Skywood Trading Post

Well stocked deli with reasonable prices + AWESOME PREPARED FOOD… I love their awesome chicken salads, everyone loves their breakfast burritos, the coffee is good.
Location — The corner of highways ⁸⁴⁄₃₅ aka 2 awesome roads aka car /​bike playground. For any other SoCal people, this is basically Rock Store & Skyline is our Mulholland. People that ride often tend to park here because Alice’s gets crowded, so you’ll see cooler stuff here.
Pro-​Tip — If you can’t decide, go down 84 West, its the best road of the 4. Also, the bathroom at Alice’s is legit if you can’t man up and use the porter potties.

This is the grocery store in Woodside across the street from Alice’s Restaurant. If you don’t want a full sit down meal, the deli here makes great sandwiches and has to go salads and other foods. The grocery store itself, I haven’t had to use as I don’t live here. I just pass through on my comings and goings thru Woodside. No, I don’t need to buy a bag of rice or laundry detergent when I’m out on a bike ride. But I do need a drink or a snack sometimes and this is a good place if you don’t feel like doing the whole sit down meal thing like at the restaurant across the street. The place is well organized and clean and so far the staff is friendly and helpful.

This is a great stop for a deli sandwich and soft drink when my wife and I are on our motorcycle enjoying Skyline Blvd. (Hwy 35). The sandwiches are great and the service is friendly. If you’re there around midday on a weekend day you can see between 100 – 150 motorcycles come and go in an hour… all makes and vintages. Great fun!

Overall this place is great service, but I have to comment on the hygiene when making sandwiches. Two out of two visits now for sandwiches I have seen the male employees not wearing gloves when preparing and handling the food. It may be coincidence but the female employees do. Not sure if this is the law, but its not very appetizing especially when not seeing them visibly wash their hands.
Apart from this the sandwiches are pretty good!

I love this place! Its so Old School, it’s like going into a place and they know your name and get to know you. Its just like family and I love Gabriel and Dillion and Tig,
it’s so much more than a store. Love these people they have hearts of GOLD!

This is my «neighborhood» grocery store. The owners are great. They listen to the requests of neighbors and try to stock what is needed/​wanted. In addition to the predictable staples, they have a good selection of high-​end cheeses, bread, snacks, desserts, wine, etc. They also carry local products, which is nice for the neighborhood.

Love local stores like this. Their sandwiches and other foods always seem to be above average as compared to other convenience stores. Skywood Trading Post is no exception. I popped in for a drink and a snack. Ended up staying for a pork tamle and a Kerns.

I adore this little market and deli. I’ve been stopping in since the 70s. The location is beautiful at Skyline and La Honda Roads. They have a surprising array of groceries and delicacies, plus wines and beers. They have a wonderful deli with delicious offerings. It’s a great stopping place if you’re in that area. It’s just across from Alice’s Restaurant. I think you’ll like it. Oh, and the staff is wonderfully friendly and happy to see you.

Come here and park your motorcycle. Grab something to drink and snack on. Fill up with fuel. Use the facilities. Ride the twisties. Repeat.

Lovely store with wonderful staff. Good people! Was there last saturday on a break from a motorcycle ride and happened by.

Nice grocery store with lots of stuff & full service deli.
They got liquors, cold drinks, beer, wine, fruit juice, milk, hot & cold deli sandwiches & freshly made salads. All at good prices.
Employees have all always been nice to us & give good service every time we’ve stopped by. They got a few tables outside to sit & eat.
Porta-​potties bathroom + gas station.
Bonus: Can always check out the latest bikes & exotic cars in the parking lot. :)

It’s in a convenient location but he needs to get better coffee doughnuts. :P

Stopped on the way out to get some gatorade and water after leaving castle rock. I appreciate you being there for us in our time of thirst.

I live on the hill and these guys are great. Friendly all the time. They know the locals and accept the motorcyclists and bikes. They have even made accepted special requests for food items from my daughter.
Good store. Good people. Friendly all the time.

I have been coming up here for years, and I have always been treated like family. Meeting up here is my «mini– vacation» from the real world down below, and the riding in the mountains has been known now as «god’s country».
I was quite surprised to see the review below by Marci about the reaction of the owner of the store. So much so that I had to ask them what went on that day. I understand now that there was a meet for a group of riders, and that it put pressure on the parking scenario is what I gathered. However, when mention of purchasing a product and citing the screaming and yelling in front of your son, the staff inside seemed a bit surprised. Even the charming fellow your cited saying «Let it go» didn’t seem to recall the screaming that took place inside of the store.
I dont know what went on at the parking lot, or even inside the store that day. I wasn’t there, however when we all get together at a spot, we would like to know and feel comfortable with the owners of the establishment, so I had to get to the bottom of it.
I would suggest that you and the owner speak with one another on the phone and squash this between the two of you. If there was a misunderstanding, or miscommunication about the organization of your event, then find a way to for the two of you to get something in writing via email in the future.
I understand from your piece that emotions were flared, and I like the fact that you left your contact information to be able to move on with this dilemma. However giving ultimatums in any scenario creates sense of feeling threatened and trapped and doesn’t seem to be a progressive move forward. Might I suggest «Please feel free to contact me because I felt offended by your behavior and after replaying the events as they took place, I felt like you owe me an apology».
I look forward to hear an update as to some sort of diplomatic correspondence between the two of you.
Rubber side down.
A.

