It’s a lot bigger than just pie.
Andy Bowlin/Special to SFGATE, and among the classic Central Californian offerings like grilled artichoke, Dungeness crab Benedict and tri-tip sandwiches, you’ll find a curious theme. Depending on the time of day and the meal you’re ordering, you’ll find any of 30-some-odd menu items featuring the olallieberry.
That’s not even counting the restaurant’s gift shop, which sells everything from olallieberry preserves and candy to olallieberry-infused tea and olallieberry cream cake by the slice to go, which I could not resist, even though it was 10 a.m. and I had just eaten an olallieberry muffin with my omelet and then a slice of olallieberry pie with my second cup of black coffee.
When you arrive in Cambria, if you’re coming from somewhere congested and noisy like I was, you’ll likely be struck by its deep sense of serenity. The village of 5,000 is full of craftsman-style cottages, art-filled boutiques and a practically movie set level of quaintness . It all started with a good piece of advice. By 1979, John and Renee Linn had moved their family to Cambria from Colorado, with dreams of opening a pick-your-own berry farm. A farm consultant recommended they plant olallieberries, a blackberry-raspberry hybrid developed in Oregon and released to the public in 1950 that grew well on the Central Coast but were still relatively unknown in the area.
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