I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the food in Monterey. It doesn’t have the *range* of San Francisco but in some key areas it hits hard.

Great pizza (Pizza My Heart). Fantastic clam chowder (Vivolo’s). Excellent Mediterranean (Petra). Good homey Japanese (Ocean Sushi Deli). Good and simple fresh seafood (Sea Harvest). Vegan baklava (Paprika). Good bakeries (Ad Adstra and Alta).

I haven’t even branched out to Seaside and Carmel yet

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Artichokes at every restaurant! Fried, grilled, on pizza, in naans.

For Mexican I’ll probably go to Salinas (Tacos Pacheco)

and for Indian, Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese I’ll likely leave those for on my commute back to the city (San Jose has better restaurants in all of those cuisines than the city) but for a few key things there are some good spots here