Sonoma County
35 delis, markets and bakeries where Sonoma County picnickers stock up, checked September 2026. Several pack boxed picnics if you order ahead; each listing shows the closest spots to eat.
35 places · last checked September 2026 · how we verify
| Place | Area | What they sell |
|---|---|---|
| Basque Boulangerie Café | Sonoma | Naturally leavened breads and baguettes, French pastries and viennoiserie, breakfast plates, lunch sandwiches… |
| Costeaux French Bakery | Healdsburg | Breads, pastries, cakes and café breakfast and lunch. Its gourmet boxed lunches (a sandwich, sweet treat, sea… |
| Costeaux Petaluma | Petaluma | Costeaux artisan breads, breakfast pastries, croissants and desserts, sandwiches, salads with local produce,… |
| Criminal Cafe & Bakery | Santa Rosa | All-day breakfast and lunch, two cases of pastries and savory grab-and-go items, smoothies and coffee, and ta… |
| Della Fattoria | Petaluma | Naturally leavened loaves (Pain de Campagne, olive, semolina, Rosemary Meyer Lemon), pastries, breakfast plat… |
| Journeyman Meat Co. | Healdsburg | House-cured salumi, butcher cuts, salumi boards, sandwiches (a sandwich of the day on Mondays) and wine. Burg… |
| Mom's Apple Pie | Sebastopol | Fresh-baked fruit pies (the Gravenstein apple pie is the signature) — whole pies to take along for picnic des… |
| Ray's Delicatessen & Tavern | Petaluma | Specialty and classic deli sandwiches on fresh-baked soft rolls or Full Circle bread (about $11–$17), soups,… |
| Sonoma's Tuesday Night Market | Sonoma | Farm stands (produce, eggs, honey, flowers, plant starts), baked goods, specialty foods, hot-food stands and… |
| The Sonoma Cheese Factory | Sonoma | Cheese counter (Dry Jack, Jake's Gouda and others), cured and smoked meats, pre-made sandwiches and meats by… |
| Vineburg Deli | Sonoma | Deli sandwiches hot and cold, including daily specials built on tri-tip, chicken and pork loin cooked on an o… |
| Wild Flour Bread | Sebastopol | Wood-fired brick-oven breads, scones and sticky buns, ordered at the counter. No advance or phone orders. |
| Windsor Farmers Market | Windsor | Farm produce, artisan cheese, bread, pastries, meat pies, tamales, BBQ chicken and tri-tip, breakfast burrito… |
| Dry Creek General Store | Dry Creek Valley | Deli sandwiches (build-your-own until an hour before closing), soups, salads, seasonal specials; local wine a… |
| Jimtown and Then Sum | Alexander Valley | Asian-fusion café menu: dumplings, spring rolls, banh mi, sandwiches, avocado toast, desserts and espresso; t… |
| Andy's Produce Market | Sebastopol | Seasonal produce bought daily from local farms, a from-scratch deli with grab-and-go meals, breakfast items a… |
| Angelo's Wine Country Deli | Carneros | Made-to-order sandwiches plus Angelo's jerky, garlicky condiments and snacks packaged for picnics (the full r… |
| Big John's Market | Healdsburg | A full-size independent grocery with a full deli (meats and cheeses by the pound), a large made-to-order sand… |
| Canevari's Deli | Santa Rosa | Handmade ravioli, hot and classic deli sandwiches, rotating daily specials ($16–$18), deli meats and Italian… |
| Community Market Santa Rosa | Santa Rosa | Worker-run natural foods grocery: organic produce, one of the area's most extensive bulk sections (good for t… |
| Dry Creek Peach & Produce | Dry Creek Valley | Certified-organic tree-ripened peaches (about 30 varieties across the summer), peach jam and other seasonal p… |
| Glen Ellen Village Market | Glen Ellen | Village grocery with a deli counter and sandwiches, salad bar, hot food bar, rotisserie chicken, espresso bar… |
