Andronico's - Specialty market for food and wine in San Francsico. Andronico's gives you the feeling of visiting your neighborhood grocer, butcher, baker, wine store, cheese shop, delicatessen, farmer's market, restaurant take-out, kitchen store and flower shop. Several San Francisco Bay Area locations.
Artisanal Cheese -
With a mission to curate the world’s finest cheeses, Artisanal selects from thousands worldwide to offer 200 remarkable, unique, and handcrafted cheeses.
Artisanal specializes in the ancient craft of Affinage, a careful process that starts with farm-level selection, and follows with the nurturing and aging of each cheese.
With a dedicated staff of affineurs, and state of the art aging caves, Artisanal alone offers the ability to provide you with the perfect cheeses for the perfect moment.
Ben & Jerry's - Ice cream, frozen yogurt and sorbet.
Caffe Roma -
Founded in 1989 by Anthony and Sergio Azzollini, Caffe Roma is built on the experience of three generations of the Azzollini family.
Father Sergio came to San Francisco from Italy over 30 years ago to open the first coffeehouse on Columbus Avenue in 1977.
Anthony was born in the United States and Roma is driven by Tony's passion for coffee - excellent coffee.
California Farmers' Market Association -
Your source for field-ripened fresh fruits and vegetables, freshly baked breads and pastries, flowers, gourmet appetizers and gifts, fresh fish, nuts, mushrooms, and more. Serving the San Francisco Bay Area including Bayfair, Blossom Hill, Daly City, Fort Mason Center, Moraga, Morgan Hill, Mountain View, San Jose, Parkmerced, Saratoga, San Francisco and Walnut Creek.
California Federation of Certified Farmers Markets (CFM) - Places where genuine farmers sell their crops directly to the public. A CFM is a location approved by the county agricultural commissioner where certified farmers offer for sale only those agricultural products they grow themselves. CFMs are operated in accordance with regulations established in 1977 by the California Department of Food and Agriculture. Only a handful of CFMs were in the California direct marketing program back then. There are nearly 500 Certified Farmers Markets now.
Capay Valley Farm Shop -
Organic vegetables, fruits, nuts, meats, olive oil, wine, lavender, honey, flowers, and more.
Certified Humane Raised and Handled - An inspection, certification and labeling program for meat, poultry, egg and dairy products from animals raised to humane care standards. The program is a voluntary, user-fee based service available to producers, processors and transporters of animals raised for food. The purpose of the program is to provide independent verification that the care and handling of livestock and poultry on farms enrolled in the program meet high quality humane animal care standards.
Charles Chocolates - Premium chocolates. Located in Emeryville, California.
Cheese Plus -
San Francisco’s premier cheese and specialty food store. A cozy neighborhood shop located on the sunny corner of Polk and Pacific in Russian Hill, Cheese Plus features the finest cheese from the U.S. and around the globe as well as as an excellent selection of fine culinary products including Northern California artisan produced charcuterie, chocolate, specialty condiments, oils and vinegars, and our own house made sandwiches, salads, and spreads. Cheese Plus is owned by Ray Bair. Prior to creating Cheese Plus, Ray was director of cheese, wine, and specialty foods for Whole Foods Market. Well regarded for his travels across the country and throughout Europe, Ray is constantly searching to find the source of authentic and traditional cheese and specialty foods.
Chef Tools -
Kitchen tools, cooking gadgets, bakeware, decorating supplies for chefs & cooks. Videos, recipes, reviews & tips.
CHEFS Catalog - Offers the best products for the kitchen from the world's top brands, including All-Clad, Calphalon, Cuisinart Cookware, Cuisinart Electrics, Henckels, KitchenAid, Le Creuset, Waring, Wusthof. With an expanding product offering to meet all kitchen needs, chefs also offers bakeware, cookware, cutlery, dinnerware, furniture, kitchen electrics, specialty foods, and more.
ChefShop.com - Find recipes, tips, ingredients, community, and information on how best to select, purchase and use basic ingredients.
cmbsweets - All of cmbsweets’ products are made with fruit, sugar and lemon juice— nothing else. Much of the fruit is organic. No artificial colors, flavors or preservatives. The idea is to make fancy California food without the fancy California food price.
Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) - Building a movement of rural and urban people to foster family-scale agriculture that cares for the land, sustains local economies and promotes social justice. Find farm-fresh lettuce, juicy oranges or locally made bread in your area by searching our online local food guide - brought to you by the Buy Fresh, Buy Local Campaign.
Cooking.com - Cookware, accessories and specialty foods.
Cooperative Coffees - A green coffee importing cooperative committed to supporting and partnering with small-scale coffee farmers and their exporting cooperatives.
Cowgirl Creamery -
Producing organic cheese in Point Reyes Station, California, and promoting artisan cheesemakers throughout the U.S. and Europe.
