we are all systems go for july 4th weekend. airbnb is easy.
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The Hatch is still top dog.
BL is pretty good but had some issues yesterday.
But thereâs a newcomer we need to try called Les Petites Canailles opened by someone at LâAventure
Hatch tho Is classic American heavy in southern notes . It wAs much better today during spaced out seating. It gets messy when itâs mobbed
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booked for this weekend⌠theyâre doing Prix Fixe 5 course dinners⌠hope we love love it as its for her birthday.
Miss Jamie of Bell St Farms
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Les Petites Canailles was very newly opened when we went last year. The food was quite good with a solid wine list. Though the service was earnest, it needed a little polishing. They had just opened and itâs likely theyâve ironed that out.
Good to hear about Bellâs. Up for the prix fixe for a bday in the next couple of weeks.
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We took a mental health day up to Paso recently. It was a spur of the moment thing so we didnât do much planning. We did our planning as we were driving north.
We opened the day at Niner. The winery itself was lovely. The service was also great. We got verbal tour of PasoâŚwe learned about the AVA and the variation of the soils and land in the area. The wines were a bit young or tannic for our tastes.
We headed into downtown for a tasting at JustinâŚdonât ask. It wasnât my choice. We sat for a glass and then did some exploring. We rather liked the downtown areaâŚit reminded us of SonomaâŚexcept more sprawling.
We went up to Calcareous for the last tasting of the day. The views were gorgeous. I found that I rather enjoyed the Lily BlancâŚa refreshing white on a hot summer day. We werenât fans of the reds they had on handâŚstill a little too young for us.
We quite enjoyed our day out in Paso. Weâre looking to come back in November for a couple days to do some more exploring and use some of the tips on this thread.
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Ya please upgrade all of those and try to stay away from the big corporate ones. But also thereâs no awful wine up there and itâs always nice to just be out in the area. Youâll love it so much more when itâs not hot
@Nemroz first place Iâve seen with Herman Story wines. We thoroughly enjoyed our tasting up there and purchased a few for home.
Hi-Times in Costa Mesa.
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very cool!.. thatâs a better price than retail at the winery⌠which makes sense for a saleâŚ
we picked up our fall shipment and had another bomb tasting recently.
Any places with a good deli case for picnic purposes?
Iâm told J&R. But havenât been. We pack a cooler usually
Itâs been a minute but I seem to remember Etto Pastificio in Tin City had some cool salami, cheese, and spreads. Someone recommended Cured and Cultivated at some point but itâs pretty fancy and we didnât end up going for it.
Industrial eats has lots of great sandwiches.
Etto is a cool Italian deli.
Going up Memorial Day weekend and staying with 6 families total at Cava Robles. Itâs glamping. We will most likely not go out to eat since we are a large group. Anybody have recommendations for good markets in the area? Weâll hit up the FM Saturday in the square. Many of us are going to go up with a cooler of food and the accommodations have kitchenette and communal grilling areas.
Has anybody been to Paso Market Walk? Any recommendations? Do you think a group of 25 would overwhelm them if we went over for dinner one night?
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WOOOW. That looks very fun and wifey remembered she had heard about this before. We keep staying in Cambria but this is going to have to happen soon also. Market Walk looks great as well. Never heard of it.
I donât think iâm any help for a group that big food wise. Biggest meal weâve had was at the Hatch with a 13 people. J&R is where itâs at for grilling meats. Hope you get to hang at wineries. Iâd break up the group if i had to and not miss. Thacher might be able to accomodate a large group since they put large picnic tables down by the stables. I love them so much. Maybe Venteux as well. At that level iâd do a mix of tastings and wine bottles.
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Thanks will probably pick up produce at Saturday FM (even though it looks like a small market) and meats at J&R.
Have you been here? Sandwiches look good. On the expensive side.
https://pasocheese.square.site/s/shop
nope. we almost always just stay and eat dinners in Cambria now.
@Nemroz J and R was a cool spot. We got a bunch of sausages and steaks. The kids loved the little pork chops on the bone. Highly recommend.
Tin City was packed on Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. We spent our time outside at Barrelhouse. The beers were good. Food truck parked outside. Kids were happy for the Sheeps milk ice cream at Negranti Creamery. Definitely an icier texture than normal ice cream but lovely vanilla and peanut butter chocolate chip. Went across the street to Aaron for tastings. Very good and our favorite tasting room in Tin City - take it with a grain of salt since weâve only tried 3 at most.
We tried out the Paso Market Walk food hall. There isnât much selection but out of all the vendors we really liked Just Baked and Paso Robles Wine Merchant. The cookies at Just Baked were of the gooey softer type. All of the flavors we tasted were excellent. My favorite was the ginger cookie and peanut butter toffee. If this place was near us weâd go here frequently for cookies. The wine merchant had very good local options with a friendly owner. The food was better than it needed to be especially the sourdough pretzel, oysters and pea pesto pasta with burrata.
No winery tasting due to the size of our group. Most wineries are limiting groups to 6 and most are using Tock for bookings.
If Paso Robles wasnât so far away weâd definitely go more often.
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Itâs not far away! lol⌠Napa is far away. . . youâre supposed to go with a small group and maximize your visits per year 
hope you go back and really get into the vineyards there. Really glad you tried Aaron though. Definitely best in Tin.
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