| Healdsburg Farmers Market | Healdsburg | Local produce, fruit, baked goods (pies), salsas and other prepared foods from Sonoma County growers and make… |
| Lombardi's Deli & BBQ | Petaluma | Barbecued tri-tip, ribs, chicken, salmon and weekend BBQ oysters; 20-plus specialty and BBQ sandwiches ($10.9… |
| Oliver's Market | Santa Rosa | Big local-grocery deli: made-to-order sandwiches (order ahead online for pickup), hot bar, grab-and-go entrée… |
| Petaluma Creamery | Petaluma | Spring Hill organic Jersey cheeses and Petaluma Creamery butter made on site, free daily samples of cheese an… |
| Petaluma Market | Petaluma | Independent grocery with a scratch kitchen: daily hot foods and soups (posted on the homepage each day), sala… |
| Quail & Condor | Healdsburg | A bakery known for long-fermented sourdough (baguette, olive campagne, pane siciliano, Danish rye), croissant… |
| Santa Rosa Original Certified Farmers Market | Santa Rosa | Certified California growers, mostly from Sonoma County, selling fruit, nuts, vegetables, eggs, honey, herbs… |
| Shelton's Natural Foods Market | Healdsburg | A natural-foods grocery with a deli: signature and build-your-own sandwiches, hot house-made soups, a salad b… |
| Sonoma Market | Sonoma | Full grocery with a scratch deli: specialty and made-to-order sandwiches, prepared salads and hot foods, chee… |
| Sonoma Valley Certified Farmers Market | Sonoma | Certified local farmers selling seasonal fruit and vegetables, plus eggs, flowers, bread and pastries, coffee… |
| Sonoma's Best | Sonoma | Coffee bar with house-baked pastries, pre-made and made-to-order breakfast and lunch sandwiches and salads, S… |
| Troubadour | Healdsburg | A daytime sourdough boulangerie and espresso bar with a lunch menu of sandwiches on its own breads ($20: jamb… |
| Whole Foods Market Sonoma | Sonoma | Made-to-order 'Market Sandwich' counter, Genji sushi, coffee bar, prepared foods, a cheese counter with a Cer… |
Sonoma
The Plaza's French-style bakery has been turning out baguettes, croissants and country loaves since 1994 and is the classic place to pick up bread and a sandwich before a Sonoma picnic. Lunch runs to sandwiches, salads and quiche, and you can order ahead online to skip the line.
Nearest picnic spot: Sonoma Plaza (Plaza Park) · 0.1 mi
Sonoma
Sonoma's summer evening market turns the Plaza into a giant picnic every Tuesday from May to early September, with farm stands, food vendors, beer and wine and live music. It's presented by the City of Sonoma with the Sonoma Valley Chamber of Commerce, and locals bring blankets, chairs and their own spreads.
Nearest picnic spot: Sonoma Plaza (Plaza Park) · 0.0 mi
Sonoma
The Plaza's famous cheese shop shut at the end of 2018 and was bought in 2020 by the Sonoma's Best hospitality group, which reopened it as a cheese counter, BBQ deli (The Butcherman) and wine shop in one historic building. For picnickers it is the easiest Plaza grab: boxed cheese and charcuterie, sandwiches and a bottle, with a back patio or the Plaza lawn a few steps away.
Nearest picnic spot: Sonoma Plaza (Plaza Park) · 0.1 mi
Sonoma
A no-frills, quick-lunch deli at Napa Road and 8th Street East, known for sandwiches filled with meats cooked over its outdoor wood-fire grill. It's a handy early-opening stop in the Vineburg/Schellville area on the way to the Carneros and east-side Sonoma wineries.
Nearest picnic spot: Scribe Winery · 0.8 mi
Glen Ellen
Glen Ellen's everyday grocery, open since 1963, is the practical place in the village to assemble a picnic from the deli, salad bar and hot case. It is no longer a sister store of Sonoma Market: Nugget Markets sold it to Lodi-based Mar-Val Food Stores in 2018.
