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Cayucos
(805) 995-3883 | 171 N. Ocean Ave, Cayucos | SchoonersCayucos.com
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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, umbrel-
las, and beautiful 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 Sherwood’s Cayucos
Sausage Company is a welcome
treat for visitors and locals. For-
Where specialty
sausages headline
the menu
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 favor-
ite for both locals and visitors.
Sausage was in Don Sher-
wood’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
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 business
he began to use those recipes but
altered them to create his sausage
specialty line.
Sausage is 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 pondering 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,
Bratwurst, and many more variet-
ies. They also make two holiday
sausages: Pumpkin Spice (Hal-
loween) 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 sandwich-
es on fresh bread. Meats offered
are turkey, ham, roast beef, pas-
trami, 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. Sandwiches can be
topped with their special Tequila
Mustard, house-made Garlic
Aioli, Chipotle Mayo, avocado, or
lettuce and tomato.
Cooked foods available are de-
licious baby back ribs, pork roast,
tri-tip, and Mary’s free-range
rotisserie 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 Cran-
berry 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.
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
before the store location, Hours
are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday-
Sunday. For information and to
check out the menu, visit cayucos-
sausage.net or call (805) 900-5377.
— By Ruth Ann Angus