Texas Picnic Company
Tucked away on Waller Creek between Sixth and Seventh, this popular breakfast and lunch nook serves a great selection of sandwiches and homemade treats. 603 Sabine, 473-2518


Aaron's Rock-N-Roll
This late-night Sixth Street fixture features old-school toys and collectibles. Come and get your rock & roll accessories (Cephalic Carnage shirts! Bowie stickers! KISS bobbleheads!) or your midnight "fix" (cigarettes! electrolytes! whip-its?!?). Or simply stop and watch as Austin's clubby underbelly navigates the night. 423 E. Sixth, 478-7923


Aprilia/Mototek
For those who know the purr, the rev, the glory of Italy's finest motorbikes, Aprilia and Ducati, and want to see a showroom full of sex-on-two-wheels, it's the hottest shop on the block. For others, it's just a reason to drool. Fair enough. 115 E. Sixth, Suite B, 236-8822 www.mototek.com


Congress Avenue Card & Gift Shop
Fridge magnets! T-shirts! Everything made of cedar! Cowboy novelties! Austin! Austin! Austin! Texas! Texas! Texas! You get the picture (postcard, that is-.) 615 Congress, 478-1663


Forbidden Fruit
Come to Austin's premier erotic boutique for toys that titillate and tingle and lotions and lubes that offer slippery, tasty delights. Bone up on “How-to” guides and erotic fiction for the curious. Hey, don't forget clamps (You're gonna put that where?!), flogs, and gags for the rough. They also have plenty of novelty items for bachelor/ette parties. 513 E. Sixth, 476-4596 www.forbiddenfruit.com


Gas Pipe Emporium
Its not your mothers head shop. Or maybe it is. It’s been around that long. Find a gift for that extra-mellow someone in your life with their array of smoking accessories, cigars, and water pipes. They also have sex... errr, "educational models," a wide selection of darts and tips and wall of frisbees for disc golf. Sticky green thumbs can find all things hydroponic, from lamps and fertilizers to how-to guides. 701 E. Fifth, 472-4774


Hollywood Rock-N-Roll
Open for late night for rock & roll, reggae, and role-playing (!!!) hankerings. Buy your Yankee guest a Texas souvenir or that sexy lady friend a vinyl dress to stir deep-seated bondage fetishes. Theres also plenty of patches, studded accessories, and ironic Ts to clothe an army of metalheads and punk rockers. 519 E. Sixth, 457-1227


Keepers Exceptional Men's Apparel
Not afraid to spend some cash on that next dashing look, boys? Then … come on in. Meet the clerks, have a latte, and sit back to enjoy the elegance of designer labels such as Joseph Abboud and Ermenegildo Zegna. Custom-tailoring, and suits that would make any mother proud of her baby boy. For the metrosexual in all of us. 515 Congress, Suite 140, 473-2512 www.keepersclothing.com


Lucky Lizard Curio & Gifts
If you're on the trail for schtick; wallet chains, smoking monkeys, corn-ball T-shirts, don't look here. This ain't your run-of-the-mill Sixth Street souvenir shop, this place has the kind of gift you can take home to Ma and Pa to trick them into thinking you had a nice, wholesome trip, taking in classy shops with homemade crafts and thoughtful gifts, not stumbling around the club district, kissing men named Bubba. 412 E. Sixth, 565-2678 www.luckylizard.net