An Essential Guide for everyone with a love for good food and the open road, this tome covers 1,500 miles-from Bellingham, Washington, to San Diego, California-including side trips on coastal highways. Profiling hundreds of restaurants just miles from the road, Anna Roth turns every road trip into an accessible culinary adventure. Part guidebook and part travelogue, this book is a love letter to the seafood shacks, farm stands, taquerias, ice cream parlors, burger joints, wineries, and more that define West Coast cuisine. Focusing on fresh local food, this book emphasizes the relationship between food and sense of place. At its heart is the unfolding highway-and the enduring pioneer spirit of the American West. Choose your own edible adventure.