A small market on the corner of York and Avenue 56, stocked each morning with produce from regional farms, small-batch pantry goods, and ready-to-heat suppers built for the way Highland Park actually eats.
Highland Park · Est. 2019
We opened on a Tuesday in October with twelve crates of apples, a borrowed refrigerator, and a single promise: good food, fairly priced, on the table by sundown. Six years on, the apples are still here — and so are we.
Sunset Foods began the way most good things in Highland Park do — over a long conversation and a slightly too-ambitious lease. Mara and Theo Reyes took over a tired bodega on York Boulevard in 2019, painted the walls the colour of late-October light, and started filling the shelves with the food they actually wanted to feed their own kids.
Today the shop runs on the same simple idea. We buy direct from twelve family farms across the Arroyo and Verde valleys, bake bread before sunrise, and keep a rotating cast of ready-to-heat suppers for the nights when cooking feels like too much. No loyalty card, no app, no algorithm — just a door that opens at seven and a counter where somebody remembers your name.
A working snapshot of what we keep in stock — prices shift a little with the season and what the farms send over, but this is the honest lay of the land. Everything below is available in-store; most ship same-day within Highland Park.
Twelve partner farms, all within a short drive of Highland Park. Produce lands on the shelf the morning after it's picked — sometimes the same morning.
No surge pricing, no markups on staples, no membership tier. Bread is still seven dollars, and it has been since 2022. That's a promise, not a promo.
Bread at five, suppers by nine, preserves when the fruit is ripe. The kitchen runs six days a week and never freezes a thing it didn't freeze on purpose.
We sponsor the Figueroa street fair, host the autumn canning swap, and employ seven neighbours. The shop belongs to the block as much as to us.
Every loaf that leaves our kitchen is mixed, shaped, and baked on the same day it sells. The sourdough starter is eleven years old — older than the shop — and it has travelled with us through three addresses. The crumb is open, the crust shatters, and it keeps for a full week if you treat it kindly.
Beyond bread, the kitchen turns out a rotating cast of ready-to-heat suppers, seasonal galettes, and the preserves that line the back wall. Most weeks there's something new on the counter — stop in, or call ahead and we'll set it aside.
We're on the corner of York Boulevard and Avenue 56, two blocks north of the Highland Park station. Street parking on York after 6pm; the lot behind the shop is free on Sundays.
Call ahead and we'll have your order bagged and ready when you walk in — or, on weeknights, delivered anywhere in Highland Park between 4pm and 7pm for a flat four dollars. Same-day cutoff is 2pm; everything comes in returnable glass and cloth, no plastic.
Tuesday through Friday, 4pm to 7pm, anywhere in Highland Park. Orders over $60 deliver free. Call the shop before 2pm to place yours.