Piknik Town Market - Guerneville, California

Kimberley Cardenas

OMG!! This place!!!
My Aunt and I went. We had heard about the biscuits. We were greeted with a big smile and a quickly made coffee!! As we waited for the biscuits, we were able to sit and enjoy talking with the staff.

Then the biscuits came, warm, and glistening with fresh jam. All talking stopped, lol. They were delicious! Warm, soft, but with a crisp and buttery crust.

I cannot wait to go back through when on the area again!!

If you are in the area, run to this place, and go hungry!

Pastel Reviews

Stopped at this place after a hike in Armstrong woods. Amazing food and atmosphere, it was the perfect stop!! “On the run” baguette is to die for.

Davoud Kermaninejad

Disappointing. Spent $15 on what turned out to be more or less half a sandwich and a salad that lacked dressing. The worst part was that it took 30 minutes to arrive and there were 4 employees working, so it wasn’t like they were understaffed. Got a Mexican Coke for $5 out of the case so at least I didn’t have to wait for that. The food wasn’t bad per se but the overall experience was mediocre at best.

Megan Perkins

Love the new vibe! Constantly changing local art, hard goods, snacks, and simple, yummy menu. I try not to stop for biscuits more than once a week or I'll bust!

Gabriella West

I came to Mags (the owner) with a request for catering only five days in advance of my event. Not only was she able to fulfill my order, but she was super responsive over email, answered all my questions, provided everything I needed, and the food was a massive hit! Customer service when I picked up the order at the restaurant was superb. Great place for folks with dietary restrictions, too. I can't say enough good things!

Ethan Woll

Formerly the Big Bottom Market, Piknik attempts to recreate the experience of the former guerneville staple while “surprising the palette” as their website puts it. There are not as many options on the menu anymore, most of the favorite items have been replaced. Since they attempted to recreate and reinvent big bottom, I feel justified in being nit picky with comparing them.

The famous biscuits from big bottom are still on the menu but they stick out as a relic from the days of olde to appease the crowds, the are still good and are the same recipe, (maybe it’s just me) but you can taste that they were reluctantly made.

I also tried the mini pancakes and the “Dutch tourist” sandwich. The pancakes were what you’d expect, have the taste and texture of regular old pancakes at quintuple the cost. They also didn’t mix their batter thoroughly so 3 out of the 10 pancakes had a large clump of flour in them. Do not buy.

The sandwich was again nothing special, it was fine, also pricy. The proportion of bread to toppings was way off, it seems they really want to emphasize the bread but it made for a rather dry sandwich. The sandwiches of big bottom (especially my favorite, the cubano) really stuck out as expertly crafted and honestly left you stunned as how good they were. This did not come across in the reinvented sandwiches at piknik, again, just fine, not stellar. (I have heard relatives of mine report sandwiches with bread so stale that it is hard to even bite through, but I have not experienced this)

Overall, there are some quality control issues that aren’t too terrible, but absolutely detract from the experience. And for a restaurant that tries to recreate and reimagine the Big Bottom Market experience, Piknik simply falls short.

Ben Armstrong

Breakfast burrito had potatoes which were undercooked and still crunchy, and the “biscuits” were cold and actually more like bread cut from a sheet pan

Julia Enthoven

Only one person doing her best to do everything: orders, coffee, and making food. The savory breakfast sandwich was alright, mostly because the biscuit pastry is phenomenal. We went at 11:30 and waited ~20 minutes for our food, two business