. Food and entertainment is equal to a mall food court. Once was a great place early 2000’s but now the future looks OLD. Sandbar still a staple of quality along with Arnold Palmer s. Hope they can turn it around.

Very cute, very clean, and very small. La Quinta covers a pretty wide area, so for the Cove, Old Town is a welcomed addition as it is essentially the only offering.
With that said, it’s about a block long. But it features good restaurants, a coffee shop, a couple of high-​end shops, and a real estate office or two. Parking is free and available on Main Street, or in one of the adjoining lots.
Restaurants featured: Solano’s Bistro, Stuft Pizza, Lavender Bistro, The Grill on Main, Hog’s Breath Inn, The Wine Bar, and Old Town Coffee.
An older clientele, some that are drinkers, but literally no riff-​raff can be found. Darn.

There is a wine bar again :) and this little area is still quaint with live entertainment, free parking and friendly locals. Only busy when there are «events» in the area (between golf and tennis tournaments, horse shows/​polo, and festivals that is about half the weekends when it’s not hot). Even when it’s busy it is usually a reasonable wait for an outside table anywhere. There were a few signs that said no dogs during the Farmer’s Market on a Sunday, but our small dog seemed welcome everywhere.

Went during art fair, talk about over-​priced art. Who can afford this stuff? It was nice to walk around the area though, and food is above average.

Cute neighborhood. A little more laid back than I would like to see. Pretty.

There are a bunch of reasons I wish the economy would improve. Not high on that list, but still on it nonetheless, is: «so places like Old Town LaQuinta will come alive».
Show up here at the wrong time (midday during the week) and it’s a ghost town. I’m sure it’s better on evenings and weekends, but there just don’t seem to be enough businesses for this area to reach its full potential of being one of the few truly lively non-​car-​dominated, street-​life-​having areas in the Valley along with El Paseo and Palm Canyon Dr.
It’s charming. It has lots of potential. I hope it gets better.

Hmm… It’s cute here. The wine shop was closed. .Not cool. The restaurants are not «chain» restaurants which I appreciate. The scenery is amazing. Beautiful on a cool night sitting in one of the many restaurant patio’s. We ventured out from our first night in Palm Springs to La Quinta for dinner with friends at Devanes. Which was ehh read my review for Devanes
So any-​hoot. I just would like to see more business’s in here. The location is nice and La Quinta is beautiful. In fact they have trails located in the cove of La Quinta in which if you take the trail to the top of the mountain is a nice view of the Coachella Valley and a view of the Salton Sea… Also a nice bike trail in which we plan on doing once the weather cools down a bit!