So true. After a dinner at the Old Bath House, we stopped for pizza at Little Ceasar’s.
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Pacific Grove Pedestrians Could Regain Walking Capacity If City Approves New Parklet Plans
Depiction is very different from the fenced in donkey corrals with strings of lights and patio heaters. BUT LOOK AT THAT SIDEWALK!!
Parklet problems continue in Pacific Grove. The city is pushing back discussions to next week on the future of three parklets on a busy road in Pacific Grove. The main reason for the changes is safety.
“Safety wins over seating,” said Frank Syster who lives in Pacific Grove.
“I think it’s great to have a pedestrian-oriented city, and I think this just makes us more pedestrian, which is great,” said Dea Greenwalt who lives in Pacific Grove.
Pacific Grove Pedestrians Could Regain Walking Capacity If City Approves New Parklet Plans
Arrivederci, Fighting Favaloros
And this time, they really mean it. 
Will The Pigeons Sustain On?
When First Awakenings leaves the ATC and moves up to the old Coco’s Big Boy. Also, they should offer a carry-out that harkens to the past use of the property. It used to be a transfer lot for the garbage trucks and storage for dumpsters. Many of the dumpsters were tagged in spray paint “Rhino Lunch Box”. Would make a great inside joke.
“Contrary to what people may think, we were not pushed out, we chose to move,” said Craig Bell, co-owner of the popular restaurant.
Bell said that both the American Tin Cannery developer Comstock Properties and property owner the Cannery Row Company wanted to keep First Awakenings in its current location at 125 Ocean View Blvd., but “we saw an opportunity and wanted to take it.”
The new location at the well-traversed intersection at Lighthouse and David avenues in Monterey has provided space to create an outdoor dining patio that will be slightly larger than the existing one at their current location.
Parklets Proposing Permanency?
Keep one eye on the street.
Business and civic leaders in Monterey, Pacific Grove and Carmel are all expressing enthusiasm for the “parklet” concept. Businesses can add outdoor space by creating parklets that move tables out onto city properties, such as sidewalks and parking spaces.
City officials in Monterey are considering removing one lane on Alvarado Street to provide for more room for businesses to expand outside. Carmel has made sidewalks available for more than 30 restaurants and Pacific Grove is hearing nothing but glowing responses to the 11 parklets that line Lighthouse Avenue.
There are multiple ways to construct parklets, but the two most common are moving tables out onto former parking spaces or moving the sidewalk out to the parking spaces so patrons can sit between the sidewalk and the restaurants.
“It’s safer not putting diners next to traffic,” Johnson said.
New Eateries
Two with sidewalk cages that were bakeries long ago. One was the Fighting Favaloros which closed again for reasons unknown. Perhaps more of that family time they talk about. Other was Mauricios. Last one is the first ‘pub’ allowed in P.G. Grab a fork and go.
Among three new restaurant establishments opening on downtown’s main thoroughfare in mid-April is The Monarch Pub & Restaurant, the first pub ever in the state’s last dry town. The new establishment, which will be located at 617 Lighthouse Ave. where the 17th Street Grille used to reside, will join fine dining restaurants Wild Fish and Poppy Hall. The former, which will feature locally-caught fish and seafood and farm-to-table cuisine will be located at 545 Lighthouse Ave., the old location of Favaloro’s Big Night Bistro while the latter will take the spot where longtime eatery Mauricio’s was at 589 Lighthouse Ave.
Price spotting – Monarch pub looks best if one is real hungry.
- $10 for some mixed veggies at Poppy Hall
- $9.95 for a turkey burger at Monarch
- $32 for Bouillabaisse at Wild Fish
Mauricio’s Gets Evicted
No reason given.
After 14 years at the same location on Lighthouse Avenue, longtime Pacific Grove eatery Mauricio’s will serve up its last dish this Sunday.
That’s according to owners Mauricio Mendoza and his wife Luz who confirmed that they were asked to vacate the property at 589 Lighthouse Ave. last December by owners, the Charles F. Giles Family Trust. A message to the Trust seeking comment wasn’t returned.
Ill Vecchio Raises The Bar
And pours the whiskey from it. Owner gets full on liquor license.
“The more quality restaurants we can bring in the better,” he said. “People want choices, and all restaurants benefit from raising the bar.”
He’d like people to think of Pacific Grove before heading over the hill.
“With all due respect to Carmel, they have problems with high rent, small spaces, difficulty parking. It’s Pacific Grove’s time.”
Consuelo’s Restaurant Bugatti Replica Up For Sale
Back before the light painter was at 361 lighthouse there was Consuelo’s, The car was the restaurant’s rolling advertisement.
History of the Vehicle: ‘Consuelo’s’ and ‘361 Lighthouse’ are painted on both sides of the vehicle. This is an address in Monterey, California that used to be Consuelo’s Mexican Restaurant. It was in a historic building called ‘The Green Building’ which is named after Harry Green.
Many Restaurants Lie About Sourcing
I think that we as Americans have really come to expect inexpensive food. We spend a very small amount of our disposable income on food, and restaurateurs have to cope with that. They have to figure out how to offer food to us at a price we will pay, while buying the best ingredients that they can. And often, as in any other business, it’s buy low and sell high.
You confronted a lot of chefs about this, and a lot of them gave you the same answer.
[They said] “I guess that should come off the chalkboard.”
There were plenty of people who were honestly surprised to find something was still on the chalkboard or still on their menu many months after they’d purchased that product, and many others that were just caught red-handed.