Nobel Shoes

I really like all the Italian shoes offered here. The quality of the shoes are great, love the style and I always try to stop in while I’m in the city. Good stuff!

This is the best shoe store I have ever patronized. The quality of the merchandise (much of it Italian, it seems) is impeccable, but more importantly, the owner, Eugene, who has 48 years in the business, is a genius when it comes to feet. He understands your foot, and knows what will work or won’t work.
The pair of dress shoes I bought (happily, at a sale) fit perfectly, and my feet aren’t hot and screaming to be released.

I have bought several pairs of street/​work shoes from Nobel Shoes over the years and have always been happy with their quality. Genuine Italian hand made shoes, almost identical to shoes bought in quality stores in Italy.
This is not like most others but they have quality products.
I am going back there for my next pair.

i loved this store and the saleswoman was anything but pushy. I kept lusting after a pair of shoes and she suggested i think on it, which i did, and eventually bought them. The shoes in this store are very high quality and you won’t find them in department stores. Yes, you will pay, but they will last you a long time. And i am a frequent traveler to Europe. Had i bought my shoes in Europe, they would have been a lot more expensive. I will be back

LOVE the shoes I have from here. The Nobel brand. They have them made in Italy. I’m hard on shoes, and these last, last and last. They are worth 4 pair of department store shoes.
The only downside is that the store is small and not easy for me to get to. It’s a special trip, so when i get there and they don’t have anything right for me in stock, it’s a big disappiontment.

I have no idea why this place got such low reviews. I purchased a pair of their Nobel brand shoes here on a recent trip to SF and have been wearing them everyday since –for about a month now. The «Made in Italy» stamp is proving to be true, and the reason I will only wear shoes made in Italy (or brands such as Cole Haan, Allen Edmonds, etc.). I was a bit skeptical that the stylish footwear would hold up considering their small operation, but I’m glad I found this place and am very satisfied with what I got (and for the price I paid! Anywhere else would have been double).
I look forward to making my next purchase from here! I do wish they would update their website though. It only shows ¹⁄₅₀ of what they have in stock. Shame.

OK, this place is well-​located and has a nice selection of shoes. But do NOT go there. The saleswoman is unbelievably pushy, but that’s the least of it –
I bought some attractive black boots at this store for $ 320, and wore them to a cocktail party. By the end of the evening, the bottom of my heel hurt. (It felt as though a pebble had gotten into my boot.) When I removed the boot I found that a nail tip (the pointy part!) had worked its way through the foot bed and was sticking up into my heel. My foot was bloody and bruised, and I actually had to call the doctor to make sure my tetanus shot was current.
When I brought these boots back to the store, the saleswoman refused to accept the return because the boots had been worn. She put me on the phone with her boss, who suggested that he could remove the internal nail and the boots would be fine, or – possibly — he could issue a store credit, but only once he had seen the boots. Not interested in a store credit, in keeping these badly constructed boots, or in ever setting foot in the store again, I returned an hour later to resolve the issue with the store owner. This unpleasant and sarcastic man accused me of wearing the boots more than once (I hadn’t, but why should that have mattered?) and suggested that I should somehow have known about the protruding nail at the time of purchase, when the nail was not yet protruding. Eventually, he did issue a refund, but only after I threatened to contact MasterCard and offered to show him the puncture in my heel.
Most salespeople and shop owners in these circumstances would, I’m quite sure, have offered an immediate apology and issued a speedy refund. Not these folks. STAY AWAY.

This place is conveniently located in the Stockton/​Sutter Garage, where we park nearly everyday when I am too lazy to walk the 10 blocks to work in 4″ heels. Yes, I am a firm believer in «throw some money at the problem». Specifically when it is someone else’s money I’m throwing at things (hi, Matt!).
I digress… it’s hard not to be lured into this narrow cave of a store, with all of it’s Tsubo and other Italian label shoes on display under signs that scream things like, SALE! and FINAL SALE! and (this is the clincher) LAST CHANCE LAST SIZE SUPER DISCOUNT!!!
After one trip in here, though, I realized that ALL of the shoes are on «sale». They write a «price» on one line of the homemade price tags, cross it out in red, and write a new «sale price» underneath. I am convinced that none of these shoes ever hit the floor at the «price» indicated.
Brilliant tourist-​trap con artist moves aside, they really do have some great shoes. At reasonable prices. In an accessible location (for me). Now please don’t give me the stinkeye when I tell you I wear a size 10 shoe (Sheesh! I’m 5’9″!) and then walk behind me telling me you don’t have this shoe and that shoe in my «ENORMOUS» size. I’m sorry I’m not 5′ tall and blessed with your perfect, dainty size 4 feet, lady. BTW– considering our height differential, you should fear and defer to me.
Bottom line: if you have small feet and are looking for decent, stylish shoes in the $ 100-​$ 200 range, this would be the «sale price», this place might be for you. But me? I’ll stick to places that have «enormous» shoes to fit my «enormous» feet.