As California’s First City, Monterey holds a rich history inside of its many buildings and adobes. On our Monterey Bay Food Tours, we highlight how many of these first structures pulled double- or even triple-duty over the years as the city rapidly changed, existing as banks, jails, stores, and restaurants.
This blog will explore one of Monterey’s unique restaurants housed inside a historic building, giving you a fascinating (and maybe spooky!) appreciation for our culinary hot spots.
There’s a time and place to be scared, and October brings out everyone’s desire for the strange and unexplained. If you love Halloween and some good ghost stories, what better place to enjoy some haunted history than the famous Monterey Bay? A lot of people — including those who have lived here all their lives — haven’t the faintest idea what the history of the bay is like, nor about the ghosts said to hang around the streets after dark. While it would take a book the size of a dictionary to discuss every ghostly sighting in Monterey’s 250-year history, in preparation of our upcoming Haunted Monterey Food Tour, we wanted to highlight a few places (especially some we’re not physically visiting) that are said to occasionally go bump in the night.
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