2 Best Restaurants in Manzanita, The Oregon Coast

Throughout the day, this eclectic art-filled café with a sunny brick patio is Manzanita's favorite spot for a caffeine pick-me-up, featuring coffee from Cannon Beach's famed Sleepy Monk roastery, as well as casual lunches of meatloaf sandwiches and oyster po'boys. In the evening, however, Offshore Grill turns into a legit dinner house, serving up artfully plated moules frites, pan-seared duck breast with bok choy and an orange-chili sauce, and hazelnut-crusted local rockfish topped with a ginger-cranberry coulis. 

With a sweeping wooden deck to watch the magnificent sunsets over Nehalem Bay and Manzanita's sand dunes, this lively farm-to-table restaurant in tiny, historic Wheeler could probably get away with serving merely ordinary food. But the owners offer a first-rate beverage program and exceptional, locavore-focused handmade pastas, wood-fired pizzas, and creative seafood fare, including pappardelle with Willapa Bay clams and agnolotti filled with wild mushrooms, nettles, and Taleggio cheese.