For the second summer in a row, Monterey State Historic Park is hosting the Los Exploradores de Monterey Summer Day Camp for children entering 3rd grade to those entering 6th grade. During the ten-day sessions, camp attendees learn about Monterey’s rich cultural history and natural spaces through fun activities including period games, nature observation and interactive guided tours.

Highlights include whale watching, hands-on historic candle making, and a session where children pilot a remote-controlled submersible vehicle in Monterey Harbor. The programs take place in Monterey State Historic Park’s historic adobes and scenic gardens along with field trips to Colton Hall and the Cooper Molera Adobe complex, and a whale watching expedition.

Three separate sessions of the camp will be offered this summer. Ten-day sessions run June 5-16 and July 17-28. Please register online here. For more information, please call 831-717-8125.

Sponsored by the Monterey State Historic Park Association and led by California State Park staff, the camp days begin at 9am and end at 2pm. Prices are $400 for the 10-day sessions and $240 for the five-day session. Please join us this summer in historic Monterey!

Venture Gallery presents the work of Barbara Lee Furbush, our featured artist for June. Her exhibit, entitled Ephemeral Evolutions, invites engagement with the protean dance between sky and water.

A printmaker by training, Barbara's images are atmospheric - she chases the ephemeral with ink veils layered on paper to create her original prints. Barbara writes, "Printmaking allows me liberation, freedom...as I move through the creative process...My prints [are] mostly an intuitive and experiential process."

Venture Gallery is now open 10am-6pm six days a week and 2pm-6pm on Tuesdays. Barbara Lee Furbush's artwork will be featured through June 2023. Venture Gallery is located at 260 Alvarado Street in Downtown Old Monterey. Visit our website to shop online for work by our local artists.

Manasiri's Crepes and Sandwiches invites you to dive into the enchanting flavors of our freshly brewed Moroccan tea, where honey and mint intertwine to create a captivating blend. Sip, savor, and let the aroma transport you from Downtown Old Monterey to the vibrant streets of Morocco.

Family owned and operated, Manasiri's is located at 321 Alvarado Street, open Sun-Thu, 8am-7pm, and Fri-Sat, 8am-10pm.

The Coastal Roots Hospitality Group - including Montrio restaurant at 414 Calle Principal in Downtown Old Monterey - has designated Loaves, Fishes & Computers as the nonprofit recipient of its Pick It Up - Pay It Forward Program for the month June 2023.

What does this mean? When you order takeout food from Montrio, 10% of your order will automatically be donated to local nonprofit Loaves, Fishes & Computers. (Please note: this offer does not apply to delivery orders.)

Based in Salinas, Loaves, Fishes & Computers provides low-cost computers and bilingual computer literacy classes to low-income families in Monterey County.

Red velvet donuts are back at Red's Donuts every Wednesday and Saturday! Visit Red's at 433 Alvarado Street in Downtown Old Monterey and enjoy this delicious local institution founded in 1950. Open Tuesday - Saturday, 6am-1pm, and Sunday - Monday, 6am-12:30pm.

Design Time Creations now has new t-shirt designs for all ages and genders available in our store at 800 Lighthouse Avenue, Suite B in Monterey, including some fun new shirts for 2023 graduates. Come and check them out!

We also now carry the new clothing brand F8th Garb Apparel, which includes tees, hats, and hoodies - it's streetwear with a Christian theme.

Design Time Creations is a Black, women-owned small business. We offer custom items for almost every occasion or special event and have items ready to purchase in the shop.

The classic cocktail section of the menu at Pearl Hour Cocktail Bar goes from $13 to $10, Wednesday and Sunday, 6pm-8pm. We would love to see you!

Our classic cocktail menu includes: Corpse Reviver No. 2, Sazerac, Paloma, Negroni, Bee’s Knees, Daiquiri, Gaby Deslys. Southside, Gibson, and Manhattan. We're open Wednesday - Sunday, 6pm-1am, at 214 Lighthouse Avenue in Monterey.

Looking for a decadent sweet treat? Lilify carries a new, sublime line of small batch, artisanal chocolate bars handmade in California in the shop. The owners of Valerie Confections, Valerie and Stan, create their luxury chocolates in Los Angeles.

The gorgeous Blushing Berry Bar, pictured here, is velvety white chocolate studded with raspberry, pistachio, and rose petals. Lilify also carries Valerie's Almond Toffee Bar, Bittersweet Bar, Rice and Sesame Bar, and Durango Bar (milk chocolate, roasted almond, smoked salt, and cocoa nib). All these are available online and in our shop at 281 Lighthouse Avenue in Monterey.

On The Beach Surf Shop is happy to have this season's Bromelia swimwear in new spring colors at our shop at 693 Lighthouse Avenue in Monterey.

A woman-owned business, Bromelia swimwear embraces sustainable practices, is made in Los Angeles, and celebrates all different body types.

Cella Restaurant and Bar welcomes our new Executive Chef Cal Stamenov to the team at 525 Polk Street in Downtown Old Monterey. Blending classic technique with local simplicity and slow food cooking, Chef Cal brings years of experience and relationships with the area's best farmers and foragers.

Chef Cal, who has become the chef's chef of the Central Coast, has reigned from the early days of the Highlands Inn overseeing the Masters of Food and Wine events, to building Bernardus Lodge's culinary team that would end up cultivating some of the area's best chefs.

Chefs Ben Spungin and Cal Stamenov are happy to be back together again at Cella after working with each other at Bernardus Lodge during the iconic years of Marinus Restaurant.

Looking for storage solutions for your home? Cha-ya Japanese Tea and Things has a couple of new tansu in the shop. A tansu is a traditional Japanese mobile storage cabinet and they're commonly used to store objects of daily use, clothes, and personal items. Right now, we have a tall tansu for the kitchen and a shorter tansu for clothing.

We also have a beautifully decorated four panel screen which would enhance any room. Visit us at 118 Webster Street in Downtown Old Monterey to view these in person. We're open Monday - Saturday, 11am - 4pm.

Om Studios is excited to announce that our renovations are done and the studio is back open again at 631 Cass Street, Suite B in Downtown Old Monterey. We had to take a huge pause to repair winter storm damage, but the time away has allowed us to make some nice updates to our studio.

We're now back to our regular schedule offering yoga, barre, and reformer classes. You can book your classes up to two weeks in advance on our website.

We want to give a special thanks to Rene for her amazing art studio, Lululemon, and Alta Bakery for allowing us a space to practice while our studio was closed. We love our community!