Bishops Corner

I think because of WeHa Center and Blue Back Center, Bishop’s Corner is probably a very underrated shopping center in West Hartford. Bishop’s Corner has limited shopping, but is filled with restaurants.
In terms of shopping, there is a Marshall’s, Walmart Neighborhood Center, and Maximum Beverage (a liquor store). There’s various restaurants, including Noodles and Company, Qdoba (the only one I know of in the area) and Blue Plate Kitchen. There’s a lot of other retailers and restaurants in the strip malls on all sides of Bishop’s Corner.
Overall, it’s very well-​kept. Bishop’s Corner looks very nice and updated. The only down side I can see to this place is that the parking situation is kind of awkward for most part of Bishop’s Corner.

I mainly stop by here because all the medical offices are conveniently located here. I’ve been coming to this area for about 15 years and watched it grow and expand. Lots of small shops as well as brand name retailers.

1.) Just to warm you up:
Really? I can write a review on Bishop’s Corner? I can write a review on a NON business? I mean, it’s an area, the streets and lights I guess could count as service, right? I dunno. Well, I guess I’ll talk about everything around here.
2.) What your eyes may see:
An intersection, across each street there are businesses. You got chain businesses, you have mom and pop businesses, you have Whole Food’s cousin, «Wild Oats.»
3.) Impressions:
I like Bishops Corner. If you wanna grab food, go shopping, fill up your gas tank and have coffee, this is the center for it!

The layout here is pretty awful and parking is difficult no matter which part of the corner you’re in. Jam packed, hard to find a space at times, convoluted and hard to navigate historically, even more so as of late with more/​better businesses moving in. I’m glad there is the Whole Foods and Maximum Beverage (especially with their 15 minute customer parking) in this area, otherwise I’d have no reason to go. I have to give it two stars not so much for the selection of locations, but for the terrible in and out combined with the traffic going through the four corners. Also, Marshall’s and wal-​Mart help bring the area down a bit in clientele and make the parking situation that much more difficult.

Bishops Corner has pretty much everything I need when I am running errands. Grocery stores, drug stores, nail salons, restaurants, clothing stores. Sakura Gardens in amazing, you should stop there for lunch if you are in the plaza.