Parking reserved for Happy Girls and their organic pickles. Don’t recall seeing any handicap plate on that microbus:
The city tried the longer parking time during the holiday season at the urging of downtown merchants who believe time limits were too short and turned away customers and visitors.
“Since then there have been further favorable comments from a variety of downtown businesspersons,” Myers said in a council report. Only one concern about the extended parking times was fielded, she said.
The police chief said the city’s Business Improvement District promised to work with downtown businesses to ensure premium spaces are not used by employees.
4 years after the search for less schlock we now have this one.
Kurt Overmeyer, city economic development manager, said the tool helps people scope out business opportunities and has a wealth of information about policies and programs.
OpenCounter brings “easy online experience — and cost advantages — to City Hall,” a city press release said.
Other Anti-Schlock Cyber-P.G. sites:
Mr Overmeyers’s own pacificgrove.fixdowntown.org – some kind of business community workshop schlock with documents to download that will choke a DSL connection.
The Wine Walk With Art (url now dead, available at Go Daddy!) where wining gallery owners discussed the business with little knowledge that it was view able by the public.
And Mayor Kampe suddenly discovers a letter from PB Co that he didn’t know he had. Perhaps he left it in Dan Cort’s ‘moron’ file.
The council sent a letter to the Pebble Beach Co. and county officials in November listing a number of reasons why neighbors of the project site oppose the location and asking the company to consider an alternative site. The letter asked the company to list all alternative sites considered, why they were rejected, why the company feels the proposed site is superior to other alternatives, and requested information on any studies done on alternative sites.
Earlier this week, Pacific Grove Mayor Bill Kampe said the company actually sent a reply letter, contrary to his statement on Sunday. The letter dated Dec. 20 from company vice president Mark Stilwell, which Kampe said he didn’t discover until Monday, outlined the company’s reasons for choosing the proposed site, but did not address the council’s request for any information about alternative sites..
Michael Lukehart, who represents Elder, said he learned through case discovery documents that “both parties had been consuming alcohol.”
Chief Assistant District Attorney Terry Spitz said the information did not stop his office from pressing charges against Elder.
“That is a fact that we were aware of and we took into account when reviewing the case,” he said. “We were obviously aware of it — we provided the information to the defense.”
LaRone and Daly were in a 2005 Ford driven by Daly when Elder’s Cadillac sport utility vehicle crossed into the opposite lane and into the path of the Ford, the California Highway Patrol said.
Elder, 30 at the time of the crash, was arrested by CHP officers and released on $430,000 bail.
The Monterey City Council on Tuesday will consider taking final action to deny the transfer of a wharf lease for Rappa’s Seafood Restaurant from Anthony Rappa to would-be buyer James Gilbert, who has three other wharf restaurants.
Rappa, who has been running the restaurant since 1980, said Thursday that he hopes the council decides otherwise.
“What they are doing is counterproductive,” said Rappa, who at age 79 wants to retire. He said Gilbert has the money to make badly needed improvements to the property, along with plans to make it a “destination location.”
The restaurant sits in a good location near the end of the wharf, with a second-level observation deck overlooking the harbor.
KION failed to tell us, is the media biased against Ford?.
The accident happened after police say a driver of a Ford Escort station wagon driving southbound on First Street rear-ended a Ford Taurus, causing chain reaction.
The Ford Escort then drove into a parked car and a stop sign before coming to a complete stop.
Pacific Thai Cuisine
12/29/2013
approached a different employee about the order and was promptly taken to the food that had been sitting there and told that this was my order. Informing her that I had noticed the food earlier and had been waiting, she touched and responded, “ehh, its still warm, that will be $31.”
12/19/2013
How can you be out of Cilantro at 4:30 pm? (maybe all the red zones were occupied and the produce truck didn’t stop there that day)
10/14/2013
too sweet. It’s almost like they are trying to hide something with all the sugar.
8/18/2013
check water closets and make sure drains are working.
7/8/2013
Awful food. All dishes are super sweet and Americanized
6/4/2013
All the chicken was super dry, like it had been cooked previously and then re-cooked again.
5/6/2013
tasted okay…until I was chewing egg and it was super crunchy. I was eating eggshells!!
Michael’s Grill & Taqueria
12/18/2013
Very dissatisfied, the beer was good
9/11/2013
can’t get any more gringo than this. Bland and boring white-people food.
