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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!
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..."
Gourmet Magazine '08
"Every year our local farm resources deepen and improve...we have an ever-expanding palate of organic fruits and vegetables, farmstead cheeses, olive oils, and vintage vinegars to create our fresh market dishes. - Charles Myers, Chef/Owner Big Sky Cafe, San Luis Obispo"
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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