We had the best pork sandwich ever at Carmel Belle, located inside the Doud Craft Studios. It was a slow-cooked Berkshire pork with red onion-currant chutney on a ciabatta bread. How good was it? My mom didn’t want to eat because she was still full from breakfast and dessert, but I insisted that she take a bite. That bite eventually turned into half my sandwich. We also shared a canele, which is a French donut-like pastry. It seemed like it would be sweet but it wasn’t. It was just right! Carmel Belle is definitely one of my favorite places in the whole Monterey Bay area.

Other places we checked out around downtown were: Carmel Plaza, which was beautiful, and Carmel’s City Hall, which was tiny.

We ended with a quick stop at Carmel Bakery since we walked past by it. Honestly, I didn’t think that place would be that great, and I was right. It was just typical fast-paced bakery style. I was getting hungry though since my mom ate half my sandwich, but honestly, I really wanted to get their happy face cookie so I could have my mom take a picture like this: