Monterey ★ 4.4
Monterey pairs its aquarium with a working seafood town near Carmel: chowder samples down Old Fisherman's Wharf and Cannery Row a stroll north.
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Pacific Grove ★ 4.3
Pacific Grove earns Carmel's dinner drive with Passionfish, the Lighthouse Avenue room that made sustainable seafood a Peninsula institution.
Big Sur ★ 4.6
Big Sur turns lunch from Carmel into a pilgrimage: Nepenthe serves its Ambrosia burger on a cliff terrace, daily from 11:30 with dinner to 22:00.
Castroville ★ 4.2
Castroville, the self-styled Artichoke Center of the World near Carmel, now hosts Phil's Fish Market and its Mama Nina cioppino on Merritt Street.