The Commons At Calabasas

I love the commons! Such a great place to bring the kids. They have so many options to eat or just hang out. The movie theatre is amazing with reclining chairs and plenty of space. The turtle ponds are favorites of my kids.

Beautiful outdoor shopping area with lots of options for eating. Super cute William Sonoma. Friendly shop workers. Very SoCal surroundings with lots of beautiful landscaping and laid back locals.

Really cool place met a friend here for lunch at Marmalade Café… I had never been here and it’s really pretty shopping center with good restaurants and plenty o parking… They have a Sun Organics café which have the best Acai bowls ever! There is also a movie theater… Very family friendly place… I bought a gorgeous rose gold bracelet from one of the kiosks for half off too!

This is really just more of a fancy strip mall, no real shopping or mall.
I was really expecting a bit more than grocery stores and chain stores.
While the area is super clean, very nice looking at night and has plenty of parking, there are no stores you can’t find elsewhere, seems like pretty much your main shopping option in Calabasas with the same stores you find in any other town, not worth going out of your way for.

Great place to shop, eat and walk around! I love coming here during the holidays as well when it’s decorated!

What a nice place to roam around leisurely!
A quiet, leisure place to go and enjoy a meal, a cup of coffee, or to just shop — although I typically window shopped and never actually walked inside any store to shop. I don’t think the stores are high end, but catered to a specific niche. Nothing I was interested in personally. Definitely a very family friendly place! Also clean — you don’t see garbage and littered trash hanging around outside on the sidewalk path or the parking lot.
Some benches around to sit and relax. Pond/​fountain structures where adorable turtles linger in abundance. Fun to take pictures of them.
Barnes & Noble, Johnny Rockets, and Corner Bakery Café, Menchies for fro-​yo, to name a few staples.
Has a big, free parking lot; it is easy finding an open space (but maybe that can vary depending on time of day. I’ve always gone during the afternoon with my family for lunch and some treats (they used to have a Crumbs that I frequented with my sister).

Clean, and neat. Not an inexpensive hang out. Nice Barnes and nobles.
They have music that plays outdoors. I took my beautiful date by the hand and waist and just started dancing to the music. Twas spontaneous and fun. But you have to make it fun. Otherwise its just music playing out doors.
For you males out there, I did this in the later evening when few people were out and about. Women sometimes don’t like to be looked at by a crowd while doing something ‘different’. So respect that and don’t make a scene. its really just for the two of you.
She loved the dancing and it was nothing complicated. Just two people sharing some close space, and moving about here and there.
Make sure to spin her.
Oh, and there is a pond with fish etc

I was on my way to a family friends house and decided stop by here to check it out. The assortment of stores is pretty good, but their stores aren’t that intriguing. Yes they have a Barnes and nobles and some other stores, but I don’t the commons stores cater to the type of shopping someone who doesn’t have a preference would like to do; if you know what you want (like lulu lemon for example) then yes they have it, but if you are just going to shop and don’t know what you are necessarily looking for, then you will probably be disappointed. The restaurant variety is nice though, anybody will find something they like there.

Let’s start by saying that this place is not the Grove or the Americana so please don’t compare the two to the Commons. The Commons is an upscale shopping center. I’ve read a lot of negative reviews comparing the Commons to other destination spots, it’s not. It’s a quiet place for locals to go and enjoy a meal, a cup of coffee, or to just shop. For what it is, it’s great!

Got a beautiful orchid, it was nice that I was able to purchase it at the flower counter so I didn’t have to stand in the other lines.

I Love Love Love it here!!! My family and I come here all the time to eat our sunlife organics on the patio and watch the turtles.

I love the turtle ponds. Its pretty nice place to shop and sit and have a drink or a salad for lunch. Movies are my next choice here. Parking is a super challenge here, so if you show up around lunch or dinner, good luck. You’d think they would valet the lot by now. they could probably get a lot more cars in.

This sprawling shopping center is quite a nice place to get out and do some shopping! With the likes of Kardashians and Biebers running around this place, it’s a good way to get away.
There are plenty of restaurants in here to get a bite to eat at. They’re all mainly upper end restaurants. No dives.
They have a bunch of wildlife around here to check out while doing your shopping– a pond full of turtles and koi. Nice!
The parking is easy. The place is spotlessly clean.
There’s a wide variety of places to shop, from clothing to groceries to family portraits. It’s a one stop shop!

