Restaurant 1833
500 Hartnell St., Monterey
(831) 643-1833, www.restaurant1833.com
They came to change the game. And the Coastal Luxury Management team behind 1833 has. No other spot in Monterey or elsewhere in county offers as many swank-but-accessible spaces to eat and interact, so many sharp cocktails, so many of-the-moment creative tastes. But with such an ambitious and big restaurant, the details can get endangered. Not here, where every morsel of crispy pork or drop of Penicillin No. 2 or polished magnifying glass prop dovetails – by design – and transports visitors to a place of merry memory making and delicious overindulgence.