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Kim Palacios is a Bay Area transplant whose epicurean tendencies are matched only by her wanderlust. She is quadrilingual and holds an M.B.A. in Finance. While not mourning the death of free markets, she enjoys film.

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Series: five things you haven’t done in wine country

I know your routine—it’s a dignified pub crawl. Tasting after tasting, one winery after another. Pepper in a few great restaurants and...
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Fireside Monterey: The Spindrift Inn

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If you’ve ever been on Cannery Row, you’ve passed by the Spindrift Inn—yet, with its unassuming entryway and discreet location, you...
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Romantic Monterey: The Old Monterey Inn

I’m a sucker for a good B&B, though, since moving to the west coast, I’d barely looked for or found one. California, I believed, was...
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Series Intro: Best of Monterey

The Monterey Peninsula loves the month of May. The weather is warm. The sun is shining. And it is the perfect buffer between the winter rains and...
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Relaxing Monterey: Monterey Plaza Hotel and Spa

We’ve all heard of the three most important considerations in real estate—location, location, and location. For a destination like...
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Enduring luxury: The new face of The Westin St. Francis

Known throughout the years as “The Grand Dame of Union Square”, the Westin St. Francis was the brain child of the Charles Crocker family,...
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Enduring luxury: The new face of The Sir Francis Drake

Even those who don’t know hotels know the Sir Francis Drake. Its most famous Beefeater—the rightful name for the doormen dressed in the...
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Enduring luxury: The new face of the Clift Hotel

The Clift Hotel has always been ahead of its time. Even in 1913, when land owner Frederick Clift commissioned his centrally located parcel to be...
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Enduring luxury: The new face of The Huntington Hotel

Constructed on the pre-earthquake site of the Tobin mansion, and surrounded by grand neighbors such as Grace Cathedral, the Flood Mansion, and...
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Enduring Luxury: The New Faces of Five Classic San Francisco Hotels (Series)

San Franciscans love their history, not least of all because the city is full of it. No matter how drastically neighborhoods evolve and change, how...
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