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Big Sur's Nepenthe Restaurant: quintessential California experience
Best viewed on "Original" for detail ...
Perched on the edge of the continent, high above the Pacific, watched over by the majestic Santa Lucia Mountains sits Nepenthe Restaurant. This Mecca of poets, artists, travelers and vagabonds has served guests for fifty years, opening for business on April 24, 1949.
Sitting on the terrace, enjoying a glass of wine, an Ambrosia Burger, or one of the exceptional homemade desserts is a quintessential California experience. The first time visitor to the Central Coast will not want to miss it. Once you have visited, you are destined to return.
Lolly and Bill Fassett knew they had something special when they bought a piece of Big Sur in 1947. They felt that it was so wonderful that it had to be shared: "no individual can own it, it belongs to everyone," they said.
Architect Rowan Maiden, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright, designed a building that seems to grow out of the hillside site, and they named the place Nepenthe, "isle of no care," making the phoenix bird its emblem. Three generations later, the family still owns and run Nepenthe.
Big Sur's Nepenthe Restaurant: quintessential California experience
Best viewed on "Original" for detail ...
Perched on the edge of the continent, high above the Pacific, watched over by the majestic Santa Lucia Mountains sits Nepenthe Restaurant. This Mecca of poets, artists, travelers and vagabonds has served guests for fifty years, opening for business on April 24, 1949.
Sitting on the terrace, enjoying a glass of wine, an Ambrosia Burger, or one of the exceptional homemade desserts is a quintessential California experience. The first time visitor to the Central Coast will not want to miss it. Once you have visited, you are destined to return.
Lolly and Bill Fassett knew they had something special when they bought a piece of Big Sur in 1947. They felt that it was so wonderful that it had to be shared: "no individual can own it, it belongs to everyone," they said.
Architect Rowan Maiden, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright, designed a building that seems to grow out of the hillside site, and they named the place Nepenthe, "isle of no care," making the phoenix bird its emblem. Three generations later, the family still owns and run Nepenthe.