Room At The Table

Enzo’s Table in Clovis, CA

In the Northeast area of Clovis sits Enzo’s Table, a retail specialty store featuring local artisan goods and farm-fresh produce. This farm-to-table store is owned and operated by the Ricchiuti family, who have been farming in the Central Valley for more than a century.

Back in 1914, Vincenzo Ricchiuti emigrated from Italy and settled in the agriculturally rich region of Fresno. A vegetable grower by trade, Vincenzo knew diversification would be the key to long-term success.

Then in 1946, after returning home from serving his country, Pat Ricchiuti joined his father and soon became a grower, packer and shipper of stone fruit. With the help and support of his wife Frances, they continued to diversify their business. This proved to be the beginning of the expansion that Pat Ricchiuti envisioned.

Following in their father and grandfather’s footsteps, where diversification was believed to be the path to ongoing growth and success, Patrick Ricchiuti and his son Vincent founded Enzo Olive Oil Company in 2008. A unique combination of old-world expertise and four generations of farming in the San Joaquin Valley continues to enable the Ricchiuti family to craft the highest quality of fresh organic extra virgin olive oil.

“My father and I decided to enter the olive oil industry when we learned that 98 percent of the olive oil consumed in America was imported,” said Vincent Ricchiuti. The Ricchiuti family is native to Puglia, which is the number-one producing olive oil region in Italy. In fact, Vincent and his maternal grandfather, Antonio Petrosino, traveled back to Puglia to research and purchase Enzo’s milling equipment. “We ended up buying our milling equipment from a town 30 minutes south of my family’s hometown of Bisceglie.”
Enzo Olive Oil offers delicate, medium and bold organic extra virgin olive oil, produced from three varieties of 100 percent estate-grown olives. “We also mill Agrumato style, where we co-crush either clementines, Eureka lemons, basil or Fresno chili peppers with fresh organic olives, creating an unfiltered, authentic and flavorful olive oil,” Vincenzo says.

Vincent is proud of how Enzo’s Table has evolved from a roadside stand started by his grandfather to a unique destination for local provisions. Enzo’s Table boasts an ever-growing pantry line which includes fresh baked biscotti, roasted granola and harvest cakes from their bakery, as well as handcrafted almond butter, jam and pesto. Other offerings include fresh California nuts and dried fruit along with their award-winning Enzo Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil and organic vinegar.

“The inspiration behind Enzo’s Table,” Vincent explains, “is to showcase what our family grows, bakes, mills and sources. Essentially, we have a bounty of California’s finest for all to share as they gather around the table.”

Enzo’s Table • enzostable.com
1959 N. Willow Ave., Clovis
(559) 298-8290