Pacific Health Food — Restaurant in Carpinteria

Chill little health store in downtown Carpinteria. You can find a myriad of natural, organic, eco-friendly foodstuffs and household products. Very fun to stroll around and check out their wares, lots of funky hidden gems. If you're in Carpinteria for the farmer's market, peek in here before or after, might find some cool stuff to accompany your market produce.

When you enter, there is a little produce/bakery stand. The bread seems to be made here and it's pretty good, I'd recommend a try. I had a small bread roll and it was excellent on it's own and with cheese. Flavorful and salty even when plain, you definitely don't need butter! Perfect bread to pair with tomatoes or something from a farmer's market haul on Thursdays. I hope to try it next time with (1) some honey and (2) cream cheese and lox/sprouts/tomato/red onion... yum... :)

There was a pretty decent selection in grocery items like milk (including milk alternatives), yogurt, ice cream/ice cream bars, and some meats (frozen and refrigerated). There were also lots of baking supplies and TEAS! Huge variety of herbal teas. The chocolate selection was pretty interesting as well with lots of unique flavor combos. Most seemed to be fair trade/organic so that was nice to see. Also there were quite a few local products e.g. honey which was great to see as well!

They had quite a large selection of natural/organic/eco-friendly baby stuff, beauty products, and household items/cleaners. Good variety among the products as well, so you could select from multiple different natural laundry detergents, etc. They have a hefty selection of shampoos and conditioners that seem very hair-friendly.

Card is accepted here and there doesn't seem to be a minimum. There was also a smoothie station in the back and some bulk produce items e.g. grains, nuts, beans. Definitely will check this place out again! It can be a fairly quick ~20 minute drive from SB so it's work a peek if you're interested in health...

I used to be really excited about going here - but just recently many of the food items I bought were expired! I couldn’t believe it - romaine lettuce that once opened had black all over the top - expired chicken broth - and the store even crossed off the date of an imported pumpkin chocolate bread and wrote in their own date which was much later. It was the driest/oldest tasting bread ever - and $16!!! If they are going to charge that much for a small loaf of bread, it should be fresh!! It’s been a big disappointment for me. If their food was fresh, I would love going here as I do enjoy...

Love this place! And I specifically came here to give 5 stars because they now have a new front door that is accessible to everyone! I have a larger stroller and cannot fit through the door so I stopped going in. It made me wonder how someone with a wheelchair could access this store? They probably couldn't ( not easily anyway). Was so happy to walk by and see a new door installed! Will start my weekly...