Nearest picnic spot: Sonoma Valley Regional Park · 0.7 mi
Sonoma
Sonoma's long-running independent-style supermarket, owned by Nugget Markets since 2016, is the most complete one-stop picnic shop in town: a big deli and scratch kitchen, cheese and wine, bakery and coffee bar under one roof. Its standout for picnickers is an online boxed-lunch program — pick a specialty box or build your own and collect it on the way to the Plaza or a winery.
Nearest picnic spot: Sonoma State Historic Park - General Vallejo's Home (Lachryma Montis) · 0.3 mi
Healdsburg
A Healdsburg bakery dating to 1923, best known for its breads and celebration cakes, with a full café on Healdsburg Avenue. For picnickers, the draw is its online-order boxed lunches, an easy way to feed a group before heading to Dry Creek or Russian River wineries.
Nearest picnic spot: Healdsburg Plaza (Plaza Park) · 0.1 mi
Healdsburg
A locally focused butcher shop and salumeria with its own wine-and-salumi tasting bar near Healdsburg Plaza. Order a salumi board or sandwiches to go and you have the meat course of a serious picnic sorted.
Nearest picnic spot: Healdsburg Plaza (Plaza Park) · 0.1 mi
Dry Creek Valley
The historic general store at the heart of Dry Creek Valley is the go-to place to pick up picnic sandwiches before a winery day, and it has its own porch and back-garden picnic spots. Dry Creek Vineyard is next door.
Nearest picnic spot: Amista Vineyards · 0.2 mi
Alexander Valley
The long-time Jimtown Store stop on Highway 128 now operates as Jimtown and Then Sum, an Asian-fusion café. It's the only food stop in the middle of Alexander Valley, handy for takeout before a winery picnic.
Nearest picnic spot: Soda Rock Winery · 1.1 mi
Healdsburg
Healdsburg's locally owned supermarket, with the most complete one-stop picnic shopping in town: made-to-order sandwiches, a salad and hot bar, cheese, bread and a big wine aisle. It's handy on the north side of town on the way to Dry Creek and Alexander Valley wineries.
Nearest picnic spot: Seghesio Family Vineyards · 0.6 mi
Dry Creek Valley
A small organic peach orchard and summer farm stand in Dry Creek Valley whose fruit has had national press. In season it's the place to add perfect peaches (and jam) to a Dry Creek winery picnic.
Nearest picnic spot: David Coffaro Vineyard & Winery · 0.5 mi
Sebastopol
A family pie shop that has been baking on Gravenstein Highway north of Sebastopol since 1983. Grab a whole apple pie for picnic dessert, or stop for a slice at the tables overlooking the orchard.
Nearest picnic spot: Furthermore Wines · 0.8 mi
Sebastopol
A cult wood-fired bakery in the tiny hamlet of Freestone, about five miles west of Sebastopol on the Bohemian Highway, open four days a week. Pick up still-warm loaves and sticky buns and eat them in the garden, or carry them on toward Occidental and the coast.
Nearest picnic spot: Running Fence – Watson School Historic Park · 1.4 mi
Sebastopol
A big, open-sided produce market north of downtown Sebastopol that West County locals use for fruit, cheese and deli salads. It's a budget-friendly stop to stock a Russian River or coast picnic.
Nearest picnic spot: Horse & Plow Winery · 0.6 mi
Windsor
Windsor's long-running certified farmers market, held on the town green, where you can buy picnic makings and ready-to-eat food, then eat on the lawn. It's celebrating its 25th season in 2026.
Santa Rosa
A quirky bakery-café founded in 2012 in Santa Rosa's historic West End, just northwest of Railroad Square, known for creative baking with plenty of gluten-free and vegan choices. Its catering arm, now run separately by the founder, turns out boxed lunches for groups — one of the few advance picnic-lunch options in Santa Rosa.
Nearest picnic spot: Juilliard Park · 0.7 mi
Santa Rosa
A multi-generation Italian delicatessen and ravioli maker founded in 1929, Canevari's is a Santa Rosa standby for Italian sandwiches, deli meats and family-size platters. It's a practical place to pick up food for a group picnic on the north-central side of town.
