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New Times San Luis Obispo
Big Sky voted Best San Luis Obispo Restaurant
1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006!
Also won Best Breakfast and Best Vegetarian Food this year
Rachel Ray's Tasty Travels
"A must for a healthy & great tasting meal. It's no wonder that the Big Sky
appeals to food lovers..."
Los Angeles Times Calendar
"... That evening, I went to a restaurant that alone makes the drive from
Los Angeles worthwhile: The Big Sky Cafe.
The decor is '60s-hippie morphed into contemporary
Southwest. Tie-dyed
tapestries and brilliant desert landscape paintings line the walls of a
busy dining room adjacent to a long hardwood bar. I sat at the bar, rather
than wait a half hour for a single table.
I asked the bartender about a couple of local wines on the menu and he
gave me a taste of each. I picked a glass of Justin Winery's Epoch
Zinfandel, a hearty wine generously poured into a large wine goblet.
The Big Sky menu is filled with unique combinations of foods and spices,
with much of it devoted to vegetarian dishes. The bartender suggested
the evening's special -- broiled salmon served with Israeli couscous and
chardonnay-marinated kale. I chose Vietnamese ginger squash soup to
go with it.
The meal was delicious. The salmon had been broiled with a thyme
sauce and the kale was tender with the bitterness cut by the
chardonnay. I told the bartender I'd like a light dessert, and
he recommended the mango-lime pie topped with cabernet coulis-soaked
raspberries. It was excellent.
The entire meal, with the wine and dessert,
came to $21. ..."
Zagat Survey: Los Angeles / So. California Restaurants
"CENTRAL COAST TOP VALUE: NO 1. BIG SKY CAFE"
"The food's all over the map" at this "creative" "surprise in SLO" that
features New American dishes based on "organic ingredients that amaze"; it's
a "fun, casual environment" that offers "awesome breakfasts" ("delicious
every time") and even provides "five newspapers to choose from."
MODE MAGAZINE
"...breakfast at Big Sky Cafe. It was fantastic!"
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Traveler Magazine
"My new favorite restaurant is San Luis Obispo's Big Sky Cafe. Try the Greek
fava bean dip, and the white bean and tuna salad. Big Sky is unpretentious,
happy to be a local joint with stellar food."
WESTWAYS MAGAZINE
"Big Sky Cafe is a hip, bustling cafe known for treats such as Central Coast wines...
Yet unlike similar restaurants found in the big city, kids are welcomed with their own
menu and crayons"
SLO County Guide
"If you don't plan to dress to the nines but want a quality
dining experience, this downton "locals" restaurant is ideal. Big Sky's "modern
food" is all homemade, with interesting spicy Caribbean, Creole, Cajun and Mediterranean
dishes..."
BEST PLACES: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,
Big Sky Cafe:
"Anyone who's familiar with L.A.'s Farmers' Market knows funky Kokomo Cafe
and its cousin, the Gumbo Pot, and will recognize some signature recipes on
the menu of this eclectic, imaginative restaurant opened by a former Kokomo
chef. At breakfast they serve the same red flannel turkey hash and a
beet-fortified ragout topped with basil-Parmesan glazed eggs, and the
Cajun-Creole influence spices up the menu at almost every turn. In fact, Big
Sky might be the only place on the Central Coast to find decent jambalaya,
gumbo, or authentically airy beignets. The menu is self-classified "modern
food," a category that here means a dizzying international selection
including Caribbean shrimp tacos with chipotle-lime yogurt, Thai curry pasta
tossed with sauteed tiger shrimp and Mediterranean broiled chicken infused
with garlic, rosemary, and olive oil. The setting is comfy casual; creative
paint treatments and weathered furniture create a vaguely Southwestern
ambience accented by local art and a blue, star-studded ceiling. Big booths
and small wooden tables coexist happily and complement the long counter/bar.
Big Sky is well known and well liked, as evidenced by the benches
thoughtfully placed outside for customers who encounter a wait."
BEST RESTAURANT
New Times Readers' Poll
"With Big sky capturing this prestigious crown for four years running
now, it makes you wonder: Why don't many other restaurants try to be a
little daring? I'm not saying that you have to put Caribbean Adobo Steak
on the menu. That wouldn't be creative; that would be copying. Still, Big Sky's
big secret is no easy trick. You need people who can pull off such unconventional dishes
and you need the public to accept then. No problem on either count."
LET'S GO GUIDE
Big Sky Cafe:
"Voted 'Best Restaurant' in a local magazine readers' poll. Delivers on
vegetarian friendly fare ..."
FODOR'S CALIFORNIA
Big Sky Cafe
"The menu here roams the world -- the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the
Southwest -- but many of the ingredients are local; chicken sausages produced
right in town. Big Sky is a hip gathering spot for breakfast, lunch, and
dinner."
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