Culinary District -
Ingredients, supplies and equipment for the chef. Provides the best of imported and domestic food items, high quality ingredients, commercial cookware, equipment, cutlery, specialty tools, china and glass ware, table top, packaging for food products, bakeware and plenty of ideas for using all of these items.
Dean's Beans - Specialty certified organic, kosher coffees roasted in small batches in Orange, MA. 100% organic and fair trade.
Drink the Leaf -
Exceptional loose leaf tea from around the world.
Equal Exchange - Working to create a new approach to trade, one that includes informed consumers, honest and fair trade relationships and cooperative principles. As a worker-owned co-op, Equal Exchange accomplishes this by offering consumers fairly traded gourmet coffee direct from small-scale farmer co-ops in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
EthnicGrocer - Online provider of authentic ethnic products.
Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market - A California certified farmers market operated by the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA). The market is open two days a week—Tuesdays and Saturdays. The large Saturday market is held both in front of the Ferry Building on the Embarcadero and on the rear plaza overlooking the Bay. On Tuesday, the market spills out of the arcades onto the Embarcadero sidewalk. The markets offer produce and flowers from small regional farmers and ranchers, many of whom are certified organic. A wealth of other products include regional artisan specialties such as breads, cheeses and jams.
Fiscalini Cheese -
A rich dairy tradition, hand-crafted farmstead cheese, award-winning taste. Locarted in Modesto, California.
Foodlocker.com - High quality specialty and regional foods.
FoodSpring - Brought to you by the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade (NASFT), a non-profit organization comprised of more than 2,900 producers of hand-crafted, natural, organic and ethnic foods, foodspring.com provides an insider’s look at these specialty foods and the people who make them. Since 1952, the NASFT, with the help of its bi-annual trade-only Fancy Food Shows, has cultivated strong relationships with a countless number of domestic and international food producers, specialty food stores, restaurants, famed chefs and culinary schools—all helping it stay in the lead on what is new and exciting in the world of food.
Fra' Mani Handcrafted Salumi -
Brings the art of traditional Italian salumi to America's discriminating palates.
Located in Berkeley, California. Note: Salumi is Italian for salted, cured cuts of meat or sausages made primarily from pork.
German Deli.com -
Over 5,000 imported German food and groceries including butter and cheeses, tender hams smoked in the Black Forest, salted herring from the North Sea, juicy German-style sausages, delectable candies, authentic German Gummibären (Gummi bears), German chocolates, ready-made cakes, delicate cookies, hearty soups, cake mixes and baking aids.
Golden Gate Meat Company - Fresh beef, natural and organic beef cut to your specifications, pork and natural pork, lamb, veal, smoked meats, wild game, poultry, sausages, luncheon meats, cheeses, fresh fish, and other prepared foods. Located in Ferry Plaza, San Francisco.
Gourmet Depot -
A leading source for small appliances, parts and accessories, such as blenders, food processors, stand mixers, coffee makers, juice extrators, etc.
Grande - World class dairy products, Italian cheeses.
Jean Dubost - Creates and manufactures a wide range of flatware, kitchen knives and giftware, this under five different brands since four cutlers generations.
Kosher Supermarket - Kosher and Jewish foods, including groceries, condiments, dairy products, sweetshop/confectionery, baked goods, fish products, frozen foods, poultry/meat, deli counter, gift and specialty items and Passover/Holiday products.
Local Harvest - The freshest, healthiest, most flavorful organic food is what's grown closest to you. Use this website to find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies.
LU Biscuits - Premium European cookies made with the finest ingredients, including rich chocolate and pure butter.
Lucky Dog Ranch Beef -
Provides great tasting healthy beef to Farmer's markets and restaurants in Wine Country, San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento Valley.
Marin French Cheese - Marin French Cheese Co., also known as The Cheese Factory and Rouge et Noir is not just the oldest cheese manufacturer in the country, but a vacationers and day trippers destination as well as a unique part of American History. Located north of San Francisco, east of Napa County, west of Pt. Reyes and Olema and south of Sonoma County, Marin French has produced hand crafted Artisan soft ripened cheese since 1865. Rouge et Noir cheeses are similar to French and European varieties but reflect the characteristics of Northern California, producing it's own regional style.
McEvoy Ranch - Located on 550 acres in Petaluma, California, McEvoy Ranch produces organic olive oil and seasonal produce. They offer public tours and have a retail store at San Francisco's Ferry Building Marketplace.
Neal's Yard Dairy - Farm cheeses from the British Isles. "We buy cheese from about seventy cheesemakers on farms around Britain and Ireland and we sell the cheese in our two shops in London and to shops and restaurants all over the world."
NetGrocer - Groceries, drug store products, cleaning needs, pet supplies and more.
Niman Ranch - Niman Ranch produces the finest tasting meat in the world by adhering to a strict code of husbandry principles. Livestock are humanely treated, fed the purest natural feeds (with no animal by-products or waste), never given growth hormones or sub-therapeutic antibiotics, and raised on land that is cared for as a sustainable resource. In other words… raised with care, naturally.
