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Our Partners in Quality - Grocery & Bulk Foods

We don't mean to brag, but unlike corporate, cookie-cutter grocers, we taste just about every food we put on our shelves, paying special attention to small, family-owned companies from right here in Wisconsin and the midwest. Our staff has actually met and started friendships with the good people that bake the cookies, that can the jam and grow the tomatoes for the salsa in our aisles. Buying local food from the co-op means you're just one person away from the rockstars that make the food you love!
If you can't find what you're looking  for, our friendly staff is just an aisle away, ready to answer your questions of help solve the eternal question: "what's for dinner?"
Look for the local-regional signs in our aisles to find more local treasures just like these!

Anarchy Acres

Miles to Market - 26

Charlie Tennessen of Anarchy Acres is keeping Wisconsin’s history alive through wheat. 

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Anodyne Coffee

Miles to Market - 5

If you like supporting locally-owned businesses, it doesn’t get much more local than Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co. Owner Matt McClutchy lives on the same block in Bay View where he runs his café and coffee roasting company.

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Becki's Olives and Cream Chees

Miles to Market - 246

Handmade in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Becki's Mediterranean Olive Salsa is a unique blend of zesty Sicilian-style green olives; rich, flavorful, ripe olives; and loads of healthy, freshly chopped vegetables and Italian herbs in a delicious Mediterranean olive oil marinade.

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Becky's Blissful Bakery

Miles to Market - 21

Rebecca Scarberry started making caramels as a hobby. It was something she did to sustain herself during her first two winters in Wisconsin. She’d always found herself making sweets to give as gifts to family and friends. Caramel by caramel she turned her hobby into a business. In 2007, she started Becky’s Blissful Bakery.

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Cadence Cold Brew

Miles to Market - 79

Husband-and-wife team, Roy and Jen, long wondered why they couldn’t have great coffee (minus the unhealthy additives) no matter where they traveled. 

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Cedar Teeth

Miles to Market - 2

Hannah Roland likes to express herself through food. She was the family cook as an early teen growing up in North Dakota, and when she moved to Bay View, Wis. in 2007 she found the perfect job working at the award winning Three Brothers Restaurant. Here, Hannah learned all the important skills she needed to run a restaurant.

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Chip Magnet

Miles to Market - 246

Chip Magnet is a true family affair. 

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Crapola Granola

Miles to Market - 507

Andrea and Brian Strom didn’t aspire to run a granola business, but they came up with a name, and it was too good to not do something with it.

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Diana and Daughters

Miles to Market - 125

Diana Woodworth loves all varieties of cooking. She comes from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where her family used to can food from their garden.

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DiSalvo Pasta Sauces

Miles to Market - 80

Ben Di Salvo's dream of creating pasta sauces from family recipes began in December 2002. 

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Doctor in the Kitchen

Miles to Market - 347

Dr. Alison Levitt, MD and Donn Kelly started their company, Doctor in the Kitchen, after bumping into each other at a Twin Cities dog park. 

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Donkey Chips

Miles to Market - 100

Six years ago, Lauren Tisljar and her family decided to start making tortilla chips. When it came time to name the company, they wanted something different, a name that would stand out on a shelf and intrigue customers. They decided Donkey Chips would do the trick.

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Dr. Noodles

Miles to Market - 205

Pasta plays a such a big role in people’s diet and culture, but maybe you can’t eat grains or have chosen to go gluten-free. 

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Drewry Farms Maple Syrup

Miles to Market - 49

It’s all dark browns and grays, the landscape now. Nature, in this small stand of trees an hour north of Milwaukee, seems fast asleep under the worn blanket of tired snow. Even on a crystalline-blue early March day, it’s whisper-quiet in the woods. In this forest, farmed by the Drewry family for more than 160 years, it’s the dawn of a new season producing maple syrup.

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East Troy Honey

Miles to Market - 36

From one hive in 1993 to 80 hives today East Troy Honey is honey in its purest form. 

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Funky Fresh Spring Rolls

Miles to Market - 3

“A lot of good stories start when the hero’s back is against the wall,” TrueMan McGee tells me in his makeshift office space in the basement of the Sherman Phoenix. “For me it started with being laid off at 28 with a two-year old son and having to move back in with my parents.”  

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Garden of Eden Kingdom Living

Miles to Market - 10

“The building is smoking?” It’s a question Karen Long never thought she’d have to ask when she answered her phone on Halloween, 2017.  The determined, driving force behind the hot sauces, jams, dressings and spices of Garden of Eden Kingdom Living was getting the worst trick of her young company’s life as she heard the news that her Milwaukee business was on fire.

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Georgio's Hummus

Miles to Market - 60

You want to know a secret?

