Visitors to Ojai go to meditate up in the mountains, find a nice patio for a glass of Californian chardonnay, dive into Lake Casitas, or stroll through the local art galleries – this is a city that marches to its own heartbeat, and it's no wonder that its inhabitants have called it the "Shangri-La of Southern California." Not to mention their healthy food scene, which balances healthy soul-serving nutrition with gourmet flare. OjaiĪ mere 90-minute drive from LA and 50 minutes from Santa Barbara, Ojai is the place to go for a perfectly peaceful weekend retreat. With the added perks of a drizzle of Spanish-imported olive oil and local line-caught fish, these plates will leave no visitor hungry.
Café Beaujolais has found a way to pack flavors both hyper-local and from a far à la française on a clean white dish. One of the finest examples of this culinary culture lives at Café Beaujolais, which offers an extensive wine list of both local Mendocino and French wines. Here you'll find eco-conscious inns and lodgings, restaurants which support local producers, and parks that show love to local musicians – they care about the land and the people on the land, because both are worthy of preserving, right down to the details. With miles and miles of ocean and exorbitant parklife, there's always something to do, and if there isn't, the famous Mendocino zinfandel ensures that there's always something to drink. Just three hours from Sacramento, Mendocino County is a perfect one-day getaway.
The taco trucks of Malibu, the Southwest-style diners of Pacific Grove, the seafood shacks along the Central Coast there’s Thomas Keller’s indomitable French Laundry with its parade of tiny, delicate, edible pieces of art the French country-style vineyard restaurants which form their menus to best accompany top-selling Zinfandels there’s taquerias, oyster bars, trendy vegan bistros, barbecue barns, rustic family bakeries, inventive frozen yogurt cafés, and almost every other kind of eatery left to imagine – all in the Sunshine State, as varied as its soaring landscapes. Everything else is left to taste and circumstance. The cuisine of California is too broad and ephemeral to be synthesized down to what celebrity chefs and restaurants now market as "Californian Cuisine," but there are certainly a few mainstays in the culinary genre – use of fresh, local ingredients the food should be best devoured outside, either under the ethereal glow of sunlight peeking through vineyards misty with dew, or by the pale glistening shores of SoCal beaches.
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