Duarte's Tavern

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Historic restaurant in Pescadero, California. It's overhyped and overpriced. The food is decent.

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Order the green chile and artichokes soup as a single dish (they're usually separate, but you can get them combined). In fact, you may be better off ordering two separate half bowls of each and mixing them yourself, as they seem to skimp a bit on the artichoke soup for the sake of design.

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The fried smelts are excellent.

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The crab melt was good, but overpriced.

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The olallieberry pie was tasty, but nothing special. Olallieberries don't taste much different from boysenberries.

They serve Bay Bread here, which was one of the highlights of the meal.

To try:

• Fried abalone sandwich. ($25! Better be a darned good sandwich.)

See Also

• Home Page
• Duarte's Tavern. Old-school family restaurant with cioppino and lots of artichoke dishes. This article was forwarded to me by Jessica on March 23, 2009.

History

June 21, 2009

Eugene and Jessica tried it for the first time.