Farmer's Market Vendors

A year after Eric Sartenaer left the Cheeseboard Collective and Carole Sartenaer left her music career, they both started their first business, Semifreddi’s, in Kensington in 1987. A few years after that they opened up Alpine Bakery in Oregon. The Phoenix Pastificio opened in 1995 and started as a vendor at the  Berkeley Farmers’ Markets in 2000. They currently serve 100 restaurants/stores throughout the Bay Area. Their goal is to provide the very best food we can to nourish the soul as well as the body, and to become an integral part of the community in which we live and conduct our business.