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Some towns have a restaurant that doubles as a living room. In Mendocino, that place is Frankie's. It started in August 2004, when Mary Muto opened a spot in the village that served pizza, salads, and scoops of Cowlick's ice cream in a room that felt,
For two weeks every July, the headlands town of Mendocino turns into a music town. The Mendocino Music Festival is in the final stretch of its 40th season right now, and if you have been meaning to get under that big white tent on the bluff, the clock is running.
The beer was always the reason to walk into Overtime Brewing, and that part hasn't changed. What has changed is nearly everything around it. The Elm Street brewpub has pulled back hard as it fights to stay open. The kitchen that built its reputation for comfort food has
Some places on the Mendocino Coast feel engineered for a getaway. This one feels like it simply grew into one. The property traces back to the 19th century and has been taking in guests since the late 1930s, and that long history turns up in the small comforts — a
Some bars try to be everything at once. This one doesn't, and that's exactly the appeal. Step in off the Fort Bragg fog and you get what a neighborhood bar is supposed to be: low light, a well-worn bar top, and a bartender in no
Some buildings change their purpose every generation. The hall at 430 E. Redwood Avenue, just east of Fort Bragg's downtown, has changed its owners again and again for more than 125 years and somehow never changed its purpose at all. It has almost always been a place where
For nearly sixty years, the way you knew you'd reached Noyo Harbor was the smell of clam chowder drifting out from under the bridge. Cap'n Flint's opened in 1957 at 32250 North Harbor Drive, tucked beneath the Noyo span, and for decades it was
The campus on Dana Street has taught Fort Bragg's teenagers for sixty years now, long enough that the land's earlier life — cattle and potato fields — has faded out of living memory for most who pass it. When the current Fort Bragg High School opened
Drive the two-lane through Caspar and the tall false front still leans toward the road the way it has for the better part of a century, a flat wooden face built to look grander than the single story tucked behind it. The most recent sign read Black Bear Press.
