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Make your celebration extra special with a custom cake from Cafe Carmel! Cafe Carmel now offers whole cakes decorated to order for your next celebration. We have three sizes available:  in a variety of flavors, icing, and toppings!   Just give us 72-hour advance notice for you cake by calling (831) 624-3870. Fall Hours begin Monday, …

Café Carmel celebrates the magic of bacon, continues offering convenient online ordering from its website There is no doubt that the act of gathering together to share food is a positive, socially bonding experience. To help satisfy that need, Café Carmel is now fully open for indoor dining. But if the pandemic has proven anything …

In the heart of Carmel-by-the-Sea, Café Carmel keeps alive a tradition that dates back to 1952, when the Wishart family opened a bakery in a now-historic 1920s building on Ocean Avenue. Wishart Bakery became a local institution, always serving its signature coffee cake. In July of 2019, Sarah Cook took over ownership, and will celebrate …

FALL HOURS BEGIN MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12TH Join us from 7:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Café Carmel has instituted a 10 percent military discount on all orders. Customers who show their military IDs will receive the discount (7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.) as gratitude for their service.

For those who like dessert first, visit the cafe early in the month for National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day on Aug. 4. Buy two of Cook’s classic cookies and get the third one FREE.

Each day Americans eat more than 300 million sandwiches — and have an 18th century English earl to thank. This perfectly portable food was popularized in England in 1762 by John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich. It seems the earl had a gambling problem. Unwilling to get up from the table to eat, he …