nepenthe

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“We’ve learned how to deal with events like this through hard-won experience,” said Kirk Gafill, the general manager of Nepenthe, a restaurant overlooking the Pacific that has been operated by his family for 74 years.

From New York Times

Nepenthe Gallery has those, but also a lot more.

From Washington Post

While big names like Union, Denizens and Flying Dog are all pouring, the reason to go is to sample breweries you don’t see everywhere, such as Sapwood Cellars and Nepenthe.

From Washington Post

Yet a world such as ours hankers for too much because one response to suffering is to smother oneself in beautiful forgetting, to become a lotus-eater, a drinker of nepenthe — the magical drug of forgetfulness referenced in Homer’s “Odyssey” — which the first-century Roman writer Pliny the Elder believed was made of borage.

From New York Times

“Highway 1 is the lifeblood of Big Sur,” said Kirk Gafill, whose family has owned Nepenthe, a Big Sur restaurant, since its opening in 1949.

From Washington Post