There are two places that I liked in the south bay (San Jose):

1) All Natural Stone (they have awesome tile display boards, too). (http://www.allnaturalstone.com)

2) Bedrosians: 2301 Junction Ave., San Jose, CA 95131 Tel: (408) 435-5544. From their web site it looks like they also have a South San Francisco location, but I haven't visited it, so I don't what it's like in person. I thought Bedrosians was professional and had quite a few nice slabs to choose from. They have good tile displays as well.

I ended up by going with Lowe's Sensa distributor, which is Duracite, located in Fairfield (http://www.duracite.com).

They are one of the few places that have 3 cm granite slabs. They are a huge organization, so they aren't really set up so much for retail customers. Their price was the best by far and do they do so many jobs throughout California and Nevada. They have a state-of-the art robotic arm that cuts the granite based off of digital measurements taken by a camera during the templating process.

I'm still waiting for my cabinets to be delivered in mid-June, so obviously I haven't had my granite installed yet. I'll have to wait and see how this pans out.

Good luck!

I've been to a great one relatively close to you (I live down the Peninsula). It's just off 101, north of the airport. It's a huge place, all indoors and very well organized. They also have tile, which you can carry over to the slabs to see how they look together.

I'm still in the planning stages, but I'll definitely be going back there when I'm ready to pick out granite!

Integrated Resources Group (IRG)
275 Valley Drive, Brisbane, CA 94005

There are also quite a few in the San Leandro/Hayward Area, and as Karena mentioned, San Jose.

HTH,
Good Luck!
Julie

Here is a link that might be useful: IRG

I've driven past a bunch over in San Leandro, but have not stopped it.

I've heard of IRG. I will definitely trek down there.

Thanks!

We started in fremont, san leandro area. Daltile seemed to have a good selection but we ended up across the bay and were most impressed with the quality and 3cm thickness of the granite at http://www.marblecityca.com/ in San Carlos