re: Best view and food combo in a restaurant?

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damn, Sedona looks bad arse.

need to go check it out.

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It's a really pretty place, but a tad new-agey for my tastes.

We ran across some sort of women's "retreat" group, while hiking one day, and the leader was "channelling" some sort of feminist-earth goddess/alien type thing. I kid you freaking not.

It's a place that's definitely worth seeing, but I don't really need to hurry back.

What Vegas is for Gamblers and Degenerates..

NYC is for Shoppers and Diners..

Sedona and Carmel/Big Sur are for "New Agers"..it is mecca..ground zero..numero uno.

While what you say is absolutely true, home to those fabulous courses like Pebble Beach Spy Glass etc, home to former Mayor Clint Eastwood whom filmed there, and other films like 'From Here Top Eternity' 'Suspicion' 'Basic Instinct' 'Play Misty For Me' etc..

My mother has visited the Esalen Institute for numerous workshops over the last thirty years..

Wiki excerpt:

In the early to mid-twentieth century, Big Sur's relative isolation and natural beauty began to attract a different kind of pioneer — writers and artists, including Robinson Jeffers, Henry Miller, Edward Weston, Richard Brautigan, Hunter S. Thompson, Emile Norman, and Jack Kerouac. Jeffers was among the first of these. Beginning in the 1920s, his poetry introduced the romantic idea of Big Sur's wild, untamed spaces to a national audience, which encouraged many of the later visitors. Henry Miller lived in Big Sur from 1944 to 1962. His 1957 novel Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch described the joys and hardships that came from escaping the "air conditioned nightmare" of modern life. The Henry Miller Memorial Library[14], a cultural center devoted to Miller's life and work, is a popular attraction for many tourists. Hunter S. Thompson worked as a security guard and caretaker at Big Sur Hot Springs for eight months in 1961, just before it became the Esalen Institute. While there, he published his first magazine feature in the nationally distributed Rogue magazine, about Big Sur's artisan and bohemian culture. Jack Kerouac spent a few days in Big Sur in early 1960 at fellow poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's cabin in the woods, and wrote a novel titled Big Sur based on his experience there. Big Sur acquired a bohemian reputation with these newcomers. Henry Miller recounted that a traveler knocked on his door, looking for the "cult of sex and anarchy."[15] Apparently finding neither, the disappointed visitor returned home. Miller is referenced in Brautigan's A Confederate General at Big Sur, in which a pair of young men attempt the idyllic Big Sur life in small shacks and are variously plagued by flies, low ceilings, visiting businessmen with nervous breakdowns, and 2,452 tiny frogs whose loud singing keeps everyone awake.

Big Sur also became home to centers of study and contemplation - a Catholic monastery, the New Camaldoli Hermitage in 1958, the Esalen Institute, a workshop and retreat center in 1962, and the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, a Buddhist monastery, in 1966. Esalen hosted many figures of the nascent "New Age," and in the 1960s, played an important role in popularizing Eastern philosophies, the "human potential movement," and Gestalt therapy in the United States.

The area's increasing popularity and cinematic beauty soon brought the attention of Hollywood."

That place is practically ground-zero Gestalt-USA...with hippie-central right up the highway in SF and on into Oregon.

Gladstone's too, even if quite a tourist trap.

The Pier, 3rd St Promenade, Shutters On The Beach,etc..

tsunami ?




signature room at 95th :

Can't find any good pictures online, but the El Dorado seafood restaurant in Puerto Vallarta has a decent grilled seafood platter to go along with the beautiful view overlooking Banderas Bay.

The Oasis in Austin, TX on Lake Travis. The food was absolute shite, but we would just go there and drink and watch the sunset.

Cielo, Boca Raton

For breakfast Lowells in Seattle's market has a pretty great view to enjoy your coffe over