8/31/2013
If they can leave the tables out here dirty, what about their kitchen?!
7/13/2013
have you been there lately? We went in last week and found that someone had replaced the great staff and food with crap. What happened?
6/5/2013
If anyone asks though, I get their takeout for the sturdy paper bags.
2/22/2013
AND – if you have to go to the restroom, I’d recommend a port-o-potty over the nasty little restroom they have in the restaurant.
Passionfish
12/20/2013
the dish looked like something from the movie Cool Hand Luke
12/19/2013
Just take us for what it is: gorgeous scenery, laid-back ‘tude, expensive food . . .no view; so, just eat and be done with it.
11/26/2013
she huffed and puffed, ‘we close at 9 she said’ and then proceeded to tell me ‘she’s got kids at home’ and stormed off.
11/2/2013
so bad, I know why the waiter didn’t ask us “how our meal was”..smart guy.
10/11/2013
To finish the night, the bus boy flicked some mash on my daughter as he cleared the table.
9/24/2013
Also, the tables are packed in.. We had to hear all the intimate details of someone’s sex life. Yuck!
8/31/2013
Old school! no buzzers no text just wait hours and maybe we will give you a spot while you wait in our small entrance area with no bar or chairs..
8/5/2013
“Sausage and Shrimp” didn’t have any sausage. I was done eating by the time her replacement came.
6/25/2013
The way she acted, I thought we must look frightful after our day of strolling the quaint streets; maybe we should have gone back to the hotel for our finery. As she took us to a table way in the back past many empty tables, I noticed she was wearing jeans
6/7/2013
working hard apparently on serving agriculture and proteins of sustainability. I personally find it unacceptable to have to throw away a plate of food and an animal due to poor food preparation
5/27/2013
The wine and bread were really the only good things about this restaurant.
5/24/2013
RUDE! From the second the older woman at the front saw us walk in with 3 young kids, she immediately asked if we had reservations, No, she sies & just stairs at us like how dare we. Mind you this was at 5 on a Sunday night,
5/19/2013
But afterward, all six of us agreed — glad we got to try it, but we won’t go back.
4/7/2013
How bout just some nice, fresh, local fish prepared simply? Why do we have to have fish with scent of oxtail? We also brought our own wine. When we asked if they wave the corkage if we buy a bottle our waitress literally said “no, because we’re saving the tuna”. WTF.
1/26/2013
when I tried to send you an email with feedback on these issues I was kicked back on your site with a spam notice!
1/23/2013
On January 21, the only fish on the menu was caught east of the Mississippi. With the most incredible fishery in the world (Monterey Bay), catfish is your special?
1/1/2013
if I make a reservation and am told on the phone not to show up to late , I don’t expect to arrive on time and hear ” I’ll try to seat you when I can ” I’m not saying I need free dessert again… But am Saying I dont want to be greeted that way before I sit down for a pretty pricey meal.
Iil vecchio
12/22/2013
the owner wants each seat to be occupied”, and we would need 4 people to get a booth. Ok, fine…. If that’s your policy… But I noticed later that 2 booths only had 3 people
12/3/2013
We ordered an appetizer platter that he brought out himself. All was well and we said ‘thank you,’ expecting him to be on his way but he proceeded to stand at the table for a considerable amount of time, interrupting our conversation and pointing out each item on the plate with a trembling finger and I swear to you he touched each item as he spoke! I
10/26/2013
I may never date again but at least I know where to go to be in food ecstasy.
9/15/2013
I didn’t want to look like a pig and be like “excuse me, a little more please” so I took it and left hungry as I felt under served on both portions
8/3/2013
What is up with all these great reviews???? Oh, I get it, they haven’t met the owner! this random man with a wine glass walks over to our table and asks us if he can try our wine. Who was this guy? No introduction or anything. I actually thought he was a guest of the restaurant and thought to myself this is weird but sure, why not, I’ll give you a taste. HE then pours HIMSELF some wine and stands there swirling the wine around in his mouth and then tells us there was nothing wrong with the bottle of wine WE sent back
6/28/2013
Then as we left, another gentleman at the door also challenged my assessment. Really??? A bad mussel can happen. Bad attitudes will keep me from returning.
