Petaluma Market Catering made catering our Petaluma-based event incredibly easy. The staff were…read morehelpful, clear, responsive, and patient with every question I had. All of the catering platters were delicious, generously portioned, and delivered right on time. I especially appreciated that the fruit was perfectly ripe, which is not always the case with catered trays. I would absolutely use them again for a future event.

One of my favorite things to do on vacation is walk through local grocery stores. Petaluma Market…read moreis a really nice one, with a long history in town. The afternoon I went in I was getting pretty tired so I decided to get a bunch of to-go beers and ready made food to relax at the hotel. The store has a cozy character that comes with being loved. They had a lot of ready made food items, plus all the traditional stuff of other grocery stores. Prices were reasonable, especially with how healthy a lot of the selections are. It was a popular spot with many people doing their afternoon shopping. The beer selection was amazing for me, lots of Russian River and other regional staples. The staff was also friendly, both the beer stocker and cashiers. I highly recommend shopping here if you're in Petaluma.

If you aren't keeping your eyes peeled for this spot, you might miss it. Angelo's actual store is…read morelocated inside a cute little cottage/barn off the road. This is a meat lover's paradise. The jerky was truly the highlight. The employee let us try all of the jerky samples (generous portions) we wanted, and talked about what kinds of flavors and textures would be best for our tastes. My favorites were the teriyaki turkey jerky and garlic beef jerky. Both varieties have a sweet, tender chew. No dried out jerky here. Make sure to check out the grab and go refrigerators opposite of the cash register. I made sure to grab a bag of smoked bacon ends/chunks which made an absolutely divine addition to my cherry tomato and Marin French Cheese angel hair pasta a few nights later.

Meeting Angelo felt like catching up with an old friend we just hadn't met yet. From the moment we…read morewalked in, his warmth and kindness made the whole experience feel personal and genuine. If you get the chance to meet him, you'll understand why people talk about him like he's an icon. And the food... wow. The jerky is absolutely to die for. He even told us to stop back by before we headed home because he was making homemade focaccia. We came back, and he wasn't there, but he had the focaccia waiting for us anyway. That small gesture says everything about the kind of person he is. We left with jerky, his amazing garlic horseradish mustard, and summer sausage, and we already can't wait to come back. Next stop will definitely be his deli. Angelo is the real deal, kind, thoughtful, and unforgettable.

Fresh! Generous! Beautiful!…read more I know people would say it would be so easy to make a DIY poke'. But why when you can just pick up a tray from Anna's. Omg! Most amazing freshness! Crowd favorite at the potluck. Tray comes with what you see, plus a bottle (1) each of the two styles of poke' sauce. Great price for the quality and amazing freshness. Order on-line for pickup! Highly recommend!!!

I have spent at least a thousand dollars on their fish but recently at their Kensington Farmer's…read moreMarket when I purchased their salmon poke which had a clear price sign of $15.95, I watched their staff overcharge me and I explicitly stated the correct price but was ignored. I didn't want to argue over a small amount of money but the dishonesty is sickening especially since many of their customers are vulnerable seniors. The same day, I emailed their business directly asking them to make sure they talk to their staff about charging people the correct amount. They never responded. The ethical behavior of this business is dubious with management completely ignoring customer concerns. It appears that they only care about making a quick buck. What a shame. If you shop at their farmer's markets, make sure you check the correct pricing before paying.

The grocery store itself is great. It's the best place to find tons of different dried chilies,…read morevarious kinds of tortilla or tlayuda, and the chorizo in the meat section is insanely good. There's also a terrific restaurant in the back of the store that makes killer chorizo breakfast burritos or chorizo and egg plate, if that's more your jam. On Tuesdays, you can get street tacos for $1.49/each, which is a really great deal, and on Thursdays, you can get regular burritos for $5.99/each and they are massive - one of the best values in town. On weekends, you can also get menudo and birria (beef)! Love this place!

Ordered two platos de pescados it was lightly breaded and fileted. Came with fresh tortillas and…read morechips and salsa with rice beans quac and pico. So delicious and mom approved and service is always friendly and prompt. Love how comfy and cozy the inside looks and spacious not cramped at all. I came at the right time since it was not too crowded as you can see from my photos. It's a quiet little spot that I definitely recommend if you are in the area. I usually stop by after leaving the movie theater down the street.

Essentials of Mexican ingredients for home cooking!…read more Their carne asada has a nice chewy bite to it and meat section is of good variety. Adore their premade pick de gallo and guacamole at the cashier area. Now all they need is a side ready to eat meals.

Great fresh food and fresh food products. Very clean organized and helpful service. It's a hole in…read morethe wall entrance with a large surprise inside.

