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The olive-colored building at 3340 Woodside Road has a wooden sign that says it has been there since 1902. For years the lights stayed off and the front stayed closed, and the building mostly served as a test kitchen for Hero Bread. In early September 2025 it opened again as a café and flower shop, so it has now been serving for about a year.

The Little Store is open today because Woodside chose, more than once, to treat this building as a gathering place instead of just real estate. And the town is making that same kind of choice again right now, a half mile from the Woodside Glens.

A building with five lives

The San Francisco Chronicle describes the property as a country store established in 1902 that later worked as a general store and a gas station, then spent decades as a restaurant also called the Little Store, "known as a social hub for the small town." Here is the sequence, pieced together from local coverage:

Country store and gas station. The building's sign and the Chronicle both date it to 1902. The Almanac's account of former owner Kay Mouney calls it a former 1907 general store. The two sources never sort out the dates, so the sign's "since 1902" is the safest version to repeat.
The Mouney years, 1973 to 1998. Kay Mouney and her husband bought the property in 1973 and turned the general store into a restaurant. She ran it until December 1998. In that same account, The Almanac recalls birthday parties and post-softball dinners there, and a longtime customer called the place a "sanctuary."
The 1998 decision. As Mouney's run came to an end, residents petitioned to keep the property a restaurant. According to The Almanac, the Planning Commission voted to protect the building from being converted into an interior-design office.
More operators. In 2007 the Mountain View Voice reported that Dick and Lynn Eastley had run the restaurant for more than four years before Dominique Devillez reopened it that March. The Voice described flyers for local events and tables on the porch.
Test kitchen, then dark. Before this latest reopening, the building was a bread company's test kitchen and had not been open to the public for years.

Had the building become a design office, there would have been no restaurant space waiting for someone to bring back.

How it came back

Aubriana Kasper told The Almanac that she drove past the building nearly every day for five years. She asked Mouney several times whether it was available. Eventually Mouney, who hoped to see the store become a center of the community again, reached back out to ask if Kasper was still interested. In that account, the next chapter started with the owner of the restaurant era reaching back out to someone who shared her hopes for the building.

Kasper and co-owner Gena Winter, who worked together at Sightglass Coffee, opened Marigold, a coffee and flower shop in San Francisco, in 2018. The Chronicle reported that the Marigold space was too small to serve food, which made a Woodside location with a real kitchen appealing. The paper also noted how few places there are to eat in town. "There's such a need for it in the community," Kasper told the Chronicle.

What's on the counter

The kitchen is led by Sierra Hazel, formerly of the two-Michelin-starred Birdsong in San Francisco. The store's own About page still names her as chef and says Marigold runs the floral side. It lists breakfast and lunch, a coffee bar, provisions, seasonal bouquets, custom arrangements, pickup and local delivery.

Menu items from The Almanac's January 2026 review:

A harvest bowl built on herbed yogurt
A breakfast burrito with tater tots, bacon, Oaxaca cheese, black beans and chipotle crema, with salsa macha on the side
The jambon, a French ham baguette sandwich, in the $14 to $16 range
Avocado toast with whipped avocado mousse, feta, olives, preserved lemon and spiced pepitas, $14
A breakfast sandwich on a housemade buttermilk cheddar biscuit with egg and bacon, sausage or avocado, $17

Pastries come from Manresa Bread and coffee from Heart Roasters. Inside, the walls are painted blue, there is a long cushioned bench, and a central table holds flowers, cards and gifts. There is patio seating, and Kasper says the window nook has become "everyone's favorite spot."

The floral program reaches past the café table. The shop's flowers page offers bouquets, vase arrangements, and weekly or monthly subscriptions, with subscription deliveries Tuesday through Friday.

The most recent published hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., from that January 2026 article. At that point the owners said they hoped to stay open until 4 p.m., partly because kids kept running over after school for a pastry. They also talked about adding lunch dishes and eventually hosting pop-up dinners with San Francisco chefs. We haven't found any report confirming those changes, so check the store's site or Instagram, @thelittlestore_ws, before a late-afternoon visit.

Where the Glens fits on this road

Woodside's own planning documents describe Woodside Glens as about 80 acres, roughly half a mile north of the town's commercial area. It is bounded by Cañada Road on the west, I-280 on the east, Neuman Lane on the south, and Arbor Court and Jane Drive on the north. Two subdivision maps created it, the first filed in 1925. The town's General Plan uses the Glens as its example of a compact neighborhood of smaller single-family homes.

That puts the Glens closer to Woodside Road's handful of restaurants than most of town. The Chronicle places The Little Store up the road from Buck's, the Michelin-starred Village Pub and its spinoff bakery. Buck's, at 3062 Woodside Road, is open daily and run by the next generation of MacNivens. The Almanac reports that Kasper's husband, Rowan MacNiven, is Buck's proprietor, so one family now has a hand in two of the road's daytime anchors. For the holidays, the Village Pub is taking Thanksgiving to-go orders, sold à la carte, with everything prepared except the turkey.

The next decision is about the whole town center

What happened with The Little Store in 1998 is now playing out across the town center. Woodside is updating its Town Center Area Plan, which covers both sides of Woodside Road between Whiskey Hill Road and just west of Cañada Road. According to the Town's announcement, staff collected input over the past year through pop-ups, a first online survey with more than 500 resident responses, and a public open house. That input shaped preliminary concepts for transportation, parking, land use and public gathering spaces. The second survey on those concepts closed August 31, 2026. The announcement describes concepts for feedback, not an adopted plan. Updates are posted on the town's project page at woodsideca.gov/TCAP.

A second project is aimed at the Glens' own entry point. Two anonymous donors gave the town $2.5 million to landscape the Woodside Road medians from east of Highway 280 to Alameda de las Pulgas. Mayor Brian Dombkowski called it the largest private gift to the town in more than 20 years, The Almanac reported. The draft design uses boulders and native, drought-tolerant plants such as manzanita, rockrose and coffeeberry, and the Landscape Committee will review it before the Town Council votes. The medians sit in Caltrans right-of-way, so the town needs a state encroachment permit, and once the work is done the town takes over irrigation and cleaning. Town staff expected groundbreaking in spring 2027 after about a year of design and permitting. The project builds on a 2023 effort, paid for with $165,000 in community donations, that cleaned up the median across from the Caltrans Park & Ride lot. Councilmember Jenn Wall said that first phase "really transformed the way Woodside looks when you enter."

The town calendar has a few more dates before the year ends. The September e-Woodsider lists a Plein Air Show for November 6 to 8 and a December 4 Arts & Culture Committee event featuring "Jorge from Jasper Ridge."

We grew up on these roads at The Costantini Team, and we keep track of how Woodside's gathering places open, change hands and come back. If you'd like to talk through how the Town Center Area Plan could shape the blocks around your home in the Glens, we're happy to schedule a consultation.