Sandbar & Grill
Municipal Wharf 2, Monterey, (831) 373‑2818, sandbarandgrillmonterey.com
How best to describe a Bloody Mary? Maybe this: “It is elixir, it is pretty close to a transfusion.” That’s what Tod Johnson told the king in The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication – and while Steinbeck’s tale may be fictional, the powers of the Bloody Mary are very real, especially as prescribed by the folks at Sandbar & Grill. At the harborside favorite, the cocktail is not overburdened. It’s an honest version in that there is nothing particularly special about it except that their Bloody Mary is just right. May its reign be long.