Caggiano makes sausage that stacks up to the homemade sausage that my Sicilian Family made years…read moreago. The Sweet Italian (fennel) sausage is absolutely delicious. I've purchased the sausage in grocery stores, but my last purchase was the sausage bundle. I wanted to try some other types of sausage. This is the best sausage I have eaten in decades. I highly recommend this product to those Chicago and East Coast transplants who have been searching for sausage that is as good as you get in other cities.

Amazing local sausages! And such a great variety of flavors and meats. Buy local and you'll be glad…read moreyou did.

**My go-to grocery store, hands down.**…read more I've shopped at a lot of grocery stores, and the Petaluma Sprouts is the one I keep coming back to. The store is spotless every time I walk in, and the shelves are always neatly organized, so I can get in and out without hunting for anything. The produce is the real standout. It's the best in town: fresh, good-looking, and it actually lasts once I get it home. I've stopped buying fruits and veggies anywhere else. The staff makes the experience even better. Everyone is friendly and helpful, whether I'm asking where something is or just chatting at checkout. You can tell they care about the store and the people who shop there.

Loved the store overall, but my deli sandwich was just okay…read more This store was clean, well-lit, and well-stocked. I had already been thinking about buying a sandwich, and when I noticed several employees actively cleaning a deli that already looked pretty clean to me, I was convinced. I ordered the build-your-own sandwich, which starts at $4.99. I love deli sandwiches, and have ordered so many from so many different locations across California over the past decade, I'm pretty sure I could write a book at this point.. Sprouts is usually a great place to get a sandwich for lunch. Most of my experiences at other Sprouts locations have been great. I filled out the sandwich form (which was returned to me with my sandwich, as evidence lol) with the following: sourdough bread, ham, bacon, swiss, avocado, dressing, all the veggies except lettuce. If the bread was sourdough, it was the whitest sourdough bread I've ever had in my life. It resembled white bread in every way, shape, and form. I received exactly one strip of hardly detectable bacon. All of the veggies were in such small quantities that I thought a bunch of ingredients were missing at first. The sandwich was honestly mostly marinated peppers. I didn't receive any avocado, but felt like, overall, the sandwich was okay enough for $7.99. But I would not order from this same sandwich maker again (although he was nice enough), because he wasn't very good at it.

What an amazing and magical place to spend a day. Thank you for showing us your incredible farm and…read moresharing your delicious cheese. Loved every second. Highly recommend a visit to all in the area!

We have been happy CSA members of Tara Firma Farms for 3+ years now and highly recommend for anyone…read morelooking for a local, sustainable farm co-op! The eggs are wonderful, delivery prompt, online store very accessible, and they conveniently partner with other local farms to provide veggies + fruit in addition to their sustainable meats (most CSAs will only provide one or the other). We came across Tara Firma initially via online / yelp searches shortly after moving to the Bay Area in 2016. When my husband and I initially started looking into vegetarianism for animal welfare reasons, I suggested we visit a farm that employs best practices of ethically and sustainably raised meat to help inform our decision. Tara Firma offers free educational tours every weekend and so we drove up one day with our 2 dogs (leashed dogs welcome!) and another family with their 3 (non furry) children for a fun Petaluma outing. The tour was informative and our guide was clearly super passionate about their mission. The farm was very beautiful and the lands idyllic -- we loved the fact that the cows were so free range that we could just barely make them out as a tiny dot in the distant hills. We all enjoyed observing the chicken dynamics around their mobile coop with their rooster guard, and they showed us how unperturbed the hens were when removing the eggs from the nest-- evening letting the children carefully take a couple out. Ultimately, we decided to pursue a vegetarian diet (especially after my husband met the pigs there), but we joined the CSA for their eggs and veggie share + cheeses (sourced from partner farms). We also have purchased meat occasionally for visiting carnivore families and friends, as we wanted to ensure if they were going to eat meat -- they were getting it from a farm like Tara Firma that does it in the right way. The best part of the CSA was their pet share as we realized buying offal from this farm would be a great compromise for our dogs (who were rebelling against our plant-based diet experiment) as we just wanted to provide our dogs protein with leftovers / byproduct without creating additional demand on the meat industry. Our pet share included amazing proteins like heart, tongue, cheeks, as well as more indulgent items like liver and kidney. Even the trotters and bones I would use to make broth in order to flavor / disguise our dogs' vegetarian kibble haha :) We also occasionally received some freezer burn meats, which cannot be sold for human consumption but safe (and very drool-worthy) for our dogs! Unfortunately, the pet share program has been discontinued but there are still plenty of diverse offal options in the farm store! Overall, a great local farm to support and highly recommend a visit!

