Quick Bites: Trailside Cafe and Coffee House adds a Carmel Valley spot.

Trailside Café and Coffee House comes to Carmel Valley late this summer in the former Toast next to Chock Rock's tasting room on Del Fino Place across from Kasey's right in the middle of town.

That gives owner-operator-disc golf savant Sean Allen et al—and their beignets, Benedicts and craft beers—two sun-splashed spots. (The other’s near Cannery Row right on the Rec Trail.)

That's good news for the valley, breakfast/lunch lovers everywhere and Allen himself, whose lease in New Monterey runs out in a year and change, and won't be renewed over differences with the landlord.

He tells me this will allow him to try out the viability of two spots before having to move his original location or simply shut 'er down to focus on Carmel Valley. 

More quick bites follow: 

• Jason Giles anchored an excellent dinner (and very good value) with Morgan—house-smoked halibut and Garys’ Pinot among the yum—then they both impressed at Cooking for Solutions. A rundown of great CFS lessons will surface on the blog, www.mcweekly.com/edible, as soon as possible.

• Chef Todd Fisher’s Father’s Day menu at Tarpy’s (647-1444) Sunday, June 15, has four courses of bacon.  

• This is just cool. Local Craft Beer King Kevin Clark of Peter B’s and New Brewer on the Block J.C. Hill of Alvarado Street Brewery (655-BEER) are doing a blood orange and honey saizon together.

• America’s Test Kitchen comes to Sunset Center (620-2048) this fall. Tickets on sale 9:30am June 20.

• Nepenthe offspring Romney Steele, the author of My Nepethe Cookbook, just opened an oyster bar in Oakland. Check out The Chef and Her Farmer at the Swan Marketplace in Old Oakland.  

• il vecchio (324 4282) has another fun and functional special night 5-9pm Mondays, with their “most popular, traditional dishes,” in smaller portions, three for $15 (additional dishes $5), with things like house-ground beef-pork-sausage meatballs, chicken milanese, Chianti-braised tri-tip, gnocchi pomodoro and 20 more choices. 

• The Monterey County Convention & Visitors Bureau continues its national taste tour with a stop on Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade Wednesday, May 28, with Yousef Ghalaini of The Bench and Tim Wood of Carmel Valley Ranch dishing tacos stuffed with local goods.

• Montrio Bistro is celebrating 19 years this month with a variety of promotions. New seasonal stuffs, too, including Monterey Bay king salmon ($29) and poutine with double-smoked Baker’s bacon ($10).

• Follow @MontereyMCA this weekend at the first Lightning in a Bottle yoga-awareness-music freakout in South County, California Roots (p. 18) at the fairgrounds and even a visit to The Shadow Box.

• Naturally caffeinated fruit juices are here: Frava is raising cash on kickstarter.