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I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the food in Monterey. It doesn’t have the *range* of San Francisco but in some key areas it hits hard.
Great pizza (Pizza My Heart). Fantastic clam chowder (Vivolo’s). Excellent Mediterranean (Petra). Good homey Japanese (Ocean Sushi Deli). Good and simple fresh seafood (Sea Harvest). Vegan baklava (Paprika). Good bakeries (Ad Adstra and Alta).
I haven’t even branched out to Seaside and Carmel yet
Artichokes at every restaurant! Fried, grilled, on pizza, in naans.
For Mexican I’ll probably go to Salinas (Tacos Pacheco)
and for Indian, Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese I’ll likely leave those for on my commute back to the city (San Jose has better restaurants in all of those cuisines than the city) but for a few key things there are some good spots here
All in I think I met my life, career and food goals. I wanted a job that got me out of San Francisco occasionally but not too much. That would let me eat the Asian foods of San Jose more. And let me spend time in nature. Win!
@skinnylatte randomly, there's a Taiwanese restaurant called Red Hot Wok near San Jose that has two locations (Palo Alto and Cupertino). I really love it. I think it's the closest thing I've experienced to a zi char place in the US. All Taiwanese dishes but the flavors are just very reminiscent of SG zi char somehow? IDK how to explain lol. In particular their moon-shaped shrimp cake and the kiam chye that comes with their lu rou fan is top notch. Also their mango shaved ice.