COVID-19 Precautions Ensure Social Distancing While Taking The Tours Eating and drinking your way around Carmel can be both a rewarding and kind of frustrating endeavor if you don't know where to go for good food and beverages. That's why PubClub.com recommends letting someone show you around town and the best way to do that is to take a tour with Carmel Food … [Read more...]
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What US Open Golf TV Viewers Should Know About Pebble Beach
An Introduction To Big Sur, Carmel & Monterey, California By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger I know the feeling. Because I get it myself. Whenever I watch an event and see beauty shots of the surrounding area, I always think "that looks great, I would love to know more about that place." Golf, with its paradise locations and historic courses – from … [Read more...]
Where To Drink & Party In Carmel Bars For The 2019 U.S. Open Pebble Beach
From Happy Hour To Live Music, Here's A Guide To Carmel's '19th Hole' Watering Holes By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger For those looking it up to tee it up in the bars of Carmel during the 2019 U.S. Open, this review is right down the middle of the fairway, clear of any hazards, your complete guide to the 19th hole of watering holes. It is … [Read more...]
Pebble Beach’s Iconic Lone Cypress Tree Loses A Branch In Winter Storm
17-Mile Drive Attraction Is A Symbol Of The Monterey Bay Area By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger One of the landmarks of California – as iconic to this area as the Hollywood sign is to Los Angeles and the Golden Gate Bridge is to San Francisco – has taken a hit. Not from vandals or selfie-seeking Instagrammers (thank goodness) but from nature. The … [Read more...]
Carmel Food Tours A Great Bay Area Holiday Gift Idea For Foodies
Eat, Drink & Walk Your Way Through This Cool California European-Style Village By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Wine & Foodie Blogger It's the holiday season and you're in gift-giving mode. Except your friends/relatives have all the electronics and clothes they need, the stuff in the department stores all looks the same and you're stuck for ideas. What … [Read more...]
Carmel Food Tours One Of Top Things To Do Activities In Carmel, CA: A Review
Food, Wine, Margaritas & Touring Carmel's Passageways Of Surprises By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger We went along the main streets, past the expensive art galleries and familiar wine tasting rooms, into tiny squares you'll likely barely notice on your own and through narrow passageways, one that included a bookstore I never even knew existed … [Read more...]
Experiencing A Different Kind Of Restaurant At Artemis Turkish Kitchen Carmel: A Review
Turkish Food, Beer & Wine Fine Dining In Carmel-By-The-Sea By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel & Food Blogger When you travel – particularly in California – you get a lot of the usual kinds of restaurants. There's Italian, Mexican, Chinese, etc. So when I encounter something different, I like to jump on it. Case in point: Artemis Turkish Kitchen … [Read more...]
Summer Of Love 2017 Comes To Carmel With Holman Ranch Event
Super Sixties Saturday Features Wine, Beer, Folk Music & A 70s-80s Band The Summer of Love's 50th Anniversary, which San Francisco is celebrating, is coming to Carmel, CA. The Holman Ranch Tavern in Carmel Valley is hosting a Super Sixties Saturday party on Aug. 26 to benefit Chartwell School, which empowers students with language-based learning differences, … [Read more...]
Hofsas House Carmel Celebrates 70th Anniversary With Several Packages
Hotel Offers Add-Ons For Golf, Hiking, Wine & Cheese And Guests With Pets When you're in Carmel – or more specifically the quaint European-style village known as Carmel-By-The-Sea – you want to stay in a place that's as cozy as the town. A place that's as warm as the afternoon sunshine, as soothing as a glass of Monterey County wine in on the deck, with a fireplace … [Read more...]
AT&T Pebble Beach Fans Guide Party Scene Photos Clubhouse Bar Tap Room
A Fairway To Heaven For Singles & Partying PubClubbers When it comes to sporting events, the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am is as attractive as its golf course. Or, more accurately, courses. It is the lovely lady that glitters like gold in sunshine. As beautiful as a birdie on 18. And as welcoming as an original Shelby at an historic car auction. Held … [Read more...]
Carmel-By-The-Glass Holiday Party 2016 Date, Tickets & Details
Top Chef & Winemaker Paired Together On The Central California Coast When a top area chef and winemaker get together to put on an event, you can count on it being something special, and the Carmel-By-The-Glass event is just that, indeed, in Carmel, CA. Chef Rich Pepe of Vesuvio restaurant and winemaker Jack Galante (Galante wines, and his wife runs Dawn's Dream) put … [Read more...]
Win A Free Night At Vendage Carmel During California Wine Month
Carmel B&B Hotel Has A 'Humming' Offer In September September is Wine Month in California and Vendage Inn & Suites has a humming good deal. The wine-themed hotel – in which each of the 20 rooms and suites have been designed by a local winery – is giving away a free room to the person (or people) who design the best birdfeeder for a trio of hummingbirds who have … [Read more...]
