WEEKENDER
Your cheat sheet for eating well and going out in Santa Cruz County.
Feb. 5, 2026
EAT THIS: SUPER BOWL SNACKS
The Super Bowl isn’t just about football; it’s also a food holiday. And for some Santa Cruz County businesses, home watch parties represent big business. Pizzerias, butchers and craft breweries are preparing for a Super Bowl sales bump this Sunday, and some expect the proximity of the big game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara to inspire additional viewers to stock up on wings, sausages and lager.
The Super Bowl is a major holiday for Corralitos Market & Sausage Co., especially when it’s local, said Dave Peterson, the president of the small community grocery store and butcher outside of Watsonville. Its meat department is known throughout the area for its handmade sausages, and he told me that he’s expecting to sell more than a metric ton this week.
“We’re making more than 2,500 pounds of sausages just for that event, and at least half is cheesy Bavarians,” a smoked pork sausage mixed with cheddar cheese, said Peterson. “We could go up to as much as 3,000 pounds. We anticipate this, and if we need to, we can whip up another 500 pounds.” Before picking up last-minute snacks this weekend, read the story here. – Lily Belli
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A TREAT BEFORE YOU GO
Two area openings to note as you head into the weekend: The Murray Street Bridge reopened last week to one-way vehicle and bicycle traffic heading east from the Seabright neighborhood toward the Santa Cruz Harbor, although it remains closed heading in the other direction. Pedestrians can once again travel both ways across the bridge. This ends the longest full closure of the vital thoroughfare – it is scheduled to close again for three months this summer – but nearby businesses told Lookout that diminished traffic continues to hurt their bottom lines.
And, the end of the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf is expected to open by the end of the month, after a 150-foot section broke off during a storm and floated away more than a year ago. While the wharf and its businesses have been fully open since the initial closure ended Jan. 4, 2025, structural repairs of the damaged section are nearing completion, according to Mike Godsy, City of Santa Cruz superintendent of parks, although he couldn’t provide an exact date.
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