50 PUNCHMAGAZINE.COM site. Avid readers should peruse the shelves of Olivia & Daisy Books, and foodies should sample standout balsamic vinegar and olive oil at Quail and Olive. For the connoisseur of all things artisan, Tancredi & Morgen curates everything from coffee table books and handmade textiles to vintage champagne bowls and Frenchstyle caramels. If you still have energy, take your best swing at the 18-hole golf courses at Carmel Valley Ranch and Quail Lodge. Or if you’re all tuckered out, sign {due west} as well as a sprawling outdoor area with picnic tables, blacksmith forge, saloon and petting zoo. Check out their line dancing and bingo nights or prove your mettle at a blacksmith class. ACTIVITIES ABOUND Carmel Valley offers something for every kind of traveler. Those with an appetite for art should stop by Patricia Qualls Contemporary Art for large-scale abstracts, then head to Masaoka Glass Design to see resident artist Alan Masaoka designing stained glass masterpieces on ABOVE: (clockwise from top) Soak and sweat at the pools and sauna at Refuge; meet Carmel Valley Ranch’s onsite beekeeper and taste honey from the hive; alpacas at Carmel Valley Ranch. up for a spa treatment at Refuge instead. After some thermal-cycling with a series of hot and cold pools, detoxing in the eucalyptus steam rooms and toasting your hands over the firepits, you’re sure to feel renewed. DELECTABLE DINING To fuel up for the day’s adventures, set a course for Sunny Bakery Café. A no-frills spot as welcoming as its name, it’ll pair your cappuccino with a mushroom-Gouda frittata or savory quiche. Corkscrew Café embodies the Carmel Valley restaurant scene: unpretentious dining with really tasty food. Their wood-fired pizza oven doles out all the faithful standbys as well as pies with intriguing toppings. Like the elote pizza with roasted corn, shishito peppers, Calabria chilis, cotija cheese and lemon cream sauce or the salad pizza loaded with red onions, roasted red peppers, prosciutto, mixed greens and decadent globs of burrata, all drizzled in spicy honey. For a waterside bite, make for Covey Grill—home to a gourmet PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF: SEE MONTEREY - REFUGE / CARMEL VALLEY RANCH / CARMEL VALLEY RANCH
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