A Bientot

I LOVED this little shop when I went to Lamar across the street! To kill time after class or in betweeen classes, I’d stop in and pick up jewlery on sale.
The next time I’m in town I will stop in!

I LOVE this store!!! I am a native Houstonian that now lives in San Ramon, CA. I wish I could move this entire store to San Ramon!!!

A Bientot is a wonderful place to while away an hour or so looking at very cool jewelry and accessories. I think the prices are reasonable given the style-​quotient and but people who are game for ferreting out bargains on Harwin may find this place over-​priced.
In addition to jewelry, they carry Lilly Pulitzer paper accessories as well as Adler notepads. There is also a selection of shoes (think espadrilles) near the back of the store.
AB definitely has an upper-​class vibe but not in an obnoxious way. The salesgirls all seem to be cute girls from the River Oaks area and are friendly but not intrusive. You can browse and try on pearl necklaces, headbands and sparkly earrings to your hearts content!

Lameeee.
I guess it’s cuz I’m a guy? I went in to look for a gift of some sort for a friend while I was in the area burning time. At first they were locked up, but I saw people in there??? Why, what are you doing?
So I went down a few stores and got a coffee and wandered back. Then they were open. Ok???
Browsing around in here, is like others have said, a cluttered estate sale. Except everything is way to expensive. A bunch of chintzy junk if you ask me. Who buys this stuff?
I guess they do custom printed stuff or something, because I can’t fathom any reason to make a trip out here for anything. There was just nothing special about anything, they did have Mighty Wallets though, which were surprisingly set at retail price… So I got one of those for funzies.
Won’t be back unless I’m burning time in the area again and a friend just has to go in and check it out.

À Bientôt is as good as it gets for great quality, inexpensive costume jewelry. I was thrilled when I stepped in this surprisingly well stocked boutique. Though some of their stuff is expensive, high end brands like Kenneth Jay Lane, Santi, and MZ Wallace, they have the best prices in town! Their employees are very nice and never pushy (like some other places I know), and I find their only negative is they’re never open on Sunday.
Every time I leave this adorable store I feel like I’ve been to Paris and New York, with a touch of Rio without spending even a fraction of the cost.

I expected so much more out of this little shop, but I’m not really sure why. Oddly, it looks more exciting and enticing from the window. Once stepping inside, I saw several things that caught my eye but then… then I looked at the price tag… and then I put them all back down on the table. I’m not sure where the buyer sources the stock from for this store, but the markup must be about 500% at the very least. It is River Oaks after all, I suppose. There were a few cute, slightly reasonably priced items, but they were all small. The best thing in the shop was the nice selection of Jeffrey Campbell and Melissa shoes, which can be hard to find around town, but my guess is they’re cheaper elsewhere.
Also, there is something to be said for the presentation of this store. It’s obvious that the owners are trying to give it the air of an estate sale or antique store by having things such as jewelry and small clutch purses junked together in boxes and bins. But the effect just isn’t quite the same when a bargain is nowhere in sight.

A Bientot has a fabulous selection of costume jewelry — I’m particularly fond of the turquoise and coral earring festivus on the righthand side of the store. You know, the kind of earrings that your grandmother in Palm Beach wears, but would secretly look fabulous with your tunic and white jeans in the summer? Yeah, don’t be embarrassed. My problem with A Bientot is the prices — I have it on good authority that they buy all this stuff in the NYC knockoff rows, and then mark it up tenfold to sell to unsuspecting Texans who don’t know that pashminas should actually cost $ 10 and that earrings made of enamel should never, under any circumstances, go into the 3-​digits. It would probably actually be cheaper to buy a flight to New York and buy all this stuff first-​hand, than to blow it out here.
That said, there is a dizzying selection, and it’s quite fun to browse! Kudos also for carrying Tom Ford sunglasses — does no other sunglass store in this city have any style?

Do you need a pashmina, some $ 90+ costume/​bridge jewelry, or personalized notepaper/​wrapping paper/​paper towels? Then this, my friend, is your store. Don’t go if you’re underdressed, and don’t go if you’re a man (I almost had to send my fiancé to the car during our quick tour of the store — the chatter stopped everywhere he went).
There are a ton of accessories here, lots of them with big Texan flair. CuteTa umbrellas, bathrobes, even some clothes. I wasn’t kidding about the personalized paper products, either — check out the back of the store for all of your personalization needs. Last but not least, if you need any doodads to fasten your clothing to you or make your 5-​inch heels more comfortable, they have an unmatched selection of adhesive products. This morning, the store was full of River Oaks moms and their high school daughters… it’s like that.