6/16/2013
a tall older gentleman, that I assume is the owner, came to our table and rushed us out which put a bad note on the entire evening because he was very obvious and it felt like….well, I’ve got your money now go so I can get money from someone else
6/5/2013
I might try this place again but not until I put a stick up my ass so I fit in with the rest of the crowd
5/22/2013
asked if we could have a regular menu. They said that they only had the family menu which was a 5 course meal, no drinks, dessert or bread included for $15. Five minutes later they were seating people on the other side and gave them menus.
4/22/2013
Some of the assorted menu items were sitting out in exposed areas which attracts insects and lets things settle on them.
3/7/2013
The owner guy came over and inquired about our lamb. My friend explained sheepishly what we thought. He said, well, our lamb is cooked for six hours, like it was an honor. We said, we cook lamb all the time and it doesn’t taste like that. He asked why we didn’t turn it back. We said our waiter was never around.
2/17/2013
we were told it would be an hour. Then we tried to sit at the bar and were told it was only for reservations. I have never sat at a bar that required reservations.
2/3/2013
The host asked if he could clear the table – sure. Then, before my family gets back, he brings another party back into the room so he and they can hover over our table. We were not slow, and it was really awkward and ruined the experience. Plus the other party was older, affluent, and obnoxious
Petra Restaurant
10/3/2013
And the location of the bathroom is terrible. I could hear a little girl throwing up in the bathroom across from where I was sitting down
First Awakenings
11/1/2013
Nothing good ole A-1 couldn’t fix.
7/25/2013
shrimp tasted like frozen shrimp and the benedict was bland. We also ordered blueberry pancake, it was dry and not enough blueberries……. the worst part was it did gave me an upset stomach=(
7/12/2013
I ordered the eggs benedict, not that hard to mess up, but they succeeded. I got a bowl of hollandaise sauce & oily eggs,
7/8/2013
served in a bowl that was half full of water/grease with blobs of melted chese on top.
7/3/2013
I poked the middle of them, expecting the delicious yolk to spill out, as good poached eggs do, but instead was met with what was basically a differently shaped hard-boiled egg.
Whoa this place was like 50% children patrons, with a surprising ratio of cranky, hungry children to permissive parents.
5/30/2013
This place should be called Long A-wait-kenings.
5/12/2013
There are tons of flies and a bird stuck inside to walk and poop on the tables when customers are not around.
2/1/2013
hidden inside what looked like a run down outlet mall. We asked them about the spray bottles on the tables. A server said it was to spray other guests, but it’s really for the birds
How did the crop circle get there? That’s the million-dollar question and there may never be a definitive answer. This video was posted to Youtube and shows two guys who claim to have discovered the crop circle.
The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office said that it did not get any reports of strange activity happening in the area.
Revelation – there were no aliens in Chular marking the ground, it was a promotional stunt by a tech company.
The crop circle near Chualar, Calif., contained a stylized image of a computer chip and the number “192” in Braille. On Sunday, the company announced the Tegra K1, a new chip for tablets and smartphones that contains 192 computing “cores,” or mini-computers, for graphics applications.
Butterfly Grove Inn
7/9/2013
I found a mostly dead giant roach under the bathroom sink. Disgusting! On the second night as we were getting settled in, we began to smell cigarette smoke. I shut the windows thinking someone was smoking outside but it didn’t subside. I believe it was coming from the room next door and wafting in under the connecting door. When we complained and asked for a different room, their first reaction was to call the people in the room in question to ask them if they were smoking in the room.
1/16/2013
We left. Sorry, but did not want to smell Pine Sol while sleeping. Newark NJ might be preferred to that.
Borg’s Ocean Front Motel
9/28/2013
Mattresses are SO hard my joints go numb, so bouncy if my honey coughs, it’s like an earthquake.
7/30/2013
The women at the front desk- unfriendly and a bummer to be near reminded us of ma from goonies. Um I will not be attending coffee with you in the am.
Centrella Inn
9/9/2013
TV was about 4 inches wide
6/24/2013
There was a damp spot in the carpet in front of the bed when we arrived that never went away.
Sea Breeze Inn & Cottages
11/30/2013
Very dirty. Run down almost like camping. You may want to bring shower shoes.
11/30/2013
The staff was rude, don’t know if they had a problem because we where a male couple or just rude to everyone.
11/14/2013
don’t let people live in your hotel like they own it. It just makes it look trashy
8/23/2013
when my boyfriend woke up he had 7 bug bites
4/15/2013
big fly got stuck and buzzed around all night.
