Central California Restaurants Are Worth the Drive from LA and SF | Eater

"Housed in a turn-of-the-last-century building retrofitted into a standalone restaurant, this long-running family operation emphasizes traditional Central Coast, meat-forward dinners. The Ostini family maintains a rib-eye-, T-bone- and pork-rib–centric menu served as full meals with crudités, shrimp cocktail, bread service, coffee and a scoop of ice cream. A large glass window puts the region’s Santa Maria–style barbecue on display, with flat, cross-hatched grates and open-air smoking adapted to modern kitchen ventilation — an evocative link to the area’s ranching roots." - Farley Elliott