How about some cookies to go with that great Paso Robles wine you’re tasting? Red Moose Cookies in Cambria, just out to the coast from Paso Robles’s wineries on Highway 46, has some of the best cookies you’re likely to find. Once you find their bakery, that is. It’s away from the tourist district of Cambria, but worth the search. I first encountered Red Moose cookies at Cambria’s...
Paso Robles, California, isn’t the town I remember from the 1990s, but some good things haven’t changed! The city center near the community park was once a bit down-at-the-heels and old fashioned, but a new revitalization has taken place over recent years. But one thing that remains the same is good food. We were wandering Paso Robles newly-refurbished downtown, feeling the need for something hearty...
Highway 46 is not just the route past numerous wineries in the Paso Robles area, but offers an amazing journey in its own right. As you head out of Paso, toward the Coast, you start in rolling dry hills, where the dry-farmed vineyards march in straight green rows over the dry and dusty hills. This is dry-farmed vineyard territory, which gives a distinct character to the wines so raised. Numerous...
Passing through Paso Robles (known simply as “Paso” to the locals) and wondering what to do? For a slice of small town America, Paso offers a surprising number of activities, and has a rich history. Paso Robles qualifies as California’s oldest watering place. The Natives knew it as a place of healing springs, and its springs and mud baths were well known by the 1860s, when people...
California has often been said to have a “Mediterranean” climate, so olives are a natural. Back to the days of the Missions, olives have been a feature of California agriculture. Olive trees flourish in much the same climate as grapes, so it’s a natural that the wine regions around Paso Robles are at the heart of the California olive oil movement. And Art Kishiyama is one of the award-winning...
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