Building the Ultimate Picnic Spread on the California Coast

Building the Ultimate Picnic Spread on the California Coast

Cheyenne Ellis This piece originally appeared in SAVEUR’s Spring/Summer 2025 issue. See more stories from Issue 204 here. When people outside California imagine summertime on the Central Coast, they’re probably thinking of blue skies and ocean breezes grooming perfect surfing waves. In fact, it’s usually about 60 degrees here and the ocean is gnarly, the clouds like dark stubble on an unkempt sky. Ever the optimist, though, I keep a surfboard in…