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Cayucos Sausage Company a seaside delicatessen
The Cayucos Sausage Company makes gourmet sausages using their signature seasonings, great sandwiches and treats for your dog. A must try is their Tequila Mustard and Signature Seasoning. Located on North Ocean Street in Cayucos, this shop and deli are easy to find by the tables, umbrellas and beauti- ful flowerpots in front. Enjoy your meal while people watching or on the patio behind the shop.
The Central Coast is known for many interesting types of foods, tri-tip and avocados for instance, but sausage is definitely uncom- mon. So, the success of Don
and Juneé Sher- wood’s Cayucos Sausage Company
is a wel- come treat
for
visi-
tors
and
locals.
For-
merly
located at
the back of
the Cayucos
Supermarket, the
sausage company was a
local favorite for over 18 years. The couple finally relocated across the street from Shoreline Inn and are now a favorite for both locals and visitors.
Sausage was in Don Sherwood’s blood from the time he was 12. Raised locally, Sherwood is the
last of nine children who had
the opportunity to work for local ranchers, many of whom were
of Italian/Swiss ancestry. “At one time of the year they would make Swiss sausage,” he explained, “and I learned from that.”
Sherwood eventually went into the meat industry and met
a German man who desired to hand down his recipes for making
Cayucos
sausage. He picked Don as his apprentice and
even though he left the meat business for years,
those recipes remained with him. When returning to the meat busi- ness he began to use those recipes but altered them to create his own sausage specialty line.
Sausage is basically made with premium pork and fresh spices. After Juneé bugged Don for years he came up with a chicken sausage. The flavor wasn’t quite what he wanted and one night after pon- dering it for hours he suddenly thought of the missing ingredient. It was cranberry. He did the same thing with Irish sausage finally hitting on Guinness Blonde Ale. It’s his personal favorite.
Sausages offered are Coastal Italian, French Apple, Jalapeno Chipotle, Hot Basque, Baja, Brat-
wurst and many more varieties. They also make two holiday sausag- es: Pumpkin Spice (Halloween) and Champagne Pecan (Christmas). All sausages are handmade in the store with no preservatives.
Sausage isn’t everything there
is also a Deli with tasty sandwiches on fresh Brian’s Bread. Meats of- fered are turkey, ham, roast beef, pastrami, tri-tip, pork roast, salami, and Mary’s Chicken, a delicacy not matched by other chickens. Cheeses include Provolone, Swiss, Smoked Cheddar, Pepper Jack, Muenster, Cheddar and American. Sandwich- es can be topped with their special Tequila Mustard, house-made Gar- lic Aioli, Chipotle Mayo, avocado, or lettuce and tomato.
Cooked foods available are delicious baby back ribs, pork roast, tri-tip, and Mary’s free-range rotis- serie chickens. Soups and salads are also on the menu.
The latest creation, which may prove to be the million-dollar moneymaker, is Juneé’s specialty, Dog Treats. “I took Pork Cranberry Sausage cooked it, sliced it and dehydrated it and came up with this nice little dog treat,” she said. “Dogs are literally going crazy for it.” On each day about 30 to 50 dogs go by the store and each stop to get their treat. A label with a name and packaging is in the works.
Cayucos Sausage Company is at 12 North Ocean Street, Suite 121, in Cayucos. Parking in the front and back, which is accessed from the north on the street just prior to the store location, Hours are daily 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and closed Tuesday. For information and check out the menu, visit cayucossausage.com. Call in your order to (805) 900-5377.
– By Ruth Ann Angus
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