
Far more than 30 Bay Spot foodstuff and beverage merchandise are named the very best in the country by the Very good Food Awards
The pandemic did not hold the Good Foodstuff Awards from soldiering on for its 11th annual celebration of unbiased food stuff and beverage artisans — and the Bay Area was well-represented as soon as all over again, with 27 area winners for solutions this kind of as beer, charcuterie and cheese.
A virtual ceremony took place Friday in honor of 219 winners, who were being judged between nearly, 2,000 entries all through a very first-ever virtual blind tasting. Among the winners, 44 arrive from California, and 55% are walking away with awards for the initially time.
Also new this yr is an on the net Excellent Meals Awards Pop Up Shop, enabling customers to get profitable products from about the region by a solitary web page with totally free transport.
A number of Bay Space winners are acquainted names like salami specialist Fra’Mani Handcrafted Food items, tinned seafood maker Patagonia Provisions and goat cheese business Laura Chenel, but there are also some very first-time awardees probably to reward from the interest the Great Meals Awards can bring.
San Francisco’s Hideous Pickle Co., whose owners are also plotting a zero waste pizza restaurant, won two awards for its pickles. Oakland’s Daybreak Seaweed Co. also took house a prize for its toasted and floor nori harvested in Mendocino. And in spite of currently being in enterprise for only a 12 months, San Francisco’s Triple Coffee Co. received in the hugely competitive coffee group.
The awards are structured by the Very good Food stuff Basis, an corporation focused to supporting the American makers, retailers, growers and ranchers who perform toward a sustainable foods system. Hundreds of cooks, grocers, journalists and other peers in the food business serve as judges, who typically assemble for rounds of blind tasting and the final ceremony in San Francisco. Successful products get a blue seal on their labels — a indication of excellence in a aggressive marketplace.
Right here are the Bay Area’s winners:
Alamanac Beer Co. (Alameda) with Blackberry Farm Brewery for Assembly Location
Barlovento Chocolates (Oakland) for Fresh Spearmint-Infused 64% Darkish Chocolate Truffle
California Caviar (Sausalito) for Basic White Sturgeon and Royal White Sturgeon
Clif Family Napa Valley + Bare Honey (St. Helena) for Photo voltaic Developed Raw Honey
Cowgirl Creamery (Petaluma) for Mt. Tam
Daybreak Seaweed Co. (Oakland) for Nori Flakes
Ethic Ciders (Petaluma) for Warren Pear
Fra’Mani Handcrafted Meals (Berkeley) for Italian Dry Salame, Salame Calabrese and Capicollo
Mate in Cheeses Jam Co. (Santa Cruz) for Smokin’ Padron Jam
Very good Roots (San Francisco) for Lotus Chips
A bottle of Just Day Syrup sits on the counter. Just Date Syrup, produced with organic and natural California dates, won at the Superior Food stuff Awards once more.
Michael Shorter / Distinctive to The Chronicle 2018Just Day Syrup (San Francisco) for Natural California Day Syrup
Laura Chenel (Sonoma) for Creamy Brie
Minor Apple Treats (Sebastopol) for Apple Balsamic Vinegar
Fortunate Canine Hot Sauce (Hayward) for Pink Label Applewood-Smoked Habanero Pepper Sauce
Mommenpop (Napa) for Mommenpop d’Pampe
Patagonia Provisions (Sausalito) for Wild Pink Salmon
Seismic Brewing Business (Santa Rosa) for Alluvium California Pilsner

Very good Food items Awards winner Spirit Performs Distillery was honored for its 4 Grain Straight Bourbon, made in Sebastopol.
Lou Bustamante / Unique to The Chronicle 2020Spirit Works Distillery (Sebastopol) for Four Grain Straight Bourbon
The Charapa Task (Santa Cruz) for Charapa Peruvian Aji Amarillo Sauce
The Area Butcher Store (Berkeley) for Pastrami
Tomales Farmstead Creamery (Petaluma) for Atika
Triple Coffee Co. (San Francisco) for Pacamara Natural
Ugly Pickle Co. (San Francisco) for Dilly Carrots and Burger Occasion Dills
White Label Chocolate (Santa Cruz) for 72% Trinidad, Garcia Estate
Wine Forest (Napa) for Real Wild Rice
Wright & Brown Distilling Corporation (Oakland) for Bourbon Whiskey
Yume Boshi (Berkeley) for Pink Shiso Syrup
Janelle Bitker is a San Francisco Chronicle staff author. E-mail: [email protected]