Our Purveyors

Nopalito maintains a commitment to offering local, organic, sustainable products. Through farmers markets and sourcing with intention, we have developed relationships with a multitude of purveyors who share these principles.

Moonlight Brewery

 

Meat & Seafood

Field to Family Natural Foods (Petaluma, CA)

Chicken - Featured in our Panucho de Pollo al Pibil

Field To Family is a family business, supplying natural and organic meats. All their chickens are raised in a stress-free environment with access to the outdoors, fed an 100% vegetarian diet, without antibiotics, animal by-products or growth promotants.

Marin Sun Farms (Point Reyes Station, CA)

Beef, Goat - Featured in our Birria de Chivo

Marin Sun Farms is the extension of a family farm, nestled in the rolling grasslands of the Point Reyes National Seashore. They produce local, pasture-based food with the aspiration of building a sustainable food model. They strive to allign their production with the natural principles that a holistic, connected perception of the world provides. They understand that an approach that mimics natural processes is the key to maintaining the stable functioning of our ecosystem. To that end, they raise 100% grass-fed beef, lamb, goat, pasture raised chickens, pork and simply the best eggs you've ever had.

Monterey Fish Market (San Francisco, CA)

Seafood - Featured in our Ceviche Verde

Based in San Francisco since 1979, Monterey Fish Market is HACCP compliant, meaning they comply to a strict set of regulations implemented by the Federal Government to ensure the wholesomeness of seafoods. As well, all their shellfish comes from certified waters which are tested by the appropriate state and local health agencies weekly. 

Niman Ranch (Alameda, CA)

Pork - Featured in our Pozole Rojo

Niman Ranch provides the finest tasting, gourmet quality beef, pork and lamb in the world to San Francisco Bay Area restaurants and fine markets. In contrast to mass production of meat on ‘modern factory farms,’ Niman Ranch has developed a network of sustainable family farms owned by ranchers known personally to Bill Niman, who raise their animals free range on grass and natural feeds, without steroids, sub-therapeutic antibiotics, or other artificial growth promotants, and who treat their animals with dignity and respect. They control the quality every step of the way from early on at the ranch to the final delivery.

Pozzi Farms (Sonoma County, CA)

Lamb - Featured in our Barbacoa de Borrego


 

Produce

Bernard Ranches (Riverside County, CA)

Citrus Fruit - Featured in our Taco de Pescado al Pastor

Vince and Vicki Bernard are lifelong farmers. They pride themselves on the superior flavor and sweetness of their citrus fruit, which they attribute to the combination of their rich soil and suitable climate, as well as the use of seaweed as a fertilizer. They began farming this land in 1979 and have been bringing their produce to farmers markets since 1980. They work their farm together and sell their fruit themselves, "so the customer knows that we are the ones who also grow it."

Blossum Bluff Orchards (Parlier, CA)

In addition to being certified organic (and family run since the 1930's), Blossom Bluff Orchards is a member of California Clean, an organization started in the early 1980's by Central Valley small family farmers committed to environmentally responsible farming. Their main criteria for selecting new varieties is flavor, and most fruit is picked at the highest maturity.

Catalan Family Farm (Holister, CA)

A family-run, certified organic farm providing CSA subscribers and farmers markets with delicious produce in the Monterey Bay, Santa Cruz and San Francisco areas. (Related story: Inspiration From Catalan Farms)

Dirty Girl Produce (Santa Cruz, CA)

Produce - Featured in our Ensalada Repollo

Related story: A Visit To Dirty Girl Produce

Full Belly Farm (Guinda, CA)

Produce - Featured in our Enchiladas Placeras

Full Belly Farm is a certified organic farm offering vegetables, fruit and wool directly to customers in the Bay Area through their Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. They have used organic practices since 1985.

Giusto’s (South San Francisco, CA)

Corn - Featured in our Tamal Enchilado de Queso y Puerco

Starting in San Francisco as a small bakery and health food business in 1940, Guisto's is now the leading processor and wholesaler of organically grown grains in the western United States.

Iacopi Farm (Half Moon Bay, CA)

Upon his arrival from Italy in 1939, Louis' father, Michael, settled in Pescadero where he learned the farming trade from his employer at Cascade Ranch. In 1962, Louis leased land to start a 200-acre farm in Half Moon Bay, beginning a 40- year farming career that continues to this day.