Nearest picnic spot: Juilliard Park · 1.8 mi
Santa Rosa
Santa Rosa's worker-run natural foods store began in 1975 on Morgan Street and has been on Mendocino Avenue since the 1990s. It's a picnic stop for organic fruit, bulk snacks and natural groceries rather than prepared food — the made-to-order deli is at the sister store in Sebastopol.
Nearest picnic spot: Juilliard Park · 1.6 mi
Santa Rosa
Sonoma County's employee-owned grocery (roots in 1988) is the region's all-purpose picnic pantry, with four stores: Stony Point (listed here) and Montecito in Santa Rosa, plus Cotati and Windsor. Every store has a full deli, taqueria and sushi counter, and you can pre-order sandwiches and party trays online.
Nearest picnic spot: Finley Community Park · 0.8 mi
Santa Rosa
Running since 1967, this is Sonoma County's oldest farmers market and its biggest on Saturdays, held at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in north Santa Rosa. It's the place to load up on local cheese, stone fruit, bread and flowers before a picnic in Santa Rosa's parks or up the valley.
Santa Rosa Original Certified Farmers Market
Nearest picnic spot: Kendall-Jackson Wine Estate & Gardens · 1.6 mi
Petaluma
The Petaluma outpost of Healdsburg's Costeaux French Bakery (founded 1923) now operates inside the historic Hotel Petaluma, selling the bakery's breads, pastries and lunch items from early morning. For picnickers the draw is Costeaux's pre-ordered boxed lunch, which can be picked up here with three days' notice.
Nearest picnic spot: Walnut Park · 0.4 mi
Petaluma
Della Fattoria's slow-fermented country breads, made to Kathleen Weber's long, cold-fermentation method, are stocked by markets around the Bay Area, and its downtown café occupies a circa-1860 bakery building. For a picnic, it's the stop for a whole loaf plus a sandwich or pastry to go — but note the café now opens only Thursday through Sunday mornings.
Nearest picnic spot: Walnut Park · 0.3 mi
Petaluma
Founded in 1947 by Ray and Rose Colaizzi in a former garage, Ray's is the last of Petaluma's old grocery-and-tavern combinations, now centered on scratch-made deli sandwiches next to a local bar with 11 taps. It's a characterful place to pick up big sandwiches or a platter for a west-side Petaluma picnic.
Nearest picnic spot: Walnut Park · 0.9 mi
Petaluma
Family-owned since 1999, Lombardi's pairs a barbecue pit with a gourmet deli case at the north end of Petaluma, and it has won the local People's Choice awards for best BBQ and best deli. Tri-tip sandwiches, ribs by the rack and family dinners for four make it an easy way to feed a picnic group.
Nearest picnic spot: Walnut Park · 2.3 mi
Petaluma
Larry Peter's century-old creamery on Western Avenue makes Spring Hill organic Jersey cheeses and Petaluma Creamery butter, and its store is a fun, inexpensive stop for picnic cheese, something off the grill and a scoop of house ice cream. Free tastings make it easy to choose.
Nearest picnic spot: Walnut Park · 0.6 mi
Petaluma
Downtown Petaluma's locally owned full-service grocery, known for a from-scratch deli whose chef posts the day's hot dishes and soups online. It's the easiest place in town to put together a picnic from the salad bar, hot case, cheese counter and wine aisle, or to pre-order platters for a group.
Nearest picnic spot: Walnut Park · 0.4 mi
Carneros
Angelo Ibleto's company has made Italian-style meats and condiments since 1972, and this Highway 121 deli is its Sonoma Valley outpost, making sandwiches to order and stocking jerky, garlicky condiments and snacks packed for picnics. It sits on the Carneros winery corridor south of town; the full meat range is sold at the Petaluma shop, Angelo's Meats (2700 Adobe Road).
Nearest picnic spot: Larson Family Winery · 0.8 mi
Picnickers stock up at Basque Boulangerie Café, Costeaux French Bakery, Costeaux Petaluma, Criminal Cafe & Bakery, Della Fattoria, Journeyman Meat Co., and 29 more. Several will pack a boxed lunch if you order ahead.
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