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sfstandard.com | San Francisco | The Perfect Mendocino Trip Revolves Around 4 new Restaurants November 17, 2024

Fog Eater was featured on a list of the new school of restaurants popping up on the Mendocino Coast: “If a restaurant can feel like a friend’s dining room, this friend is both talented and inordinately stylish, with a swaggering, New Orleanian sensibility and an appetite for the saucy and spicy. Highlights include boiled peanuts with a kick and tart green tomatoes beneath a blanket of savory, somehow dairy-less gravy. Everything about this food is sexier and more fun than it has any right to be, especially since many dishes are straight-up vegan. In Mendocino, a town with such strict Historical Review Board rules that painting one’s house is an exercise in frustration, Fog Eater is effortless: a warm breeze, a tropical colorscape, an easy yacht-rock soundtrack. 

If you hear “vegan” and want to run for Mendocino’s cattle-running hills, don’t. The dishes are so soulful and flavorful that you’d be forgiven for not noticing there is no meat on the menu. It’s food that eats easy and doesn’t demand explication: grits, hominy, red beans, rice. Wash it down with a low-ABV sherry cocktail of sweet corn, black tea, and chicory bitters at the kitchen-facing turquoise bar.”

Fog Eater was featured on a list of places to eat on the PCH: “Fog Eater Cafe is not only run by two badass women but it’s also vegetarian. Inspired by the fresh produce in NorCal and comfort dishes from the South, the menu is delicious and hearty, and will make you completely forget about meat. Start with the fried green tomato biscuit sliders and the Southern Plate for a sampler that includes mouthwatering mac ‘n cheese. And don’t forget about the beignets that come with a rhubarb jam for a sweet snack on the road.”

Fog Eater was featured on a list of places to eat on the PCH: “Fog Eater Cafe is not only run by two badass women but it’s also vegetarian. Inspired by the fresh produce in NorCal and comfort dishes from the South, the menu is delicious and hearty, and will make you completely forget about meat. Start with the fried green tomato biscuit sliders and the Southern Plate for a sampler that includes mouthwatering mac ‘n cheese. And don’t forget about the beignets that come with a rhubarb jam for a sweet snack on the road.”


brewerygulchinn.com | Mendocino | Deliciously creative fare in Mendocino September 6, 2019

Fog Eater Cafe was featured on the Brewery Gulch Inn’s blog on September 6th, 2019: “It was marvelous! Right when we walked in, we were greeted by the cheery staff and even cheerier interior. It was bright and fresh in there, with happy colors and t…

Fog Eater Cafe was featured on the Brewery Gulch Inn’s blog on September 6th, 2019: “It was marvelous! Right when we walked in, we were greeted by the cheery staff and even cheerier interior. It was bright and fresh in there, with happy colors and tastefully hip décor. And the back patio was darling! Beautiful old, established plants surrounded the cute bistro tables, with a couple larger tables for groups.”

Eater.com | San Francisco | Eater.com | San Francisco | 15 Restaurants Worth the Drive from SF August 30, 2019

Fog Eater Cafe was featured in Eater on September “Fog Eater Cafe is a small vegetarian restaurant with way outsize charm, serving southern food and an excellent selection of natural wines and low ABV cocktails with locally foraged ingredients. The …

Fog Eater Cafe was featured in Eater on September “Fog Eater Cafe is a small vegetarian restaurant with way outsize charm, serving southern food and an excellent selection of natural wines and low ABV cocktails with locally foraged ingredients. The vibe is “a whisper of grandma,” owners say, though it’s actually the youngest, hippest thing in the charming town of Mendocino. Don’t miss the pie.”

Fog Eater Cafe was featured in Eater SF on May 24th: “The small, coastal village of Mendocino is getting a little gust of fresh air from Fog Eater Cafe,which opens for vegetarian southern food, natural wines, and cool, low-ABV cocktails on June 12. …

Fog Eater Cafe was featured in Eater SF on May 24th: “The small, coastal village of Mendocino is getting a little gust of fresh air from Fog Eater Cafe,which opens for vegetarian southern food, natural wines, and cool, low-ABV cocktails on June 12. The roughly 25-seat restaurant occupies a cozy wooden building and garden patio just off Main Street in the picturesque, unincorporated town. Owners describe its aesthetic as a “whisper of grandma,” complete with mismatched saucers and the occasional doily.”

Fog Eater Cafe was featured in The New York Times Travel Section on April 18th: “Besides the Harbor House’s eight- to 12-course, $150 per person prix fixe dinners, there are cheesemakers, upstart breweries, exceptional farm stands — notably Fort Bra…

Fog Eater Cafe was featured in The New York Times Travel Section on April 18th: “Besides the Harbor House’s eight- to 12-course, $150 per person prix fixe dinners, there are cheesemakers, upstart breweries, exceptional farm stands — notably Fort Bragg’s Nye Ranch and Caspar’s Fortunate Farm — and farm-inspired restaurants, like the long-awaited, soon-to-open Fog Eater Cafe, which began as a farm pop-up, and will serve “California cuisine with a Southern twang.”