The Central Coast.
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8 places
Rooms you can walk into, ranked the way I would send you.
Key: what the badges mean
★ Michelin star · Bib Bib Gourmand · Green ★ Michelin Green Star · Michelin in the Michelin guide, no distinction · J Jeff's own note · Jeff ★★★★☆ 2019 his own rating out of five, and the year he gave it · new the venue itself opened recently · just added recently added to Jeff's list, whatever its age · 2◆ independent chef/industry recommendations · ! hygiene caution in force · ? no current public hygiene record, not a caution · keep walking Jeff has been and would walk past it · the line under a name says when to go: Destination (plan around it) / Solid (the dependable send) / Listed (on the radar). Under it, where the entry states one: how the room takes bookings, and the date I last checked the entry.
The whole list.
Every room saved here, by where it is. 8 of them.
The Santa Ynez Valley and Santa Barbara5
Further south the road turns inland. Los Alamos holds a bakery and a bistro, tasting rooms pour at Solvang and Lompoc, and a brewery taproom sits in Santa Barbara.
Los Alamos · 2
Lompoc · 1
Santa Barbara · 1
Solvang · 1
San Luis Obispo and the coast3
The stops sit along the 101 and the shore. A brewery pours in San Luis Obispo, a wood fire burns at Arroyo Grande, and a dining room stands on the sand at Cayucos.