For the last leg of our trip, we stayed a night in Solvang. On the way there, we stopped for lunch in Los Alamos at Bell Street Farm. After reading their five star Yelp! reviews, we had to check it out. It is close to the highway, in the middle of seemingly nowhere. You order at the counter, from a friendly man in a cowboy hat.
We ordered two sandwiches: rotisserie pork: “hot and crispy pork belly-wrapped shoulder on ciabatta,
apple and jicama slaw, house mayo and pickled onions” and country grilled cheese & rosemary ham: “Bravo farms white cheddar cheese and framani rosemary ham on multi grain bread with whole-grain mustard”.
These were not cheap sandwiches, but the quality of ingredients was there. It will be interesting to see if the rest of the area starts to follow suit with its “farm-to-table-hipster” vibe.