These words are being written by a Zagat Reviewer and a public health professional. We just had a Saturday night dinner in the quasi-elegant fine dining room of this, possibly the largest hotel and conference center on the Monterey Peninsula, adjoining the Pebble Beach Company's Old Del Monte Golf Course, one of the oldest, if not the oldest publically accessible Golf Course in California. If you like a bar and lounge with loud music with your $$$$ Saturday night dinner then this is your place. If you like to share a men's bathroom with filthy drunken bums from a sports bar across from this dining room, on a Saturday night, then this is your place too. But finally, if you like to dine in a restaurant with an open kitchen whose sinks seem to connect with that horror of a men's bathroom mentioned above and where my green salad seemed to contain e.coli, probably from being washed with sink water into which water from the men's toilets has leeched, then for the $50.00 or so my dinner cost someone else (I had Pellagrino for my before dinner "drink"), then, at least in my humble opinion, you will have had a fine dining experience on the Monterey Peninsula that should last you a lifetime. We have been eating there for near 11 years, breakfast, lunches, dinners, Christmas, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, what have you, and it has only, at least in my experience in "eating out" which includes a childhood on New York City's Manhattan Island and adulthood in San Francisco, California in such restaurants as shall remain nameless here, gone downhill. But I can tell you this, that my fine dining experience includes places where billionaire businessmen take their families out for a free corporate meal and where my senior Senatorr from the State of California likes to eat out, too. Tums before and after this "ultimate hotel dining' experience plus a good swig of "peto" fixed me up fine. Have a good one. (Please post as is; thank you and Happy New Year)
Pros: Great House Security. Every employee is a security guard.
Cons: Parking on Saturday Night is Almost Impossible.
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