San Mateo County
California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control
In short
California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control issues 1 permit we publish for San Mateo County, last verified 2026-10-09. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alcoholic Beverage License (State ABC)only if it applies to you | California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control | The license fee is set by the State of California for each ABC license type and paid to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. | set by the State for each license type | 2026-10-09 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Alcoholic Beverage License (State ABC)
Article XX, Section 22 of the California Constitution gives the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control 'the exclusive power, except as herein provided and in accordance with laws enacted by the Legislature, to license the manufacture, importation and sale of alcoholic beverages in this State'. A restaurant, coffee shop or store selling beer, wine or spirits anywhere in San Mateo County therefore gets its license from ABC, and the fee is the State's. Local zoning and use-permit review still applies to where alcohol can be sold — the county's Planning and Building Department in the unincorporated area, or the city's planning department inside one of the 20 cities and towns — and a temporary event serving alcohol also needs the approvals the EHS Temporary Events page tells coordinators to obtain.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- San Mateo County
- Phone
- Not verified — use the website
- Website
- www.abc.ca.gov/
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- California Constitution, Article XX, Section 22 (alcoholic beverage licensing)California Legislative Information · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-09
Other offices serving San Mateo County
- San Mateo County Health, Environmental Health Services
- San Mateo County Treasurer-Tax Collector (business licenses approved by the County Business License Board)
- San Mateo County Agricultural Commissioner / Sealer of Weights and Measures
- San Mateo County Fire Department (operated cooperatively with CAL FIRE), Fire Marshal
- San Mateo County Planning and Building Department
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