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Lillian’s Italian Kitchen
Nothing-fancy Lillian’s serves terrific homemade American-Italian dishes, including a knockout ‘Sunday gravy’ – a slow-cooked, tomato-based meat sauce – using an old family recipe. Great paninis at lunch. No reservations.
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Square One
Postmodern Californian cuisine reaches stratospheric heights of inventiveness, piquing even jaded palates with the likes of grapefruit gelée and avocado mousse laid atop seafood. Sculpted desserts are challenging. Svelte wine bar.
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Passionfish
Here it is. You found it. A perfect, chef-owned seafood restaurant where the sustainable fish is dock-fresh, every preparation divine and the wine list more than affordable. Reservations are recommended.
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Saturn Cafe
A Santa Cruz classic, the late-night Saturn Cafe’s decor is an evolving pop-culture carnival. The menu is upmarket diner, with good salads and sandwiches and lots for vegetarians.
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Tacos Moreno
Who cares how long the line is, especially at lunchtime? You're guaranteed to find taqueria heaven here - from pork, chicken and beef soft tacos to supremely stuffed burritos.
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Rio Grill
Southeast of the mission, Rio Grill is a jazzy bistro, where local ingredients find their destiny in wickedly flavored Southwestern dishes.
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Emily's
Their motto is simply 'good things to eat.' Stop by for hot, cheddar-cheese scones or the daily soup-and-salad combo, and nosh on the shady creekside porch.
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First Awakenings
Sweet and savory, creative breakfasts and lunches, plus bottomless pitchers of coffee, make this hideaway café near the aquarium worth seeking out.
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C'est Cheese
To fill picnic baskets for the beach, stop at C'est Cheese and Our Daily Bread.
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