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Gitto Family Farms

Miles to Market - 53
Gitto Family Farms

After 20 years, Greg Gitto decided he wanted to do something different. He and his wife, Carol, wanted to farm.

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Go Macro

Miles to Market - 162

Amelia Kirchoff and her daughter, Jola Sonkin, set out to do the impossible.

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GODA Oils and Vinegars

Miles to Market - 5
GODA Oils and Vinegars

American palates are accustomed to the taste of old olive oil. It’s partly because many people think that olive oil is a shelf stable product. Josh Saiia is here to tell you, it is not.

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Gorilly Goods

Miles to Market - 32

Gorilly Goods have had many names, beginning as “rawies” when they were a favorite snack for Steve and Chris McDiarmid’s friends and family. What to call them was always a question when Chris developed the recipe over 15 years ago.

 

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Indulgence Chocolatiers

Miles to Market - 2

There’s no palette in Julie Waterman’s studio. There’s no easel. There’s plenty of cream and butter and a lot of chocolate. When you’re an artist working in an edible medium, it’s not hard to love what you do, especially if that medium is chocolate.

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Juiced!

Miles to Market - 2

The roar of the gigantic juicer drowns out any of the other sounds inside the sunny, loft like room as Juiced! owner Jason Lannoch feeds another bunch of green, leafy kale into the metal monster’s mouth. 

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Just Coffee Co-op

Miles to Market - 75

We’re partial to co-ops and Just Coffee is our kind of co-op.

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Kallas Honey

Miles to Market - 10

Perry and Peter Kallas have spent their entire lives around bees. Well, to put it more precisely, the two brothers have spent their entire lives around honey.

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kalyANa Organics

Miles to Market - 32

When Susie Roberts learned that her grandson couldn’t eat certain things, she focused on learning how to bake gluten-free organic treats he could eat.

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Leashless Lab

Miles to Market - 10

All-natural dog treats made from beer grains? Yes! 

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Mad Maiden Shrub

Miles to Market - 79

Janet Chen makes drinks for people who care about flavor and their health. It started after she read an article in the New York Times about making ginger shrubs.

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Mama's Salad Dressing

Miles to Market - 19

Mama's Dressings and Marinades are family recipes passed down through generations and lovingly hand-crafted in small batches just the way Mama made them. 

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Maple Valley Syrup

Miles to Market - 182

C’mon, admit it, you’ve always wanted to take a big swig from that bottle of REAL maple syrup. The stuff is THAT good. We’ve all been there. The folks at Maple Valley understand. 

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Naked Baker

Miles to Market - 12

Gluten-free cookies and brownies that you'd never know are gluten free.

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Nessalla Kombucha

Miles to Market - 76

Kombucha is definitely a conversation starter. If you’ve never tried the fizzy beverage, then you might not understand why. If you make it for a living, like Vanessa Tortolano and Alla Shapiro, owners of Nessalla Kombucha, then you quickly learn that people are fascinated by the stuff.

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Papa Alioto's

Miles to Market - 8

Made right here in Wisconsin this all-purpose seasoning is a great accompaniment to everything from steaks to burgers, chicken to fish, eggs to…well, you name it. Made right here in Wisconsin this all-purpose seasoning is a great accompaniment to everything from steaks to burgers, chicken to fish, eggs to…well, you name it. 

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Pasqual's Tortilla Chips

Miles to Market - 80

For over 30 years, Pasqual's Cantina in Madison has been serving up delicious Southwestern food with a Tex-Mex flair.

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Patterson's Apple Cider

Miles to Market - 16
Patterson's Apple Cider

Owned by Jay Patterson, this apple orchard and store is a true local, family business. It was founded in the late 1950s by Jay’s grandfather, Jean, and his dad, Dennis. Today, the store sits on the same parcel of land in New Berlin.

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Peanut Butter and Jelly Deli

Miles to Market - 14

Who doesn’t love a good peanut butter and jelly sandwich? 

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Philocoffia

Miles to Market - 4

U.S. Navy vet and coffee aficionado John Ross Ferrell knows a thing or two about nuts. Coconuts, that is. 

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Potter's Crackers

Miles to Market - 80

Peter Potter Weber and his mom Nancy knew Wisconsin had the cheese but what about the crackers? 

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Purple Door Ice Cream

Miles to Market - 5

Lauren Schultz figures, if you’re going to enjoy ice cream, you might as well go all the way. Lauren and her husband, Steve, make their super premium Purple Door Ice Cream right here in Milwaukee. 

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Red Stone Rice

Miles to Market - 10

“I’ve always appreciated farmers’ hard work, but even more now that I’m actually farming myself.” Marquette Biological Sciences professor Michael Schläppi may have started his farming journey in the classroom, but from April to November, you can find Schläppi at the Mequon Nature Preserve germinating seeds, coaxing machinery to work, setting up hoop houses, tilling, planting, putting up critter defenses, weeding, sorting, sweating, and repairing tractors along with another few hundred tasks in his quest to bring Wisconsin’s first-ever cultivated rice crop to market.