This is a scam…read more They sell food-service quality meat at astronomically inflated prices. The sales woman had lots of great lines. She told us they were in the neighborhood making a delivery for our neighbor, and wanted to get rid of the last of their dry aged grass-fed premium steaks before they drive back to Sonoma. All lies. I noticed later it says right on the box: "grain fed". We got suckered for $40 worth, and I'm very thankful that's all we lost. She was trying to sell us $400 worth at first. It's hard to judge the quality of frozen vacuum wrapped steak. After defrosting, there was no marbling, the steaks were not trimmed, and one was folded in half before freezing, so it looked good, but defrosted it was 1/4 inch thick. The steaks I've tried so far have been badly oxidized, meaning the meat is grayish brown on the outside. (see photo). The meat is edible, but only barely, on par with flank steak from a school cafeteria, airplane food, or hospital food.

You might wonder who would ever consider buying meat from a door-to-door salesman. I'm one of…read morethose people. Look, the concept isn't that strange; I was used to local butchers selling "freezer bundles" to neighborhood residents and boutique operations-gone-corporate like Omaha Steaks made it seem even more plausible. But I'm here to give you the loudest warning I can yell via my keyboard. Don't be fooled by the authentic sounding company name. Sonoma Cattle Exchange is on par with Ginsu-knife salesmanship. They sell their meat in flash-frozen packaging in stylish boxes that read: "A cut above" and state that their fine meats are "hand trimmed." In the box I purchased was an assortment of new york, ground sirloin, strip loin, filet mignon and a few other cuts. Here is the cold, hard truth. While the meat they sell is not unhealthy, the quality of meat is worse than you get at the supermarket. USDA's meat grades are as follows: Prime (finely marbled and what you would find at fine steakhouses), Choice (supermarkets), Select (Food Service) and so on. Some of Sonoma Cattle Exchange's meats are choice, but the rest are select or worse yet, ungraded! To make matters worse, they are NOT trimmed. Huge chunks of fat are stuck to many cuts and some are even pumped full of a solution ("up to 15%"). Now the reason for the solution is up for speculation: a) it makes the cuts look bigger when frozen, b) it preserves them, c) it colors the meat, d) it enhances flavor, e) it adds weight, or f) all of the above. So far I've noticed that when the meat reaches a certain temperature, it wicks away the solution and reveals a grayer-colored meat. They also falsely use labels like "porterhouse". Now a porterhouse is a large cut of meat with a strip loin on one side and a large filet mignon on the other (this is what distinguishes it from a T-Bone). If you look at the pictures I attached, you will see that the filet side is merely a sliver (also note the whopping hunk of fat). I also posted a picture of what a porterhouse is supposed to look like. Because of the mystery solution, I initially thought the meat was near expiration but I've come to the conclusion that they are cuts that retailers simply don't want because they are of unacceptable quality - either not meeting up to standards because of quality of cut or fat content (or both). They then flash-freeze the discounted meat and market it to appear like prime-grade beef. The fat content is a bit disturbing. After cooking the hamburgers, I noticed a huge build-up of fat "blobules" on the underside of my grill. Later when cooking a strip loin, I was horrified to find blobules forming underneath the meat itself. I have no one to blame but myself. I paid $200 ("original price $350+!") for about $60 of meat I'd never buy in the first place. My only defense was that I was woken up from a nap and was hungry. So how does the meat taste? Like I said, there's nothing unhealthy about the meat (except the fat). I've been eating it almost daily so I can quickly rid my freezer of any trace of this bad experience. Sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised, but most of the time I'm incensed how after cooking, most pieces of meat have shrunk to a fraction of their size once the fat and/or solution has burned off. Have you ever ordered a T-Bone steak at Denny's? Honestly it's worse than that. Consider yourself warned. NOTE: Areas of operation include the greater Sacramento, CA region as well as the greater San Jose, CA region (where I am located). UPDATE: As I mentioned above, the brand the boxes were marked with was: "A Cut Above" with the meat being from Sonoma Cattle Exchange. After some internet sleuthing, I discovered that A Cut Above has had its share of troubles: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OA/recalls/prelease/pr032-2003.htm UPDATE 2: I want to clarify that I'm not a "disgruntled ex-employee." Nor am I a current employee or friend/family member of one who chooses to write a positive marketing spiel (oops I mean "review").

Such a great selection of food and items. Very fun store with very kind employees. Checkout was…read morefast and outstanding customer service. Our kids enjoyed the desserts, the pecan tart was my favorite, the crème brûlée was my husband's favorite. Fresh squeezed OJ machine.

Convient, fresh produce, good selection. Kind and helpful…read moreemployees. Great place for Amazon returns.