I love the commons. It reminds me of being a tween, I was allowed to roam around the commons unattended when I was young (awesome for 11 year old me)!
Anyway today it looks different but it is still beautiful. The turtle pond is so cool! Kids get mesmerized and hang out here for a good 40 minutes at a time.
Lots of stores and restaurants to visit and a good movie theatre. I really like the commons.

This a review of the Commons’ Turtle Pond.
If you are a lover of turtles like I am – you can’t give it less than 5-​stars.
It is the largest collection of turtles that I have ever seen and they love being here.
You will not find a larger turtle exhibit at any zoo or other shopping center.
Check it out – it’s near the Organic Store.
I like just watching the turtles – it’s very relaxing.
And if you get hungry, walk over to Ralph’s and grab some fried chicken – it’s also some of the best fried chicken.

Good place with baby.
Also some stores have a event for kids :)
If u have a baby or kid, i’m recommending here place for mommy’s refresh!
Before going there, let’s check out some events @http://www.shopcommons.com

***This is a nice looking outdoor shopping center that is very Grove-​esque; most of The Commons’ dining and retail options are big name chains so there is not much unique here though the Ralphs located in this shopping plaza is very nice and sells US Prime beef; a Sugarfish, King’s Fish House, Barnes & Noble, Johnny Rockets, an Edwards movie theater, and Corner Bakery Café are some of the other options here***
The Commons has its own huge and free parking lot; it is easy finding an open space.

This place lacks the charm of the Grove, even if it looks like the same architect designed it. What’s fun about the Grove is that it creates a world away from everything, this place doesn’t do that. The structure is different, it stretches on a sidewalk for a few blocks.
The parking (although free) is right near it, you still get to see cars around, you’re not away from it, enclosed, like at the Grove.
The Commons has a lot of utilitarian stores — Ralphs (really?), Rite Aid, cleaners. It’s not a fun place to escape and have fun browsing stores. There aren’t too many stores around, nothing great or unique. The usual Barnes and Noble, some yogurt places and a few restaurants, mostly chains– Johnny Rockets, Pick Up Sticks, Marmalade Café.
The highlights of this place are a few ponds full of turtles and koi fishes. Otherwise, the same Sinatra type tunes and cheesy statues like you have at the Grove, but without the variety of stores and its charm. Unless you really live near by and need to shop here, skip it!

The Commons is a delightful upscale outdoor mall with a Ralphs, CVS, Edwards movie theater and a number of restaurants (Corner Bakery, Le Pain Quotidien, Starbucks) and high end clothing stores. It’s not a mall in the traditional sense that it has a main walking area, but more like a series of stores with a sizable parking lot in front.
The reason we go often is the Ralphs is really nice compared with its locations in West Hills, Woodland Hills and Canoga Park.
Our toddler loves the turtle pond with large fish. There are dozens of turtles that fascinate visitors. It makes going to the mall more fun for children.
Some of the eateries on the west side come and go. There used to be a La Salsa, which failed. Also, Crumbs, the cupcake and sweet store, recently closed.
They recently built a Chase bank in front of the Johnny Rockets.
With the movie theater and a rare Barnes & Noble store (two stories), the Commons is unique.
Across the street are even more stores.

This place is spotless… It’s like Disneyland. No piece of trash stays on the ground for more than 5 mins before an employee picks it up. HA! Except in the case of the Commons, I never saw trash on the ground. Seriously… Never did.
Was here on a beautiful warm Sunday around lunch time to meet some friends from college. The grounds are well kept, the stores are high end except for the Ralph’s, Rite-​Aid & dry cleaners… all of which I felt did not really fit in this outdoor luxury shopping center.
Had lunch at Marmalade Café which is adjacent to the ponds that are filled with small turtles & koi fish. Really nice… Very peaceful and calming to just watch them swim & cruise about. Looked like the kids find this to be the main attraction here. Cant blame them.
Saw some familiar businesses like L’occitane, White House/​Black Market, Starbucks, Crumbs and… Barnes & Noble which seem to be a staple at any Caruso property. Thought it was a big plus that there was plenty of parking. FREE PARKING. Great concept… Should be adopted in my city of residence. It really should… I like The Commons. I’d go back again for sure.