This review is to you Ms. Owner of Skywood Trading Post aka STP. You might remember me. I am the one you came screaming up to in your parking lot last Sunday May 18, 2014. You were in your Mercedes screaming out your window at me. Do you remember now? Let me just refresh your memory and also let everyone I can reach, know of your bad behavior. I love the internet.
STP for those that do not know is a market/​parking lot/​meeting point for hundreds of motorcycles and exotic cars on a daily basis. Tourists come to take pictures and videos of our bikes and cars. Enthusiasts talk amongst themselves before setting off on their days ride/​drives. «We’ll meet you at STP!» we say on our Forums, Facebooks, Text Messages, and Emails etc. Everyone knows STP.
It was a beautiful Sunday morning and for the 2^nd year in a row, we were celebrating the life of a lost rider. STP was the first meeting point to gather everyone for quick announcements and then set off on our motorcycle rides for the big gathering at the beach. For our event, there were about 60 riders however; the parking lot was packed as usual with moto-​enthusiasts out for their days ride.
We finished our announcements and were about to head out all within about 45 minutes, when all of a sudden a black Mercedes came screeching up to me and the wife of the deceased rider, screaming out her window at both of us. I realized she was the Owner of STP when she snipped at me and said «a letter asking my permission to use my parking lot would have been nice, next year go across the street!» We tried to calmly tell her that we were leaving but she kept shouting at us telling us that we were ruining her business. I walked away. She got out of her car and began yelling at all of us again telling us to quit blocking her store. None of us were blocking her store. Riders were looking at her like she had flipped her lid.
She even took it a step further as I was in her store buying something for my son to eat and started screaming in the middle of the store saying that we were ruining her business. She was such a lunatic that my son hid behind me. He’s 8 by the way. Even the man working behind the counter said «LET IT GO!» I love that guy!
So, with that said let me say this to you Ms. Owner… Had you walked up to me nicely or in an adult manner, you would not be receiving this review. That morning and like every weekend morning that I stop there on my motorcycle, I patron your store along with HUNDREDS of Motorcyclists. We ALL did that morning. Your store STP, is advertised HUNDREDS of times via FACEBOOK, MOTORCYCLE FORUMS, TEXT MESSAGES AND EMAILS to thousands of people on a daily basis because of US! I can only surmise that you do a great business because of the Moto-​Community and I am a huge voice in that community.
Maybe you were having a bad day however, it did not justify your behavior towards me whatsoever. I will tell you what, I will give you the opportunity to apologize. My name is Marci and you can reach me at
. I can either tell every single motorcyclist I know that we will never be stopping there again, or I can say what I always say «Meet you at STP!» Either way, it’s your choice.

One of the greatest stops on the mountain. Great staff, excellent service, great deli (lots of items to choose from), tons of every kind of beer imaginable, only place for 6 miles to buy hard liquor and smokes, helicopter life flights from Stanford on the summer weekends can be pretty amazing to watch at the heliport in back …, motorcycles of all kinds on Saturday and Sundays, great sandwiches and a nice quiet place during the week to have lunch in the redwoods. Get there and order a Godfather sandwhich from the deli, get an icy cold IPA from the fridge and sit out on the patio next to the old gas station and enjoy the redwoods and four corners finest people watching spot. I should know, I’ve lived in the mtns for 23 years.

A small store and deli on skyline blvd, usually swarmed by bikers like me and skyline drivers.
Their breakfast is amazing.
I feel that this store is not getting the publicity it needs.
The items on the menu were made fresh in front of my eyes.
I had a breakfast sandwich and a break fast burrito .
I thought it was going to be another quick pre made breakfast heated up fast in front of me, but I was pleasantly surprised to see all the ingredients being cut and cooked in front of me.
Try breakfast burrito with spicy sauce — awesome.
Don’t underestimate the size, it is really filling .
Of course the store carries all sundry items that you might the necessity suddenly in the santa cruz mountains.
There is lot of parking, gas and air.
Nice place for a break when zooming through skyline.

Updates! I love this little store. Apart from packing an impressive selection of last-​minute-​needs into their small space, Skywood Trading Post has been adding to their wares to suit the mountain foodie’s needs.
I was stoked to see that they now carry local organic Straus milk and yogurt. In addition, it sounds like they are buying new produce storage so that they can offer more local organic veggies and fruits. Yay! I’m now hopeful that, between this store and the weekly farmer’s market, I won’t need to make as many runs down the hill for household staples.
As someone from the neighborhood, I am impressed with Skywood’s efforts to cater to the community. One of the owners mentioned that they are very open to requests from patrons. Thanks for being so responsive and providing a wealth of options to those of us mountain dwellers!

So, did ya get lost up on the top of this mountain looking for the Fogarty Winery, perhaps wondering where you will get gas, tired of all the 5 — 15 mph sharp turns on cliffsides, getting hungry? This is an oasis. Other reviews have mentioned the very friendly and funny proprietor and when we stopped by his father was sitting behind the counter as well.
It’s a full deli, serving goods to locals and passers by. Great place to get directions and in case you missed the winery you were trying to find, they sell a great selection of reasonably priced local wines from this foggy mountaintop. Including the wonderful Fogarty Pinot Noir.