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Saz's BBQ Sauce

Miles to Market - 8

You can’t get much more Milwaukee than a bottle of Saz’s BBQ sauce. 

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Silver Spring Mustard

Miles to Market - 245

From their classic horseradish varieties to their specialty mustards, steak sauces and more Eau Claire, Wisconsin’s Silver Spring has your condiment cravings covered. 

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Singing Rooster

Miles to Market -

Molly and Christophe Nicaise, co-founders of Singing Rooster, had been long-time volunteers in Haiti. After several trips, they recognized a need to create long-term and self-sustaining solutions like economic development through agriculture.
 

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Slide Potato Chips

Miles to Market - 80

Madison made potato chips are here! 

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Smokin' T's BBQ Sauce

Miles to Market - 35

Having never been formally trained in the culinary arts Thomas Hochheim has nonetheless created one of our favorite BBQ sauces.

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Sno Pac Foods

Miles to Market - 232

Frozen fruits and vegetables are so common nowadays, that it’s easy to lose sight of the story behind them. They’re just there. You don’t have to worry about the weather, the droughts, the floods, or lost crops. Pete and Nick Gengler do.

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Spirit Creek Farm

Miles to Market - 375

It started with a book. After reading “Salt: A World History,” by Mark Kurlansky, the wheels started turning for Andrew Sauter Sargent. He knew he liked sauerkraut and kim chi and decided to make his own.

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Steppin' Out Foods

Miles to Market - 25

It all started with an asparagus sale. 

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Sweettrio Chocolates

Miles to Market - 22

Tara Connelly grew up with a chocolate shop on the corner of her Buffalo, New York street and that love of chocolate has followed her throughout her life.

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Tabal Chocolate

Miles to Market - 5

A lifelong chocolate lover, Dan Bieser set out to create the best chocolate imaginable from bean to bar. 

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Tapuat Kombucha

Miles to Market - 184

It’s been a few years since Mary Deviley first started drinking kombucha. It got to be expensive drinking it daily, so she decided to start brewing her own.

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That Salsa Lady

Miles to Market - 5

It’s serendipitous that Angela Moragne’s last name is pronounced “More-rainy.” She depends on the rain to grow the herbs, tomatoes, peppers, onions and more exotic veggies (callaloo anyone?) that she uses to create her fresh, homemade salsas and crispy tortilla chips. The garden, where all of this goodness grows, Angela has affectionately dubbed “That Hood Ranch.” It’s about 20,000 square feet, nestled behind her sprawling home on Milwaukee’s North Side

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The Chocolate Trader

Miles to Market - 7

For the past 25 years, food is the only life Scott Repinski has known. While he dabbles in a lot of things, his main passion has always been chocolate.

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The Noisy Kettle

Miles to Market - 22

Tim and Allison Poff love hummus. You might say it’s what brought them together. They ate hummus on their second date at a restaurant in Minneapolis. Allison claims this was one way she knew Tim was the guy for her.

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The Simple Soyman

Miles to Market - 4
The Simple Soyman

It all started with Sloppy Jo, well a meatless version. Barb and R Jay Gruenwald were dating and they both volunteered for Outpost back when the store hosted community meals. The Saucy Jo that Barb and R Jay made, out of tofu, was such a hit they decided to start a company, The Simple Soyman.

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Treat Bake Shop

Miles to Market - 5

Sarah Marx Feldner has been making spiced pecans for years and giving them away as Christmas gifts. She’d always dreamed of opening a bakery of her own. Since people seemed to really like the pecans, she figured she’d start making those.

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Wienke's Market

Miles to Market - 133

Don and Jane Wienke bought their 40-acre farm in 1966, back when it was still a cherry orchard. Both their mothers canned and preserved the fruits and vegetables, mainly strawberries, cherries and tomatoes. That’s where the idea for Wienke’s Market was born.

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Wisco Pop

Miles to Market - 180

It’s no surprise to Outpost shoppers that you’re not going to find any “big brand” sodas in our aisles. We’re not real huge fans of strange chemicals and “flavor enhancers” that are found in most conventional sodas. 

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Zymbiotics

Miles to Market - 7

Fermented foods are a big trend – they have a unique flavor and many health benefits. Jeff Ziebelman wants to be a part of this trend. It all started while Jeff and his girlfriend Betty Holloway, a nutritionist, were cooking and they began talking about fermented foods.

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Zyn Beverages

Miles to Market - 0

Chances are you’re familiar with turmeric and its purported holistic healing properties. 

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*Our Miles to Market distances are calculated to our Administrative offices downtown, which are central to our four store locations.
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