Date night in Davenport

Yesterday Matt and I decided to check out the Davenport Roadhouse, which we've driven past numerous times en route to our favorite strawberry patch. Davenport is a seemingly quiet little town along Route 1 with one flashing yellow light and not a whole lot else. If you're not looking for it, you can easily miss it. We'd heard about the Roadhouse from one of Matt's coworkers, and they'd been written up in Sunset Magazine recently, so we decided to check it out.

On our way there, we took a detour through Soquel to check out a local farm stand. Everett Family Farms did the flowers for our wedding, and I'd noticed a really excellent spread of fruits, veggies, and flowers in their farm stand when I was there meeting with Carra about flower arrangements. So Matt and I decided to make a pit stop there to load up on some produce.   It was a sunny and quiet in the late afternoon when we arrived.  Aside from a farm cat hunting in the grass outside, we were the only ones there (the stand is run entirely on the honor system). The plums were some of the juiciest and sweetest we've had all summer, and the raspberries and strawberries didn't disappoint either.

 

From here, we headed south to catch Route 1 and then headed up to Davenport.  We arrived around 5:45pm and got a great table by the window immediately.  A live band was just warming up as we looked over the menu.  We had a hard time choosing what we wanted to eat for dinner -- the menu is full of local produce and lots of yummy-sounding veggie options.  In the end, we decided caramelized brussel sprouts (surprisingly sweet and buttery), garlic and pepper crostini with lemony arugula, and two pizzas. YUM!  Needless to say, we will be returning again soon for another date.  Who knows, we might even stay a night at the Inn upstairs, too.