Olive Pit

Pros: Olive sampling galore with more than two dozen types. Flavored balsamic vinegar milkshakes are a must try. Local craft wine and beer tasting. Pet friendly area.
Cons: Racist staff that proceeded to close shop upon arrival, which was 45 minutes before closing time, and displayed a noticeable unfriendly demeanor. Potential safety hazards with straying of cleaning detergents next to the olive samples.

Olive panini were so good.

My review is just for the deli/​food counter there. Did not get to walk through the shop portion. Anyway they do have a very limited menu on the deli. I decided to go with a hamburger and was way disappointed. They give you this tiny, soggy cardboard, pre-​formed, frozen patty for $ 7. I hate it when places use those mostly filler hockey pucks for burgers. How hard is it to use fresh ground beef and a little salt and pepper? I will never get food from there again.

We saw this place from the freeway and it did not disappoint when we stopped.
The store had a wide variety of oils, olives, vinegars, tapenade, jams, and mustards to try. There was bread and gluten free rice crackers for use. It was a great snack.
Around the store, there were incredible amounts of jars and shelves to look at. Bags of flavored nuts, candy, olives, balsamic vinegars, and wine were everywhere! It made our mouth water. We ended up getting the raspberry honey almonds and almost ate them in one sitting they were so good! There were also a lot of unique kitchen appliances and gadgets, but not as much bread for sale.
We did not eat at the restaurant, but we purchased bottled drinks and water for the remainder of our trip just as we would do at a gas station.
Each employee was incredibly happy and asked us multiple times if we needed assistance. The bathrooms are also very clean!
The Olive Pit is a great «Pit» stop (pun intended). We will come back and order from their online site.

I love there stuff here we are gonna start buying more. Are friend from Washington used to stop and buy us a whole bunch of different items as he would go to California and bring us a whole bunch of Olive Pit goodies. We are finally finishing up the Tuscan dipping oil and last month some of the mustard and i wanna try the salsa organic yummy stuff. Olives we get all the time from there as we go by. Thnx u Olive Pit. Ur stuff is yum n i can’t get enough of the best

Heading down from Portland, our destination was Los Angeles to visit family for the Holidays. I mentioned to one of my clients that we were making the two-​day drive, and he replied, «Oh, you’re heading down I-​5? You HAVE to stop by the Olive Pit! They have the most awesome shakes!»
And stop by we did.
Situated just over a half hour south of Redding, this place is cool. They have a tasting area with about 20 different «serve yourself» selections: Olives, balsamic vinegar and such.
They have an 18-​year aged Balsamic Vinegar that is the heaviest bodied, sweetest, most luscious and viscous I’ve ever tried. Two bottles of that made it into the shopping basket straight away.
They have the largest selection of jarred and bottled goods I’ve found in one place, pretty much anywhere: Olives, Vinegars, pickled vegetables, jams and jellies. Bags of nuts and pastes. Herbs and spices. Wines, beers. This is a foodie’s gift shop and just about anyone will find something here that will suit their tastes.
Oh, and then there’s the Deli side.
Shakes. Shakes. TRY THE SHAKES! The four of us in Family N each ordered our own shake. Wife N. had the Huckleberry. Very nice! Daughter N had the Chai Spice, which was sweet but complex and bitey in all the right places. Son N. traveled 450 miles, was presented with a menu of 30+ flavors, and still ordered Vanilla; I suspect he will go to his grave not having tried anything else. And I, being the «TRUE foodie» of the bunch (winks coyly), opted for Vanilla Balsamic Vinegar. Yep, a balsamic vinegar shake. They had about 15 different balsamic flavors. This shake was awesome, though Wife N. tried it and signaled disapproval with her commensurate «tang wince». If you have a more adventurous palette, the shake menu here provides an eclectic selection that is sure to please.
My only complaint was that the straws were a little too thin for the shakes, and it was pretty hard to suck it. Maybe a straw upgrade option? But I’m nitpicking here.
We’ll probably be hitting this place again on the way back up. I’ve still got the better part of 30 shake flavors left to try.

