Alright, that definitely makes things a little different.
Alvarado St Brewery in Monterey works with family. It's a cool spot on the Main St and is a couple blocks from the water and wharf to walk down to. It also has really solid food. Agree with Tuttle that taking a ride down to Carmel is worthwhile. Really love the happy hour at
Vesuvio on their rooftop. Think it's 3-6 or 4-6 or something like that. Prices can be wild so the happy hour prices just kind of make it semi-normalized.
Down in Big Sur you can go really big with what may be the best view in the country for a meal at
Nepenthe. If it's a night or weekend, can probably forget about it unless you really aim to get there right when they open or an odd time. We always stop at
Big Sur Taphouse when we're in the area. The food isn't anything spectacular but it's solid and you are in the middle of nowhere so it's a pretty cool spot to relax for a bit. Either of those spots are semi close to Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park which is worth the stop to take a look at. It's actually where my wife and I got hitched as well lol.
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