Guidebook for Watsonville

Kathleen
Guidebook for Watsonville

Food Scene

Great Food...breakfast lunch and dinner..full bar...historic building! Love the eggs benedict for breakfast and their lunch soups are to die for especially the clam chowder! Everyone is very friendly!
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Wooden Nickle Bar & Grill
1819 Freedom Blvd
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Great Food...breakfast lunch and dinner..full bar...historic building! Love the eggs benedict for breakfast and their lunch soups are to die for especially the clam chowder! Everyone is very friendly!
Great breakfast!
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Red Apple Café
783 Rio Del Mar Blvd
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Great breakfast!
Great coffe and pastries!
Starbucks
975 Main St
Great coffe and pastries!
American food and 4 blocks away!
Yesy's Restaurant
707 Freedom Boulevard
American food and 4 blocks away!
Great Thai food, wine and beer. The owner and other wait staff are Thai and beautiful people and very polite. The spring rolls and pad thai noodles are amazing.
Bangkok West Thai Cuisine
1433 Main St
Great Thai food, wine and beer. The owner and other wait staff are Thai and beautiful people and very polite. The spring rolls and pad thai noodles are amazing.
Best Japanese food around! Great sushi and authentic Japenese food. closed Monday.
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Miyuki Restaurant
452 E Lake Ave
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Best Japanese food around! Great sushi and authentic Japenese food. closed Monday.
Japanese food.
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Imura Japanese Restaurant
1994 Main St
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Japanese food.
Great authentic mexican food, great Mexican seafood dishes.
La Perla Del Pacifico
458 Main St
Great authentic mexican food, great Mexican seafood dishes.
Amazing burritos and tacos and very reasonable and only 4 blocks away!
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Super Taqueria
1095 S White Rd
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Amazing burritos and tacos and very reasonable and only 4 blocks away!
coffe and egg mc muffins...yum!
McDonald's
1459 Main St
coffe and egg mc muffins...yum!
fast food
McDonald's
1459 Main St
fast food
This is a beautiful building...great high ceilings and an outdoor courtyard. I love the Prawns with Diablo Sauce and white whole beans. Request the large size shrimp and the whole white beans.
Taqueria El Alteño
323 Main St
This is a beautiful building...great high ceilings and an outdoor courtyard. I love the Prawns with Diablo Sauce and white whole beans. Request the large size shrimp and the whole white beans.
Many of my friends/others like this restaurant. To me it is rather generic, pricey and could be a long wait to get in. You order at station and they bring to your table. Live music evenings.6:30-8:30
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Phil's Fish Market & Eatery
10700 Merritt Street
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Many of my friends/others like this restaurant. To me it is rather generic, pricey and could be a long wait to get in. You order at station and they bring to your table. Live music evenings.6:30-8:30
Great hole in the wall authentic Mexican Food. Family run. I like the garlic prawns.
La Fondita Restaurante
30 E 5th St
Great hole in the wall authentic Mexican Food. Family run. I like the garlic prawns.
Great Mexican Restaurant in Moss Landing
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The Whole Enchilada Market Place
7902 CA-1
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Great Mexican Restaurant in Moss Landing
This has a great bar with very high ceilings and the restaurant is in the old part of the Palomar Hotel. Great Mexican Restaurunt downtown Santa Cruz on Pacific Avenue.
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El Palomar Restaurant
1336 Pacific Ave
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This has a great bar with very high ceilings and the restaurant is in the old part of the Palomar Hotel. Great Mexican Restaurunt downtown Santa Cruz on Pacific Avenue.
This is a tucked away cafe in Corrolitas...about 15 min north on Freedom Blvd.
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Cadillac Cafe
2906 Freedom Blvd
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This is a tucked away cafe in Corrolitas...about 15 min north on Freedom Blvd.
Walk up Lincoln to Freedom...on the corner of Freedom and Martinelli...Some people say the best in town! Take out also!
Cassidy's Pizza
1400 Freedom Blvd
Walk up Lincoln to Freedom...on the corner of Freedom and Martinelli...Some people say the best in town! Take out also!

Drinks & Nightlife

Best Mexican food ever...full bar...historic building! Make sure you have the chicken of fish cooked over the mesquite wood, the guacamole made to order at your table and a pitcher of margaritas!!!!!
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Jalisco Restaurant
618 Main St
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Best Mexican food ever...full bar...historic building! Make sure you have the chicken of fish cooked over the mesquite wood, the guacamole made to order at your table and a pitcher of margaritas!!!!!
Classic American food! Bar!
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Applebee's Grill + Bar
555 Saratoga Ave
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Classic American food! Bar!
Kim the owner is great...tell her hi from me. You can sit outside or inside and see the art her husband created. In an old Victorian building.
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Haute Enchilada Café
7902 Moss Landing Rd
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Kim the owner is great...tell her hi from me. You can sit outside or inside and see the art her husband created. In an old Victorian building.
Great Thai Restaurant in Moss Landing. Full Bar. See menu online.
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Lemongrass Seafood Bar & Grill Thai Cuisine
413 Moss Landing Rd
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Great Thai Restaurant in Moss Landing. Full Bar. See menu online.