Organic Express - Delivers organic produce to your home or office.
Parmigiano-Reggiano - Historical evidence shows that already in 1200-1300, Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese had reached its perfect typicality that has remained unchanged until the present day. This means that the dairy activity in the production region certainly has very old origins, since it can be reasonably assumed that the unique features of the product had already been reached long before then. The Parmigiano-Reggiano standard is, in fact, an evolution of ancient and extraordinary cheeses - already mentioned by Latin authors - determined by a constant improvement of cheese making techniques.
Prosciutto di Parma -
For centuries, Prosciutto di Parma or Parma Ham—the names are interchangeable—has been prized for its enticing aroma and incomparable flavor. By law this famous ham can be made and cured only in the gently rolling countryside near Parma, Italy. Four ingredients are essential to the production of Prosciutto di Parma: Italian pigs, salt, air and time. Prosciutto di Parma is an all-natural ham - additives such as sugar, spices, smoke, water and nitrites are prohibited.
Making a Parma Ham is a long and painstaking process. The curing is controlled carefully so that the ham absorbs only enough salt to preserve it. By the end, a trimmed ham will have lost more than a quarter of its weight through moisture loss, helping to concentrate the flavor. The meat becomes tender and the distinctive aroma and flavor of Prosciutto di Parma emerge
Rainbow Grocery - San Francisco Bay Area collective dedicated to earth friendly food products, and an organic future.
Real Food Company, The - One of the original neighborhood natural food stores. Five San Francisco Bay Area locations.
Recchiuti - Chocolates. Located at San Francisco's Ferry Building.
Riga Gold Smoked Sprats -
Imported from Latvia. Riga Gold Sprats are a unique delicacy that are popular in Europe. Revered in the former Soviet Union, they have been produced in Latvia since the 19th century. Riga Sprats are smoked using traditional practices and packed in oil.
Round Pound -
Artisan olive oils, vinegars, and limited-production wines.
Safeway - There are approximately 1,820 Safeway stores across the US and Canada. These include 325 Vons stores in Southern California and Nevada, 113 Dominick's stores in the Chicago metropolitan area, 137 Randalls and Tom Thumb stores in Texas, 38 Genuardi's stores in the Philadelphia area, as well as 17 Carrs stores in Alaska.
Salumaria Biellese - Making sausages and salamis since 1925. Located in New York City..
San Francisco Herb Company - Wholesale prices on the highest quality culinary herbs and spices, extracts, teas, dehydrated vegetables, nuts, seeds, botanicals, essential oils, potpourri ingredients and fragrance oils.
Sheana Davis & The Epicurean Connection - Located in the heart of Sonoma, Calif., at 18816 Sonoma Highway "C", with a fine selection of artisan and farmstead cheeses, fresh pasta from the Pasta Shop including Delice de la Vallee Raviolis, Sonoma County Dairy Products, Sonoma Valley Olive Oils, fresh canned preserves and more. The first Thursday of each month is non-profit night with a complimentary reception and 10% of the day's sales going towards the selected community non profit.
Smithfield - Smithfield country hams, Virginia peanuts, gift baskets, Chesapeake seafoods, smoked turkeys, Smithfield Lean Generation pork, and gift samplers.
Trader Joe's - Specialty grocery stores. Trader Joe's has over 200 stores in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington.
Uplands Cheese -
Makers of Pleasant Ridge Reserve, an artisanal farmstead cheese made in the style and tradition of mountain cheeses from the alpine regions of France.
Located in Dodgeville, Wisconsin.
Vital Tea Leaf - Modeled after a wine bar, with complimentary "try before you buy" tastings, and with an inventory of more than four hundred teas in our stores, Vital Tea Leaf offers the finest and most varied selection of teas from China, Taiwan, and Japan available on the West Coast of the United States. Three locations in San Francisco's Chinatown, and one location in downtown Seattle near the Pike Place Market.
Zingerman's Community of Businesses (ZCoB) - A family of small food related companies in the Ann Arbor area. Each is operated by one or more managing partners who share ownership and work in the day-to-day running of the business.
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Cheese Plus -
San Francisco’s premier cheese and specialty food store. A cozy neighborhood shop located on the sunny corner of Polk and Pacific in Russian Hill, Cheese Plus features the finest cheese from the U.S. and around the globe as well as as an excellent selection of fine culinary products including Northern California artisan produced charcuterie, chocolate, specialty condiments, oils and vinegars, and our own house made sandwiches, salads, and spreads. Cheese Plus is owned by Ray Bair. Prior to creating Cheese Plus, Ray was director of cheese, wine, and specialty foods for Whole Foods Market. Well regarded for his travels across the country and throughout Europe, Ray is constantly searching to find the source of authentic and traditional cheese and specialty foods.
