When I first visited little Manzanita, on the Oregon coast, some six years ago it was pretty no-frills. It seemed like the only place to get something to eat was at the Sand Dune Pub or a small bistro that is now defunct. Nowadays there’s much more options – two pizza places (one, Marzanos, has a nice hot oven and churns out a suprisingly good—albeit pricey—pie), a Mexican restaurant, 3 markets (including a natural foods/homeopathy type store), a seafood restaurant, donut shop, a bakery/deli, and a coffeehouse, in addition to the aforementioned Sand Dune Pub (which makes a decent burger using Montana country beef…and has tater tots) and an upscale (for beach standards) restaurant just off the 101.

We had a house just steps from the beach, but more importantly, steps from this Chicago hot dog stand.

The gentleman and his lovely wife owned the house behind where he sets up shop for an 11:30 am opening each day.

He uses Vienna Beef, so it’s the genuine article.

With all the fixings to “drag your dog through the garden”, including tomatoes, the toxic-green relish, sport peppers, celery salt, etc.

He even obliged my request for extra sport peppers. God I love those things. Great dogs, I ate here three consecutive mornings.

Just up the main drag of Laneda is the Bread and Ocean, a wonderfully charming little bakery and deli.

Bread and Ocean is staffed with young whippersnappers during the summer, who crank The Strokes in the kitchen and on sunny days seem always itching to split shift and catch some rays in the sand.

In addition to a small handful of indoor tables, they have a small patio off to the side.

The menu board.

The pressed, toasted panini featured creamy brie, roasted onions, arugula, and a wonderful serrano ham — nice touches for beach food.

They do a good job with baked goods here, as I thoroughly enjoyed this orange & almond poppyseed roll. They feature daily specials, including — on Fridays — their refined sugar-free, whole wheat cinnamon rolls (suprisingly good) and a pain au chocalate with dried cherries that we brought back with us to Portland.

Manzanita, Oregon

Oregon
USA