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Day Trip: Half Moon Bay!
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Here's a write-up of a favorite day trip that we like to take out to the coast... for people getting this via email, you can come back to the website version of the posting to see all the links to the businesses.
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Now on to the trip!
On a weekend morning, be on the road from San Mateo area by 9:30am to beat the traffic. That way it'll be a 30 min drive instead of 60 mins.
Breakfast at Half Moon Bay Coffee Company - great food, coffee, and fun hang out spot.
Head over to Miramar Beach ... great biking on cliff above the beach, or walk down and wander on the beach. Read the paper and have a coffee or tea at a little cafe (don't know the name) towards north end of the pathway, just where it turns into the road.
Head back downtown, several good bookstores including Moon News Bookstore. Walk back over to Shiki Japanese Cuisine or try Pasta Moon for lunch.
Other fun shops for kids:
Shell store: Seascapes
Half Moon Bay Feed & Fuel, a fun place for kids to run fingers through all the grains/beans bins and check out the bunnies and baby chicks
Half to Have It
For smaller kids, on the way into town on Hwy 92 you can stop at
Lemos Farm or for any kids you can stop on 92 in HMB side at the Lintt Trout Farm for some fishing nearly in a barrel!
If you want to go bodyboarding, go down to Roosevelt Beach which shares same entrance off Hwy 1 as Dunes Beach ... park momentarily without paying and zip down to check whether waves look good (not too big or small), then if they look good, go to Half Moon Bay Board Shop and rent a wetsuit for the day for about $10 and a board also if you don't have one... and have fun! Good season is April - Sept I think.
There is a great hike up in the hills somewhere south of town, about a 20 min drive to get there and then a nice fire trail, but not sure of the directions.
OK, phew! That's a lot of stuff but covers most of what we like to do out there.
Please reply with your comments on what else to do in HMB!
-Michael
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Will have to check out those restaurants, thanks! We like HMB Nursery as well.
Other Main Street shopping: The BEST sandwiches, in HMB or anywhere, are found at the San Benito House Hotel (not the hotel restaurant -- there's a small deli located on the side). It's near the Cunha General Store, which is also a great place to shop. Kids (especially animal lovers) will enjoy Half Moon Bay Feed & Fuel, where you can visit the small pets (chicks, rabbits, etc.) or buy some really cool riding boots. Also fun for kids is the Harbor Seal Company, a marine and wildlife educational store (great things for adults, too). And on your way home, stop at New Leaf Community Market (at the junction of Hwy 1 and Hwy 92), a fabulous grocery store that specializes in local farms; like Whole Foods but friendlier.
San Benito House Harbor Seal Company Half Moon Bay Feed & Fuel
I agree, San Benito House has very good sandwiches and I LOVE New Leaf as well.
The crab sandwiches at the Half Moon Bay Inn are to die for.
PB
thanks Michael for that great write up for half moon bay, friends just went down there about 1/2 hour ago with your article, hope they have fun. My brother came from arizona and all of us syblings met in HMB to help him celebrate his 60th and also his ocean fix! they went to ano nuevo down the coast and had a wonderful walk to see the elephant seals and then walked Dune beach a little north of hwy 92 in HMB. I always love to go to Duarte's in Pescadero when I go and never miss the HMB nursery on the way into town on hwy 92, my favorite one!
Glad to hear it, Mary! I just uploaded some photos to this topic from our trip out there today. The coffee place out by Miramar Beach is either called Beach Club or Ebb and Tide Beach Club.
Thx, PB, for the tip on the Crab sandwiches. Nice!
and I also love a small coffee house off the main drag called la de da
Chef Shea and sister restaurant are great according to my chef brother and his wife is a vegan and had great food there in Jan, when he was out from arizona
Thank you for this my husband and I were looking for the fish hatchery or farm and fun stuff for the kids and then hit the beach for picnics. Could not locate the fish farm very easily until I read this. Thank you... Christa Oakley have not been to HMB since the pumpkin patch a few years ago.
we will try these this week and get back
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All great suggestions Michael!
For a really wonderful lunch, check out Chez Shea http://www.chez-shea.com/ eclectic, international organic cuisine, 408 Main Street, Half Moon Bay. I personally feel that the Best Kept Secret is their "sister" restaurant in El Granada, called Cafe Gibraltar, 425 Avenue Alhambra, which is only opened for dinner. http://www.cafegibraltar.com Reservations on the weekend is a good idea.
On the return trip home (back over the hill) is Half Moon Bay Nursery 11691 San Mateo Rd, HMB has a huge selection of plants -- indoors, outdoors, fruit-bearing, ornamental, shrubs, trees, cacti, hanging plants, etc. It's the last nursery on the right before you travel back over the hill just after the Lintt Trout Farm on Highway 92.