Nick C.
Yelp
TL;DR: tasty pizzas and oysters but don't even think about coming here after a hike or exercise
Although the feeling has been building for months, it was at Cafe Reyes that I finally realized that the foodie obsession with "authentic" Italian food has exceeded all reasonable bounds on sense. In my photo, you see a small pizza, with nice dough, an anemic smear of tomato sauce and cheese, topped with mere morsels of meat and fish--not too many, because the thin Neapolitan dough has little structural soundness--there's approximately zero vegetables, and it costs about $25. What?!
Scrolling through some reviews, I see that many people are dropping in after long hikes and kayaks, as I did, and as one would expect at Point Reyes. This seems regrettable: after rigorous exercise, the body is not satiated with carbohydrates and fats, but demands protein, which this restaurant serves extraordinarily little of. You would consume both more meat and--perhaps shockingly--more vegetables by eating a burger from In 'n' Out. This is not the fault of the restaurant per se, but rather the tastes of the market in demanding this style of food, which to be clear is inauthentic: after stepping off at Ellis Island, Italian immigrants in 19th century America did not insist on eating bread and cheese and little morsels of meat and fish once they could afford to eat otherwise. Similarly, when Americans brought pizza back from Naples, they too did not pretend to be satiated by cheese and morsels on bread.
The oysters here are good though.