The Lighthouse District Dining Guide has been freshly updated to reflect new business hours and more! To make it easy to find the restaurants that best suit your needs during the stay-at-home order, our Dining Guide has three categories: take-out, delivery, and no-contact curbside pick-up.

Enjoy a delicious meal or treat to-go from one of our many fine establishments and support a small, locally-owned business in New Monterey's Lighthouse District.

If you missed the Monterey Planning Commission Meeting on December 8, they hosted the second in a series of virtual community workshops to discuss how to adapt our transportation system to the projected sea level rise and they made a recording of it.

To watch the workshop, please forward the YouTube video to about 3 hours and 3 minutes into the recording of the Planning Meeting (marked as 3:03). The City of Monterey is developing a Climate Change web page that will be ready soon and will provide more information.

Things we miss from The Before Times...Tiki Tuesdays! But Hula's Island Grill is turning on the time machine and beginning this week, 2pm-8pm on Tuesdays, they're offering tiki cocktails, half litres of Hinano beer, and Scenic Stout for only $7 each. The only catch? All adult beverages must be purchased with food. And it's all gotta be picked up at the curb.

Hula's Island Grill is located at 622 Lighthouse Avenue in Monterey. Check out the menu here and give them a call at 831-655-4852 to place your food and drink order for pick-up.

The Old Monterey Dining Guide has been freshly updated to reflect new business hours and more! To make it easy to find the restaurants and cafes that best suit your needs during the stay-at-home order, our Dining Guide has three categories: take-out, delivery, and no-contact curbside pick-up.

Enjoy a delicious meal or treat to-go from one of our many fine food and drink establishments and support a small, locally-owned business.

It's cold outside, and Siamese Bay Restaurant invites you to warm up with a to-go order of our delicious Tom Kah Kai Soup. Featuring chicken, coconut milk, and fresh mushrooms, this traditional Thai soup made from scratch in our kitchen is a perfect blend of creamy and spicy.

Siamese Bay Restaurant, located at 131 Webster Street in Old Monterey, is open daily, 11am-7pm. Give us a call at 831-373-1550 to place your order for pick-up.

As you know, it has been a very tough winter for restaurants with the December 2020 Shelter-in-Place order requiring restaurants to close outdoor dining. A guest videography team wanted to do something nice for restaurant businesses struggling in the Covid-19 pandemic and they chose Downtown Campbell as the location to shoot a short promotional video.

The SeeFood team did a wonderful video featuring Downtown Campbell restaurants and gave our eateries a chance to express their gratitude for the support that you've given us in 2020. That so many of our eateries survived 2020 is a testament to how much our community has been there for us. To everyone who's been ordering take-out to keep our restaurants alive, we cannot thank you enough.

Thanks for visiting Downtown Campbell, SeeFood team and thank you so much for the great video!

About SeeFood

SeeFood works with restaurants to make them a visual picture menus and features the menus on the SeeFood app to allow people to quickly and visually browse the menu. SeeFood's goal is to get people excited about a restaurant's food and create a better dining experience for their customers by encouraging them to explore the menu beyond their usuals.

Now it’s time to reset. We will be closed for maintenance until further notice (new floors and displays incoming!) I’m so grateful we made it through 2020, thanks to our amazing customers and friends (that’s you!) keeping us going. Can’t wait to pop some bottles 🍼🍾 with you in 2021.

Let’s start the year off right! From January 1, 2021 through January 15, 2021, Shelley Bennett Skincare invites you to enjoy 15% off orders over $50 on our website with the code FreshStart.

Our retail shop features Shelley Bennett's own line of skincare products as well as Caudalie's full line of products and Image Skincare's clinical line. In addition, we carry skin care tools such as jade rollers, organic cotton washcloths, and more. Curbside pick-up as well as shipping and local delivery are available.

Shelley Bennett Skincare is located at 588 Houston Street in Downtown Old Monterey.

Cheryl Graham has been a beloved friend and dedicated employee at Parker-Lusseau Pastries and Cafe for 12 years. The Monday before Christmas, Cheryl suffered a stroke at work. Staff called 911 and she was immediately transported to CHOMP. On December 31, she was moved to CHOMP's Acute Rehab Center, where she is receiving the best care available and currently undergoes three therapy sessions each day.

Cheryl has a long road to recovery ahead of her. If you are able, please consider contributing to Cheryl Graham's GoFundMe page to help pay the bills as she travels this difficult journey.

From Parker-Lusseau:
In Cheryl's eyes, our customers come first. No matter what kind of day she is having, she always has something nice to say to them - a simple smile, a hug (pre-Covid), a compliment, while fixing their favorite drink. She knows many customers on a first name basis. We ALL love her.

Monterey Museum of Art presents an online symposium on Saturday, January 9, 10am-5pm, entitled Change = Action/Time: Generational Activism in Chicanx and Latinx Art. For more information and to register, click here.

Join Latinx and Chicanx artists and scholars including MacArthur Fellow Amalia Mesa-Bains, Ph.D., renowned collector Armando Durón, and internationally recognized Chicana artist Dr. Judith F. Baca for personal accounts, live Q & A sessions, and a live panel discussion with presenters moderated by Susana Smith Bautista, Ph.D.

MMA is also proud to welcome U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera as the invocation speaker for this year’s symposium. The symposium coincides with the Califas exhibition opening January 8 in partnership with Museo Eduardo Carrillo. Califas artists will host the morning discussion about generational experiences and activism in and around the Monterey Bay Crescent. MMA will also host local musicians, actors, and spoken word performances during breaks and transitions.

Alta Bakery and Cafe is happy to announce our January drink of the month, a maple cardamom latte. Come and try it this month - we're located at 502 Munras Avenue in Downtown Old Monterey.