Costeaux On The Go

A Sonoma County bakery counter inside the terminal

Costeaux On The Go is the airport arm of Costeaux French Bakery, the Sonoma County house whose Healdsburg roots run back to 1923. Its purpose is narrower than the full bakery-café: deep-dish quiche, breakfast croissants, éclairs, demi-sandwiches, salads and coffee for people moving through Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa. That heritage is the point of the stop. A traveller who will never make it to Healdsburg can still pick up the same French bakery work in transit, which is why the counter is positioned as a taste of Sonoma County rather than another terminal kiosk.

The business behind it has been in the Seppi family since the early 1980s, and the airport counter sits within a small group that also takes in the Healdsburg flagship, Costeaux at Big John's Market, Costeaux Petaluma and Tia Maria by Costeaux. That continuity is what separates it from an unrelated stand trading on a similar name.

The short stop before the next obligation

Everything is built for speed. The counter sits pre-security by the main terminal and is marked by a red umbrella, which makes it a compact stand rather than a seated bakery room. Approach, choose from the day's case, carry on. Because it is on the public side, airport staff, people meeting flights and passengers all use the same counter, which gives it a steadier rhythm than a gate-side kiosk would have. It is a deliberate contrast with the Healdsburg bakery-café, with its breakfast, lunch, Sunday brunch and tables. Here On The Go is the entire operating idea, and the model suits anyone working against a boarding time, a pickup or a short gap between obligations.

Start with quiche, then take an éclair

The savoury side deserves first call, because the next proper meal on a travel day is usually uncertain. Deep-dish quiche is the most substantial thing in the case, and a demi-sandwich or a salad is the lighter version of the same decision. Then the pastry: a breakfast croissant early, an éclair later, both drawn from the parent bakery's French repertoire of laminated dough, artisan bread and classic sweets. Coffee finishes it. Costeaux's wider business runs to catering platters, charcuterie boards and boxed lunches from the Healdsburg side, and this counter is that instinct compressed into something you can carry through a terminal: a quick stop backed by a century of Sonoma County bread and pastry.