We saw a billboard on the freeway about this place. I just ran out of olive oil & wanted a new flavor of balsamic dressing. So we decided to check it out real quick and get a couple of bottles. Boy was I amazed of all the flavors! Balsamic flavors to name a few were: vanilla, chocolate, expresso, pinapple, fig, strawberry, pomegranate, mandarin and many more.
Olives stuffed with: jalapeño, garlic, habenaro, capers, feta, cajon, Italian spices and more!
Plus we had a great fresh sandwich from their café named mulfutta. I think it was there house sand. I recommend it hot.
A quick stop «2 bottle» turned into $ 170.00 of many awesome products, which some are gifts. The prices are better than your grocery store and without the chemicals! We also had a great time wine tasting there. All the employees were genuinely friendly and helpful, including their nice mamager.
We will definitely make this a must stop everytime we come this way.
Thank you Olive Pit for a special visit!

If you like olives, go here.
Hey, vegans! If you are hungry, the deli can give you bread and avocado and you can make an amazing sandwich using the condiments bar. They charged me $ 3 or something. It was wonderful. Do it :)

Samples, samples, samples! And you don’t even need to be embarrassed to ask to try like 100 olives. They have all the stuff there to DIY. Should I be emb that I’m just saying that I eat a lot of free samples? Whatevs… we did buy a lot… :)
But anyways, their olives, olive oils, and vinegar are realllly good. A wide variety too. They also have a wine and beer tasting room which a good selection and pours are $ 1 each.
Their café is good. sometimes can take a while if they’re busy. I got a latte and it took forever/​too sweet/​not hot enough but ok. We went for lunch and for the chipotle black bean burger for $ 6.50 and you can add whatever tf you want in the condiments area. I got the deli sandwich and was $ 7.50 which is kinda pricey esp since they didn’t adjust for no meat :/​But it was fresh, the veggie burger was really good.
Recommend stopping by here!

Wow, what an experience. Love this place!
First off, my husband LOVES olives so of course we were excited to take the time on the side of the road to explore this lovely venture.
They have everything. Not just an amazing olive tasting bar – but an olive OIL tasting bar! Everything free!!! Mmmm. & they have a wine bar & a café if u need a break.
They have dried fruit, chocolate covered lavender, elderberry wine for you singers $ 10, garlic everything, tapenade, cooking stuff made of olive wood as well as other fun gifts… we found gifts for everyone possible we were staying with upstate here.
They are community-​oriented & friendly here too. They even started a fund for a local with stage four cancer & he’s improving. Supercool!

If you love olives, olive oil, wine, craft beer, and fun and unusual goodies, this is the place for you! Conveniently located off I-​5 in the small town of Corning Ca, The Olive Pit offers a wide variety of goodies, cooking accessories, gifts, and much more. Family owned, and operated for decades, they have a VERY clean store, café and restrooms. And there is a nice patio with tables, chairs, and umbrellas. Also, a little area for your four legged family member to take a potty break:)
I highly recommend to anyone on the 5 freeway to stop in, take a load off, grab a shake (or a hot mocha if it’s chilly outside:) and browse around. You will find some treasures! Oh, and the Blue Cheese stuffed olives are pretty much from heaven.

Took a little drive from Sacramento.
Well worth the drive.
I am alergic to sulfate. Six bottles of wine, some of this and that. Four hundred dollars later, we departed.
We will be back.
Outstanding service, outstanding experience.

Pros:
Reasonably priced jars of olives
Lots of free samples of olives.
Cons:
They are the same spanish olives.
There’s a very commercial feel to this.
Overall, it was a nice and friendly place (Think of it as a small Casa de Fruta). it fully fulfilled its tourist trap expectations.

This is a half way stop for me from Sacramento to Grants Pass. Tourist Trap, I suppose but it’s clean, things to look, new things to taste if you like olives!
It is in the pricey side from jars of olives, flavored oils to almonds. But if you really like olives, this place has the largest variety that I have ever seen; stuffed with anchovies, almond, garlic to jalapeños.
We ate there today for the first time but probably won’t do that again. We usually buy olives, restroom stop and grab a shake. This time we had a black bean burger with a avocado. It was tasty with a fast food appeal but $ 25 two burgers and two waters (ouch). The olives, oils and nuts pricing too.

Amazing amazing amazing.
Try the muffuletta burger. Try their shakes.
Super friendly. Super yummy. Great gifts.
I stop by every time I pass through NorCal.

If you are a green olive fan this is a must. They let you taste what you are interested in. There are definitely unique one too. Lemon, sundried tomato stuffed, caper stuffed, etc. plus all the usual suspects of course.

