On a narrow street in North Beach sits this charming gourmet-provisions shop. Little VineĬharcuterie, Local Cheeses and Provisions and Self-Serve Olive Oil Mariposa Baking Company: Mariposa’s popular gluten-free baked goods include freshly baked breads, cookies and muffins as well as savory items, such as frozen pizza and ravioli and fresh salami sandwiches to take away. Offerings are made in Hodo Soy’s production kitchen in Oakland, where the company produces a line of fresh organic soy milk, tofu, yuba and ready-to-eat soy products-and offers monthly tours of the facility. Hodo Soy Beanery: Hodo Soy Beanery’s second retail space features breakfast and lunch grab-and-go items, such as smoothies, parfaits, fresh tofu and yuba (soybean milk “skin”) salads, sandwiches and desserts.
The product line is popular at local farmers markets, and pickling workshops teach preservers of all skill levels how to get some happy in their home kitchens. is a certified-organic producer of jarred vegetables (tomatoes, beets, carrots and pickles with herbs and spices), fruit juices and jams. Happy Girl Kitchen Co.: Drawing from the abundant Central Coast farms, Happy Girl Kitchen Co.
It features sweets and savory packaged goods from Clairesquares, Kika’s Treats, Neo Cocoa, Estrellita’s Snacks, Sabores del Sur and refrigerated products, such as Sajen Jam, Azalina’s Star Anise Curry and Coconut Jam, and the Love & Hummus line, plus a rotating menu of delicious grab-and-go lunches. La Cocina: This nationally recognized cultivator of food entrepreneurship has carved out a small but mighty kiosk in the market.
The iconic Ferry Building has added a few new retailers to its handpicked selection of local goods. Ferry Building Marketplace: Soy Beanery, Jarred Produce, Gluten-Free Bakery and More Openings A popular combination is the Lavender Poppy macaron, with a marzipan and cassis center, paired with Vert Provence (lavender green tea). Parisian brand Mariage Frere Tea makes up the other half of the menu, and strategic pairing is encouraged. The store sells around 1,000 macarons every day, through on-site and nationwide shipping orders.
Fresh and dried fruits are used for the pureed fillings, and fruits are added to color the almond dough (which is made with California-grown almonds).īest sellers are the Pistachio, Valrhona Chocolate and Tahitian Vanilla macarons, as well as Salted Caramel, which was a surprising new flavor profile for Guillion-one she’d never seen during her time in France. After moving to the City by the Bay to be near her children (who, incidentally, own Bacetti, maker of the chocolate-covered gelato bites), Guillion opened her namesake shop in June, where her line of macarons are all to her taste and recipe, baked at her own facility in San Francisco and sold only in her shop.įlavors change seasonally, with a dozen or more featured at a time in the shop’s gorgeous cases. She baked them with her mother, or ate many from the numerous patisseries that sold the storied confections.
Chantal Guillionīrightly colored, filled macarons were the cookie of Chantal Guillion’s childhood in Versailles. Photos courtesy of Terry Giang, the Pastry Cupboard and happy girl kitchen co. Read on to learn about some of the innovative new shops that opened in 2011. In San Francisco, creative retailers are finding opportunities in high-traffic shopping neighborhoods as well as distinctive repurposed spaces (think steel shipping containers).