Vendage Inn Carmel Offering End Of 2015 Rate Discount
Wine-Themed B&B Rooms At 10% Off Special The Vendage Inn & Suites, a unique theme B&B in Carmel, CA, is offering an end-of-2015 deal that's as soothing as its surroundings. It has a 10% discount off rooms for the entire months of November and December. Vendage Carmel is unique in that its rooms have been individually decorated by several of Carmel's … [Read more...]
Carmel Hofsas House Hotel Opens The Hospitality Door
A Great Place To Stay In Monterey Bay The door is open. Even if it's not actually open. At the Hofsas House in Carmel, CA, it's the mentality more than the actual position, for the hospitality here is like swinging open the doors and welcoming guests into their home. That's what you get from a place that's been run by a family for a couple of generations. The … [Read more...]
Why Mundaka In Carmel Is A Popular Restaurant & Bar
Dining, Cocktails & A Lively Singles Social Scene When you dine at Mundaka in Carmel, CA, it's about more than the food. It's equally about the experience. Mundaka, tucked into a corner off San Carlos Street between Ocean and 7th Ave., is quite a find. It's one of the most social restaurants in the Monterey area, starting with its menu. It's all tapas, and that always … [Read more...]
Will’s Fargo Steakhouse Upholds Delicious Tradition In Carmel Valley, CA
Restaurant Maintains Quality Food & Wine With Holman Ranch Owners When the fine folks of Holman Ranch winery and estates purchased Will's Fargo restaurant in Carmel Village there was – as is often the case when a long-standing legend changes hands – a gasp of concern among some locals. But they needed not to worry. The Louder family are locals, too. And they … [Read more...]
Holman Ranch Carmel A Top Wedding & Events Location
Reviewing This Luxury Family-Run Private Venue In an area this beautiful and romantic, there are dozens of locations to host a wedding (or a private function or corporate event) that people will be talking about for years, almost as much as the event itself. One of those places is Holman Ranch in Carmel Valley. Situated on sunny, rolling hills overlooking the valley, this … [Read more...]
Vendange Inn Carmel Features Rooms Decorated By Monterey Wineries
Monterey B&B Highlights Monterey County Wines There is a place in Carmel, CA, where the hotel is as much of a destination as the area. It's called Vendange Inn & Suites and it's more than just a place to stay, it's a thrilling adventure. In the subdued Carmel kind of way. Vendange is unique in that it has taken what is all around it – namely, several wineries of … [Read more...]
Twisted Roots Winery Carmel Village Tasting Room Review
A Perfect Pairing Of Wines, Hospitality – And Great Pizza With a dozen tasting rooms within a three-block walking area, the Carmel Valley Village is a wine drinker's paradise. One area you don't want to overlook is Del Fino Place, a small road behind the Shell Station (it's a U-turn if you are coming from Carmel) that has a few tasting rooms, a couple of … [Read more...]
Dawn’s Dream Winery Carmel Tasting Room Thursday Happy Hour
Tasting Room Wines & A Bathtub Selfie The best selfie spot of the Carmel, CA, wine tasting rooms has come up with another way to draw in visitors: a Happy Hour! On the third Thursday of every month, Dawn's Dream Winery features $5 wines-by-the-glass and small bites of food, from 5-7 p.m. Dawn's Dream, which is part of the Carmel Wine Walk, is one of the more … [Read more...]
A Complete Guide To The Carmel Wine Walk Passport Tasting Rooms
Visiting Monterey County's Wineries Without Leaving Town Wine tasting rooms have become a big trend for wineries and towns in California. In quaint Carmel, there are 15 places people can go wine tasting. To put some order to this, the city of Carmel By-The-Sea has created the Wine Walk Passport. It involves nine tasting rooms for $65. With most tasting rooms … [Read more...]
Carmel Best Happy Hour Bars: Vesuvio Rooftop & BarMel
A Lively Atmosphere & A Good Dive Bar Some might argue that Happy Hour in Carmel is any hour you are awake in Carmel. It would be a valid point. Especially if you are in one of its many wine tasting rooms on the Carmel Wine Walk. But Carmel does have Happy Hour and here are the two best ones. Because of the times, you can hit one, then walk to the other in five … [Read more...]
Top 5 Reasons To Stay At The Hofsas House Carmel Hotel, Especially #3!
Price & Family-Run Accommodations In Monterey Bay One of PubClub.com's favorite places in California is the Monterey/Carmel area. There's gorgeous scenery all along the coast, there's wine tasting everywhere and "no-rush" pace. And when there, especially in Carmel, we like to stay at the Hofsas House hotel. Here's five reasons why you should, too: 1.) It's In Carmel! … [Read more...]
Holman Ranch Carmel Valley Wine Tasting Room Good Review
Family-Run Winery Specializes In Pinot Noir Wines There are dozens of wine tasting rooms in Carmel Village – about a 20-minute drive from even more tasting rooms in the town of Carmel-By-The-Sea – so how do you choose which ones to visit? Well here's one that PubClub.com recommends. It's the tasting room for a small, local and family-run winery called Holman Ranch. In fact, … [Read more...]