Eat in Ocean Avenue, Carmel-by-the-Sea

Dametra Cafe

• ★ 4.5
• Mediterranean
• $$

Order The cioppino; the house treats it as its proudest plate.

Dametra Cafe fills its Ocean Avenue corner in Carmel every night, serving Mediterranean plates and cioppino while musicians work the dining room.

Il Tegamino

• ★ 4.5
• Italian
• $$$

Order The night's baked tegamino, the namesake pan dish.

Il Tegamino hides in Carmel's Court of the Golden Bough off Ocean Avenue, a small family-run room cooking Italian comfort food behind a candy shop.

Carmel Valley Coffee Roasting Co.

• ★ 4.1
• Cafe
• $

Order Single-origin drip from the company's own roasts

Carmel Valley Coffee Roasting Co. opens its Ocean Avenue counter in Carmel at 06:30, pouring the local roastery's beans hours before the village wakes.

Mad Dogs & Englishmen Coffee Bar

• ★ 4.3
• Cafe
• $$

Order Single-origin microlot pour-over or ceremonial matcha

Mad Dogs & Englishmen pairs a bike shop with a specialty coffee bar at Ocean and Mission in Carmel, pulling microlot espresso and ceremonial matcha.

Cafe Carmel

• ★ 4.0
• Cafe
• $$

Order Coffee with a slice of housemade cake

Cafe Carmel keeps a bakery counter on Ocean Avenue in Carmel that has been baking since 1952, laying out housemade cakes from breakfast onward.

Carmel Bakery

• ★ 4.3
• Bakery
• $

Order Giant soft pretzel

Carmel Bakery has baked on Ocean Avenue since 1899, run by the Pepe family since 1988 and selling giant pretzels, cannoli and in-house gelato.

The Carmel Coffee House and Roasting Company

• ★ 4.0
• Coffee roaster
• $

The Carmel Coffee House and Roasting Company roasts small batches of coffee on premise and serves them from a pet-friendly patio off Ocean Avenue in Carmel.

Cottage of Sweets

• ★ 4.0
• Market
• $

Cottage of Sweets has candied Ocean Avenue in Carmel since 1959, hand-making fudge in an ivy-covered cottage stacked with British sweets and licorice.