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An overhead table on the patio: chilaquiles under a fried egg with sliced avocado, a gem lettuce salad with radish, scrambled eggs with bacon and potatoes, fish tacos, a bowl of berries and melon, a glass of red wine and a beer.

150 Main Street · Downtown Salinas

Eat Drink Visit

The doors open at eight, and the patio holds three hundred.

200+ 5-star reviews on Google

Call (831) 770-6363 Get directions

A warm welcome

A room inside, a patio outside, and a kitchen that cooks with the season.

We are on Main Street in the Taylor Building, a few minutes on foot from the National Steinbeck Center, and breakfast starts when the doors open at eight. Closing time moves through the week, so call ahead and we will tell you what is on today.

See the banquet menu
Inside the restaurant during an event: guests standing along the bar with bottles and glassware set out, tall windows onto Main Street behind them and a red floral arrangement by the door.

  • A full bar

    Beer on tap and in the bottle, a full wine list, and spirits with mixers alongside the cocktails. Mimosas and Bloody Marys arrive at brunch.

  • Live music

    Music is part of the room, and Michelle B. came in for it and then took the staff’s word on the burger.

  • The patio

    Tables under cream umbrellas and olive trees, off Main Street, and room out there for three hundred.

  • Vegan and gluten-free

    Vegan plates are on the menu, and the gluten-free bread has a following of its own among people who rarely get the choice.

Straight from the reviews

What people come back for

Every plate below was named by a guest on Google, in a review anyone can go and read, and we have kept their words the way they wrote them.

Two eggs Benedict on toasted English muffins with ham and hollandaise, scattered with chives, on a green-rimmed plate in the sun.

The gluten-free tuna melt

On gluten-free bread from the kitchen

“very hard to find good gluten-free bread at any restaurant… I had the tuna [melt] and it was fantastic!”

Mariah C.

The money Burger

The one the staff point people towards

“Portobello’s is fantastic”

Michelle B.

Breakfast sandwich and hash browns

From eight in the morning

“You can taste the freshness in layers with all the flavors distinctly in each bite”

Jesse S.

Chicken pot pie

Comes with your choice of salad

“very tasty… the service here is wonderful”

Elizabeth I.

The quesadilla

A chef recommendation, taken outside

“beautiful day here in Salinas… we opted to sit outside. The staff was very friendly.”

P Largo

Fried calamari, then cheesecake

Or the flourless chocolate truffle cake

“GREAT cheesecake”

Fabian W.

A bacon burger on a brioche bun with lettuce and tomato, piled beside seasoned steak fries on a white plate, on a wooden patio table.
The patio from above after dark, round tables laid and lit under the trees, guests seated across the courtyard.

“…welcome environment and smiles that made me feel at home”

Fabian W. · Google review

Catering & events

Take a corner of the patio, or take the whole place

A law firm held its thirtieth anniversary out here, and the manager went through the menu with them well before the day. A wedding, a luncheon or a birthday works the same way: you give us the headcount, and the kitchen cooks to it.

300

Outdoor patio

Total capacity outside

200

Outdoors, seated

Seated-style on the patio

63

Indoors

Inside the restaurant

Buyouts run in three-hour blocks, and you can take the patio on its own, the room on its own, or the whole place. What it costs depends on the day and the space, so call and we will price your date against your numbers. We deliver catering as well.

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An outdoor buffet line: trays of quartered sandwiches and green wraps beside chafing dishes, set out on a table by a flowering bed.
Guests seated along a laid table on the patio, blue gingham napkins on wooden boards, jars of yellow flowers down the middle.
A grazing table set outdoors: wooden boards of cured meats, cheeses, olives, sliced fruit and baguette, banked with kale and edible flowers.

Find us

150 Main Street, downtown Salinas

We are in the Taylor Building, Suite 116, a few minutes on foot from the National Steinbeck Center, and street parking runs along Main.

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(831) 770-6363

Hours

The doors open at eight.

Closing time moves through the week, and a private event can take a room out of service. Give us a ring before you set off and we will tell you what is on today.

Address

150 Main St #116
Salinas, CA 93901

Events and catering

cjohnson@taylorfarms.com

Or call the restaurant and ask for the events manager.