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The area's best restaurants.

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  Executive Chef Chris Kobayashi on the CCM Diner cover
2009 CCM® Reader Recipe Contest
Victory is Served
October 2009

Four readers take the cake with their award-winning homemade recipes featured at Corner View Restaurant this October.

And the winners are...
  Grand Prize Winner Laurie Marks Musial

DESTINATION DINING
July/August 2009

Check out where CCM heads for old fashioned ice cream, delicious gourmet sandwiches, awesome happy hour deals, romantic dining spots, and more in our annual roundup of staff picks.

  2009 July/August - Picks
2009 Ultimate Chef Competition
Challenge: Nuts
May 2009

More than twenty chefs. Ten days. Four dishes. Two Finalists. One champion.
Find out who took home the title in our annual culinary competition–an epicurean Olympics for the region's finest chefs.

And the winner is...
  Ultimate Chef Central Coast 2009

Food Experience:
Going Native
April 2008

Restaurants are like cultural canaries in a coal mine; they tell us just how we’re doing where our levels of taste and dining sophistication are concerned. If a town is full of Applebee’s and Outbacks, then the entire community will have a limited culinary language. But if a place is made up of Novos and Artisans, Montrios and Miros, you have a diverse dialect of inspired food shared by all... read more.

tomato, pickle, lettuce, meatloaf, appetizer

Food Experience:
Artisan
March 2007

Ahhh, the evolution of the Central Coast. As we crave the continued infusion of a higher caliber of goods, services, and culture, we meanwhile cling to the ever-so-slightly warmer and friendlier aspects of our off-the-beaten-track existence...read more.

  Artisan Restaurant

 


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