A wine market, tasting bar and bistro on the second floor of Cannery Row, pouring and selling more than a hundred wines from over sixty Monterey County wineries above the bay. Bottles can be bought in the market or shipped through its online shop and wine club.
Best for Wine, wine-market, Monterey-wine, tasting-room
A Cannery Row shop where visitors taste from more than seventy olive oils and balsamic vinegars before buying, with oils sourced from Tunisia and Australia and balsamics aged by the Solera method in Modena. It also carries specialty oils, spice blends and gift sets, available in store and online.
Best for Olive-oil, balsamic-vinegar, spices, specialty-food
A friendly used bookstore on Alvarado Street in downtown Monterey, stocking fiction, poetry, children's books and non-fiction. It hosts reading groups, poetry workshops and author signings, and lists titles through an online catalogue.