Best Restaurants for Local Ingredients in Carmel

The food and service was spectacular! Wonderful fish/beef and good portion sizes. It is very expensive but that's Carmel! They ran out of sticky toffee pudding so despite that bummer it was a terrific dining experience.

Excellent meal! Great options and well prepared and displayed. Austin was energetic, attentive and downright entertaining! Finished the meal with the Arctic Bomb. Not to be missed!

Always fun and delicious! Spotted Duck is consistent in offering an excellent dining experience. I have been in the food and wine world for over thirty years and I continue to rate Chef Jerry Regester at the top!

Great food, cute location, friendly server! Also had live music- a bonus since it was unplanned-for. Since we had a group of 4, we went for the "small" island basket, which was 3 entrees and 2 appetizers on a giant woven basket / platter. Very special experience (and SO much food :-) Only downside was that we'd originally made lunch reservations but the restaurant was clearly not open when we showed up (on time for the reservation itself; half an hour after the restaurant's opening time for the day). Ended up going in for dinner instead (hence the "unplanned" part of the live music). Would highly recommend, aside from the owner's opening-up glitch.

Jack's has a beautiful setting, service was excellent and the food was delicious! Very reasonably priced, as well.