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Cayucos
Treat yourself and your fur-kid to delicious food and snacks.
Cayucos Sausage Company,
a seaside delicatessen
The Cayucos Sausage Compa-
ny makes gourmet sausages,
great sandwiches, and treats for
your dog. Located on North
Ocean Street in Cayucos, the shop
and deli are landmarked by the
tables, umbrellas, and beautiful
flowerpots in front. Enjoy your
meal while people-watching or on
the patio behind the shop.
Don and Juneé Sherwood’s
Cayucos Sausage Company has
been a local favorite since it
Where specialty
sausages headline
the menu
opened in 2001 in the back of
Cayucos Supermarket. The Sher-
woods rebranded the business to
its current name in 2012. In 2018,
the Cayucos Sausage Company
moved into its North Ocean Street
location. Today, their sausages,
sandwiches, and seasonings are
favorites for everyone who visits
the area.
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 op-
portunity to work for local ranch-
ers, many of whom were of Italian/
Swiss ancestry. “They made Swiss
sausage at a certain time of the
year,” he explained, “and I learned
from that.”
Don later entered the meat
industry, where he met a Ger-
man man who took him on as an
apprentice and taught Don his
personal sausage-making secrets.
Eventually, Don left the meat
business for some years, but those
recipes remained with him. Upon
returning to the meat business,
he began to use those recipes but
altered them to create his sausage
specialty line.
Bold flavors and signature
seasonings
Don makes sausage with pre-
mium pork and fresh spices. Sau-
sages offered are Coastal Italian,
French Apple, Jalapeno Chipotle,
Hot Basque, Baja, Bratwurst, and
many more varieties. They also
make a Pumpkin Spice sausage
for Halloween and a Champagne
Pecan for Christmas. All sausages
are handmade in-store with no
preservatives, nitrates, or fillers.
After Juneé bugged Don for
years for a chicken sausage, he
finally came up with a recipe.
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.
Patrons can purchase Cayucos
Sausage Co. Signature Seasoning
and the CSD Tequila Mustard at
the shop. The Signature Season-
ing is a savory, all-natural custom
blend, not-so-secret ingredi-
ent for their sausages. Tequila
Mustard is a zesty house favorite,
adding even more flavor to their
deli sandwiches and barbecue.
Beyond sausage
Sausage isn’t everything. The
Sherwoods offer an extensive
deli menu of sandwiches on fresh
bread. Meats offered 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,
and cheddar. Sandwiches include
a choice of their special Tequila
Mustard, house-made Garlic
Aioli, Chipotle Mayo, and a vari-
ety of other toppings.