Fort Ross Store

This is a typical general store with a deli and small fishing tackle shop combined, LOL! If you’re looking for something fancy or flashy, this isn’t the place. But if you need some drinks, snacks, Tylenol for your hangover or more fishing leaders and weights because you lost all six of the ones you casted out into the ocean to «hopefully» catch some Rockcod, then you’re in the right place. They also have indoor and outdoor seating to enjoy your drinks, snacks or sandwhich that you bought from the deli. If it’s after or before business hours and you need to piss, they have an outhouse at the entrance of the parking lot. Believe it or not, it’s actually pretty clean. LOL!

Sandwiches need a lot more meat. Ordered a pastrami and received only three thin slices.

No glitz, no glam — it kind of feels like you’re in a podunk, middle of nowhere all-​in-​one joint. I felt like I was on the show «Twin Peaks» to be honest — but in a good way, like any second the best pie in the world might show up.
Well, the best pie in the world did not, but the best burrito did. While getting a snack, the girl behind the counter offered an insider tip to us: check out the taco truck in the Safeway parking lot in Guerneville. She was so not wrong.
Sure, it’s a general store. But the tip was worth stopping in and chatting with a local.
Also, Fort Ross itself is amazing. Seriously. Go.

Fort Ross Store is continually trying to please both local customers as well as travelers. I can always find items that may have been forgotten on my way up the coast. The staff at the store is friendly and are always willing to make up a sandwich. New to the deli this summer is the addition of hot grill pannini sandwiches. Try the chicken, bacon, and avocado on sour dough. It’s yummy.

An air of sadness fills this place where, for example, the pastry selection is a small array of those crummy prewrapped danishes you’d only eat if in dire straits, and there’s a faint dusty coating on the packages of Pepperidge Farm cookies and Pop Tarts.
You can have a sandwich made or maybe the chili is good, but I’ll never know. It’s a little grocery stocked with an ok selection of canned and packaged goods (they scream «Shelf Life!!» as you wander around getting the hang of the place).
You can get some frozen hamburger meat, or chicken or steak, and an onion that hasn’t sprouted just yet –that’s one of the redeeming qualities of this market. And you can take that frozen hamburger meat across the street to the Fort Ross Lodge and cook it outdoors on the grill that comes with your room. You can slap on some cheddar from the store and toast up a plain old ordinary white bun and it can be the best burger you have ever eaten, even though you forgot to buy salt.