Where to Eat
on the Pacific Coast Highway

Waterfront Restaurant in California near the Pacific Coast Highway

Where to Eat on the Pacific Coast highway is our favorite section of the website. For us, eating out is one of the joys of travel, from breakfast through lunch to dinner. We don't care if it's a cheap cafe, a mom and pop place, an all-American diner or one of the Los Angeles Top Tables. If the food is good, we enjoy it!

Along the Pacific Coast of Washington, Oregon and California, there are all these choices of where to eat and more, including brewpubs and wineries that serve fine food, bakeries for tasty home-made snacks, San Francisco's Best Chinatown Restaurants, and family-friendly places too.

So, whether you just want a pizza, a pancake, or the full five-course special chef's gourmet menu, we'll try to point you in the right direction on Where to Eat along the Pacific Coast Highway. Every mouthful counts!

And if you want to recommend somewhere good to eat anywhere along the Pacific Coast Highway, be sure to scroll down to see how you can share your own finds with us and out other visitors. If you've found a good restaurant, they deserve an online pat on the back, which might make someone else's Pacific Coast Highway trip so much better.

Personal Favorites
Mendocino: Ravens' Restaurant
Paso Robles: Deborah’s Room
Santa Barbara: Olio e Limone
Santa Monica: FIG in the Fairmont Miramar Santa Monica Hotel

Food, Drink, and Restaurant Guides
Good Beer Guide to the West Coast USA
Los Angeles and SoCal Restaurants: Zagat Guide 2011
Moon Handbooks’ Napa and Sonoma Guidebook
Northwest Wine Country: Wine's New Frontier
San Diego Restaurants: Zagat Guide
San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants: Zagat Guide 2011
Seattle Restaurants: Zagat Guide

In their June 2009 issue Travel+Leisure magazine rated their
Top Ten Burgers in the USA. Two of them are on or near the
Pacific Coast Highway, one in Seattle and one in San Francisco.
To find out where they are, click on
America's Best Burgers.

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Great food, service and awesome view!
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We were heading south on Hwy 101 looking for a grocery store, because trying to find food for my girlfriend who is vegan is almost impossible on the Oregon …
riverside restaurant, oysterville, Wash Not rated yet
Best Oysters Ever. I'm from the east coast, have been "munching" oysters (as well as other varieties of seafood) all my life, and the first slurp-bite …
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Great food, service and lots of stars!
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