Lagier Ranches (Escalon, CA)

Almonds - Featured in our Organic Almond Horchata

John Lagier is a 4th generation farmer in San Joaquin County. Lagier Ranches is a socially responsible organization based on a sound ethic of fairness to customers, employees, regulatory agencies and our community, expressed through their environmentally conscious use of water, energy and other resources -- and their organic farming practices. 

Mariquita Farm (Watsonville, CA)

Mariquita Farm is a small family farm located near Watsonville. They grow organic specialty vegetables, greens and herbs for their Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) members in the Bay Area.

Martin Bournhonesque (Chular, CA)

For a few dozen of the city's best restaurants (including nopalito), Martin's Farm grows everything from coveted yellow romano beans to an esoteric variety of amaranth (for which Kokkari chef Erik Cosselmon brought him back seeds from Greece).

Rancho Gordo (Napa, CA)

Heirloom Beans - Featured in our Huevos de Caja

Rancho Gordo produces old-fashioned heirloom variety beans through farmers in Northern California and Fresno. 

Star Route Farms (Bolinas, CA)

Star Route is the oldest continuously certified organic grower in California. They began in 1974 as an organic farm in Marin County, on five acres using horse-drawn sulky plows and cultivators and a lot of 'long haired ambition'. As pioneers in the then-fledgling organic industry they adopted production and post-harvest technologies -- such as precision planters and hydrocooling equipment -- in order to insure top quality produce for the consumer.

Wine Forest Wild Mushrooms (Napa, CA)

Mushrooms - Featured in our Quesadilla Azul con Hongos y Hiutlacoche

Connie Greene has been hunting wild mushrooms in the woods and supplying them to restaurants and individuals since 1979. 

Zuckerman’s Farm (Stockton, CA)

Asparagus - Featured in our Caldo Tlalpeno

Roscoe Zuckerman farms on Mandeville Island just outside Stockton, on land first farmed by his grandfather in the 1940’s. The deep, almost entirely organic peat soil is ideally suited for potatoes and asparagus. 


 

Dairy

Clover Stornetta (Petaluma, CA)

All of the milk bottled at Clover Stornetta's plant is from only the top milk producers in the North Coast region, operating using sustainable agricultural practices and from cows not treated with hormones, antibiotics, or rBST (Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone). The milk is extensively tested at each stage of production in their on-site lab.

Cowgirl Creamery (Point Reyes Station, CA)

In 1997, Sue Conley and Peggy Smith opened Cowgirl Creamery in Pt. Reyes Station. From the beginning, they wanted to make delicious, artisan cheese, to be environmentally responsible, and to support their cheesemaking friends as sustainable land stewards. Today, Cowgirl Creamery continues to make just a small collection of cheese -- four soft-aged and three fresh, totaling about 3,000 pounds per week.

Gilt Edge Creamery (San Francisco, CA)

Gilt Edge Creamery has been a family owned business -- and a San Francisco tradition -- since 1908, now supplying organic dairy products including milk, eggs and cheese.


 

Beer

Magnolia Brewing (San Francisco, CA)

Brewing hand-crafted beer on upper Haight Street (just blocks from nopalito!) since 1997.

Moonlight Brewery (Fulton, CA)

Moonlight Brewery was started in a converted tractor barn in rural Santa Rosa in 1992 by Brian Hunt. Small by most all comparisons, the brewery has capacity for about 1000 barrels per year. Currently all the beers are only sold in kegs and most are only available in the Bay Area.

Russian River Brewing Company (Santa Rosa, CA)

Founded in 1997 by Korbel Champagne, RRBC is now owned and operated by its original brewmaster Vinnie Cilurzo and his wife, Natalie. Awarded "Small Brewing Company of the Year" and "Small Brewing Company Brewmaster of the Year" at the 1999 Great American Beer Festival.


 

Wine

Lioco (San Francisco, CA)

LIOCO produces true "wine of California origin," including a stainless-steel (un-oaked), naturally-fermented (all native yeast) Chardonnay from pedigreed growers.

Sutton Cellars (Petaluma, CA)

Sutton Cellars was started in 1996 by Carl Sutton producing a mere 350 cases of four handcrafted varietals. The main (brown) label wines (including the “Rattlesnake Rose” Syrah-Carignane featured at nopalito) are never more than 300 case lots, and are still hand filled and hand corked. The goal at Sutton Cellars is to coax wines of subtlety from the vineyard striving for lower alcohol, higher acid and less oak than is the commercial norm in California winemaking. Most are fermented with wild yeast and bottled unfined and unfiltered.