Family owned and operated

Located next to the Holiday Market at Lake of the Pines

10934 Combie Road, Auburn, California 95602

ph: 530-268-0576 | fx: 530-268-1786

email: info AT gristmill DOT biz

The Gristmill Bakery, Deli & Café

The Gristmill Bakery and Deli, Auburn, California

Welcome! Our website is designed to give you information about our bakery & deli. Once you have had a look around and decide that you would like to order from us, please give us a call to place your order. We do not have the capacity to discuss orders over email. We are busy baking and serving our customers. Please call and we will be able to give you our great service and answer your questions on the phone - the old fashioned way!

Christmas cut-out cookiesCookie cut-outs with custom flare!

There is a lot of interest in our famously delicious cut-out cookies. We have many shapes and Mikki keeps coming up with interesting ways to decorate them. From christmas trees to soccer balls and from snakes to ladybugs, our cookies are a delicious dessert for almost any event. Check out the new cookie gallery.

Cutting the wedding cakeTying the knot? Check out our wedding cakes!

Gristmill wedding cakes are beautifully decorated and skillfully and securely put together. Our cakes are tall, moist, delicious and covered to perfection in your choice of tasty icings. When you order a wedding cake from us, you won't be disappointed. Visit our wedding cake page to see for yourself, print our wedding cake flyer or call us to book a consultation and tasting. There is no reason to go anywhere else. We recommend booking your cake date along with your venue (well in advance of your actual wedding).

Lightening McQueen 3-D Birthday Cake.Strike with lightening! Theme the cake.

Throwing a party? The Gristmill bakery can theme the cake! Mikki is an expert at custom cake decorating and is always up for a new challenge. Bring in a card, napkin or an idea. She can turn anything into a cake. Make your next cake a Gristmill cake. Our cakes are so wonderfully decorated some people think it's a shame to cut them, but you must! Our cakes not only look great they taste great, too! Check out more custom cakes or come in for a visit as we have even more cake photos in our Cake Idea Books.

Deli Tray with peppers, Gristmill Deli, Lake of the PinesFeeding a group? Gristmill Catering to the Rescue

For special events and parties we have a number of light catering options including an array of spectacular deli trays and hot items such as home made quiche. We can help you feed your guests and you can relax and enjoy the party. We also specialize in lunches for sporting events, golf-tournaments and conferences. From brown bag lunches to spectacular fruit and deli trays, we'll make any gathering a memorable eating experience.

Kim makes an excellent espressoNeed a morning wake-me-up? We do Coffee, Espresso & Hot Breakfasts

We brew a wide variety of coffees ready to go and custom make espresso just the way you like it. If you are too sleepy to remember how you like your coffee, don't worry, we'll remember for you. On the hot breakfast menu we have a variety of wholesome options from our Veggie Scrambler to the very popular Breakfast Burrito. Coffee beans are sold by the pound and can be ground for those days you are not too sleepy to make your own breakfast.

Ceylon taking an orderHungry for lunch?We make more than sandwiches.

The Gristmill Bakery and Deli has an extensive lunch menu. It's not just sandwiches! Choose from hot soups, home-made salads, pizzabread, quiche or wraps. We also make burgers and serve them up on our very own home-made hamburger buns fresh from the oven.

Mikki rolling danish at the GristmillWe Are Family And local, too

The Gristmill is family owned and operated and we have been serving Lake of the Pines, Grass Valley, Auburn, Nevada City and other communities around Nevada County since 1992. Conveniently located on Combie Road off Highway 49 between Auburn and Grass Valley, we service many loyal customers along Highway 49 and Interstate 80. We are located next to the Holiday Market in the Lake Center shopping center.

The Gristmill LogoOur Main Menu& how to order

We have a diverse product line of freshly baked breads and bakery goods, a full deli that hosts a variety of meats and cheeses and homemade salads.

If you aren't convinced by our mouth-watering pictures and our scrumptious daily menu items, we'd like to invite you in for a visit. Nothing is better than the real thing, especially when it comes to eateries.

You can sit down and enjoy a meal or snack, café style or you can order by phone, pick up and take-out for a meal on the run. You can also drop in for your daily staple - fresh bread - and other great food items such as pies, cakes, meats, cheeses and salads. We can cook up your next meal or help you with your next special occasion.

We work really hard and very long hours to make great food. We take and discuss orders over the phone. We are not set up to respond quickly to email inquiries. No orders will be considered with out a confirmation phone call. We want to get your order right and make the order process efficient. For us, that means we take orders by phone, so give us a call.