Restaurant 1833
500 Hartnell St., Monterey
(831) 643-1833, www.restaurant1833.com
Maybe it’s the ice cubes so dope O’Shea Jackson’s good day is getting worse – 1 ½-inch perfectly clear cubes produced by a specialized Kold Draft Ice machine, and designed to dilute and chill with precision – or maybe it’s the hyper fresh and intuitive ingredients from the cocktail doctors behind the bar. (Try the El Diablo with tequila, cassis, lime and ginger beer.) Or maybe it’s a sum-is-greater-than-the-parts equation, with the magic variables being the until-1am weekend hours, fire pits on the patio, loungy library, glowing bar and Saturday nights with DJ BADDJ turning tables and frowns upside down.