Great little market with live music on our experience here. Lots of offerings from coffee to plants…read moreto beautiful wooden furniture to stunning local photography. We especially enjoyed the photographer who also captains a whale watching boat. Really wonderful captures of our favorite San Juan islands features. Go! It's fun.

Very cute and small but well done in the area with indoor and outdoor areas for booths. More crafts…read morethan produce but we didn't know what to expect. Quick walk from the ferry area

If on the island this is a must. Great BBQ with a backyard party vibe. We missed the live music. I…read moreheard it was good. A vegan islander on the ferry ride back told me he goes for the music and skips the BBQ. But I was there for the biscuit which fell apart on my fork. The beans! Oh the beans! The bartending was excellent and everyone was friendly.

I always like trying new things on the island! Matthew's was our post-hike choice, and it was just…read morethe hearty meal we needed. Each couple split a brisket plate, and I got an extra side of coleslaw and cowboy beans. Food was FAST and was lovingly brought out to us - very kind! Note: if you're bringing a furry friend, you'll need to sit at the tables on the grass, the deck is not dog friendly. Now the food. We all found that the brisket leaned dry, but had good flavor. Paired with the sauce it was a nice time! The sides really shined, and all of them felt well made. If you're into beans and slaw, this is a good place for those. The pricing felt typical for island fare. Would definitely come back to try some other dishes!

Surprisingly large selection on basics, good quality produce and lots of beer & wine selections…read more While some reviewers will say the store is a bit expensive.... I say it's absolutely in-line with island prices and reasonable for the locale. Had fresh bread, good veggies and bagged salads, had a few types of beef and pork to chose from and a shockingly good selection of beer and wine. Like.... a whole Isle of good quality wine!!! Service was friendly and super convinenet to use the dock cart to wheel provisions down to dinghy or boat slips. Pro tip: they don't sell spirits.... you can get those directly across the street at the home goods store (odd, I know) for a fair price. Note: Home goods store is open far less hours from grocery, so ensure they are open before you provision for your Margarita Sunday.

When you have the honor and privilege of boating with friends through the San Juan Islands, and…read moreespecially the joy of getting to stop at stunning Roche Harbor Marina along the way, you have very few options if you run out of snacks (or beer). Luckily, the Roche Harbor store is a handy dandy little spot that carries an impressive selection of everything from canned food to veggies to alcohol. Are the prices the same as you might find at a mainland supercenter? Heck no. But, if you're in need of provisions, this is one of the few easily accessible (by boat) spots in the islands to stock up and be on your merry way. The cashiers here are also incredibly helpful and friendly - eager to answer any questions or even laugh at your lame island jokes!

We've been to Houlme a couple of times and have learned what's best to order, given our tastes. By…read moreall means, opt for the Summer Things: today's best grilled shoots & leaves, carmelized onion, hen egg. So good you want to lick the plate. We're also fans of Houlme's various pizzas. The one with onions, smoked mozarella, and hot honey is excellent if you want something more sweet. Our go-to is the more basic choice: tomato, mozzarella, and basil. The restaurant's ambiance is pleasant and inviting. Cordial service. Pizzas are cooked to order so we've learned to be patient. Island time. Relax. Be sure to make a reservation.

We did a last minute trip to Orcas Island and have heard of this place, but reservations for…read moreSaturday dinner were obviously completely gone when we tried looking 2 days before. We decided to walk-in as the website mentions bar and outdoor seating are first come first served so we were optimistic. However, when we showed up right at 4pm, the bar seats are all taken (only 4-5 seats, 2 parties at a time) and so we got put into a 2 hr 10 min waitlist for next seating, as they don't do outdoors in October (but the weather is so nice... and nowhere on the website mentioned no outdoor seating after summer). But this kind of worked out on our part as we didn't actually want to eat at 4pm. We got the Houlme Dog, MRF pizza with Norcino salami, an orange wine, and dessert (only option is rotating daily - we got brown butter ice cream with grilled chocolate). The Houlme Dog is a fun, casual meets fine dining hot dog with crispy potato and kale and caramelized onion jam. It's good but definitely nowhere near $16. It's just a fun way to enjoy a hot dog with play on textures MRF pizza was a green pizza - it's a kale sauce so it's quite interesting while the others were either red sauce or a white pizza as in olive oil base. The salami add-on was $7 but worthwhile as it definitely made the pizza much more filling and perfect to share for 2 people The dessert is pretty good, a bit simple on presentation but the flavors win. The grilled chocolate had a little bit of smoky flavor to it, and the ice cream itself has a nice small bit of savory, kind of like a salted caramel Their wines are good but expensive, but they were willing to split 1 glass into 2 For a restaurant at this price point, I expected a little more on service. When we arrived back 2 hrs later, we made eye contact a few times with the host/server but they kind of ignored us and took their sweet time doing other stuff than checking us in. I feel like they could've been more efficient seating tables as during our dining, which is around 6pm which should be prime time, they somehow failed to fill the other bar seats the whole duration of our ~2 hr meal, despite overhearing that 5 parties were in the waitlist and someone coming at 6pm would probably not have luck getting seated for the night. Also, when we finished the water jug, they took it away to fill a bunch of them but they never sent a full jug back to us. Even bigger miss was when I finished my water cup and a little loudly placed my cup on the counter and the server saw me, but they still missed the memo to give us water until I had to finally ask. All these little details should be expected as a bare minimum for such a nice restaurant. I had to take off a star for this, despite a strong 5 stars on food

