Best Dining Places in Mendocino

UPDATED WITH COVID-19 CHANGES

You can find quite a few best dining places in Mendocino despite the town’s small size. Whether you feel like grabbing a healthy made-just-for-you sandwich to eat while sightseeing, lounging on the beach, or having a romantic candle-lit dinner with your partner, Mendocino has an array of restaurants, cafes, bakeries, and food stores including vegetarian and vegan options.

Café Beaujolais

• COVID-19 update: open for take-out – view take-out menu
• Address: 961 Ukiah Street, Mendocino, CA 95460
• Phone: +1 707-937-5614
• Cuisines: French, gluten-free options, international, vegetarian-friendly, vegan options
• Meals: lunch, dinner
• Specialties: duck, lamb ragu, lavender ice cream, osso bucco with root veggies and mashed potatoes, scallops with cauliflower purée, togarashi seared ahi tuna
• Located within a Victorian-style house, Café Beaujolais uses local organic produce and bakes their own breads in a brick oven.

Flow Restaurant and Lounge

• COVID-19 update: open for take-out – view take-out menu
• Address: 45040 Main Street, Mendocino, CA 95460
• Phone: +1 707-937-3569
• Cuisines: American, bar, gluten-free options, vegan options, vegetarian-friendly
• Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
• Specialties: tart coconut pancakes, tenderloin tasters with creamy caper sauce, pesto blue cheese sauce, and red wine mushroom sauce
• Located on the second floor of a water tower, Flow Restaurant offers an outstanding ocean view along with entrees made with local, organic ingredients.

Fog Eater Café

• COVID-19 update: open Wed-Sat 4-8:30 PM, Sun 10 AM – 2 PM (closed Mon and Tues) for take-out and outdoor dining
• Address: 45104 Main Street, Mendocino, CA 95460
• Phone: +1 707-397-1806
• Cuisine: American, gluten-free options, vegetarian, vegan
• Meals: brunch, lunch, dinner
• Specialties: “California cuisine with a Southern twang”

Frankie’s Pizza and Ice Cream

• COVID-19 update: open 1-7 PM for take-out and outdoor dining on the patio
• Address: 44951 Ukiah Street, Mendocino, CA 95460
• Phone: +1 707-937-2436
• Cuisine: American, organic ingredients, gluten-free options, vegan options, vegetarian-friendly
• Meals: lunch, dinner
• Specialties: pizza made with organic flour, sauces, and herbs (by the slice or entire pie), ice cream (locally made, typical aswell as unusual flavors such as mushroom)
• Outside patio (dogs OK), street parking

Garden Bakery

• COVID-19 update: open for outside dining and take-out – view menu
• Address: 10450 Lansing Street, Mendocino, CA 95460
• Phone: +1 707-937-3140
• Cuisines: Cafe, Mexican
• Meals: breakfast, lunch
• Specialties: berry custard danishes, blackberry turnovers, burritos, empanada, rugelach, sourdough bread

Goodlife Cafe and Bakery

• COVID-19 update: open for outside dining and take-out – view menu
• Address: 10483 Lansing Street, Mendocino, CA 95460
• Phone: +1 707-937-0836
• Cuisines: American, cafe, gluten-free options, vegan options, vegetarian-friendly
• Meals: breakfast, lunch
• Specialties: breakfast burritos, chicken enchiladas, French pastries, tomato soup
• Favored by locals as well as tourists, the Goodlife Cafe offers croissants, quiches, burritos, salads, and granola as well as coffee beverages such as mocha and cappuccino, tea, soda, and juice. The Goodlife Cafe has inside seating and an outdoor patio where dogs are welcome.

Luna Trattoria

• COVID-19 update: open for outside dining and take-out – view menu
• Address: 955 Ukiah Street, Mendocino, CA 95460
• Phone: +1 707-962-3093
• Cuisines: gluten-free options, Italian, vegetarian-friendly
• Meals: dinner
• Specialties: cannoli, gnocchi, grilled eggplant, lasagna, prawns

MacCallum House Restaurant

• COVID-19 update: open for outside dining and take-out – view menu
• Address: 45020 Albion Street, Mendocino, CA 95460
• Phone: +1 707-937-6759
• Cuisines: American, gluten-free options, vegetarian-friendly
• Meals: breakfast, brunch, dinner
• Specialties: asparagus omelet, breakfast burrito, duck breast, eggs Benedict, fried chicken, halibut, Point Reyes Blue salad, risotto, salmon tagliatelle, tomato bisque

Mendocino Cafe

• COVID-19 update: CLOSED (order at Flow, same owner)
• Address: 10451 Lansing Street, Mendocino, CA 95460
• Phone: +1 707-937-6141
• Cuisines: American, cafe, vegan options, vegetarian-friendly
• Meals: brunch, lunch, dinner
• Specialties: blackberry pie, pumpkin cheesecake, roasted chicken, steak and brie sandwich, Thai hot pot, wontons
• Offering a scenic ocean view framed by greenery, Mendocino Cafe serves delicious and healthy dishes. There’s seating inside the restaurant as well as outside on the ocean view deck, where dogs are welcome.

Mendocino Hotel Restaurant

• COVID-19 update: CLOSED – view menu
• Address: 45080 Main Street, Mendocino, CA 95460
• Phone: +1 707-937-0511
• Cuisines: American, bar, bistro, casual, gluten-free options, vegetarian-friendly
• Meals: breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner
• Specialties: Chinese salad with prawns, Dungeness crab omelet, eggs Benedict, French onion soup, huevos rancheros, meatloaf, shaved prime rib sandwich

Moody’s Coffee Bar

• COVID-19 update: CLOSED
• Address: 10450 Lansing Street, Mendocino, CA 95460
• Phone: +1 707-937-4843
• Cuisines: cafe
• Meals: breakfast, snacks
• Specialties: espresso drinks, fresh pastries, organic coffee

Patterson’s Pub

• COVID-19 update: open daily 11 AM – 11 PM for take-out and outdoor dining – view menu or call to hear about the day’s specials
• Address: 10485 Lansing Street, Mendocino, CA 95460
• Phone: +1 707-937-4782
• Cuisines: American, bar, Irish, pub, vegetarian-friendly
• Meals: lunch, dinner, late night
• Specialties: beer, crab and shrimp Louie, fish and chips, fresh oysters, kale salad, Kobe-style hamburger, lobster melt, Reuben sandwich, rock cod, steamed mussels and clams

Ravens Restaurant

• COVID-19 update: open for take-out – view take-out menu
• Address: 44850 Comptche Ukiah Road, Mendocino, CA 95460
• Phone: +1 707-937-5615
• Cuisines: American, gluten-free options, vegan options, vegetarian-friendly
• Specialties: baked bread, Portobello mushroom steak sandwich
• Located inside the Stanford Inn, south of Mendocino, Ravens provides an exclusively vegan and masterfully crafted menu.

Trillium Cafe

• COVID-19 update: open for take-out, dining in garden, or rent a fully-stocked picnic box – view take-out menu
• Address: 10390 Kasten Street, Mendocino, CA 95460
• Phone: +1 707-937-3200
• Cuisines: American, gluten-free options, vegan options, vegetarian-friendly
• Meals: lunch, dinner
• Specialties: avocado toast, grilled chicken BLT, grilled cod fish, shrimp risotto

Have you eaten at one of these dining places in Mendocino recently? Or want to suggest adding one that’s not yet on our list? Let us know and don’t forget to book your stay with us.