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- From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
- Newsgroups: ba.food
- Subject: Re: Monterey to San Simeon: food & lodging
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 23:42:54 GMT
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- >>>I live in Massachusetts and I'll be travelling in the Monterey and San Simeon
- >>>area of California during the first week in April. Can anyone recommend some
- >>>good restaurants in that area? I'd like to know about any types of
- >>>restaurants: seafood and ethnic (including Californian cuisine); expensive or
- >>>cheap. I'd also like some recommendations of places to stay in this area.
- >>Down the coast from there, there is Ventana Inn and the Post Ranch Inn (not
- I might observe that neither of these are *close* to either
- Monterey or San Simeon. It's a half-hour drive to Big Sur
- from Monterey (if you speed like me: I learned to drive on
- Hiway 1, and can do Monterey to Cambria in less than 2 hours,
- allowing for rental car passing). We won't go into proximity
- to San Simeon.
-
- Warning: do NOT try eating at any of the roadside restaurants
- in the heart of Big Sur. You know, at places like Fernwood,
- etc. I haven't tried a one that wasn't overpriced and
- mediocre to awful. And don't even contemplate jostling elbows
- with the inhabitants of twelve tour buses at Nepenthe, which
- used to be pretty good until they got overly popular...
-
- Mr. Sushi, one block up from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, is
- great for cheap sushi, if you actually eat raw fish. My
- all-time favorite Thai restaurant, Beau Thai, is right across
- the street from the aquarium, upstairs. Very reasonably
- priced, too. Sly McFly's, farther down the street, is good
- and has fun decor. (I miss Eli McFly's in Cupertino, though!)
-
- I grew up in Cambria, visit often, and can recommend a few places.
- Cambria is 7 miles south of San Simeon. Bear with me if I
- can't remember names---it's the problem with a place too
- familiar. Robin's is good (though not as good as when it was
- the Grey Fox). Moustache Pete's is Italian, and very good as
- well, though a bit pricey for Italian food. The coffee house
- in the Old Village, next to the Bank of America, has good
- coffee drinks and divine cakes, pastry, etc. I can't recall
- the name of the Mexican restaurant in the Old Village, but
- it's definitely one of the best! (It's run by the widow of
- someone I went to school with...) There are several more
- places whose names I can't recall, like the place down by
- Cambria Hardware, next door to The Sooty Goose, that has a
- placard up on Main, a Georgian lady holding a sign. Great
- ribs! I'm sorry if I seem bad with names, but it's a case of
- trying to recall things that are so familiar you never think
- about them...
-
- Although, as a Stratus employee, I am dying to ask what one of
- my cohorts from the "home office" is doing in Monterey and San
- Simeon...
-
-
-
- --
- Jilara [jane@swdc.stratus.com]
-
- "Every now and then, a big rock falls out of the sky, and everyone has
- a *very bad* day." --from the PBS "Dinosaurs" special.
-