Restaurants in California
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Daikokuya
Little Tokyo - Downtown LA; Essential dish: steaming bowl of ramen at Daikokuya.
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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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Slanted Door
San Francisco's most effortlessly elegant restaurant harmonizes California ingredients, continental influences and Vietnamese flair. Owner-chef Charles Phan enhances top-notch ingredients with bright flavors, heaping local Dungeness crab atop cellophane noodles and garlicky Meyer Ranch 'shaking beef' on watercress. The wildly successful venture is still a family establishment, with Phan family members serving multistar meals for here and to go at Out the Door. Book two weeks ahead for lunch, one month for dinner – or call at 5:30pm for last-minute cancelations.
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Las Camelias
Las Camelias is a favorite for homemade Mexican meals that go beyond tacos and enchiladas. Good margaritas, too.
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Cafe La Haye
This tiny bistro, with open kitchen, creates earthy New American dishes from ingredients sourced within 60 miles. Reservations essential.
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Ruddell's Smokehouse
Ruddell's Smokehouse, serves smoked-fish tacos by the oceanfront pier in small-town Cayucos.
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Red Grape
Thin-crust pizza with local cheeses, plus small-production Sonoma wines.
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Gelato D'Oro Cafe
This place serves crepes, sandwiches and creamy Italian ice cream. The hearty Sunday brunches are popular.
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Beach Hut No 2
Start the day with pancakes, waffles or omelettes from Beach Hut No 2 on Hermosa Beach.
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Flying Fish Grill
This tiny fish shack makes delicious, inexpensive fish tacos and other seafood plates to eat in or to go.
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Juice Bar Collective
A tiny storefront cafe, Juice Bar makes tasty polenta pizzas, quiches, sandwiches and dee-lish smoothies.
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Old Post Office
For scrumptious breakfasts the place to beat is the Old Post Office, nearby Gar Woods Grille & Pier.
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Wildberries Marketplace
- Arcata, USA
- Restaurants › Deli
Wildberries Marketplace is Arcata's best grocery, with natural foods, a good deli, bakery and juice bar.
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Muzio's Grocery
A classic old Italian deli that serves up tasty sandwiches you can enjoy in the shade of Mission Plaza.
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Vons
Self-caterers can stock up at Vons and Stater Bros, across from each other near the lake's eastern end.
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Stater Bros
Self-caterers can stock up at Vons and Stater Bros, across from each other near the lake's eastern end.
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Java Jungle
Main Street has a couple of good coffeehouses, one being Java Jungle, where they roast their own beans.
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Upper Crust
For coffee and excellent baked goods check out this place, which also serves lunch Monday to Saturday.
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Toll Road Restaurant & Bad Water Saloon
Above-par cowboy cooking inside a ranch house. The next-door saloon has a jukebox and pool tables.
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Splash Cafe
Splash Cafe, which is known for its clam chowder served in sourdough-bread bowls.
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Priscilla’s Pizza
Good pizza (some soy); other dishes are so-so. In the morning there’s coffee and pastries.
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24th Street Cafe
Trout and eggs is a local favorite at this popular café, though expect to wait for a table.
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Hog Island Oyster Company
Slurp the bounty of the North Bay, with a view of the East Bay, at this Ferry Building favorite for sustainably farmed oysters. Take yours au naturel, with caper beurre blanc, spiked with bacon and paprika or perhaps classic-style, with lemon and shallots. Mondays and Thursdays between 5pm and 7pm are happy hours indeed for shellfish fans, with half-price oysters and $4 pints.
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Typhoon
The bustling Typhoon is where the pan-Asian specialties menu includes crickets.
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Taco Temple
North along Hwy 1, surfers love the Cal-Mexican Taco Temple, a cash-only joint.
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