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...]
Travel Blogger Daily Blog: Wine-Ing But Not Whining, While Tasting Monterey County Wines
Wineries Have Created A California Culture South Of Napa And Sonoma By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger It's getting to the point now where you can't walk out the door in Monterey County, CA, without someone sticking glass of wine in your hand. The region is that proud of the wines produced in its many wineries. The locals will talk passionately … [Read more...]
Travel Blogger Daily Blog: Exploring The World From Switzerland To Salinas CA
From The Swiss Alps To the Vendange Hotel And Twisted Roots Winery By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger You have to appreciate where you are, I always say. Whether it's in Switzerland or Salinas, CA. And in a mere two weeks I've been to both places and enjoyed each one of them. Tho in both different yet similar ways. Switzerland is so … [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...]
Hofsas House Hotel In Carmel, CA Delivers Where It Counts The Most
Consistency And Comfort In Carmel-By-The-Sea By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger When you travel, there's one thing you want from your hotel. And that's consistency. Consistency in quality, consistency in service, consistency in amenities such as reliable WiFi and consistency in the hotel itself. A lot of the latter comes down to management, and … [Read more...]
Sunset In Carmel: Beer & Bliss From The Hofsas House Hotel Balcony
Travel Blogger Relaxes With The Warming Sun & A Local Craft Beer By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger It was late on a Sunday afternoon in November, a warm day fading into a cool Carmel evening, with the sun gradually losing its intensity as it began its decent into the Pacific Ocean. I was sitting on the back balcony of the Hofsas House hotel and … [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...]
Top 10 Things To Do In Monterey & Carmel While It’s Raining
Wine Tasting, A Food Tour, The Aquarium, Whale Watching & More Are All-Weather Activities In Monterey Bay A great destination when the sun is out, it does occasionally get wet in Carmel and Monterey, California. And when that happens, there's no need to sit around the hotel room flipping channels on the TV or going through your smart phone trying to find something … [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 & Monterey 2016 Holiday Season Happenings & Events
Boat Parade, A Wine Festival & A Parade Of Lights Along The Central California Coast Beautiful Carmel and Monterey along the Central California coastline doesn't go dormant in the winter. Both places in Monterey Bay have several events for the holidays and here's the top ones along with dates and descriptions. • 22nd Annual Cannery Row Holiday Tree Lighting, … [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...]
Carmel & Monterey: Top California Destinations For Wine, Food & Relaxing
Enjoying A Pair Of Coastal Travel Paradises By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger When a traveler thinks of California, the palm trees of the Southern California coast, the Hollywood celebrities of Los Angeles and the Golden Gate Bridge and restaurants of San Francisco often come first to mind. Yet California is as diverse as it it big. There are also … [Read more...]
Why It’s Okay For Men To Drink Rose Wines
New #WineLover Gets An Education From Holman Ranch Winery The second thing that Carla, a friend giving me my initial wine education, said to me was "don't ever drink rose in public." Her point was that rose, being a blend of red and white grapes, was a clear indication to girls that a guy drinking it was not a good decision maker. And girls like take-charge, confident … [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...]
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...]
#WineWedneday Hashtag A Good Excuse For Midweek #WineLovers
I'll Drink (Wine) To This Weekly Social Media 'Holiday' Sometimes, I get the feeling that certain social media hashtags were created not because there is something important to share, but as an excuse to justify behavior that normally would seem a bit off kilter. Or, in the case of #WineWednesday, a midweek celebration of wine when such a thing is usually reserved … [Read more...]
A Night Of Luxury At Vendange, Carmel’s Wine-Themed Hotel
Savoring Unique Accommodations In Monterey Bay, CA Wine and Carmel, CA, go together like golf and Pebble Beach. But to put them together in a hotel? A themed hotel? In Carmel!? What a brilliant idea! That's what the owners of Vendange Inn & Suites have done and much to their credit the execution is as grand as the idea. I can tell you this because I've had a … [Read more...]
Carmel’s Best Bars And Most Fun Nightlife Is Mundaka And Ody’s
Hip Lounge And Dive Bar Make For A Fun Combination In Monterey Bay You will never mistake it for Paradise Beach on Mykonos, New Orleans or even down the coast in Hermosa Beach. But Carmel, CA, has some fun nightlife, and my two favorite places are Mundaka and Ody's Tavern. There are the two best bars in Carmel and frankly, probably also expanding to Monterey. They are … [Read more...]
Galante Is My Favorite Tasting Room On The Carmel Wine Walk
Good Wines Combine With Friendly Conversation In This California Gem Of all the fine wine tasting rooms as part of the Carmel Wine Walk, Galante is my favorite. That's because the hostess, Jenna, is lively and lovely, mildly sassy, loves Jimmy Buffett, will have wine herself with you, breaks out cheese and crackers and doesn't mind giving you an extra pour if you are … [Read more...]
California Party Weekend In Carmel, Santa Cruz And Wine Tasting
Four Fun Days In Three Great And Gorgeous Coastal Cities As great as the beach life is in Southern California, I also enjoying heading up the coast on occasion to the upper central coast of the state. And so on this particular weekend I was invited on a press trip for two nights in Carmel. Well, it's a 6-hour driver from Los Angeles on the 101 Highway (a scenic six … [Read more...]
Passing On The 2013 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Party
PGA Tour Carmel Event Not On The Blogger's Calendar This Year This event used to be par for the course. As much of a no-brainer as a tap-in putt. But them something happened to the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. It got serious. It used to be serious about the party, but the past couple of years it can't seem to find the green. This PGA Tour tournament, held at the … [Read more...]