Every time I start spending time in a new city I spend a few days scoping out a cheap and homey little place I like to go to after work, often alone.
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Every time I start spending time in a new city I spend a few days scoping out a cheap and homey little place I like to go to after work, often alone. In Dubai, it was a family-run Iranian restaurant where they just bring me nonstop food once I walked through the door. Here in Monterey, it’s probably a tiny little Lebanese place run by a cute old man I love
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Also got free (vegan) baklava yay
Paprika is really cute! Very homey place I think I will be here a lot
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@skinnylatte Ah, that place on Lighthouse Ave.? Definitely decent!
There's a Mediterranean market on Lighthouse Ave. called International Market & Deli which I think also had an OK falafel? It's been ages since I ate there though, so not sure if it's changed in the intervening decades.
Figures that Monterey's first all vegan restaurant (El Cantaro on Foam Street) opened after I moved out of the area.
Growing up in that area, Tillie Gort's (which is now gone, but was also on Lighthouse) was a hippie haven with lots of vegan options at least.
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@teajaygrey yeah the paprika isn't a place i'll be like you MUST go but it's more of a 'it's a nice place to just be and have above average food made with love'
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@skinnylatte when we were passing through Monterey I remember we visited a tiny place called Cafe Guaraní, it felt a bit like stepping into my grandmother's living room
We had amazing empanadas and yerba mate on the back patio sitting next to a statuary fountain, which was definitely a mood
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@zrb thank you, i have also been there it is lovely
