Atlas

In this chapter

• Acme Bread Company — A Berkeley bakery founded in 1983 to supply restaurants with long-fermented hearth bread, later also baking at the San Francisco Ferry Building.
• Alemany Farmers Market — San Francisco’s Alemany market, opened in 1943, now operated by Foodwise with the city’s Real Estate Division — the People’s Market, not the Ferry Plaza hall.
• Arizmendi Bakery (9th Avenue) — A worker-owned cooperative bakery in San Francisco’s Inner Sunset, part of a Bay Area network that began from Cheese Board recipes and know-how.
• Bellwether Farms — A Sonoma County family creamery, dating itself to 1986, making sheep-milk and Jersey-cow yogurt and cheese from whole milk.
• Berkeley Bowl — An independent Berkeley grocery, opened in 1977 in a former bowling alley, now with a main store on Oregon Street and a second store on Heinz Avenue.
• Bi-Rite Market — A San Francisco independent grocery with three neighborhood markets and a related creamery, and a neighborhood connection between grocery and craft.
• Boudin Bakery — A San Francisco bakery dating its sour French bread to 1849, still operating in the city, and the usual public face of “San Francisco sourdough.”
• California Olive Ranch — A California olive grower and miller whose public site sells extra virgin olive oil and dates the farming work to more than twenty-five years.
• Cheese Board Collective — A Berkeley worker-owned cheese shop, bakery, and pizzeria, operating as a collective since 1971, and a parent of the Arizmendi bakery network.
• Clover Sonoma — A Petaluma dairy brand that dates Clover-labeled milk to 1916 and a processing plant in Petaluma to 1991, rebranded Clover Sonoma in 2017.
• Cowgirl Creamery — A North Bay cheesemaker whose public home is now presented as Sonoma County work; its Ferry Building shop closed in 2021.
• Cypress Grove — An Arcata goat-cheese creamery founded in 1983 by Mary Keehn, known for Humboldt Fog; as of May 2026 it no longer runs a company-owned dairy.
• Della Fattoria — A Petaluma bakery and cafe that publishes a Petaluma Boulevard address and presents bread, pastry, and a kitchen as the public work.
• Ferry Building — San Francisco’s Ferry Building Marketplace, a historic waterfront hall of food merchants at the foot of Market Street.
• Ferry Plaza Farmers Market — Foodwise’s outdoor certified farmers market at the San Francisco Ferry Building, distinct from the indoor marketplace shops.
• Frog Hollow Farm — A Brentwood fruit farm, CCOF organic, that packs tree-ripe stone fruit and runs an on-farm kitchen for fruit that will not ship as fresh.
• Giusto's Vita-Grain — A South San Francisco grain processor and wholesaler, dating itself to 1940, that supplies flours and other bakery ingredients to Western bakers.
• Heart of the City Farmers Market — An independent, farmer-operated San Francisco farmers market, open since 1981, now on Fulton Plaza in Civic Center after leaving UN Plaza in 2024.
• Hog Island Oyster Co. — A Tomales Bay oyster farm founded in 1983, with its Marshall farm as the company’s home and a hatchery in Humboldt Bay.
• Josey Baker Bread — A San Francisco bakery that makes whole-grain sourdough from fresh-milled local organic grain; after a 2026 fire it relocated baking off Divisadero.
• La Farine — An East Bay retail bakery with rooms the bakeries themselves list in Oakland’s Rockridge and Dimond neighborhoods and on Berkeley’s Solano Avenue.
• La Victoria SF — A Mexican panaderia on San Francisco's 24th Street that carries people, recipes, and neighborhood memory forward from the earlier La Victoria Bakery.
• Marin County — A North Bay county whose coastal dairies feed San Francisco’s cheese imagination more than its vineyard fame.
• Marin French Cheese Co. — A Marin County creamery that dates its ranch cheesemaking to 1865 and still presents a Petaluma–Point Reyes road address as the working ranch.
• McEvoy Ranch — A Petaluma olive estate founded in 1990 that grows, harvests, and mills extra virgin olive oil on a family-owned ranch.
• Napa Valley — California’s first American Viticultural Area (1981): a small, fog-and-hill grape-growing valley north of San Pablo Bay, not a list of tasting rooms.
• Oxbow Public Market — A downtown Napa food hall at 610 and 644 First Street: local vendors, cafes, and produce, not a certified farmers market on the Embarcadero.
• Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company — A West Marin dairy that became a creamery in 2000, still making Original Blue on the Tomales Bay farm while running a second plant in Petaluma.
• Rainbow Grocery — A worker-owned vegetarian grocery cooperative in San Francisco’s Mission District, open since 1975 and at Folsom Street since 1996.
• San Francisco — A city whose bakeries, markets, and immigrant kitchens make it a defining setting for Gourmet Gastronomer.
• San Francisco Baking Institute — A South San Francisco school for artisan bread and pastry, founded in 1996 by Michel Suas, not a retail bakery.
• Semifreddi's — An East Bay bakery, opened in Kensington in 1984, that supplies bread and pastry across the Bay Area from a production plant and a Colusa Avenue cafe.
• Sonoma County — A North Bay county of fog-cooled vineyards, dairy plants, and towns that supply wine and cheese to the Bay Area.
• Straus Family Creamery — An organic dairy processor whose milk comes from Marin and Sonoma County farms, now manufacturing in Rohnert Park after leaving Marshall in 2021.
• Tartine Bakery — A San Francisco bakery on Guerrero Street, known publicly for bread and pastry, with a long-running connection to San Francisco’s bread culture.
• The Mill — A Divisadero cafe and bakery in San Francisco that Josey Baker Bread ran with Four Barrel Coffee, closed after a fire on June 28, 2026.
• The Model Bakery — A St. Helena bakery on a site used as a bakery since 1908, with a second production shop at Napa’s Oxbow Public Market since 2008.
• Vella Cheese Company — A Sonoma cheesemaker that dates handmade cheese in town to 1931 and still lists a Second Street East shop on its own site.