Alison M.
Yelp
Visited The Gulch for a few hours while in town and enjoyed walking around and shopping. There is some nice dining here with some great places for brunch, pastries, dinner, snacks, etc. You name it, you'll probably find it here.
There are a number of nice hotels - The Thompson is here and has a nice bar and lobby restaurant as well as some other notable ones.
This part of downtown has the hip/cool shopping. There is a Winky Lux (the only store in America they told me), some fine ladies clothing, a Lululemon, a nice furniture store, nice men's clothing, etc.
It's not huge, it's easily walkable in an hour or so and you can then have something to eat.