Everything Else

Great homemade pies! You can get a piece of pie with ice cream and eat it outside at a picnic table with a view of the apple orchards. Nita Gizdich has won the Ag Woman of the year for the USA.
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Gizdich Ranch
55 Peckham Rd
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Great homemade pies! You can get a piece of pie with ice cream and eat it outside at a picnic table with a view of the apple orchards. Nita Gizdich has won the Ag Woman of the year for the USA.
Great little bar with happy hours and good Mexican food.
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Cilantros
1934 Main St
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Great little bar with happy hours and good Mexican food.
At different times of the year this is open to the public.
Moss Landing Marine Labs
8272 Moss Landing Rd
At different times of the year this is open to the public.
Close by but I prefer Manresa Beach.
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Moss Landing State Beach
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Close by but I prefer Manresa Beach.
Absolutely beautiful and lots of parking. Great drive from the church...with views of the ocean and strawberry fields along the way. $10 entry fee.
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Pantai Negeri Manresa
1445 San Andreas Rd
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Absolutely beautiful and lots of parking. Great drive from the church...with views of the ocean and strawberry fields along the way. $10 entry fee.
Close by. Manresa Beach to me is worth the extra drive.
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Pantai Sunset
Sunset Beach Road
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Close by. Manresa Beach to me is worth the extra drive.
Close by. Can be windy. I prefer Manresa Beach.
Palm Beach State Park
2660 Beach Rd
Close by. Can be windy. I prefer Manresa Beach.
I love Capitola. You can sit on benches (and have coffee, ice cream from Zelda) with a beautiful view of the beach. There is a city parking lot off entered from Bay Ave. or Park Ave..
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Capitola
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I love Capitola. You can sit on benches (and have coffee, ice cream from Zelda) with a beautiful view of the beach. There is a city parking lot off entered from Bay Ave. or Park Ave..
I used to live here also! There are so many great restaurants. I would say the Crow's Nest is my favorite. It is on the beach and harbor...great view of sail boats.
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Santa Cruz
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I used to live here also! There are so many great restaurants. I would say the Crow's Nest is my favorite. It is on the beach and harbor...great view of sail boats.
I love sitting outside at the Whale City Bakery and having a glass of wine and calamari.
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Davenport
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I love sitting outside at the Whale City Bakery and having a glass of wine and calamari.
I used to live and teach in Monterey. Beautiful...love cannery row...not the tourist stuff but a quaint restaurant...
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Monterey
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I used to live and teach in Monterey. Beautiful...love cannery row...not the tourist stuff but a quaint restaurant...
I used to live in PG on Mermaid Avenue near Lover's Point. This whole town is quaint and just plain beautiful!
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Pacific Grove
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I used to live in PG on Mermaid Avenue near Lover's Point. This whole town is quaint and just plain beautiful!
If you love restaurants and art go here!!!
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Carmel di tepi laut
San Antonio Avenue
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If you love restaurants and art go here!!!
A drive along 17 mile drive is amazing!
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Pebble Beach
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A drive along 17 mile drive is amazing!
This is so gorgeous...and the feeling you get when you go there is out of this world!
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Point Lobos
Point Lobos
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This is so gorgeous...and the feeling you get when you go there is out of this world!
Try the Sparrow Cafe (lamb with raspberry sause) or the old hotel across the street for a drink at the bar.
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Aptos
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Try the Sparrow Cafe (lamb with raspberry sause) or the old hotel across the street for a drink at the bar.
Try Bargetto's Winery on Main Street for Wine tasting. Great little town with antique shops and great restaurants.
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Soquel
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Try Bargetto's Winery on Main Street for Wine tasting. Great little town with antique shops and great restaurants.
Stop at the market on the corner and get smoked turkey sandwich and go up the Corralitos Wine Trail or hiking in The Byrne Land Trust Hikihttp://www.landtrustsantacruz.org/history.htm
Corralitos
Stop at the market on the corner and get smoked turkey sandwich and go up the Corralitos Wine Trail or hiking in The Byrne Land Trust Hikihttp://www.landtrustsantacruz.org/history.htm
Beautiful redwoods for hiking or mountain biking.
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Taman Negeri Hutan Nisene Marks
Aptos Creek Road
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Beautiful redwoods for hiking or mountain biking.
Kayaking
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Kayak Connection
2370 CA-1
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Kayaking
Birders or hikers would appreciate this and it is close...south about 15 minutes.
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Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve
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Birders or hikers would appreciate this and it is close...south about 15 minutes.
Sandwiches and salads and great coffee! Downtown easy to get to.
Second Street Café
28 2nd St
Sandwiches and salads and great coffee! Downtown easy to get to.

Sightseeing

Close by. Beautiful.
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Pantai Rio Del Mar
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Close by. Beautiful.
I used to live up Palo ColoradoCanyon on Rocky Creek. The coastline and views are staggeringly gorgeous! Try Rock Point Restaurnat or Nepenthe's or Ventana or Post Ranch Inn!
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Big Sur
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I used to live up Palo ColoradoCanyon on Rocky Creek. The coastline and views are staggeringly gorgeous! Try Rock Point Restaurnat or Nepenthe's or Ventana or Post Ranch Inn!

Shopping

Everyone that works there is soooooooo friendly. Our downtown anchor store...lol! Great clothes and treasures!
Goodwill Central Coast
1550 41st Ave
Everyone that works there is soooooooo friendly. Our downtown anchor store...lol! Great clothes and treasures!