Orcas Island is an incredibly charming place, so it makes sense that it would have a great farmers'…read moremarket. I spent a weekend at the Doe Bay Resort, on another part of the island, but visited the downtown area for an afternoon with my husband and some of our friends. We ended up spending most of our time at the Orcas Island Farmers' Market, which seemed like the place to be on a Saturday afternoon. It was super fun and festive, a bunch of vendors set up on a wide green lawn, with tons of people out enjoying the various offerings and the lively atmosphere. We wandered around, browsing the crafts and food stalls. I ended up getting oysters--raw, grilled, and fried--from Local Goods and a Polynesian plate from Moa Grill. Some tasty, substantial gratuitous snacking. If you're on Orcas Island during a farmers' market Saturday, I'd definitely recommend stopping by for some food and people watching. It's a great way to experience the vibrant villagey feel of this lovely island.

We stayed at The Landmark Hotel and lucky enough to just walk over to Orcas Island Farmers Market…read more It was a cool and breezy July day. There were at least a dozen food stalls selling anything from home baked bread, cookies, donuts, Mexican food, and Asian. There were stalls selling arts and crafts which are unique to Orca's. We picked up some lunch and enjoyed as the local band sweet music on the stage. A few folks and their kids got off the ground and started dancing. What a scene, as if it's out of a movie scene. It was truly magical.

A small, pleasant, and welcoming natural-foods alternative to the Lopez Village Market, the main…read morestore on the island. Blossom's main focus is on healthy foods and local products. In addition to a variety of goods made in the Pacific NW and California, Blossom carries the island's own Barn Owl Bakery's marvelous breads and pastries, along with the truly excellent organic produce grown on Lopez Island's Horse Drawn Farm. Yes, some items at Blossom can be pricey, but the store carries items you can't find anywhere else. Blossom also offers weekly sales. The new location is a real improvement over the old store, which was somewhat hard to find unless you knew where it was and, during its last years, really outgrowing its space. Having spent time up on Lopez now for the past several years, it's great to see Blossom's growth and continued committment to healthy foods and products.

This place is a small but mighty store. We had no problem finding vegan supplies to bring back and…read moremake pizza with while staying on the island. Additionally there were some vegan Neapolitan cupcakes that my spouse liked a great deal and I was able to pick up an Oatly-Stumptown horchata that I hadn't seen anywhere previously (it was delicious). Not that there are many places to go on Lopez but this place was great so I'm not mad about it.

Great place for one stop shopping! Opens early and closes…read morelate. Fine wines, deli, pizza, great selection of brews, gas station and Laundromat plus wonderfully nice folks running it!

Typical of a semi clean urban convenience / liquor store - best mention I can muster…read more But, on a friendly island. Obscenely over priced fuel and merchandise. Unfriendly, often rude, unhelpful ownership and staff. Thankfully there's a better fuel option at Island Hardware, and a far better grocery option at Island Market!

They sell cigarettes and beer and coffee. They hire locals that are handicapped…read moreThey have a tip jar because the workers are probably underpaid. The store is owned by an extremely wealthy family on the island. But they still sell cigarettes to the public they make their profits off of people's addictions. They also sell vape products which are extremely dangerous obviously to your health, but the owners obviously don't care.

After ordering at Mijitas (to go food because of the busy-ness of the joint on a sat night) we…read moretalked about getting sparkling water or cheap light mexican beer to go with the food and wandered in the Village Stop. The worker was the friendliest person we met on the whole island. I got a sparkling water and a mexican beer and a few little snacks to have in the hotel room. Card minimum of $5. If we'd looked on a map (say, on Yelp!) we could have gone to a regular grocery store. I wish we'd known the grocery store was like 2 blocks away but this place got the job done and the employee was friendly. He said the place was open til 11 which seemed like a rarity in the Eastsound area so that is good info to have.