{"id":395,"date":"2011-07-16T21:23:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T04:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/fun\/?p=395"},"modified":"2016-05-14T14:11:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T21:11:20","slug":"high-quality-businesses-monterey-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/fun\/high-quality-businesses-monterey-peninsula\/","title":{"rendered":"High Quality Businesses – Monterey Peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Best (and worst) Monterey Peninsula Businesses<\/strong><\/p>\n

A business only gets on this list if —<\/p>\n

1. Friends like you have asked me for a recommendation,
\n2. I have had direct personal experience with them,
\n3. They have provided reliable exceptional service – with no bad experiences.<\/p>\n

4. Or they have done something seriously terrible in Consumer Fraud or done significant harm to our community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\nThese local businesses prove that there are solid reasons for buying some<\/u> services and products locally and not over the internet \/ web. It is notable that several of these excellent businesses are large corporations – both privately and publicly owned.<\/p>\n

Food :<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trader Joe’s – Fabulous Teams (Pacific Grove and Monterey)
\nCostco – (Sand City)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Restaurants :<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tillie Gorts (Pacific Grove)
\nLa Playa (for lunch) (Carmel)
\nPassionfish (Pacific Grove)
\nPapa Chanos (Monterey)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Office \/ Camera Equipment<\/strong> :<\/p>\n

* Staples (Seaside)
\nCostco (Sand City)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gasoline :<\/strong><\/p>\n

Station at Corner of David and Hawthorne (Monterey)
\nStation at Costco – (Sand City)<\/p>\n

Quick Stop (?) In Monterey on Fremont<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Car Repair :<\/strong><\/p>\n

Advantage Auto – Randy Draper (Monterey)
\nHans Auto Repair – Mike and Tracy Brooks (Sand City)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Smog Test :<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jack Fox Auto Repair<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

House Cleaning and Maintenance:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Compulsive Cleaning and Property Maintenance
\nC.K. Services<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Plumbing:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeff Middlebrook Plumbing<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Electrical Work:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lance Houston<\/strong> Electrics<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

General Handyman<\/strong><\/p>\n

CK Services<\/strong> (Chris Kuhlken)<\/p>\n

Building Materials :<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hayward Lumber (Pacific Grove)
\nM&S (Monterey)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hardware :<\/strong><\/p>\n

ACE Hardware (Pacific Grove’s Forest Hill)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Delivery:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fed-Ex<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Retirement Community:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canterbury Woods (Pacific Grove) (I’ve had family members and friends live very happily there.) To my amazement, they always solved problems to MY satisfaction.<\/strong> Simply First Class management. (And probably the best buffet on our Peninsula <\/strong>!)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jig Saw Puzzles \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m Puzzled – Mary Norton (Pacific Grove)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shoes :<\/strong><\/p>\n

Feet are US (Seaside)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nClosed<\/strong> Excellent Businesses:<\/p>\n

The Thunderbird<\/strong> – Bookstore and Restaurant – May Waldroup<\/strong> (Carmel valley mouth)
\nTriples Restaurant<\/strong> – Tommy Tucker<\/strong>, (Monterey)
\nCoco Le Fleur Restaurant – Madame and Paola Berthoin (Carmel Valley)
\nBruised Reed<\/strong> – Restaurant (Monterey)
\nBeau Thai<\/strong> Restaurant – David Walton<\/strong> (Cannery Row)<\/p>\n

Eureka Federal Savings Bank – Bill Sosic<\/strong>, Manager (Pacific Grove)
\nSan Francisco Federal Savings Bank (Carmel)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nBad Actors<\/u>: Businesses I will never again deal with:<\/p>\n

Morgan Stanley \/ Dean Witter (Monterey)
\nBay Photo Lab (New Monterey)
\nPebble Beach Company
\nDr. Charlie Bates – Bate LOST all our family medical records; ALL of them.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Bank of America
\nWells Fargo Bank
\nRocky Point Restaurant
\nHome Despot
\nJay Leno TV show (Mean remarks and mean guests! Johnny Carson never said a mean thing in his decades on the show)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bad Actors<\/u>: Businesses I will never again deal with when there is any alternative:<\/p>\n

ATT Phone company – Simply Non-Stop Hideous “service”
\nPG$E Electric and Gas:
\nCalifornia-American Water Company (Cal-Am)
\nUS Post Office<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* Note – While some of these businesses are run by friends of mine, I have not taken or received any remuneration for any of these recommendations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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