Category: Support Local

For Restaurant Month, our January ‘Meet Your Neighbor’ feature is one of the participants and a SLO staple, Big Sky Café. A pioneer in the farm-to-table movement, Big Sky Café has been serving farm fresh fare in the heart of bustling downtown San Luis Obispo for more than 25 years. Greg Holt has worked at ...

Milk Room is more than just a retail store, they are a community of creatives. Started during the pandemic as a way to inspire their friends and give them a place to sell their creations, their main goal has always been to support independent designers and artists. Milk Room’s location on Monterey St. opened in ...

If 2020 was the holiday season where tradition took a break, 2021 is shaping up to be the one where we break our dependence on outsourced goods and turn our attention back to locally produced, sustainable items. If you’re in San Luis Obispo for the holidays, you’re in the right place to do just that.  ...

For World Kindness Week, we wanted to talk with a local business that works to exemplify kindness in everything they do. Bliss Café has been spreading kindness in SLO since 2012, from their plant-based menu to the products they carry to their business ethos. This week in November is meant to bring people together and ...

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, so we wanted to feature a business and person that has been giving back to this community for more than three decades. Frank Ricceri has worked at Transitions-Mental Health Association since 1988 in various positions, and currently manages its social enterprises, including Growing Grounds. The Growing Grounds farms ...

  In observance of Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated from September 15 – October 15, we’re excited to feature Corazón 805 Tacos. The brainchild of Pedro Arias Lopez and Chencho Villar, you can find their tacos at local breweries and pop-up events across San Luis Obispo. Or if (like us), you just can’t get enough of ...

Ragtag Wine Co. is the newest tasting room to arrive in downtown San Luis Obispo, and its eclectic ambience and delicious wines have oenophiles rushing to 779 Higuera St. Originally slated to open in 2020, the Ragtag crew is thrilled to finally be able to welcome guests into their space. We caught up with Tasting ...

The City of San Luis Obispo launched the Support Local campaign early on in the pandemic, with the goal of promoting small, local businesses and encouraging the community to invest in a vibrant SLO. In the last year alone we featured 22 businesses in the “Meet Your Neighborhood” blog series, earned 47 Support Local placements ...

When you walk into Park 1039, you are greeted by hundreds of different wines, one-of-a-kind procured items from around the globe, and a blossoming tree right in the middle of the shop. It truly feels like an epicurean’s dream. But if you haven’t tried raclette or house-made n’duja  before, don’t worry — the friendly staff ...

If you’ve passed through the Mojo District (Monterey St. & Johnson Ave) lately, you may have noticed a new addition in the neighborhood. Skipper’s Brew Coffee House opened it’s SLO location in February of this year, and since then, they have been living up to their adage of being small in size but mighty in ...