The Rosedale Inn
3/12/2013
we found dead bugs underneath the refrigerator when we moved it by accident. disgustingly filthy TV remote that looked like a petri dish.
Lover’s Point Inn
10/24/2013
we could here our neighbor singing Mariah Carey in the shower at 6:30, sounded like a bad karaoke jam at the base of a waterfall!!!
6/9/2013
I walked in to the super small “lobby” and there was a squirrel running around. I
1/8/2013
This elfin accomadation has a queen bed crammed in at an odd angle, as is the nightstand.
1/4/2013
I noticed the tub floating with hair (from the hypogastric region). No kidding.
Gosby House Inn, A Four Sisters Inn
1/17/2013
my partner and I had only been in the room for about an hour and were fooling around on the bed when the maid tried to barge into the room without even knocking! Thankfully we had used the deadbolt on the door so her key was useless. Talk about a mood killer though!
Asilomar Conference Grounds
7/27/2013
The room was last updated in the ’70’s and frankly smelled like a combination of old people and dead animals. From there we went to the dinning hall and enjoyed food that the state of California rejected from the prison system.
5/26/2013
have heard this place compared to camping – camping is far better than here…..I’d much rather be in a tent than in this room
3/31/2013
My decaf coffee had a slight taste of mildew. Mildew seems to be a theme here – not only in the bathrooms, but in the coffee machine as well.
Green Gables Inn, A Four Sisters Inn
8/24/2013
You better have some plumbing skills when you stay there because there was a sign in the bathroom saying to use the plunger in the case of overflow! B
Deer Haven Inn & Suites
9/21/2013
guy is really nice and then he apologizes for the paint chipping off walls and doors, oOo okay… It was like REALLY chipping like we thought it might be like a shaky shack look they were intentionally going for,
7/17/2013
We found a cockroach in our bed. Enough said.Oh yes, and for an additional fee, you can bring your pets here. Cool if you have pets, not cool if your neighbor’s dogs are barking all night.
7/7/2013
Continental breakfast: ummm…what breakfast?? Supposed to be served from 8am – 10am, but they should revise it to be “8am – whenever it’s gone.”
Lighthouse Cottage and Suites
11/20/2013
the sheets smelled like pure bleach. Maybe someone left it bloody and they had to bleach the heck out of them.
11/1/2013
We weren’t told our room was a pet-friendly room and within 15 minutes of entering we had to leave for the urgent care for an asthma attack.
6/20/2013
Some people may want to sit on a patio and enjoy the peaceful graveyard
6/12/2013
a big black bug (possibly a cockroach) ran across the bathroom floor. I smashed it and called the front desk. The manager acted very put out and sarcastically asked if I needed someone to come and smash it for me.
Martine Inn
9/30/2013
The only reason why I had chosen Martine Inn was cos they allowed kids, but let me tell you, my son was terrified of that innkeeper!
8/25/2013
We received no communication from them prior to our stay suggesting that a late check-in would be a problem (aside from a call to our cell phone at 8pm when we had no reception). In any event, we were greeted at night with hostility which continued throughout our stay.
8/11/2013
Martine Inn’s website lists “WiFi throughout” as well as “Free WiFi” under each of its room descriptions — so we were disappointed when the innkeeper told us WiFi access was restricted to the library.
10/21/2012
The self righteous owner was an absolute ass, and fact is, we won’t be staying there ever again. If you’re about 90 years old, and you don’t mind turning in at 5 pm, this is the place for you, otherwise, don’t bother.
The Olympia Lodge
4/30/2013
When my husband approached the hotel staff with pictures of the mold, rodent excrement and strangers pubic hair the front desk clerk made excuses and said they were gross. She took a whopping $50 off of our room rate (which was $179 for one night)
2/11/2013
The staff was friendly and the room appeared clean, i say appeared because mold is not clean. A health hazard.
Beachcomber Inn
11/6/2013
The hilarious: Having to do squats while taking a shower because the shower head is only came up to my chest. I’m no giant either, just a bit over 6′.
5/9/2013
TICKS in our room! Need I say more? The manager was completely perplexed by my displeasure
Wilkie’s Inn Clarion Collection
10/12/2013
Sorry but upscale soap dosnt equal a great bed and soft pillow
8/9/2013
better yet, stay at a friends house and give them money.
6/29/2013
Not well maintained and we can hear rats or mice in the walls