This was an interesting place to stop at! Not far from Rolling Hills casino and off of I5. As soon as we parked, the first thing I noticed where large pots of Olive trees outside, each have their own name! When I went inside the store, it kind of reminded me of Granzella’s store/​restaurant in Williams, CA.
I really enjoyed taking my time and looking around at everything, lots of interesting stuff to see! Plus, they offer samples, I tried all kinds of olives and balsamic vinegars, so delicious! My favorite was the Pineapple Balsamic because it reminded me of Hawaii ;) They also sold chocolates, which were quite expensive, so we bought a few, but they were alright, did not taste too fresh so that was kind of disappointing. In the store they sell so many things, all kinds of sauces, foods, snacks, olives, jewelry made from Olive trees and MORE. There is a lovely wine selection too for all you wine lovers, and of course there are lots of Martini olives for all you Martini lovers! There is an area to order food, sit and eat, the tables were really pretty varnished wood. Majority of the customers were ordering ice cream, since it was such a nice sunny day outside. We weren’t hungry, so we bought a few cold drinks and ate our chocolates in the dining area. Staff was very friendly and helpful everywhere!
I ended up buying more souvenirs than I should lol, but I think it is a great place to visit at least once if you are ever in the area. It would be a great place to buy gifts for others as well, I got a lot of ideas of buying stuff for my family members and friends on special occasions. I really want to go back and buy some jewelry :) I am glad I went and got the experience!

A halfway hybrid between roadside attraction and run-​of-​the-​mill retail outlet space, the Olive Pit is one of the nicer ways you can find to pass time on the I-​5 corridor if you happen to find yourself in this predominantly agricultural part of northern California’s Sacramento River valley. It’s fun to find a store that embraces the olive as its modus operandi and fills its shelves with stuffed, pitted, and spiced olives in various shapes and sizes. The attached wine and beer shop isn’t half bad, either, and you’ll find some interesting local wines if you keep your eyes open: a Tehama county Albariño made at a Trappist monastery, among other options (new Clairvaux Vineyard).
In winter, you can find some rare single-​origin olive oils harvested fresh, peppery, and fruity and sold in 500 ml bottles: Ascolano and Sevillano, for example. These kinds of products aren’t ordinary sorts of things that you’d find at your local Trader Joe’s and they justify the journey to Corning and interstate exit. It’s not that the jars of pitted and stuffed green olives aren’t themselves interesting — they are — but I’d return for the New Clairvaux wines and the heirloom olive oils, not the big bottles filled with pitted giants marinated in garlic, hot pepper, and vinegar.
Be sure to check out the olive trees growing outside in large pots by the parking lot — each are marked by their varietal and remind you that not all olives are created equally. Like any other product that takes time, love, and patience to cultivate, olives deserve their place on center stage every now and again. At the Olive Pit, they take top billing, and deservedly so! Your inner foodie will find enough interesting items here to keep you coming back for more.

I love road trips! Every time my husband and I hit the road we find somewhere fun and new — even if it’s on a journey we’ve done countless times before. Corning, CA isn’t on our regular travel route, but on our drive to Bend we passed through here and I found the Olive Pit. This place is awesome!
CAsey doesn’t really like olives, but he loves olive oil. I like everything, and this place really has it all for travelers. Aside from countless varieties of olives and olive oil (most of which you can sample while here) they also have fruits, nuts, seeds, and other amazing snacks. Perfect for road trips; perfect for parties; perfect for my hungry mouth!
We (mostly me) filled a basket with a variety of spicy and sweet specialty snacks, including: roasted and salted pumpkin seeds (amazing! $ 3.68), smoked olives ($ 3.99), hot chili peppers (really fn hot! $ 1.89) and some buttered peanuts ($ 5.29). Everything was delicious!
The store is really fun to walk around — they have drinks also (soda $ 2.19, large bottle of ice cold water $ 1.69). It’s definitely one of the highlights of our trip north!

So… Olives. You like them? Come here. It’s a tourist trap (who knew?! GIANT SIGNS MILES BEFORE THE EXIT).
So Olives. You want them stuffed with whatever, oh, you got it here. In a… sparse, boring shop? You got that too.
You want something to eat? Mooooooooooooove on. The deli has olives, breakfast sandwiches, salads and what not… and they’re just ok. O to the K.
Back to the shop. They have olives, olive oil, wine, beer, snacks, trinkets, you name it. But in the name of «just passing through, why is my best friend making me stop here» it was just okay.