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With its new tapas happy hour, Estéban highlights the changing nature of happy hour.
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With its new tapas happy hour, Estéban highlights the changing nature of happy hour.

  • Dave Faries
  • Oct 9, 2025

There is something different about happy hour lately.

Best Appetizers/Small Plates (2025)
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Best Appetizers/Small Plates (2025)

  • Oct 9, 2025

Estéban Restaurant

Showing Promesa; New tapas spot in Carmel clicks right away.
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Showing Promesa; New tapas spot in Carmel clicks right away.

  • Dave Faries
  • May 25, 2022

When a restaurant is in its infancy, the dining experience is often awkward. You know how it goes—line cooks are still learning the recipes, s…

Bakai Wine + Tapas is not going out without pouring a lot of great wine.
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Bakai Wine + Tapas is not going out without pouring a lot of great wine.

  • Taryn Yudaken
  • Nov 10, 2016

BAKAI WINE + TAPAS 420 Tyler St., Monterey. 4-11pm Tue-Thu and Sun; 4pm-midnight Fri-Sat. (831) 233-2286, www.bakaiwinebar.com.

Mundaka Poised to Take Over Ody's (Plus Free Pinxtos!)
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Mundaka Poised to Take Over Ody's (Plus Free Pinxtos!)

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Jul 24, 2013

Earlier this month the Weekly marveled at the party-throwing power of Gabe and Nico Georis, the brothers behind the wild and music-saturated N…

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  • Mar 14, 2013

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